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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 79 103
Rank change year-on-year -18 +24 +15
Contract jobs citing API Development 10 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.62% 0.62% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.73% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £530 - £543
25th Percentile £613 - £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £300 £700
Median % change year-on-year +108.33% -57.14% +12.90%
75th Percentile £638 £425 -
90th Percentile - £650 -
England median daily rate £504 £570 £558
% change year-on-year -11.62% +2.24% -7.08%

All Process and 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 1,356 956 1,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.43% 84.23% 86.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 404 780
10th Percentile £198 £241 £225
25th Percentile £363 £339 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -4.45% -
75th Percentile £581 £588 £600
90th Percentile £681 £688 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 190 347
10th Percentile £14.09 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.41 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.75 £30.78 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.59% +39.91% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.23 £78.17
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +22.56%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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
Bedfordshire - 6 £625 - 7
Suffolk +2 2 - - 2
Hertfordshire - 2 £413 - 6
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
1 7 (70.00%) GCP
2 6 (60.00%) Azure AI
2 6 (60.00%) Copilot Studio
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 6 (60.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (60.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) IoT Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Portal Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) PyTorch
1 7 (70.00%) REST
1 7 (70.00%) scikit-learn
1 7 (70.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (20.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) Flask
3 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) gRPC
3 1 (10.00%) Jest
3 1 (10.00%) Next.js
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Microservices
3 7 (70.00%) AI
3 7 (70.00%) Data Science
3 7 (70.00%) Machine Learning
3 7 (70.00%) MLOps
4 6 (60.00%) Analytics
4 6 (60.00%) B2B
4 6 (60.00%) B2C
4 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (60.00%) Data Analytics
4 6 (60.00%) Feature Engineering
4 6 (60.00%) LLM
4 6 (60.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 6 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) API Integration
6 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 8 (80.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Consul
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Foundry
1 6 (60.00%) Google
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (60.00%) OpenAI