API Development Contracts in Central London

API Development
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring API Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 120 153
Rank change year-on-year +20 +33 +17
Contract jobs citing API Development 29 13 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.45% 0.53% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 0.59% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 13
10th Percentile £459 £470 £346
25th Percentile £569 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% +21.74% -6.12%
75th Percentile - £763 £650
90th Percentile £608 £775 £759
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in Central London

API Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Development in Central London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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
City of London +25 28 £585 -17.89% 13
City of Westminster - 1 £550 -
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 1 (3.45%) Anypoint
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) GitHub
2 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Run
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) HTTP
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (62.07%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (58.62%) NoSQL
3 16 (55.17%) MongoDB
4 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.45%) Data Mart
5 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.45%) Power BI
5 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Maven
2 1 (3.45%) Postman
2 1 (3.45%) Terragrunt
General
1 19 (65.52%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Advertising
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
4 1 (3.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (89.66%) Developer
2 18 (62.07%) Java Developer
3 16 (55.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Web Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Gen AI Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Lead
7 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Power Platform Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) React Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (62.07%) Kafka
1 18 (62.07%) React
1 18 (62.07%) Spring
1 18 (62.07%) Spring Boot
2 6 (20.69%) RESTful
3 4 (13.79%) JSON
3 4 (13.79%) OAuth
3 4 (13.79%) REST
4 3 (10.34%) OAuth2
5 2 (6.90%) FastAPI
5 2 (6.90%) JWT
5 2 (6.90%) OpenID
5 2 (6.90%) Swagger
5 2 (6.90%) XML
6 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.45%) HTML
6 1 (3.45%) MUnit
6 1 (3.45%) Next.js
6 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
6 1 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Hedge funds
3 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (82.76%) Agile
2 22 (75.86%) DevOps
3 20 (68.97%) Microservices
4 18 (62.07%) Clean Code
5 17 (58.62%) SOLID
6 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
7 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (10.34%) API Design
9 3 (10.34%) API Integration
9 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
9 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
10 2 (6.90%) Code Quality
10 2 (6.90%) Data Modelling
10 2 (6.90%) Event-Driven
10 2 (6.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 2 (6.90%) Performance Optimisation
10 2 (6.90%) TDD
10 2 (6.90%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (72.41%) Java
2 19 (65.52%) JavaScript
2 19 (65.52%) SQL
3 8 (27.59%) Python
4 1 (3.45%) C#
4 1 (3.45%) Go
4 1 (3.45%) Scala
4 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (65.52%) SC Cleared
1 19 (65.52%) Security Cleared
2 16 (55.17%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (65.52%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.24%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Google
2 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.45%) Murex
2 1 (3.45%) Okta
2 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.45%) TIBCO