API Development Contracts in Berkshire

API Development
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring API Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 113 -
Rank change year-on-year +29 - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 9 11 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.77% 0.55% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.62% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 0
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £463 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £638 £625 -
90th Percentile £650 £629 -
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £625
% change year-on-year -10.00% -20.00% +28.21%

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 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in Berkshire

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for API Development in Berkshire

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +25 5 £625 +4.17% 18
Wokingham - 2 £500 - 1
Windsor - 1 £450 -
API Development
South East

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (11.11%) Anypoint
1 1 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Headless CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Functions
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
5 1 (11.11%) Azure App Service
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) BGP
1 1 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Postman
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Developer
2 3 (33.33%) React Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Python Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Product Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior React Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) React
2 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
3 2 (22.22%) CSS
3 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 1 (11.11%) Material-UI
4 1 (11.11%) Middleware
4 1 (11.11%) Next.js
4 1 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) Swagger
4 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
3 2 (22.22%) Release Management
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) API Design
4 1 (11.11%) API Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
4 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C#
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) DataWeave
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) CloudHub
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco
1 1 (11.11%) Meraki
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
1 1 (11.11%) Snow