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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 107 117
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 +9
Contract jobs citing API Development 3 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.23% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.28% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £433 £354 £300
25th Percentile £463 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £413 £600
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +21.52%
75th Percentile £600 £505 -
90th Percentile £638 £604 -
South East median daily rate £506 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +3.85% -11.36% +3.43%

All Process and 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 1,179 1,414 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.25% 88.71% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 767 757 984
10th Percentile £324 £325 £242
25th Percentile £420 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +5.88% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £523
% change year-on-year -2.01% -2.34% +2.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 55 70
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.93 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.01 £41.88 £45.21
Median hourly rate £28.50 £58.49 £61.72
Median % change year-on-year -51.27% -5.23% +23.44%
75th Percentile £60.88 £63.42 £72.25
90th Percentile £80.20 £75.19 £77.27
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.30
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.47% +39.47%

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025. 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 £525 +40.00% 1
Bracknell - 1 £525 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) npm
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Healthcare
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (33.33%) React Developer
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Express.js
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Material-UI
2 1 (33.33%) Next.js
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Design
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Pega