API Development Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

API Development
North West > Cumbria

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - 40
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 0.60% - 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% - 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £504
25th Percentile £329 - £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £357 - £545
75th Percentile £386 - £574
90th Percentile - - £582
North West median daily rate £478 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +19.38% -23.81% -10.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 140 170 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 83.83% 86.29% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 73 144
10th Percentile £400 £368 £438
25th Percentile £456 £425 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £527
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -0.33% +23.65%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £666
90th Percentile £700 £638 £725
North West median daily rate £464 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.37% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 21 63
10th Percentile £13.95 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £15.65 £25.26 £10.95
Median hourly rate £35.55 £30.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.50% +130.77% -76.47%
75th Percentile £40.16 £58.58 £44.74
90th Percentile £44.77 £80.59 £51.91
North West median hourly rate £46.43 £32.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +45.09% +52.38% -40.00%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Cumbria

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

API Development
Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing API Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing API Development

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes