API Development Contracts in the South West

API Development
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 157 147
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 -13
Contract jobs citing API Development 6 18 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.19% 0.49% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.55% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 11
10th Percentile £330 £449 £363
25th Percentile £486 £513 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £748 £630 £570
Median % change year-on-year +18.72% +10.53% +4.88%
75th Percentile £749 - £613
90th Percentile £750 - £638
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £47.30
25th Percentile - - £48.88
Median hourly rate - - £49.75
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £49.75

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,659 3,298 3,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.04% 89.50% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,724 2,416 2,348
10th Percentile £225 £313 £301
25th Percentile £406 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £588
90th Percentile £704 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 349 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £25.31 £17.75 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.83 £61.50 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -22.23% +27.13% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.33 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the South West

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in the South West.

Daily rate trend for API Development in the South West

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in the South West over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in the South West

API Development
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 23 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
Devon - 5 £749 -
Bristol +4 1 £250 -60.32% 3
API Development
England

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) PHP Developer
3 1 (16.67%) PHP Laravel Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) Flask
2 5 (83.33%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Laravel
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 6 (100.00%) Web Application Development
2 4 (66.67%) Prototyping
2 4 (66.67%) User Stories
3 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 2 (33.33%) Web Development
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Community of Practice
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) PHP
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA