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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 486 587 682
Rank change year-on-year +101 +95 -77
Contract jobs citing Azure API Management 89 95 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.64% 0.47% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 66 112
10th Percentile £441 £465 £404
25th Percentile £505 £515 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £600 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +13.21% -5.78%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £641
90th Percentile £894 £681 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £600 £478
% change year-on-year -10.42% +25.65% -4.50%
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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 June 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 7 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 1 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 +102 86 £615 +2.50% 16
London +132 67 £650 +8.33% 6
Work from Home +106 47 £600 - 13
UK excluding London +3 15 £538 -10.42% 10
South East -3 14 £525 -19.23% 3
North of England +20 1 £700 +33.33% 6
Yorkshire +15 1 £700 +33.33% 4

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 (1.12%) Apache
1 1 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.12%) CMS
1 1 (1.12%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.12%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) Azure
2 55 (61.80%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (57.30%) Azure Logic Apps
4 36 (40.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 29 (32.58%) Azure Functions
5 29 (32.58%) Serverless
6 22 (24.72%) Azure Key Vault
6 22 (24.72%) Entra ID
7 21 (23.60%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (21.35%) Azure Storage
8 19 (21.35%) PaaS
9 18 (20.22%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (16.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (11.24%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (10.11%) NuGet
13 8 (8.99%) Power Platform
14 7 (7.87%) Azure Batch
14 7 (7.87%) Power Automate
14 7 (7.87%) PowerApps
15 4 (4.49%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) Network Security
1 3 (3.37%) VPN
2 2 (2.25%) DNS
2 2 (2.25%) Firewall
3 1 (1.12%) HTTP
3 1 (1.12%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (32.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (15.73%) SQL Server
3 11 (12.36%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (11.24%) Data Lake
5 7 (7.87%) OLTP
6 6 (6.74%) Big Data
7 5 (5.62%) SSDT
8 2 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.25%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.12%) Flink
9 1 (1.12%) GIS
9 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.12%) Power BI
9 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (17.98%) Git
2 15 (16.85%) Postman
3 7 (7.87%) Visual Studio
3 7 (7.87%) Visual Studio Team System
4 3 (3.37%) JMeter
4 3 (3.37%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.12%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.12%) git-flow
5 1 (1.12%) GitLab
5 1 (1.12%) Katalon Studio
General
1 35 (39.33%) Finance
2 18 (20.22%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.87%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (6.74%) Banking
5 3 (3.37%) Retail
6 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (39.33%) Developer
2 29 (32.58%) Lead
3 20 (22.47%) Azure Developer
4 9 (10.11%) Data Engineer
4 9 (10.11%) Integration Developer
5 8 (8.99%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Python Developer
6 6 (6.74%) .NET Developer
6 6 (6.74%) Senior
6 6 (6.74%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.74%) Senior Python Developer
7 5 (5.62%) Architect
7 5 (5.62%) C# Developer
7 5 (5.62%) Environment And Release Manager
7 5 (5.62%) Environment Manager
7 5 (5.62%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Lead Developer
7 5 (5.62%) Release Manager
8 4 (4.49%) Azure Architect
8 4 (4.49%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (30.34%) .NET
2 23 (25.84%) XML
3 19 (21.35%) Web Services
4 18 (20.22%) YAML
5 17 (19.10%) Swagger
6 13 (14.61%) REST
7 11 (12.36%) ARM Templates
7 11 (12.36%) GraphQL
8 8 (8.99%) .NET Core
9 7 (7.87%) JSON
9 7 (7.87%) SOAP
10 4 (4.49%) .NET Framework
11 3 (3.37%) RESTful
12 2 (2.25%) CSS
12 2 (2.25%) Next.js
12 2 (2.25%) OAuth
12 2 (2.25%) React
12 2 (2.25%) WebSockets
13 1 (1.12%) OpenAPI
13 1 (1.12%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.62%) Wiki
3 3 (3.37%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Windows
1 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (74.16%) DevOps
2 57 (64.04%) API Management
3 35 (39.33%) CI/CD
4 26 (29.21%) Agile
5 23 (25.84%) TDD
6 20 (22.47%) Software Engineering
6 20 (22.47%) Test Strategy
7 19 (21.35%) Mentoring
8 18 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (20.22%) Integration Patterns
9 17 (19.10%) Technical Leadership
10 16 (17.98%) Continuous Deployment
10 16 (17.98%) Data Transformation
10 16 (17.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (16.85%) Test Automation
12 14 (15.73%) Migration
13 13 (14.61%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (14.61%) Microservices
14 11 (12.36%) Analytics
15 10 (11.24%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 47 (52.81%) C#
2 25 (28.09%) SQL
3 21 (23.60%) Python
4 17 (19.10%) PowerShell
5 11 (12.36%) Java
6 6 (6.74%) Bicep
7 3 (3.37%) PHP
7 3 (3.37%) Ruby
8 2 (2.25%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (7.87%) Degree
2 6 (6.74%) Azure Certification
2 6 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (6.74%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.98%) QA
2 10 (11.24%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (16.85%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.37%) Docker
2 3 (3.37%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (24.72%) Terraform
2 6 (6.74%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.49%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.12%) Grafana
4 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (40.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.87%) Databricks
3 3 (3.37%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.37%) VMware
4 1 (1.12%) BMC
4 1 (1.12%) ESRI
4 1 (1.12%) Remedy
4 1 (1.12%) SAP
4 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.12%) Sitecore