Azure API Management Contracts

Microsoft Azure API Management (Azure APIM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure API Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure API Management over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 601 694
Rank change year-on-year +109 +93 -104
Contract jobs citing Azure API Management 81 99 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 0.47% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 70 117
10th Percentile £431 £459 £405
25th Percentile £500 £513 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -5.58%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £660
90th Percentile £798 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -14.58% +26.32% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure API Management is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,823 20,974 33,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.48% 36.73% 38.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,820 15,173 24,585
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 334 420
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.31 £15.88
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.50 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.12% +25.00% -

Azure API Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure API Management in the UK

Azure API Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure API Management in the UK

Azure API Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure API Management over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure API Management in the UK

Azure API Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure API Management in the UK

Azure API Management
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure API Management within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +100 77 £600 - 14
London +128 60 £650 +10.17% 10
Work from Home +115 47 £575 -4.17% 11
UK excluding London +20 15 £513 -14.58% 4
South East +11 13 £513 -14.58% 3
North of England +19 2 £556 +5.95%
Yorkshire +17 1 £700 +33.33%
North West - 1 £413 -

Azure 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 1 (1.23%) Apache
1 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.23%) CMS
1 1 (1.23%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.23%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) Azure
2 56 (69.14%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 38 (46.91%) Azure Service Bus
5 32 (39.51%) Azure Functions
5 32 (39.51%) Serverless
6 24 (29.63%) Azure Key Vault
7 20 (24.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (24.69%) PaaS
8 18 (22.22%) Azure Storage
9 17 (20.99%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (19.75%) Entra ID
11 15 (18.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (11.11%) NuGet
13 8 (9.88%) Power Platform
14 7 (8.64%) Azure Batch
14 7 (8.64%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (8.64%) Power Automate
14 7 (8.64%) PowerApps
15 5 (6.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) Network Security
1 3 (3.70%) VPN
2 2 (2.47%) DNS
2 2 (2.47%) Firewall
3 1 (1.23%) HTTP
3 1 (1.23%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (38.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (19.75%) SQL Server
3 9 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 7 (8.64%) OLTP
5 6 (7.41%) Big Data
5 6 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.23%) Flink
9 1 (1.23%) GIS
9 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (19.75%) Git
2 11 (13.58%) Postman
3 9 (11.11%) Visual Studio
4 7 (8.64%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.23%) git-flow
5 1 (1.23%) GitLab
5 1 (1.23%) Katalon Studio
General
1 31 (38.27%) Finance
2 15 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.64%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (6.17%) Banking
5 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (45.68%) Developer
2 29 (35.80%) Lead
3 21 (25.93%) Azure Developer
4 10 (12.35%) Integration Developer
5 8 (9.88%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) Data Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Python Developer
7 6 (7.41%) .NET Developer
7 6 (7.41%) C# Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Architect
8 5 (6.17%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Lead Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Senior
8 5 (6.17%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Senior Python Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Applications Developer
10 3 (3.70%) Azure Architect
10 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Data Integration Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (37.04%) .NET
2 25 (30.86%) XML
3 18 (22.22%) Web Services
4 15 (18.52%) REST
5 14 (17.28%) YAML
6 13 (16.05%) ARM Templates
6 13 (16.05%) Swagger
7 10 (12.35%) GraphQL
8 9 (11.11%) JSON
9 8 (9.88%) .NET Core
9 8 (9.88%) SOAP
10 4 (4.94%) .NET Framework
10 4 (4.94%) OAuth
11 3 (3.70%) OpenID
12 2 (2.47%) CSS
12 2 (2.47%) Next.js
12 2 (2.47%) OpenAPI
12 2 (2.47%) React
12 2 (2.47%) RESTful
12 2 (2.47%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (6.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 5 (6.17%) Wiki
2 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.23%) Windows
1 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (76.54%) DevOps
2 52 (64.20%) API Management
3 33 (40.74%) CI/CD
4 25 (30.86%) Agile
5 23 (28.40%) TDD
6 19 (23.46%) Software Engineering
7 18 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
7 18 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 18 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (19.75%) Data Transformation
8 16 (19.75%) Test Strategy
9 15 (18.52%) Continuous Deployment
9 15 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (16.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (16.05%) Microservices
10 13 (16.05%) Migration
11 12 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (14.81%) Test Automation
12 11 (13.58%) High Availability
12 11 (13.58%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 51 (62.96%) C#
2 27 (33.33%) SQL
3 20 (24.69%) Python
4 19 (23.46%) PowerShell
5 11 (13.58%) Java
6 7 (8.64%) Bicep
7 3 (3.70%) PHP
7 3 (3.70%) Ruby
8 2 (2.47%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (6.17%) Azure Certification
1 5 (6.17%) Degree
2 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.94%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.94%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.75%) QA
2 9 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (17.28%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.70%) Docker
2 3 (3.70%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (19.75%) Terraform
2 6 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.94%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.23%) Grafana
4 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (39.51%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.41%) Databricks
3 3 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.70%) VMware
4 1 (1.23%) BMC
4 1 (1.23%) ESRI
4 1 (1.23%) Remedy
4 1 (1.23%) SAP
4 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.23%) Sitecore