API Management Contracts in England

API Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for API Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 360 517
Rank change year-on-year +22 +157 -114
Contract jobs citing API Management 195 309 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.64% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.71% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 206 198
10th Percentile £425 £458 £412
25th Percentile £475 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +10.58%
75th Percentile £678 £675 £672
90th Percentile £738 £774 £803
UK median daily rate £550 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -6.14% -2.33% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -33.33% -
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -33.33% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

API Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Management in England

API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for API Management in England

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in England

API Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for API Management in England

API Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
London +49 139 £550 -6.38% 23
North of England +29 24 £563 +12.50% 11
North West +25 20 £575 +10.26% 3
South East -5 14 £513 -21.15% 17
Midlands +17 8 £561 -10.20% 7
West Midlands +21 6 £486 -7.38% 6
Yorkshire +13 4 £434 -8.63% 6
South West +8 2 £635 +8.09% 2
East of England +11 1 £550 - 2
API Management
UK

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (7.69%) CMS
2 10 (5.13%) Anypoint
3 8 (4.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (3.59%) Confluence
5 5 (2.56%) Mule
5 5 (2.56%) Mule ESB
6 3 (1.54%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.54%) IIS
7 2 (1.03%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (6.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (3.59%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.54%) Maximo
3 2 (1.03%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 142 (72.82%) Azure
2 89 (45.64%) Azure Service Bus
3 80 (41.03%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (29.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 50 (25.64%) Azure API Management
6 48 (24.62%) Azure Monitor
7 44 (22.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 39 (20.00%) Serverless
9 36 (18.46%) AWS
10 28 (14.36%) Azure Functions
10 28 (14.36%) PaaS
11 23 (11.79%) Entra ID
12 22 (11.28%) Apigee
12 22 (11.28%) Azure Key Vault
13 20 (10.26%) Azure Data Factory
13 20 (10.26%) Azure Storage
14 18 (9.23%) Azure Pipelines
15 17 (8.72%) SaaS
16 15 (7.69%) Boomi
17 11 (5.64%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.62%) Firewall
2 6 (3.08%) Network Security
3 4 (2.05%) SSL
3 4 (2.05%) VPN
4 3 (1.54%) HTTP
5 2 (1.03%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.03%) DNS
5 2 (1.03%) Internet
5 2 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (30.26%) SQL Server
2 33 (16.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (8.72%) NoSQL
4 14 (7.18%) OLTP
5 12 (6.15%) Data Lake
6 11 (5.64%) MongoDB
7 8 (4.10%) Big Data
8 7 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.59%) OLAP
9 6 (3.08%) Oracle OLAP
9 6 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.54%) GIS
10 3 (1.54%) MySQL
11 2 (1.03%) DB2
11 2 (1.03%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.03%) MariaDB
11 2 (1.03%) Redis
11 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (34.36%) Git
2 17 (8.72%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.69%) JIRA
3 15 (7.69%) Postman
4 10 (5.13%) Visual Studio
5 7 (3.59%) Visual Studio Team System
6 6 (3.08%) Maven
6 6 (3.08%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.05%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.54%) GitLab
8 3 (1.54%) gulp
8 3 (1.54%) Selenium
9 2 (1.03%) JMeter
10 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.51%) Hudson
10 1 (0.51%) NUnit
10 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 45 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.87%) Finance
3 22 (11.28%) Back Office
4 18 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.21%) Banking
6 10 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.59%) German Language
10 3 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.03%) Arabic Language
11 2 (1.03%) French Language
11 2 (1.03%) Japanese Language
11 2 (1.03%) Korean Language
11 2 (1.03%) Local Government
11 2 (1.03%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.51%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) Publishing
12 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 88 (45.13%) Developer
2 39 (20.00%) Architect
3 36 (18.46%) Senior
4 30 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 24 (12.31%) Lead
6 21 (10.77%) Azure Developer
7 17 (8.72%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (8.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 12 (6.15%) Azure Architect
10 11 (5.64%) .NET Developer
10 11 (5.64%) C# Developer
10 11 (5.64%) Python Developer
10 11 (5.64%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 10 (5.13%) Data Engineer
11 10 (5.13%) MuleSoft Developer
12 9 (4.62%) Backend Developer
12 9 (4.62%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (4.10%) AWS Architect
13 8 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (4.10%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (43.59%) .NET
2 53 (27.18%) .NET Core
3 41 (21.03%) REST
4 39 (20.00%) SOAP
5 32 (16.41%) Web Services
6 25 (12.82%) YAML
7 23 (11.79%) React
8 22 (11.28%) Swagger
9 21 (10.77%) CSS
9 21 (10.77%) JSON
10 20 (10.26%) HTML
11 18 (9.23%) RESTful
12 16 (8.21%) jQuery
12 16 (8.21%) XML
13 14 (7.18%) Node.js
14 13 (6.67%) ASP.NET
14 13 (6.67%) Spring
15 12 (6.15%) ARM Templates
15 12 (6.15%) RabbitMQ
16 11 (5.64%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.72%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.64%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.59%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.59%) DataPower
5 6 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.54%) IoT
7 3 (1.54%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.54%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.03%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.03%) Wiki
9 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.51%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.08%) Unix
2 5 (2.56%) Linux
3 3 (1.54%) Android
3 3 (1.54%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.54%) Windows
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (52.31%) Agile
2 98 (50.26%) DevOps
3 70 (35.90%) TDD
4 60 (30.77%) OO
5 57 (29.23%) CI/CD
6 45 (23.08%) OOD
7 39 (20.00%) Microservices
8 37 (18.97%) Clean Code
9 30 (15.38%) Software Engineering
10 24 (12.31%) Migration
10 24 (12.31%) SOA
11 21 (10.77%) Scrum
12 20 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (9.74%) Continuous Deployment
13 19 (9.74%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (9.74%) Integration Patterns
14 18 (9.23%) Front End Development
14 18 (9.23%) Identity Access Management
14 18 (9.23%) Test Automation
15 17 (8.72%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 89 (45.64%) C#
2 57 (29.23%) SQL
3 44 (22.56%) Bicep
4 37 (18.97%) Python
5 32 (16.41%) JavaScript
6 29 (14.87%) Java
7 21 (10.77%) PowerShell
8 20 (10.26%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.08%) C++
10 5 (2.56%) Groovy
11 3 (1.54%) PHP
11 3 (1.54%) Ruby
12 2 (1.03%) XPath
13 1 (0.51%) ABAP
13 1 (0.51%) R
13 1 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (9.23%) Degree
2 13 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 12 (6.15%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.13%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.28%) Accessibility
2 20 (10.26%) WCAG
3 11 (5.64%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.56%) QA
5 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 54 (27.69%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.72%) Docker
3 10 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.54%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (14.36%) Terraform
2 16 (8.21%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.13%) Ansible
3 10 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.56%) CloudHub
5 2 (1.03%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 71 (36.41%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.18%) Salesforce
3 13 (6.67%) Google
3 13 (6.67%) IBM
3 13 (6.67%) Oracle
3 13 (6.67%) SAP
4 11 (5.64%) MuleSoft
5 8 (4.10%) Databricks
6 7 (3.59%) TSYS
7 5 (2.56%) WSO2
8 3 (1.54%) ESRI
8 3 (1.54%) Nintex
8 3 (1.54%) Pega
8 3 (1.54%) VMware
9 2 (1.03%) Cisco
9 2 (1.03%) Okta
9 2 (1.03%) Ping Identity
9 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.03%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.51%) LogicMonitor