API Management Contracts

API Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 347 509
Rank change year-on-year -25 +162 -110
Contract jobs citing API Management 222 383 374
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.69% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.76% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 246 263
10th Percentile £422 £421 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £590
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% -0.68% +12.38%
75th Percentile £684 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £593 £550
% change year-on-year -7.25% +7.82% +10.00%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,635 50,134 80,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.39% 89.72% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,488 34,705 56,273
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,523 1,664 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.51
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.64%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year +8.91% +74.43% -4.45%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for API Management in the UK

API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for API Management in the UK

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in the UK

API Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for API Management in the UK

API Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 4 June 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
England +22 196 £550 -6.78% 58
London +41 139 £548 -4.78% 18
Work from Home +14 76 £538 -8.28% 36
UK excluding London -4 65 £550 -7.25% 37
North of England +39 23 £575 +21.05% 10
North West +19 19 £575 +11.00% 5
South East -3 13 £500 -23.08% 12
Midlands +34 12 £600 -4.00% 8
Scotland +41 9 £675 +22.73%
West Midlands +23 9 £561 +6.90% 6
Wales -7 6 £500 -14.68%
Yorkshire +10 4 £434 -6.16% 1
South West +7 2 £635 +10.43% 3

API Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (7.21%) CMS
2 15 (6.76%) Anypoint
3 8 (3.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (3.15%) Confluence
4 7 (3.15%) Mule
5 5 (2.25%) Mule ESB
6 3 (1.35%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.35%) IIS
7 2 (0.90%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.45%) Apache
8 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (3.15%) Temenos T24
2 5 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.35%) Maximo
4 2 (0.90%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 160 (72.07%) Azure
2 89 (40.09%) Azure Service Bus
3 85 (38.29%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (25.68%) Azure API Management
4 57 (25.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 47 (21.17%) Azure Monitor
6 46 (20.72%) AWS
7 44 (19.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 43 (19.37%) Serverless
9 29 (13.06%) Azure Functions
9 29 (13.06%) PaaS
10 24 (10.81%) Entra ID
11 23 (10.36%) Azure Key Vault
12 22 (9.91%) Apigee
13 21 (9.46%) Azure Storage
14 20 (9.01%) SaaS
15 19 (8.56%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (8.56%) Azure Pipelines
16 14 (6.31%) Boomi
16 14 (6.31%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.05%) Firewall
2 6 (2.70%) Network Security
3 4 (1.80%) SSL
3 4 (1.80%) VPN
4 3 (1.35%) HTTP
5 2 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.90%) DNS
5 2 (0.90%) Internet
6 1 (0.45%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (25.68%) SQL Server
2 33 (14.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (8.56%) NoSQL
4 14 (6.31%) OLTP
5 13 (5.86%) Data Lake
6 9 (4.05%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.60%) Big Data
7 8 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (3.15%) OLAP
9 6 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.70%) Oracle OLAP
10 5 (2.25%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.35%) GIS
11 3 (1.35%) MySQL
11 3 (1.35%) Redis
12 2 (0.90%) DB2
12 2 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.90%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 67 (30.18%) Git
2 18 (8.11%) Postman
3 17 (7.66%) Jenkins
4 15 (6.76%) JIRA
5 11 (4.95%) Visual Studio
6 8 (3.60%) TeamCity
7 7 (3.15%) Visual Studio Team System
8 6 (2.70%) JMeter
9 5 (2.25%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.80%) Maven
11 3 (1.35%) GitLab
11 3 (1.35%) gulp
11 3 (1.35%) LoadRunner
11 3 (1.35%) Selenium
12 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.45%) Hudson
12 1 (0.45%) NUnit
12 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 52 (23.42%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.86%) Finance
3 31 (13.96%) Back Office
4 26 (11.71%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.21%) Banking
5 16 (7.21%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.15%) German Language
9 5 (2.25%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.25%) Retail
10 2 (0.90%) Arabic Language
10 2 (0.90%) French Language
10 2 (0.90%) Japanese Language
10 2 (0.90%) Korean Language
10 2 (0.90%) Local Government
10 2 (0.90%) Spanish Language
10 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.45%) Automotive
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 93 (41.89%) Developer
2 49 (22.07%) Architect
3 38 (17.12%) Senior
4 31 (13.96%) Senior Developer
5 23 (10.36%) Lead
6 20 (9.01%) Azure Developer
6 20 (9.01%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (7.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 15 (6.76%) AWS Architect
8 15 (6.76%) MuleSoft Developer
9 13 (5.86%) Azure Architect
9 13 (5.86%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.95%) .NET Developer
10 11 (4.95%) Data Engineer
10 11 (4.95%) Python Developer
10 11 (4.95%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 10 (4.50%) C# Developer
11 10 (4.50%) Integration Architect
12 9 (4.05%) Backend Developer
13 8 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (40.09%) .NET
2 54 (24.32%) .NET Core
3 52 (23.42%) REST
4 50 (22.52%) SOAP
5 32 (14.41%) Web Services
6 28 (12.61%) Swagger
7 23 (10.36%) React
7 23 (10.36%) YAML
8 22 (9.91%) JSON
9 21 (9.46%) CSS
10 20 (9.01%) HTML
11 17 (7.66%) XML
12 16 (7.21%) jQuery
13 15 (6.76%) Node.js
14 14 (6.31%) RabbitMQ
14 14 (6.31%) RESTful
15 13 (5.86%) Apache Camel
15 13 (5.86%) ASP.NET
15 13 (5.86%) Spring
16 12 (5.41%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.66%) Product Ownership
1 17 (7.66%) Public Cloud
2 8 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.15%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.15%) DataPower
4 6 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (2.70%) NHS
5 5 (2.25%) IoT
6 3 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.35%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.90%) Wiki
8 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.45%) Replication
8 1 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.70%) Unix
2 5 (2.25%) Linux
3 3 (1.35%) Android
3 3 (1.35%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (48.65%) DevOps
2 100 (45.05%) Agile
3 69 (31.08%) TDD
4 64 (28.83%) CI/CD
5 58 (26.13%) OO
6 44 (19.82%) OOD
7 41 (18.47%) Microservices
8 36 (16.22%) Clean Code
9 33 (14.86%) Software Engineering
10 32 (14.41%) Migration
11 27 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (12.16%) SOA
12 24 (10.81%) Integration Patterns
13 23 (10.36%) Test Automation
14 21 (9.46%) Identity Access Management
15 20 (9.01%) Continuous Deployment
15 20 (9.01%) Continuous Integration
15 20 (9.01%) Roadmaps
15 20 (9.01%) Scrum
16 18 (8.11%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 87 (39.19%) C#
2 60 (27.03%) SQL
3 42 (18.92%) Bicep
4 38 (17.12%) Python
5 37 (16.67%) Java
6 30 (13.51%) JavaScript
7 21 (9.46%) PowerShell
8 20 (9.01%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.70%) C++
10 3 (1.35%) Groovy
10 3 (1.35%) PHP
10 3 (1.35%) Ruby
11 2 (0.90%) XPath
12 1 (0.45%) ABAP
12 1 (0.45%) R
12 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (8.56%) Degree
2 14 (6.31%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.86%) Azure Certification
4 11 (4.95%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.70%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.71%) Accessibility
2 21 (9.46%) WCAG
3 12 (5.41%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.25%) QA
5 2 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 54 (24.32%) Active Directory
2 26 (11.71%) Docker
3 10 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.35%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (16.22%) Terraform
2 26 (11.71%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.41%) Ansible
4 10 (4.50%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (3.15%) CloudHub
6 2 (0.90%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.45%) Grafana
7 1 (0.45%) Kibana
7 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 80 (36.04%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.46%) Oracle
3 17 (7.66%) MuleSoft
3 17 (7.66%) SAP
4 16 (7.21%) Google
4 16 (7.21%) Salesforce
5 13 (5.86%) IBM
5 13 (5.86%) WSO2
6 9 (4.05%) Databricks
7 7 (3.15%) TSYS
8 3 (1.35%) ESRI
8 3 (1.35%) Nintex
8 3 (1.35%) Pega
8 3 (1.35%) VMware
9 2 (0.90%) Cisco
9 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.90%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.45%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.45%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.45%) Solace