API Development Contracts in Central London

API Development
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for API Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Development over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 161 168
Rank change year-on-year +37 +7 -36
Contract jobs citing API Development 13 19 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.53% 0.49% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.54% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 18
10th Percentile £470 £346 £425
25th Percentile £513 £463 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -6.12% +6.52%
75th Percentile £763 £650 £709
90th Percentile £775 £759 £724
London median daily rate £569 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -5.21% -4.00% +23.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

API Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,227 3,551 4,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.53% 91.66% 91.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 2,404 3,185
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 40
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.25 £20.22 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.83
London median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.28% +8.33% +11.73%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in Central London

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for API Development in Central London

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in Central London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in Central London

API Development
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
City of London +39 11 £713 +19.75% 3
Southwark - 1 £700 -
API Development
London

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Azure API Management
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Internet
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) Android Studio
2 2 (15.38%) JUnit
2 2 (15.38%) Mockito
2 2 (15.38%) ScalaTest
2 2 (15.38%) Subversion
2 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (7.69%) git-flow
3 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (84.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Scala Developer
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Integration Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Workday Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Mainframe
2 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) Blockchain
3 1 (7.69%) CBDC
3 1 (7.69%) IoT
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.69%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Microservices
2 4 (30.77%) API Integration
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Architectural Design
3 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (23.08%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 3 (23.08%) SDLC
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (23.08%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (15.38%) Functional Programming
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Scala
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) Ruby
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Terracotta
2 1 (7.69%) Workday