Azure API Management Contracts

Microsoft Azure API Management (Azure APIM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 463 519 609
Rank change year-on-year +56 +90 +84
Contract jobs citing Azure API Management 56 81 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 0.57% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 43 73
10th Percentile £414 £435 £433
25th Percentile £497 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £638
90th Percentile £676 £738 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +21.95% -14.58% +25.65%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

Azure API Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure API Management in the UK

Azure API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure API Management in the UK

Azure API Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure API Management in the UK

Azure API Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure API Management in the UK

Azure API Management
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 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 +35 47 £588 -2.08% 23
Work from Home +27 25 £625 +16.28% 20
UK excluding London +63 24 £625 +21.95% 14
London -4 20 £550 -15.38% 10
South East +47 16 £625 +21.95% 3
Midlands - 6 £575 - 4
West Midlands - 4 £588 - 2
North of England +28 2 £586 +5.30% 5
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 2
Yorkshire +15 1 £670 -4.29% 1
North West +11 1 £502 +21.58% 4
Wales - 1 £550 -

Azure 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 3 (5.36%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.57%) CMS
2 2 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.79%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (3.57%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (5.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (1.79%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (42.86%) Azure Service Bus
3 22 (39.29%) Azure Logic Apps
4 21 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (37.50%) Serverless
5 19 (33.93%) Azure Functions
6 18 (32.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (26.79%) Entra ID
8 13 (23.21%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (21.43%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (17.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (16.07%) Azure Event Grid
12 6 (10.71%) Azure AKS
13 5 (8.93%) PaaS
14 4 (7.14%) IaaS
14 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
15 3 (5.36%) Azure App Service
15 3 (5.36%) GCP
15 3 (5.36%) GitHub
15 3 (5.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) HTTP
2 2 (3.57%) Network Security
3 1 (1.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.64%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.36%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.36%) SSDT
6 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.57%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.79%) Big Data
7 1 (1.79%) GIS
7 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.79%) Parquet
7 1 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Selenium
2 3 (5.36%) Ant
2 3 (5.36%) Git
2 3 (5.36%) Postman
3 2 (3.57%) JIRA
3 2 (3.57%) SoapUI
3 2 (3.57%) Toad
4 1 (1.79%) JUnit
4 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (16.07%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Finance
4 3 (5.36%) Banking
4 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.57%) Retail
6 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Law
6 1 (1.79%) Marketing
6 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (33.93%) Developer
2 17 (30.36%) Architect
3 13 (23.21%) Azure Architect
4 12 (21.43%) Azure Developer
5 9 (16.07%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) Integration Architect
7 6 (10.71%) Integration Developer
8 5 (8.93%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Lead
9 4 (7.14%) .NET Developer
10 3 (5.36%) Designer
10 3 (5.36%) Senior
10 3 (5.36%) Software Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Solutions Designer
11 2 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
11 2 (3.57%) CRM Architect
11 2 (3.57%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 2 (3.57%) Head of Architecture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.00%) .NET
2 13 (23.21%) OAuth
3 10 (17.86%) Middleware
4 8 (14.29%) SOAP
5 7 (12.50%) ADO
5 7 (12.50%) Kafka
5 7 (12.50%) RESTful
6 6 (10.71%) XML
7 5 (8.93%) REST
8 4 (7.14%) .NET Core
8 4 (7.14%) JSON
8 4 (7.14%) OpenID
8 4 (7.14%) React
8 4 (7.14%) SAML
8 4 (7.14%) YAML
9 3 (5.36%) .NET Framework
9 3 (5.36%) ARM Templates
9 3 (5.36%) EDI
9 3 (5.36%) IBM Integration Bus
9 3 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (8.93%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.36%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.79%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.79%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) AIX
1 3 (5.36%) Linux
1 3 (5.36%) Unix
1 3 (5.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (58.93%) DevOps
2 30 (53.57%) API Management
3 19 (33.93%) CI/CD
4 16 (28.57%) Agile
5 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (19.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (17.86%) Test Automation
8 9 (16.07%) Microservices
8 9 (16.07%) Migration
8 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (16.07%) RBAC
8 9 (16.07%) Software Engineering
9 7 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 7 (12.50%) Identity Management
10 6 (10.71%) Analytics
10 6 (10.71%) B2C
10 6 (10.71%) Event-Driven
11 5 (8.93%) B2B
11 5 (8.93%) Data Engineering
11 5 (8.93%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 22 (39.29%) C#
2 16 (28.57%) Python
3 14 (25.00%) Java
3 14 (25.00%) SQL
4 9 (16.07%) PowerShell
5 6 (10.71%) Bicep
5 6 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.36%) Korn
6 3 (5.36%) Perl
6 3 (5.36%) PL/SQL
6 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.57%) Bash
7 2 (3.57%) Scala
7 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.57%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Azure Certification
2 7 (12.50%) Degree
3 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.36%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) GDPR
2 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.57%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.93%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (26.79%) Terraform
2 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (26.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) IBM
2 5 (8.93%) Oracle
2 5 (8.93%) Salesforce
2 5 (8.93%) SAP
3 3 (5.36%) Databricks
3 3 (5.36%) Google
3 3 (5.36%) UiPath
4 2 (3.57%) Perforce
4 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.79%) ESRI
5 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.79%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.79%) Snow
5 1 (1.79%) Splunk