API Development Contracts in Edinburgh

API Development
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring API Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 69 98
Rank change year-on-year +15 +29 +22
Contract jobs citing API Development 13 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.08% 0.37% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 0.42% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 14
10th Percentile £400 £418 £425
25th Percentile £439 £424 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £444 £493
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -9.80% +23.13%
75th Percentile £526 £460 £519
90th Percentile £650 £464 £525
Scotland median daily rate £500 £461 £500
% change year-on-year +8.46% -7.80% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in Edinburgh

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for API Development in Edinburgh

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in Edinburgh

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) Serverless
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (23.08%) CloudFront
2 3 (23.08%) Route 53
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Pipelines
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) Yarn
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (7.69%) BrowserStack
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Relational Database
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (23.08%) MySQL
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
3 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Ant
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (15.38%) webpack
2 1 (7.69%) Appium
2 1 (7.69%) Storybook
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Games
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Back Office
5 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Java Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) GCP Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (7.69%) React Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) RESTful
2 4 (30.77%) Node.js
3 3 (23.08%) JSON
3 3 (23.08%) JSON Schema
3 3 (23.08%) OAuth
4 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
4 2 (15.38%) CSS
4 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
4 2 (15.38%) HTML
4 2 (15.38%) REST
4 2 (15.38%) SOAP
4 2 (15.38%) Spring
4 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 2 (15.38%) TypeORM
5 1 (7.69%) .NET
5 1 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
5 1 (7.69%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (7.69%) JMS
5 1 (7.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) AIX
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) API Integration
4 3 (23.08%) Fintech
4 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Web Development
5 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Software Delivery
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
6 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (7.69%) Data Design
6 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (7.69%) OWASP
6 1 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) ForgeRock
2 2 (15.38%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Ping Identity
3 1 (7.69%) VMware