API Development Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

API Development
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 87 110
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 +1
Contract jobs citing API Development 10 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.52% 0.59% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.64% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile - £360 -
25th Percentile £349 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +33.33% -37.50%
75th Percentile £609 £663 £388
90th Percentile £626 - -
South East median daily rate £472 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.83% -5.26% -20.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

API Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,574 1,095 1,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.02% 92.17% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 671 774
10th Percentile £349 £350 £316
25th Percentile £425 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £730 £688 £699
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 40 77
10th Percentile £28.29 £14.75 £16.00
25th Percentile £66.53 £16.66 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £32.05 £60.60
Median % change year-on-year +158.97% -47.11% +3.15%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.00 £70.39
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.64 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £21.90 £57.35
% change year-on-year +151.14% -61.81% +14.70%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

API Development job vacancy trend in Berkshire

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing API Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing API Development

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in Berkshire over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in Berkshire

API Development
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 August 2026. 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
Reading -25 5 £608 +15.71%
Wokingham -14 4 £358 -28.50%
Windsor - 1 - -
API Development
South East

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 4 (40.00%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Python Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Django
1 4 (40.00%) FastAPI
1 4 (40.00%) Flask
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
1 4 (40.00%) NumPy
1 4 (40.00%) OpenAPI
1 4 (40.00%) Pandas
1 4 (40.00%) pytest
1 4 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (40.00%) RESTful
1 4 (40.00%) Swagger
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) Jinja
2 1 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (40.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Analytics
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) Data Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 4 (40.00%) OOP
3 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce