API Development Contracts in Scotland

API Development
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 140 162
Rank change year-on-year +17 +22 -27
Contract jobs citing API Development 7 23 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 0.80% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.87% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 3
10th Percentile £429 £425 £345
25th Percentile £444 £438 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £463 £606 £520
90th Percentile £510 £725 £547
UK median daily rate £550 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -6.14% +1.91% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,976 2,647 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.57% 92.62% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,908 2,318
10th Percentile £233 £260 £243
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 56 49
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £44.47 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in Scotland

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for API Development in Scotland

API Development
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 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
Edinburgh +31 6 £447 -9.24% 4
Glasgow -2 1 £536 -23.43% 6
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure API Management
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Full Stack Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) React
2 4 (57.14%) Node.js
2 4 (57.14%) REST
3 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
3 3 (42.86%) Vue
4 2 (28.57%) OAuth
4 2 (28.57%) Spring
4 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
4 2 (28.57%) Spring Security
5 1 (14.29%) .NET
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
5 1 (14.29%) CSS
5 1 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) JSON
5 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
5 1 (14.29%) RESTful
5 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
5 1 (14.29%) Spring Web Flow
5 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) API Design
5 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 1 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
5 1 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (14.29%) MVC
5 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker