API Development Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

API Development
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.10% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 168 152 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 92.31% 91.57% 91.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 75 68
10th Percentile £183 £308 £260
25th Percentile £372 £416 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £530 £420
Median % change year-on-year -17.45% +26.19% -9.19%
75th Percentile £535 £644 £553
90th Percentile £625 £700 £641
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £494 £433
% change year-on-year -3.80% +14.16% -3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 21
10th Percentile £17.17 £17.34 £22.50
25th Percentile £19.47 £19.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.17% +14.29% +196.28%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £77.50 £75.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £14.22 £16.30 £16.23
% change year-on-year -12.76% +0.43% +11.93%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Cambridge

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Redis
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) Celery
2 1 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (50.00%) Flask
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) JPA
2 1 (50.00%) JWT
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) LIMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Database Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Informatics
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker