API Development Contracts in the City of London

API Development
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for API Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Development over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 157 165
Rank change year-on-year +44 +8 -34
Contract jobs citing API Development 12 17 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.55% 0.47% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.51% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 16
10th Percentile £520 £406 £425
25th Percentile £600 £495 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £595 £613
Median % change year-on-year +21.85% -2.86% +11.36%
75th Percentile £775 £673 £713
90th Percentile £800 £775 £731
Central London median daily rate £713 £575 £613
% change year-on-year +23.91% -6.12% +6.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

API Development 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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,975 3,332 3,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.54% 91.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,399 2,240 2,946
10th Percentile £361 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.44% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 41
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the City of London

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for API Development in the City of London

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in the City of London

API Development
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing API Development within the City of London region over the 6 months to 3 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
London Bridge - 1 £700 -
API Development
Central London

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure API Management
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Android Studio
2 2 (16.67%) JUnit
2 2 (16.67%) Mockito
2 2 (16.67%) ScalaTest
2 2 (16.67%) Subversion
2 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (8.33%) git-flow
3 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (41.67%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Scala Developer
5 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Integration Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Workday Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (8.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 3 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (33.33%) API Integration
2 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) SDLC
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (16.67%) Functional Programming
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Scala
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
3 1 (8.33%) Ruby
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Terracotta
2 1 (8.33%) Workday