Azure API Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure API Management (Azure APIM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 279 297 414
Rank change year-on-year +18 +117 +113
Contract jobs citing Azure API Management 25 48 63
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.31% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.86% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 44
10th Percentile £488 £453 £416
25th Percentile £525 £500 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -10.42% +13.21%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £647
90th Percentile £680 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £581 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -3.13% +1.69% +7.27%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure API Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Azure 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 Azure API Management.

Azure API Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure API Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure API Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure 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 2 (8.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.00%) Headless CMS
2 1 (4.00%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 12 (48.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (44.00%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (36.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 8 (32.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 8 (32.00%) Entra ID
7 7 (28.00%) Azure Functions
7 7 (28.00%) Serverless
8 5 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (16.00%) Azure Event Grid
10 3 (12.00%) GCP
11 2 (8.00%) GitHub
11 2 (8.00%) NuGet
11 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
11 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
12 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
12 1 (4.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (8.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Developer
2 9 (36.00%) Azure Developer
3 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Architect
5 4 (16.00%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Lead
6 3 (12.00%) .NET Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Azure Architect
7 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Integration Architect
7 2 (8.00%) Integration Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Backend Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) .NET
2 5 (20.00%) ADO
2 5 (20.00%) OAuth
3 3 (12.00%) Middleware
3 3 (12.00%) REST
4 2 (8.00%) .NET Core
4 2 (8.00%) Kafka
4 2 (8.00%) SOAP
4 2 (8.00%) WCF
5 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
5 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.00%) MACH
5 1 (4.00%) Next.js
5 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.00%) RESTful
5 1 (4.00%) Sass
5 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) DevOps
2 9 (36.00%) API Management
3 8 (32.00%) Agile
3 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (28.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (20.00%) Migration
6 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Analytics
7 4 (16.00%) Identity Management
7 4 (16.00%) Unit Testing
8 3 (12.00%) B2C
8 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (12.00%) High Availability
8 3 (12.00%) Microservices
9 2 (8.00%) Continuous Delivery
9 2 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (8.00%) Release Management
9 2 (8.00%) Test Management
9 2 (8.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) C#
2 8 (32.00%) Python
3 6 (24.00%) Java
4 5 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.00%) Bicep
6 2 (8.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) SAP
3 2 (8.00%) IBM
4 1 (4.00%) Databricks
4 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) Snow
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk