API Development Contracts in the Thames Valley

API Development
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 124 142 151
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 -33
Contract jobs citing API Development 13 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.49% 0.069% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.075% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 8
10th Percentile £530 £651 £437
25th Percentile £575 £653 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £688 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +34.15% +13.89%
75th Percentile £625 £734 £650
90th Percentile £626 £744 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £650 £488
% change year-on-year -23.08% +33.33% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,329 2,650 3,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.00% 91.60% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,849 2,109
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +7.22%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 62 88
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £11.91
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.18
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.63
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.27% -20.00%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the Thames Valley

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for API Development in the Thames Valley

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in the Thames Valley

API Development
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +8 11 £600 -14.29% 1
Buckinghamshire +29 2 £450 -33.33% 4
API Development
South East

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Spatial
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 9 (69.23%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 9 (69.23%) Azure Key Vault
3 9 (69.23%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
1 1 (7.69%) Internet
1 1 (7.69%) RNC
1 1 (7.69%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
1 1 (7.69%) GIS
1 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.69%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Maven
2 1 (7.69%) Subversion
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Lead
2 8 (61.54%) Designer
2 8 (61.54%) Lead Designer
3 4 (30.77%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) AngularJS
2 9 (69.23%) Node.js
3 5 (38.46%) CSS
3 5 (38.46%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (7.69%) CSS3
4 1 (7.69%) HTML5
4 1 (7.69%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) API Design
2 8 (61.54%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 7 (53.85%) Coaching
3 7 (53.85%) DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Data-Driven Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Integration Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Security Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
5 4 (30.77%) System Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
6 3 (23.08%) Product Backlog
7 2 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
8 1 (7.69%) API Integration
8 1 (7.69%) BDD
8 1 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
8 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
8 1 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) PHP
3 1 (7.69%) C
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Ericsson
1 1 (7.69%) Mapinfo
1 1 (7.69%) Nokia
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle