API Development Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

API Development
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 61 61
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +22
Contract jobs citing API Development 1 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.16% 0.84% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 1.00% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £581
25th Percentile £413 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £438 £625 £675
90th Percentile - - £700
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -22.73% -8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 566 598 697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 91.14% 83.40% 83.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 391 456
10th Percentile £204 £200 £275
25th Percentile £370 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £484
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.41% -3.30%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £649 £738 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 9 25
10th Percentile - £21.10 £13.87
25th Percentile £12.62 £25.56 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% +66.67% +66.67%
75th Percentile £22.08 £55.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.51 £57.80 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year -8.56% -8.54% +55.19%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Birmingham

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Healthcare
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Pega