API Management Contracts

API Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring API Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 393 333
Rank change year-on-year +42 -60 +151
Contract jobs citing API Management 173 210 441
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.48% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.56% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 146 290
10th Percentile £400 £425 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £541 £586
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -7.64% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £652 £650
90th Percentile £694 £731 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £519 £586
% change year-on-year -3.61% -11.48% +1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

API Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing API Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for API Management in the UK

API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Management.

Daily rate trend for API Management in the UK

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in the UK

API Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Management.

Hourly rate trend for API Management in the UK

API Management
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing API Management within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +14 135 £506 -8.00% 116
London -18 80 £514 -6.59% 64
UK excluding London +60 62 £500 -3.61% 55
Work from Home +30 55 £510 -2.86% 89
South East +64 33 £500 -2.44% 16
Midlands +24 8 £494 -12.07% 5
Scotland +7 6 £573 -15.19% 2
West Midlands +15 5 £512 +5.30% 2
South West +47 4 £481 -24.21% 5
North of England +14 4 £550 +8.96% 23
Wales +3 4 £550 +10.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 3
North East - 2 £515 -
East of England +32 1 - - 3
Yorkshire +12 1 £670 +54.38% 3
North West -2 1 £450 -15.49% 20

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (10.40%) Anypoint
2 13 (7.51%) Mule
3 7 (4.05%) Confluence
4 5 (2.89%) Apache
4 5 (2.89%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.31%) Mule ESB
5 4 (2.31%) nginx
5 4 (2.31%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.73%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.73%) JBoss
6 3 (1.73%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.73%) WebLogic Portal
6 3 (1.73%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.16%) CMS
8 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.58%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.58%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (4.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.16%) Magento
3 2 (1.16%) Maximo
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (1.16%) SAP CX
3 2 (1.16%) Shopify
4 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.58%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 103 (59.54%) Azure
2 42 (24.28%) AWS
3 41 (23.70%) Serverless
4 38 (21.97%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (17.34%) Azure API Management
6 25 (14.45%) Azure Monitor
7 21 (12.14%) Azure AKS
8 20 (11.56%) Azure Functions
8 20 (11.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 20 (11.56%) GCP
9 16 (9.25%) Azure Sentinel
10 14 (8.09%) Apigee
10 14 (8.09%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (8.09%) Entra ID
10 14 (8.09%) GitHub
11 13 (7.51%) Power Platform
12 10 (5.78%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (5.78%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (5.20%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (4.05%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.67%) Firewall
2 13 (7.51%) HTTP
3 4 (2.31%) LAN
3 4 (2.31%) SSL
3 4 (2.31%) WAN
4 3 (1.73%) Network Security
5 1 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.98%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (3.47%) MongoDB
2 6 (3.47%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.89%) MySQL
3 5 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.31%) Big Data
4 4 (2.31%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.31%) Power BI
4 4 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.73%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.73%) Redis
6 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.16%) Dremio
6 2 (1.16%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (8.09%) Jenkins
2 13 (7.51%) Git
3 6 (3.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (3.47%) Maven
4 5 (2.89%) GitLab
4 5 (2.89%) JUnit
4 5 (2.89%) Postman
5 3 (1.73%) Ant
5 3 (1.73%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.73%) Gradle
5 3 (1.73%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.73%) JIRA
5 3 (1.73%) Mockito
5 3 (1.73%) TestNG
6 2 (1.16%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.16%) Toad
6 2 (1.16%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.58%) Selenium
7 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.45%) Finance
3 21 (12.14%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.67%) Banking
5 14 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.78%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.73%) Retail
7 3 (1.73%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.16%) Billing
8 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.16%) Front Office
8 2 (1.16%) Law
8 2 (1.16%) Marketing
8 2 (1.16%) Publishing
9 1 (0.58%) Legal
9 1 (0.58%) Local Government
9 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (29.48%) Developer
2 43 (24.86%) Architect
3 17 (9.83%) Consultant
3 17 (9.83%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (9.25%) Azure Architect
4 16 (9.25%) MuleSoft Developer
5 14 (8.09%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (6.94%) Integration Consultant
6 12 (6.94%) Lead
7 10 (5.78%) Integration Architect
7 10 (5.78%) Senior
8 9 (5.20%) SAP Consultant
9 8 (4.62%) Integration Developer
9 8 (4.62%) SAP Integration Consultant
10 6 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (2.89%) AWS Developer
11 5 (2.89%) Data Engineer
11 5 (2.89%) Designer
11 5 (2.89%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.50%) REST
2 31 (17.92%) SOAP
3 29 (16.76%) JSON
4 28 (16.18%) OAuth
5 27 (15.61%) RESTful
6 24 (13.87%) XML
7 22 (12.72%) .NET
8 21 (12.14%) Swagger
9 19 (10.98%) OpenAPI
10 18 (10.40%) Middleware
11 16 (9.25%) RAML
12 15 (8.67%) Kafka
13 12 (6.94%) React
14 11 (6.36%) Node.js
15 10 (5.78%) EDI
15 10 (5.78%) OAuth2
15 10 (5.78%) Web Services
16 8 (4.62%) JWT
16 8 (4.62%) OpenID
17 7 (4.05%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.92%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.47%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.31%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.73%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.73%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.73%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.16%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.58%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.58%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.09%) Linux
2 7 (4.05%) Windows
3 3 (1.73%) AIX
3 3 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (42.77%) DevOps
2 54 (31.21%) Agile
3 49 (28.32%) Microservices
4 43 (24.86%) CI/CD
5 38 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (21.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (13.87%) Analytics
7 24 (13.87%) API Development
8 23 (13.29%) Containerisation
9 22 (12.72%) Integration Patterns
10 20 (11.56%) API Integration
11 19 (10.98%) Event-Driven
12 16 (9.25%) API Design
12 16 (9.25%) Migration
12 16 (9.25%) Software Engineering
13 15 (8.67%) Test Automation
14 13 (7.51%) Cost Management
14 13 (7.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 12 (6.94%) Architectural Patterns
15 12 (6.94%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 38 (21.97%) Python
2 35 (20.23%) Java
3 33 (19.08%) SQL
4 32 (18.50%) JavaScript
5 23 (13.29%) C#
6 22 (12.72%) Bicep
7 18 (10.40%) PowerShell
8 14 (8.09%) TypeScript
9 13 (7.51%) DataWeave
10 7 (4.05%) Go
11 5 (2.89%) ABAP
11 5 (2.89%) Bash
11 5 (2.89%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.31%) Groovy
12 4 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (2.31%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.73%) Korn
13 3 (1.73%) Perl
14 2 (1.16%) PHP
14 2 (1.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (17.34%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.87%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.94%) Degree
4 6 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.89%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.31%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.73%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.58%) CISM
9 1 (0.58%) CISSP
9 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.58%) PMP
9 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.78%) QA
2 4 (2.31%) GDPR
3 3 (1.73%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.73%) HL7
3 3 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.73%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.16%) NIST
4 2 (1.16%) SEPA
4 2 (1.16%) SLA
4 2 (1.16%) WCAG
5 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (9.83%) Docker
2 15 (8.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.73%) LXC
Systems Management
1 36 (20.81%) Terraform
2 32 (18.50%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.20%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.62%) CloudHub
4 8 (4.62%) Grafana
5 6 (3.47%) Ansible
6 1 (0.58%) Argo
6 1 (0.58%) Kibana
6 1 (0.58%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.58%) logstash
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.58%) Packer
6 1 (0.58%) Puppet
6 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (33.53%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.92%) MuleSoft
3 23 (13.29%) SAP
4 14 (8.09%) Oracle
5 12 (6.94%) Salesforce
6 10 (5.78%) Google
6 10 (5.78%) ServiceNow
7 8 (4.62%) IBM
8 7 (4.05%) Databricks
8 7 (4.05%) Dell
9 6 (3.47%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.47%) Splunk
10 3 (1.73%) Adobe
11 2 (1.16%) Cribl.io
11 2 (1.16%) NCR
11 2 (1.16%) OutSystems
11 2 (1.16%) Perforce
11 2 (1.16%) TIBCO
11 2 (1.16%) VeriFone
12 1 (0.58%) OpenAI