API Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

API Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 265 256 372
Rank change year-on-year -9 +116 -73
Contract jobs citing API Management 76 206 256
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.83% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.93% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 154 188
10th Percentile £420 £363 £413
25th Percentile £475 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £586 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.41% -2.33% +20.24%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £730 £800
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% +16.67%
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

API Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing API Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

API Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

API Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing API Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 9 (11.84%) Anypoint
1 9 (11.84%) CMS
2 7 (9.21%) Mule
2 7 (9.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (6.58%) Mule ESB
4 4 (5.26%) Confluence
5 2 (2.63%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (1.32%) Apache
6 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.32%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Temenos T24
2 2 (2.63%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.32%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.32%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (71.05%) Azure
2 33 (43.42%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (40.79%) Azure Service Bus
4 22 (28.95%) Azure Logic Apps
5 21 (27.63%) Azure API Management
6 14 (18.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 14 (18.42%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (18.42%) Serverless
7 13 (17.11%) AWS
7 13 (17.11%) PaaS
8 11 (14.47%) Apigee
9 9 (11.84%) Azure Functions
9 9 (11.84%) SaaS
10 8 (10.53%) Azure Pipelines
10 8 (10.53%) IaaS
10 8 (10.53%) NuGet
11 7 (9.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (9.21%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (7.89%) Entra ID
13 5 (6.58%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) HTTP
2 2 (2.63%) Firewall
2 2 (2.63%) Internet
2 2 (2.63%) SSL
2 2 (2.63%) VPN
3 1 (1.32%) DNS
3 1 (1.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.68%) SQL Server
2 10 (13.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (11.84%) OLTP
4 7 (9.21%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.58%) OLAP
5 5 (6.58%) Oracle OLAP
6 4 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.95%) Big Data
7 3 (3.95%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.63%) DB2
8 2 (2.63%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.63%) MySQL
8 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.32%) Flink
9 1 (1.32%) GIS
9 1 (1.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (35.53%) Git
2 8 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.89%) JIRA
4 4 (5.26%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (2.63%) GitLab
5 2 (2.63%) gulp
5 2 (2.63%) Maven
5 2 (2.63%) Postman
5 2 (2.63%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.42%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.16%) Finance
4 9 (11.84%) Back Office
5 8 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (6.58%) Banking
7 2 (2.63%) Arabic Language
7 2 (2.63%) French Language
7 2 (2.63%) German Language
7 2 (2.63%) Japanese Language
7 2 (2.63%) Korean Language
7 2 (2.63%) Retail
7 2 (2.63%) Spanish Language
7 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Electronics
8 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (51.32%) Developer
2 17 (22.37%) Architect
3 12 (15.79%) Senior
4 11 (14.47%) Azure Developer
4 11 (14.47%) Senior Developer
5 9 (11.84%) AWS Architect
5 9 (11.84%) MuleSoft Developer
6 8 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (9.21%) .NET Developer
7 7 (9.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (7.89%) C# Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Integration Architect
8 6 (7.89%) Integration Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.58%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Data Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Lead
10 4 (5.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.95%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (39.47%) .NET
2 25 (32.89%) SOAP
3 24 (31.58%) REST
4 16 (21.05%) .NET Core
5 15 (19.74%) Web Services
6 14 (18.42%) YAML
7 10 (13.16%) JSON
8 8 (10.53%) CSS
8 8 (10.53%) jQuery
8 8 (10.53%) React
8 8 (10.53%) Swagger
9 7 (9.21%) ASP.NET
9 7 (9.21%) GraphQL
9 7 (9.21%) HTML
9 7 (9.21%) Node.js
9 7 (9.21%) OpenAPI
10 6 (7.89%) Kafka
10 6 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (7.89%) XML
11 5 (6.58%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.58%) DataPower
2 5 (6.58%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.58%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.32%) IoT
6 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.58%) Linux
1 5 (6.58%) Unix
2 2 (2.63%) Android
2 2 (2.63%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (55.26%) DevOps
2 29 (38.16%) Agile
3 22 (28.95%) Microservices
3 22 (28.95%) SOA
3 22 (28.95%) TDD
4 21 (27.63%) OO
5 18 (23.68%) CI/CD
6 12 (15.79%) Clean Code
6 12 (15.79%) Integration Patterns
7 11 (14.47%) Migration
7 11 (14.47%) OOD
7 11 (14.47%) Scrum
7 11 (14.47%) Software Engineering
7 11 (14.47%) Test Automation
8 10 (13.16%) Event-Driven
8 10 (13.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 9 (11.84%) Front End Development
9 9 (11.84%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (10.53%) High Availability
10 8 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.11%) C#
2 17 (22.37%) Bicep
2 17 (22.37%) SQL
3 15 (19.74%) Java
4 13 (17.11%) JavaScript
5 11 (14.47%) Python
6 8 (10.53%) PowerShell
6 8 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.63%) XPath
8 1 (1.32%) PHP
8 1 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (5.26%) Degree
1 4 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) Accessibility
2 8 (10.53%) WCAG
3 3 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.63%) QA
5 1 (1.32%) HIPAA
System Software
1 14 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.21%) Docker
3 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (18.42%) Terraform
2 8 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.21%) CloudHub
4 5 (6.58%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.95%) Ansible
6 2 (2.63%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (1.32%) Grafana
7 1 (1.32%) Kibana
7 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.16%) MuleSoft
3 8 (10.53%) Oracle
3 8 (10.53%) Salesforce
4 7 (9.21%) IBM
5 6 (7.89%) Google
6 5 (6.58%) TSYS
7 4 (5.26%) SAP
8 2 (2.63%) Okta
8 2 (2.63%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.63%) TIBCO
9 1 (1.32%) BMC
9 1 (1.32%) Cognizant
9 1 (1.32%) Databricks
9 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.32%) ESRI
9 1 (1.32%) Remedy
9 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.32%) VMware
9 1 (1.32%) WSO2