API Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

API Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 270 265
Rank change year-on-year +21 -5 +106
Contract jobs citing API Management 55 75 223
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.56% 0.49% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.56% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 54 164
10th Percentile £408 £422 £350
25th Percentile £429 £475 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £586
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -10.33% -0.59%
75th Percentile £620 £624 £638
90th Percentile £691 £675 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £541 £586
% change year-on-year -7.62% -7.64% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

API Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing API Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

API Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

API Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing API Management.

API Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing API Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

API Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

API Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing API Management.

API Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (7.27%) Anypoint
2 3 (5.45%) Mule
3 2 (3.64%) Apache
3 2 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.64%) CMS
3 2 (3.64%) Confluence
4 1 (1.82%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.82%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.82%) Mule ESB
4 1 (1.82%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.82%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (61.82%) Azure
2 21 (38.18%) AWS
3 16 (29.09%) Serverless
4 12 (21.82%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (18.18%) GCP
6 9 (16.36%) Apigee
6 9 (16.36%) Azure API Management
7 7 (12.73%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (12.73%) Azure Functions
7 7 (12.73%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (10.91%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (10.91%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (9.09%) Azure AKS
9 5 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (9.09%) Entra ID
10 4 (7.27%) GitHub
10 4 (7.27%) Snowflake
11 3 (5.45%) Azure Storage
11 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
12 2 (3.64%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.73%) Firewall
2 3 (5.45%) HTTP
2 3 (5.45%) Network Security
3 1 (1.82%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) NoSQL
2 5 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 4 (7.27%) MySQL
3 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.45%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.45%) Redis
4 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.64%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.64%) Big Data
5 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.64%) Dremio
5 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (7.27%) Git
2 4 (7.27%) JUnit
2 4 (7.27%) Maven
3 3 (5.45%) Eclipse
3 3 (5.45%) Gradle
3 3 (5.45%) IntelliJ
3 3 (5.45%) Mockito
3 3 (5.45%) TestNG
4 2 (3.64%) GitLab
4 2 (3.64%) Postman
5 1 (1.82%) MLflow
General
1 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.09%) Finance
4 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Banking
5 2 (3.64%) Front Office
5 2 (3.64%) Law
5 2 (3.64%) Marketing
5 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Billing
6 1 (1.82%) Legal
6 1 (1.82%) Local Government
6 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (34.55%) Developer
2 13 (23.64%) Architect
3 7 (12.73%) Lead
4 5 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 5 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Consultant
5 4 (7.27%) Data Architect
5 4 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.27%) MuleSoft Developer
6 3 (5.45%) AWS Developer
6 3 (5.45%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Digital Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Lead Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Senior
7 2 (3.64%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) OAuth
2 8 (14.55%) OpenAPI
2 8 (14.55%) REST
2 8 (14.55%) RESTful
2 8 (14.55%) Swagger
3 6 (10.91%) .NET
3 6 (10.91%) JSON
3 6 (10.91%) Kafka
3 6 (10.91%) SOAP
4 5 (9.09%) AWS CDK
5 4 (7.27%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (7.27%) JWT
5 4 (7.27%) Middleware
5 4 (7.27%) Node.js
5 4 (7.27%) OAuth2
5 4 (7.27%) Spring
5 4 (7.27%) Spring Boot
5 4 (7.27%) XML
6 3 (5.45%) GraphQL
6 3 (5.45%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (52.73%) DevOps
2 16 (29.09%) Agile
3 15 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (25.45%) Microservices
5 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 10 (18.18%) Analytics
6 10 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 10 (18.18%) Event-Driven
7 9 (16.36%) Integration Patterns
8 7 (12.73%) API Development
8 7 (12.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (12.73%) High Availability
8 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (10.91%) API Integration
9 6 (10.91%) Cost Management
9 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
9 6 (10.91%) Migration
10 5 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
10 5 (9.09%) Scrum
10 5 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) Python
2 12 (21.82%) Java
3 11 (20.00%) SQL
4 10 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.73%) Bicep
6 6 (10.91%) C#
6 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
7 5 (9.09%) TypeScript
8 4 (7.27%) T-SQL
9 3 (5.45%) DataWeave
9 3 (5.45%) Go
10 1 (1.82%) Bash
10 1 (1.82%) Groovy
10 1 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.45%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) GDPR
2 3 (5.45%) HL7
2 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.64%) NIST
3 2 (3.64%) QA
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (12.73%) Docker
2 5 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (21.82%) Terraform
2 8 (14.55%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.09%) Grafana
3 5 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.64%) Ansible
4 2 (3.64%) CloudHub
5 1 (1.82%) Argo
5 1 (1.82%) Kibana
5 1 (1.82%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.82%) logstash
5 1 (1.82%) Puppet
5 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (32.73%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.55%) MuleSoft
3 7 (12.73%) Google
4 3 (5.45%) Databricks
4 3 (5.45%) IBM
4 3 (5.45%) SAP
4 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.45%) Splunk
5 2 (3.64%) Cribl.io
5 2 (3.64%) Dell
5 2 (3.64%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.82%) Cisco
6 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.82%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle
6 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.82%) WSO2