API Development Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

API Development
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire 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 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 0.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £358 £550
% change year-on-year +12.29% -34.91% -21.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 168 84 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 69.14% 82.35% 70.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 47 63
10th Percentile £225 £151 £253
25th Percentile £425 £294 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £495
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +17.17% +4.21%
75th Percentile £613 £725 £588
90th Percentile £650 £810 £627
East Midlands median daily rate £483 £405 £450
% change year-on-year +19.26% -10.00% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 13
10th Percentile £12.76 £16.03 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £24.53 £17.00
Median hourly rate £19.85 £25.15 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.07% -2.39% -14.12%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £50.00
90th Percentile £30.25 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £19.16
% change year-on-year -5.30% -1.51% -39.67%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

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

API Development
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 25 August 2026. 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
Derby - 1 £413 - 1
API Development
East Midlands

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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