API Development Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

API Development
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 52 65
Rank change year-on-year -22 +13 +23
Contract jobs citing API Development 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.50% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.20% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £335 - £420
25th Percentile £355 - £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £326 £549
Median % change year-on-year +15.03% -40.59% +65.04%
75th Percentile £550 - £627
90th Percentile - - £671
England median daily rate £510 £559 £558
% change year-on-year -8.72% +0.22% -7.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 842 508 639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.37% 87.14% 81.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 317 443
10th Percentile £190 £206 £188
25th Percentile £358 £326 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £530 £538
90th Percentile £624 £600 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 21 60
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.63 £11.67
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% +37.35% +4.60%
75th Percentile £24.86 £31.76 £29.88
90th Percentile £25.77 £50.00 £51.50
England median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% - -

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

API Development job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing API Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing API Development

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in the East Midlands

API Development
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 February 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
Leicestershire - 3 £550 - 2
Northamptonshire -18 2 £349 +6.90%
API Development
England

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (40.00%) Kontent
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) CMS Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Gen AI Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (40.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (40.00%) Flask
2 2 (40.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) API Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (40.00%) LLM
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft