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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 110 114
Rank change year-on-year +21 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing API Development 5 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.42% 0.059% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.067% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £439 - -
25th Percentile £478 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -37.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £569 £388 £675
90th Percentile £625 - £720
South East median daily rate £450 £463 £600
% change year-on-year -2.70% -22.92% +11.63%

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 1,080 1,487 1,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.22% 87.16% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 766 1,005
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £691 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 72 64
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.51 £18.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £45.31 £48.18
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £58.44
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +5.40% +41.87%
75th Percentile £58.00 £70.39 £72.08
90th Percentile £87.25 £87.32 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.85% +9.24% +64.53%

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
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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +32 2 £525 +40.00%
Wokingham - 1 £500 -
Bracknell - 1 £525 - 3
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 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (20.00%) npm
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Healthcare
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Architect
2 1 (20.00%) React Developer
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Express.js
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Material-UI
2 1 (20.00%) Next.js
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) API Design
2 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Meraki
1 1 (20.00%) Pega
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Snow