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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 84 119
Rank change year-on-year -36 +35 -3
Contract jobs citing API Development 4 10 12
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.22% 0.86% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.92% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £343 £505
25th Percentile £349 £425 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -33.49% -10.42% +20.00%
75th Percentile £366 £644 £625
90th Percentile - £665 £628
South East median daily rate £481 £499 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% -9.32% +7.21%

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 1,604 1,089 1,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.52% 93.56% 90.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,055 630 983
10th Percentile £300 £306 £213
25th Percentile £401 £413 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +4.80% -2.91%
75th Percentile £599 £638 £604
90th Percentile £650 £685 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 29 101
10th Percentile £19.76 £25.93 £18.95
25th Percentile £56.50 £41.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +2.25% +2.37%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £71.75
90th Percentile £97.50 £86.27 £87.00
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -16.67%

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
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 21 March 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 -23 2 - -
Wokingham -33 1 £358 -
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 1 (25.00%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Remedy AR System
1 2 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Boomi
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (25.00%) Flask
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) NumPy
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) CMDB
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) BMC
1 2 (50.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft