API Development Contracts in England

API Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for API Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Development over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 367 387
Rank change year-on-year +21 +20 -34
Contract jobs citing API Development 196 315 462
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.62% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.69% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 226 340
10th Percentile £396 £412 £412
25th Percentile £463 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £688
90th Percentile £694 £715 £765
UK median daily rate £550 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -6.14% +1.91% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £48.70
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £49.75
75th Percentile - - £59.67
90th Percentile - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate - - £49.75
% change year-on-year - - +24.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

API Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,208 45,878 64,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.28% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,179 32,145 45,991
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,233 1,631 1,786
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.23
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.19
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in England

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for API Development in England

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in England

API Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Development in England.

Hourly rate trend for API Development in England

API Development
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
London -10 98 £575 -4.17% 69
North of England +62 51 £550 -4.35% 18
North West +23 27 £525 -10.41% 10
South East +28 25 £525 -16.00% 11
Yorkshire +45 24 £550 +10.00% 5
South West +6 6 £748 +18.72% 3
Midlands +29 3 £424 +12.25% 9
West Midlands +28 2 £450 -21.74% 4
East Midlands +9 1 £398 +20.45% 5
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (6.12%) Confluence
2 3 (1.53%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.53%) IIS
3 2 (1.02%) Apache
3 2 (1.02%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.51%) CICS
4 1 (0.51%) Drupal
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.51%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) Tornado
Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.57%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.53%) Maximo
3 1 (0.51%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 65 (33.16%) Azure
2 59 (30.10%) AWS
3 18 (9.18%) GCP
4 16 (8.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 16 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (7.65%) Amazon S3
6 14 (7.14%) Serverless
7 13 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (6.12%) GitHub
8 12 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (5.10%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (4.59%) Amazon ECR
10 9 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (4.59%) Apigee
10 9 (4.59%) Azure Cognitive Search
10 9 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (4.59%) Route 53
11 8 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (4.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.10%) HTTP
2 9 (4.59%) DNS
2 9 (4.59%) TCP/IP
3 8 (4.08%) Firewall
4 7 (3.57%) Internet
5 6 (3.06%) VPN
6 4 (2.04%) DHCP
7 2 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.51%) RNC
8 1 (0.51%) SGSN
8 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.20%) NoSQL
2 17 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.06%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.06%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.55%) MySQL
6 4 (2.04%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.04%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.53%) GIS
7 3 (1.53%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.02%) Couchbase
8 2 (1.02%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.51%) Big Data
9 1 (0.51%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 30 (15.31%) Git
2 19 (9.69%) GitLab
3 16 (8.16%) JIRA
4 15 (7.65%) Jenkins
5 9 (4.59%) webpack
6 7 (3.57%) CircleCI
7 6 (3.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (3.06%) Travis CI
8 5 (2.55%) Maven
8 5 (2.55%) Selenium
9 4 (2.04%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.53%) JUnit
10 3 (1.53%) Subversion
11 2 (1.02%) Android Studio
11 2 (1.02%) Mockito
11 2 (1.02%) Postman
11 2 (1.02%) ScalaTest
11 2 (1.02%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio
11 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.84%) Finance
3 17 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.63%) Banking
6 7 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.57%) Retail
6 7 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.04%) Electronics
7 4 (2.04%) Law
7 4 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.04%) Marketing
8 3 (1.53%) Legal
9 1 (0.51%) Advertising
9 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 100 (51.02%) Developer
2 22 (11.22%) Lead
3 18 (9.18%) Software Developer
3 18 (9.18%) Software Engineer
4 16 (8.16%) Python Developer
4 16 (8.16%) Senior
5 15 (7.65%) Architect
6 14 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.61%) Full Stack Developer
8 10 (5.10%) Java Engineer
9 9 (4.59%) Senior Java Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) Consultant
10 8 (4.08%) Designer
10 8 (4.08%) Lead Designer
10 8 (4.08%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 7 (3.57%) Analyst
11 7 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.90%) Node.js
2 30 (15.31%) REST
3 28 (14.29%) RESTful
4 26 (13.27%) React
5 24 (12.24%) HTML
6 22 (11.22%) CSS
7 19 (9.69%) .NET
8 17 (8.67%) AngularJS
8 17 (8.67%) Web Services
9 16 (8.16%) FastAPI
10 15 (7.65%) JSON
11 14 (7.14%) Flask
12 13 (6.63%) Redux
13 11 (5.61%) Express.js
13 11 (5.61%) Spring
13 11 (5.61%) WebSockets
13 11 (5.61%) XML
14 10 (5.10%) Spring Boot
15 9 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
16 8 (4.08%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.08%) Blockchain
2 7 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.57%) IoT
2 7 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.06%) Mainframe
4 3 (1.53%) CBDC
4 3 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.53%) Low-Code
4 3 (1.53%) Web3
5 2 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.59%) Unix
2 6 (3.06%) Windows
3 2 (1.02%) Android
3 2 (1.02%) zOS
4 1 (0.51%) AIX
4 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (30.61%) CI/CD
2 58 (29.59%) Agile
3 57 (29.08%) DevOps
4 36 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (18.37%) Software Engineering
5 34 (17.35%) Microservices
6 31 (15.82%) Containerisation
7 30 (15.31%) API Design
8 29 (14.80%) Full Stack Development
9 25 (12.76%) Test Automation
10 23 (11.73%) Scrum
11 22 (11.22%) API Integration
11 22 (11.22%) Front End Development
12 20 (10.20%) End-to-End Testing
13 19 (9.69%) Unit Testing
14 18 (9.18%) Asset Management
15 16 (8.16%) TDD
16 15 (7.65%) Computer Science
16 15 (7.65%) IT Asset Management
16 15 (7.65%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (33.16%) Python
2 44 (22.45%) Java
3 33 (16.84%) JavaScript
3 33 (16.84%) SQL
4 26 (13.27%) C#
5 18 (9.18%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.61%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.08%) PHP
8 6 (3.06%) Bash
8 6 (3.06%) Go
9 4 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.04%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.04%) X++
10 3 (1.53%) Perl
10 3 (1.53%) Ruby
10 3 (1.53%) Scala
11 2 (1.02%) COBOL
11 2 (1.02%) Groovy
12 1 (0.51%) C
12 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (22.96%) Security Cleared
2 44 (22.45%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.16%) Degree
4 11 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.53%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.53%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.76%) QA
2 4 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.53%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.53%) GDPR
4 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (14.80%) Docker
2 4 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.71%) Terraform
3 15 (7.65%) Ansible
4 11 (5.61%) Grafana
5 10 (5.10%) Progress Chef
6 9 (4.59%) Kibana
7 6 (3.06%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (3.06%) logstash
7 6 (3.06%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.06%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.65%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.08%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.57%) SAP
5 6 (3.06%) Oracle
5 6 (3.06%) Splunk
6 4 (2.04%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.04%) Databricks
6 4 (2.04%) Google
6 4 (2.04%) IBM
6 4 (2.04%) Informatica
7 3 (1.53%) New Relic
7 3 (1.53%) Nintex
7 3 (1.53%) Pega
8 2 (1.02%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.51%) Brio
9 1 (0.51%) Mapinfo
9 1 (0.51%) Nokia
9 1 (0.51%) Sage
9 1 (0.51%) Terracotta