API Development Contract Job Trends in Derby

API Development
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 0.60% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £413 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 122 63 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 73.05% 80.77% 72.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 34 55
10th Percentile £240 £171 £250
25th Percentile £434 £345 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £578 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% +15.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £616 £650 £588
90th Percentile £652 £743 £621
Derbyshire median daily rate £500 £580 £495
% change year-on-year -13.79% +17.17% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 3
10th Percentile £12.76 £24.83 -
25th Percentile £14.93 £25.07 -
Median hourly rate £22.81 £25.15 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +47.94% -4.06%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £18.00
90th Percentile £30.25 - £18.60
Derbyshire median hourly rate £19.85 £25.15 £25.77
% change year-on-year -21.07% -2.39% -14.12%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Derby

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

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

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft