API Development Contract Job Trends in Bristol

API Development
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 64 79
Rank change year-on-year -16 +15 -1
Contract jobs citing API Development 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.22% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.52% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £411 £398
25th Percentile £48 £447 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £51 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -90.38% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £53 £609 -
90th Percentile - £649 -
South West median daily rate £413 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -2.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,052 578 909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 78.27% 91.60% 80.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 299 498
10th Percentile £350 £235 £260
25th Percentile £418 £362 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -10.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £565 £600
90th Percentile £638 £645 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 92 211
10th Percentile £19.31 £18.17 £40.00
25th Percentile £51.14 £18.87 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £44.65 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.58% -36.21% +13.82%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.76 £74.50 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £28.10 £55.00
% change year-on-year +104.66% -48.92% -8.33%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Bristol

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Composer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Neo4j
1 1 (33.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) pydantic
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google