API Development Contracts in England

API Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 364 402
Rank change year-on-year +13 +38 -56
Contract jobs citing API Development 196 310 448
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.61% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.68% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 227 326
10th Percentile £396 £411 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £688
90th Percentile £694 £715 £778
UK median daily rate £550 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -6.14% +1.91% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £49.05
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £49.75
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £65.15
UK median hourly rate - - £49.75
% change year-on-year - - +24.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in England

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for API Development in England

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in England

API Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for API Development in England

API Development
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +1 97 £575 -4.17% 51
North of England +51 51 £550 -4.35% 20
North West +28 27 £525 -10.41% 13
South East +34 26 £500 -20.00% 11
Yorkshire +42 24 £550 +10.00% 5
South West 0 6 £748 +18.72% 3
Midlands +16 4 £450 +5.88% 17
West Midlands +21 2 £450 -25.00% 9
East Midlands +18 2 £474 +43.56% 8
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (5.61%) Confluence
2 3 (1.53%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.53%) IIS
3 2 (1.02%) Apache
3 2 (1.02%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.51%) CICS
4 1 (0.51%) Drupal
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.51%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) Tornado
Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.57%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.53%) Maximo
3 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.51%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 66 (33.67%) Azure
2 56 (28.57%) AWS
3 18 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (9.18%) GCP
4 16 (8.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 15 (7.65%) Amazon S3
5 15 (7.65%) Serverless
6 13 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (6.63%) GitHub
7 12 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (5.10%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (4.59%) Amazon ECR
9 9 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (4.59%) Apigee
9 9 (4.59%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 9 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (4.59%) Route 53
10 8 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (4.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.10%) HTTP
2 9 (4.59%) DNS
2 9 (4.59%) TCP/IP
3 8 (4.08%) Firewall
4 7 (3.57%) Internet
5 6 (3.06%) VPN
6 4 (2.04%) DHCP
7 2 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.51%) RNC
8 1 (0.51%) SGSN
8 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.20%) NoSQL
2 17 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.06%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.55%) MySQL
7 4 (2.04%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.04%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.53%) GIS
8 3 (1.53%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.02%) Couchbase
9 2 (1.02%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.51%) Big Data
10 1 (0.51%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 31 (15.82%) Git
2 19 (9.69%) GitLab
3 15 (7.65%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.65%) JIRA
4 9 (4.59%) webpack
5 7 (3.57%) CircleCI
6 6 (3.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (3.06%) Travis CI
7 5 (2.55%) Maven
7 5 (2.55%) Selenium
8 4 (2.04%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.53%) JUnit
9 3 (1.53%) Subversion
9 3 (1.53%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.02%) Android Studio
10 2 (1.02%) Mockito
10 2 (1.02%) Postman
10 2 (1.02%) ScalaTest
10 2 (1.02%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.84%) Finance
3 18 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.63%) Banking
6 7 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.57%) Retail
7 6 (3.06%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.04%) Electronics
8 4 (2.04%) Law
8 4 (2.04%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.04%) Marketing
9 3 (1.53%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Advertising
10 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 98 (50.00%) Developer
2 22 (11.22%) Lead
3 18 (9.18%) Senior
3 18 (9.18%) Software Developer
3 18 (9.18%) Software Engineer
4 16 (8.16%) Architect
5 14 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 14 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (5.61%) Java Engineer
7 10 (5.10%) Full Stack Developer
7 10 (5.10%) Senior Java Engineer
8 8 (4.08%) Consultant
8 8 (4.08%) Designer
8 8 (4.08%) Lead Designer
8 8 (4.08%) ServiceNow Consultant
9 7 (3.57%) .NET Developer
9 7 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (3.57%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.88%) Node.js
2 31 (15.82%) REST
3 26 (13.27%) RESTful
4 25 (12.76%) React
5 24 (12.24%) HTML
6 22 (11.22%) CSS
7 21 (10.71%) .NET
8 16 (8.16%) AngularJS
8 16 (8.16%) FastAPI
8 16 (8.16%) Web Services
9 15 (7.65%) JSON
10 14 (7.14%) Flask
11 13 (6.63%) Redux
12 12 (6.12%) Spring
13 11 (5.61%) Express.js
13 11 (5.61%) Spring Boot
13 11 (5.61%) WebSockets
13 11 (5.61%) XML
14 9 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
15 7 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.08%) Blockchain
2 7 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.57%) IoT
2 7 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.06%) Mainframe
4 3 (1.53%) CBDC
4 3 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.53%) Low-Code
4 3 (1.53%) Web3
5 2 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.59%) Unix
2 6 (3.06%) Windows
3 2 (1.02%) Android
3 2 (1.02%) zOS
4 1 (0.51%) AIX
4 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (30.10%) CI/CD
2 58 (29.59%) DevOps
3 57 (29.08%) Agile
4 36 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (17.86%) Microservices
5 35 (17.86%) Software Engineering
6 31 (15.82%) Containerisation
7 29 (14.80%) API Design
8 28 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
9 24 (12.24%) Test Automation
10 23 (11.73%) API Integration
10 23 (11.73%) Scrum
11 22 (11.22%) Front End Development
12 21 (10.71%) Unit Testing
13 20 (10.20%) End-to-End Testing
14 18 (9.18%) Asset Management
15 16 (8.16%) TDD
16 15 (7.65%) IT Asset Management
16 15 (7.65%) Operations Management
16 15 (7.65%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (31.12%) Python
2 44 (22.45%) Java
3 32 (16.33%) JavaScript
3 32 (16.33%) SQL
4 28 (14.29%) C#
5 18 (9.18%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.61%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.08%) PHP
8 6 (3.06%) Bash
8 6 (3.06%) Go
9 4 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.04%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.04%) X++
10 3 (1.53%) Perl
10 3 (1.53%) Ruby
10 3 (1.53%) Scala
11 2 (1.02%) COBOL
11 2 (1.02%) Groovy
12 1 (0.51%) C
12 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (22.96%) Security Cleared
2 44 (22.45%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.65%) Degree
4 10 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.53%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.53%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.73%) QA
2 3 (1.53%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.53%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.53%) GDPR
3 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (15.31%) Docker
2 5 (2.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.22%) Terraform
3 15 (7.65%) Ansible
4 12 (6.12%) Grafana
5 10 (5.10%) Kibana
5 10 (5.10%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.06%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (3.06%) logstash
6 6 (3.06%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.06%) Puppet
7 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.65%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.08%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.57%) SAP
5 6 (3.06%) Oracle
5 6 (3.06%) Splunk
6 4 (2.04%) Databricks
6 4 (2.04%) Google
6 4 (2.04%) IBM
6 4 (2.04%) Informatica
6 4 (2.04%) New Relic
7 3 (1.53%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.53%) Nintex
7 3 (1.53%) Pega
8 2 (1.02%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.51%) Mapinfo
9 1 (0.51%) Nokia
9 1 (0.51%) Sage
9 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.51%) Terracotta