Azure API Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure API Management (Azure APIM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure API Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure API Management over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 371 398
Rank change year-on-year +60 +27 +65
Contract jobs citing Azure API Management 25 15 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.073% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 0.28% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 35
10th Percentile £490 £455 £465
25th Percentile £505 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% -14.58% +25.65%
75th Percentile £647 £588 £650
90th Percentile £684 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +6.82%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Azure API Management 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 4,080 5,290 7,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.77% 25.83% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,872 3,756 5,727
10th Percentile £235 £213 £250
25th Percentile £385 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 260 232
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.90 £15.00 £16.44
Median hourly rate £21.34 £17.71 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.50% -29.18% +25.00%
75th Percentile £33.10 £26.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +56.25%

Azure API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure API Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure API Management in the UK excluding London

Azure API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure API Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure API Management in the UK excluding London

Azure API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure API Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure API Management in the UK excluding London

Azure API Management
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 Azure API Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2025. 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
South East +46 15 £625 +21.95% 6
Midlands - 9 £544 - 8
West Midlands - 7 £544 - 6
North of England +19 2 £586 +5.30% 2
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 2
Yorkshire +14 1 £670 -4.29% 1
North West +13 1 £502 +21.58% 1
Azure API Management
UK

Azure API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (8.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.00%) SAP ERP
2 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (48.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 11 (44.00%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 8 (32.00%) Entra ID
7 7 (28.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (28.00%) Azure Event Grid
7 7 (28.00%) Serverless
8 6 (24.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (24.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (20.00%) Azure Functions
10 4 (16.00%) PaaS
11 3 (12.00%) Azure AKS
11 3 (12.00%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (12.00%) IaaS
12 2 (8.00%) SaaS
13 1 (4.00%) Cloudflare
13 1 (4.00%) GitHub
13 1 (4.00%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (12.00%) SSDT
5 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.00%) GIS
6 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Selenium
2 3 (12.00%) Postman
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
4 1 (4.00%) Git
4 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Law
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Developer
2 10 (40.00%) Azure Developer
3 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Integration Developer
5 3 (12.00%) .NET Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Architect
6 2 (8.00%) CRM Architect
6 2 (8.00%) CRM Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Consultant
7 1 (4.00%) Integration Consultant
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) .NET
1 8 (32.00%) OAuth
2 6 (24.00%) ADO
3 5 (20.00%) RESTful
4 3 (12.00%) OpenID
4 3 (12.00%) SAML
4 3 (12.00%) Web Services
4 3 (12.00%) YAML
5 2 (8.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (8.00%) JSON
5 2 (8.00%) React
5 2 (8.00%) REST
5 2 (8.00%) SOAP
6 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
6 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
6 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
6 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
6 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) DevOps
2 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (40.00%) API Management
3 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (32.00%) ETL
4 8 (32.00%) RBAC
5 7 (28.00%) Agile
6 6 (24.00%) B2C
6 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
7 5 (20.00%) Analytics
7 5 (20.00%) B2B
7 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (20.00%) Identity Management
7 5 (20.00%) Log Analytics
7 5 (20.00%) Release Management
8 4 (16.00%) API Design
8 4 (16.00%) Data Integration
8 4 (16.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) C#
2 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (32.00%) Python
3 7 (28.00%) Java
4 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) SQL
5 2 (8.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) Bicep
6 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) UiPath
3 2 (8.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) ESRI
4 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) Snow