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 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 495 595 708
Rank change year-on-year +100 +113 -120
Contract jobs citing Azure API Management 84 99 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 0.47% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 70 113
10th Percentile £431 £459 £404
25th Percentile £500 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +11.32% -3.64%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £652
90th Percentile £883 £675 £710
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 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
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 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%

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 20 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 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
England +122 80 £600 - 11
London +130 62 £650 +10.17% 6
Work from Home +103 48 £588 -2.08% 7
UK excluding London +21 15 £513 -14.58% 7
South East +10 13 £513 -14.58% 3
North of England +28 2 £556 +5.95% 1
Yorkshire +16 1 £700 +33.33%
North West - 1 £413 - 1

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 (1.19%) Apache
1 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.19%) CMS
1 1 (1.19%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.19%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.19%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 84 (100.00%) Azure
2 56 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 55 (65.48%) Azure Logic Apps
4 39 (46.43%) Azure Service Bus
5 32 (38.10%) Azure Functions
5 32 (38.10%) Serverless
6 25 (29.76%) Azure Key Vault
7 21 (25.00%) PaaS
8 20 (23.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 19 (22.62%) Azure Storage
10 17 (20.24%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (20.24%) Entra ID
11 16 (19.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (10.71%) NuGet
13 8 (9.52%) Power Platform
14 7 (8.33%) Azure Batch
14 7 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (8.33%) Power Automate
14 7 (8.33%) PowerApps
15 5 (5.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) Network Security
1 3 (3.57%) VPN
2 2 (2.38%) DNS
2 2 (2.38%) Firewall
3 1 (1.19%) HTTP
3 1 (1.19%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (38.10%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (19.05%) SQL Server
3 9 (10.71%) Data Lake
4 7 (8.33%) OLTP
5 6 (7.14%) Big Data
5 6 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.76%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.19%) Flink
9 1 (1.19%) GIS
9 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (19.05%) Git
2 12 (14.29%) Postman
3 9 (10.71%) Visual Studio
4 7 (8.33%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.19%) git-flow
5 1 (1.19%) GitLab
5 1 (1.19%) Katalon Studio
General
1 32 (38.10%) Finance
2 15 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (7.14%) Banking
5 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (46.43%) Developer
2 29 (34.52%) Lead
3 22 (26.19%) Azure Developer
4 11 (13.10%) Integration Developer
5 8 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Python Developer
6 6 (7.14%) .NET Developer
6 6 (7.14%) Architect
6 6 (7.14%) C# Developer
6 6 (7.14%) Senior
6 6 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Applications Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Azure Architect
9 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Data Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (35.71%) .NET
2 25 (29.76%) XML
3 19 (22.62%) Web Services
4 15 (17.86%) REST
5 14 (16.67%) Swagger
5 14 (16.67%) YAML
6 13 (15.48%) ARM Templates
7 11 (13.10%) GraphQL
8 9 (10.71%) JSON
8 9 (10.71%) SOAP
9 8 (9.52%) .NET Core
10 4 (4.76%) .NET Framework
10 4 (4.76%) OAuth
11 3 (3.57%) OpenID
11 3 (3.57%) RESTful
12 2 (2.38%) CSS
12 2 (2.38%) Next.js
12 2 (2.38%) OpenAPI
12 2 (2.38%) React
12 2 (2.38%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.95%) Wiki
3 3 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.19%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Windows
1 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (73.81%) DevOps
2 54 (64.29%) API Management
3 35 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 26 (30.95%) Agile
5 24 (28.57%) TDD
6 20 (23.81%) Software Engineering
7 18 (21.43%) Integration Patterns
7 18 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 18 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (19.05%) Continuous Deployment
8 16 (19.05%) Data Transformation
8 16 (19.05%) Test Strategy
9 15 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (16.67%) Migration
11 13 (15.48%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (15.48%) Microservices
12 12 (14.29%) Test Automation
13 11 (13.10%) High Availability
13 11 (13.10%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 52 (61.90%) C#
2 28 (33.33%) SQL
3 21 (25.00%) Python
4 19 (22.62%) PowerShell
5 11 (13.10%) Java
6 7 (8.33%) Bicep
7 3 (3.57%) PHP
7 3 (3.57%) Ruby
8 2 (2.38%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 6 (7.14%) Degree
2 5 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.05%) QA
2 9 (10.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.57%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (20.24%) Terraform
2 6 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.19%) Grafana
4 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (40.48%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.14%) Databricks
3 3 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.57%) VMware
4 1 (1.19%) BMC
4 1 (1.19%) ESRI
4 1 (1.19%) Remedy
4 1 (1.19%) SAP
4 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.19%) Sitecore