API Development Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

API Development
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 0.51% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £340 - £475

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 151 70 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 77.44% 77.78% 83.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 39 95
10th Percentile £380 £418 £400
25th Percentile £508 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £676
90th Percentile £740 £754 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 10
10th Percentile £53.00 - £61.38
25th Percentile £65.00 - £70.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £71.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -49.30% +47.92%
75th Percentile £76.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £38.00 £36.00 £37.52
% change year-on-year +5.56% -4.04% -48.72%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Windchill
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) PTC