API Management Contract Job Trends in Wales

API Management
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring API Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 40 41
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -21
Contract jobs citing API Management 3 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.61% 1.33% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.55% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - - £321
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile - £550 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 389 323 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 78.74% 85.90% 81.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 204 273
10th Percentile £195 £173 £165
25th Percentile £290 £255 £237
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £504 £550 £553
90th Percentile £615 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 32 27
10th Percentile £13.28 £15.69 £13.03
25th Percentile £15.08 £20.12 £21.30
Median hourly rate £19.10 £23.84 £27.17
Median % change year-on-year -19.90% -12.24% +39.38%
75th Percentile £25.77 £31.82 £55.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £44.63 £86.72
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.15%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

API Management job vacancy trend in Wales

API Management
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing API Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing API Management

API Management
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
South Wales - 3 £370 - 1
API Management
UK

API Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft