Apigee Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Google Apigee
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Apigee skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 326 391
Rank change year-on-year -35 +65 +36
Contract jobs citing Apigee 37 22 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.15% 0.072%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.48% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 6
10th Percentile £350 £479 £506
25th Percentile £358 £500 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £643 £569
Median % change year-on-year -31.52% +12.97% -18.75%
75th Percentile £519 £685 £617
90th Percentile £587 - £631
UK median daily rate £475 £625 £569
% change year-on-year -24.00% +9.89% -14.89%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

Apigee falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,890 4,541 5,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.16% 31.21% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,111 2,995 4,286
10th Percentile £240 £238 £218
25th Percentile £375 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.89%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 112 183
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.31 £14.01
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.18 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £24.18 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.53% +15.14% +8.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £64.73 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -0.53% +8.35% +12.80%

Apigee
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apigee relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Apigee job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Apigee
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Apigee.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Apigee

Apigee
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apigee in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apigee in the UK excluding London

Apigee
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apigee within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -39 21 £374 -24.82% 10
North West - 16 £358 - 3
West Midlands - 9 £463 - 1
Midlands - 9 £463 - 1
Scotland +14 5 £563 -
Yorkshire -53 5 £450 -9.55% 6
East of England - 2 - -
Apigee
UK

Apigee
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 23 (62.16%) GCP
2 20 (54.05%) AWS
3 18 (48.65%) Serverless
4 17 (45.95%) Azure
5 10 (27.03%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (24.32%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (24.32%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (24.32%) Cloud Functions
6 9 (24.32%) GitHub
7 7 (18.92%) AWS Fargate
7 7 (18.92%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (16.22%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (16.22%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (16.22%) Datadog
8 6 (16.22%) Kong
8 6 (16.22%) Route 53
9 5 (13.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (13.51%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (13.51%) Amazon EventBridge
9 5 (13.51%) Loggly
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) HTTP
2 4 (10.81%) HTTPS
3 3 (8.11%) DNS
3 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.41%) DHCP
4 2 (5.41%) SSL
5 1 (2.70%) Firewall
5 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (35.14%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (32.43%) MySQL
2 12 (32.43%) Relational Database
3 9 (24.32%) DynamoDB
4 6 (16.22%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (16.22%) NoSQL
5 5 (13.51%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (13.51%) BigQuery
5 5 (13.51%) RDBMS
5 5 (13.51%) Redis
6 2 (5.41%) DataStage
7 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 20 (54.05%) Git
2 17 (45.95%) Jenkins
3 8 (21.62%) SonarQube
4 7 (18.92%) Maven
5 5 (13.51%) Gradle
5 5 (13.51%) SonarLint
6 4 (10.81%) GitLab
6 4 (10.81%) Postman
7 3 (8.11%) JIRA
8 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
8 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
8 2 (5.41%) Selenium
8 2 (5.41%) Spinnaker
9 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
9 1 (2.70%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (56.76%) Developer
2 9 (24.32%) GCP Developer
3 7 (18.92%) Cloud Developer
3 7 (18.92%) Java Developer
4 6 (16.22%) Architect
4 6 (16.22%) Java Architect
4 6 (16.22%) Java Technical Architect
4 6 (16.22%) Technical Architect
5 5 (13.51%) Analyst
5 5 (13.51%) Business Analyst
5 5 (13.51%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (13.51%) Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (10.81%) Apigee Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Integration Developer
7 2 (5.41%) .NET Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Lead
7 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (40.54%) JWT
2 13 (35.14%) RESTful
3 12 (32.43%) Node.js
3 12 (32.43%) OAuth
3 12 (32.43%) Spring Boot
4 10 (27.03%) JSON
4 10 (27.03%) XML
5 9 (24.32%) REST
6 7 (18.92%) OpenAPI
6 7 (18.92%) SOAP
6 7 (18.92%) Spring
6 7 (18.92%) Swagger
7 6 (16.22%) OAuth2
8 5 (13.51%) Dropwizard
8 5 (13.51%) J2EE
8 5 (13.51%) Micronaut
9 4 (10.81%) AngularJS
9 4 (10.81%) Celery
9 4 (10.81%) Hibernate
9 4 (10.81%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (40.54%) Cloud Native
2 6 (16.22%) Product Ownership
3 5 (13.51%) N-Tier
4 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
1 2 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) CI/CD
2 19 (51.35%) Agile
2 19 (51.35%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (48.65%) DevOps
4 16 (43.24%) API Management
4 16 (43.24%) Microservices
5 13 (35.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (32.43%) API Design
7 10 (27.03%) Integration Patterns
8 9 (24.32%) API Testing
8 9 (24.32%) Computer Science
9 8 (21.62%) Event-Driven
10 7 (18.92%) BDD
10 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
10 7 (18.92%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (18.92%) Design Patterns
10 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
10 7 (18.92%) Task Automation
11 6 (16.22%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) Python
2 16 (43.24%) Java
2 16 (43.24%) SQL
3 7 (18.92%) Bash
4 6 (16.22%) VBA
5 4 (10.81%) C#
6 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
6 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.41%) Bicep
7 2 (5.41%) Perl
7 2 (5.41%) PL/SQL
7 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.70%) Groovy
8 1 (2.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Degree
2 9 (24.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Certification
3 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 17 (45.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (37.84%) Kubernetes
2 12 (32.43%) Terraform
3 2 (5.41%) Ansible
3 2 (5.41%) Control-M
3 2 (5.41%) Grafana
3 2 (5.41%) HP Fortify
3 2 (5.41%) Istio
4 1 (2.70%) Argo
4 1 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.70%) Karpenter
4 1 (2.70%) Kibana
4 1 (2.70%) logstash
4 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Google
2 9 (24.32%) MuleSoft
3 6 (16.22%) Splunk
4 5 (13.51%) Gigya
5 2 (5.41%) BMC
5 2 (5.41%) Dell
5 2 (5.41%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.41%) F5
5 2 (5.41%) Infoblox
5 2 (5.41%) Talend
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle