API Development Contract Job Trends in the East of England

API Development
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 83 100
Rank change year-on-year -20 +17 +14
Contract jobs citing API Development 5 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.23% 0.56% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.63% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 4
10th Percentile £358 £410 -
25th Percentile £369 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £545 £300
Median % change year-on-year -24.31% +81.67% -40.00%
75th Percentile £475 £580 £317
90th Percentile £543 £613 £348
England median daily rate £475 £464 £500
% change year-on-year +2.43% -7.25% -13.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,715 1,103 1,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.71% 88.31% 83.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 519 541
10th Percentile £190 £200 £198
25th Percentile £385 £375 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £553
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 386 258 514
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.28 £18.04 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £82.22 £70.00
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

API Development job vacancy trend in the East of England

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in the East of England

API Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing API Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing API Development

API Development
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 29 July 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
Essex - 2 £375 -
Norfolk -15 1 £425 -22.02% 2
Hertfordshire -17 1 £575 - 1
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
API Development
England

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

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (20.00%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Redis
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Business Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) JWT
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 2 (40.00%) OAuth
2 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) Django
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (20.00%) Spring MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Security
3 1 (20.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) LIMS
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (40.00%) Microservices
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Informatics
2 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
2 1 (20.00%) WFM
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) New Relic
1 1 (20.00%) Workday