API Development Contracts in England

API Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 343 376
Rank change year-on-year +60 +33 +16
Contract jobs citing API Development 202 197 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.83% 0.53% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.61% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 147 224
10th Percentile £356 £396 £410
25th Percentile £402 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £652 £694 £722
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.06% +1.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,235 32,086 45,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.15% 86.56% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,554 21,040 31,727
10th Percentile £309 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 931 2,256 1,594
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.96 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.33 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -19.99% -1.19% +51.01%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

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 4 May 2025.

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 4 May 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
London +63 120 £550 -2.22% 140
North of England -4 28 £400 -27.27% 56
South East +38 24 £450 -10.00% 69
North West +9 19 £400 -27.27% 37
Midlands +26 16 £435 -3.33% 16
West Midlands +27 13 £435 -3.33% 7
South West +41 7 £650 -13.09% 31
Yorkshire -6 7 £407 -26.00% 17
East Midlands +13 3 £326 -31.19% 8
East of England - 3 £575 - 13
North East - 2 £550 - 2
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 15 (7.43%) Confluence
2 8 (3.96%) Anypoint
3 5 (2.48%) JBoss
3 5 (2.48%) Tomcat
3 5 (2.48%) WebLogic
3 5 (2.48%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.49%) Mule
4 3 (1.49%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.50%) Camunda
5 1 (0.50%) CICS
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) BASE24
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 73 (36.14%) AWS
2 66 (32.67%) Azure
3 20 (9.90%) Serverless
4 19 (9.41%) GitHub
5 17 (8.42%) GCP
6 13 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.96%) Apigee
8 8 (3.96%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (3.96%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (3.47%) Azure Functions
9 7 (3.47%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.97%) Datadog
11 5 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.48%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.97%) HTTP
2 3 (1.49%) Firewall
3 2 (0.99%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.99%) 4G
3 2 (0.99%) 5G
3 2 (0.99%) Wireless
4 1 (0.50%) ATM
4 1 (0.50%) BGP
4 1 (0.50%) DNS
4 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.80%) NoSQL
2 33 (16.34%) MongoDB
3 29 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.45%) MySQL
5 10 (4.95%) SQL Server
6 9 (4.46%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.97%) DB2
7 6 (2.97%) Power BI
8 5 (2.48%) Redis
9 4 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.98%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.99%) Big Data
11 2 (0.99%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 43 (21.29%) Git
2 26 (12.87%) JIRA
3 21 (10.40%) Jenkins
4 15 (7.43%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.95%) GitLab
6 8 (3.96%) CircleCI
6 8 (3.96%) Subversion
7 7 (3.47%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.97%) Maven
8 6 (2.97%) Selenium
9 5 (2.48%) Babel
9 5 (2.48%) JUnit
9 5 (2.48%) Postman
9 5 (2.48%) webpack
10 4 (1.98%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (1.98%) Gradle
10 4 (1.98%) HP UFT
10 4 (1.98%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.98%) NetBeans
10 4 (1.98%) Terragrunt
General
1 50 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.85%) Public Sector
3 26 (12.87%) Finance
4 18 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.96%) Advertising
5 8 (3.96%) Banking
6 7 (3.47%) Retail
7 6 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.48%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.98%) Marketing
10 2 (0.99%) Billing
10 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.99%) Local Government
10 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Back Office
11 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 137 (67.82%) Developer
2 28 (13.86%) Java Developer
2 28 (13.86%) Senior
3 27 (13.37%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (7.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 15 (7.43%) Python Developer
5 15 (7.43%) Senior Developer
6 13 (6.44%) Software Engineer
7 12 (5.94%) React Developer
8 11 (5.45%) .NET Developer
8 11 (5.45%) Architect
8 11 (5.45%) Lead
9 10 (4.95%) Lead Developer
10 8 (3.96%) Applications Developer
10 8 (3.96%) Azure Developer
10 8 (3.96%) Support Engineer
11 7 (3.47%) AWS Developer
11 7 (3.47%) Backend Developer
11 7 (3.47%) MuleSoft Developer
11 7 (3.47%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (31.68%) React
2 58 (28.71%) RESTful
3 43 (21.29%) Spring
4 38 (18.81%) Spring Boot
5 35 (17.33%) .NET
5 35 (17.33%) Kafka
6 32 (15.84%) REST
7 29 (14.36%) Node.js
8 26 (12.87%) HTML
9 24 (11.88%) Web Services
10 22 (10.89%) CSS
11 15 (7.43%) SOAP
12 14 (6.93%) JSON
12 14 (6.93%) OAuth
13 13 (6.44%) FastAPI
13 13 (6.44%) Swagger
14 12 (5.94%) .NET Core
14 12 (5.94%) OpenAPI
14 12 (5.94%) RAML
15 11 (5.45%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.45%) Cloud Native
1 11 (5.45%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 5 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (2.48%) Private Cloud
4 4 (1.98%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.98%) Hedge funds
4 4 (1.98%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.49%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.49%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.99%) NHS
6 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.98%) Linux
2 2 (0.99%) Android
3 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (55.94%) Agile
2 79 (39.11%) CI/CD
3 73 (36.14%) DevOps
4 64 (31.68%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (30.20%) Microservices
6 44 (21.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 27 (13.37%) API Design
7 27 (13.37%) API Integration
7 27 (13.37%) Software Engineering
7 27 (13.37%) Test Automation
8 26 (12.87%) Code Quality
8 26 (12.87%) Containerisation
9 21 (10.40%) Front End Development
10 20 (9.90%) Scrum
11 19 (9.41%) Clean Code
11 19 (9.41%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (9.41%) Event-Driven
12 18 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (8.91%) SDLC
12 18 (8.91%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 84 (41.58%) Java
2 78 (38.61%) JavaScript
3 73 (36.14%) Python
4 71 (35.15%) SQL
5 30 (14.85%) C#
6 28 (13.86%) TypeScript
7 17 (8.42%) PHP
8 10 (4.95%) Go
9 9 (4.46%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.47%) Scala
11 6 (2.97%) Bash
12 5 (2.48%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.98%) DataWeave
13 4 (1.98%) Ruby
14 3 (1.49%) C++
14 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.99%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.99%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.99%) R
16 1 (0.50%) Dart
Qualifications
1 35 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.92%) AWS Certified Developer
4 13 (6.44%) Degree
5 7 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.99%) CEH
8 2 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.99%) CISSP
8 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.50%) OCP
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.98%) QA
2 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.99%) GDPR
2 2 (0.99%) HIPAA
2 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (18.32%) Docker
2 5 (2.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (26.73%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.38%) Terraform
3 7 (3.47%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.97%) Grafana
4 6 (2.97%) Kibana
5 5 (2.48%) CloudHub
6 4 (1.98%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.98%) Puppet
7 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.50%) Ansible
8 1 (0.50%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 25 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.41%) Oracle
3 10 (4.95%) MuleSoft
4 9 (4.46%) Google
5 7 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.98%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.49%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.49%) Splunk
7 3 (1.49%) Zend
8 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.99%) SAP
9 1 (0.50%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco
9 1 (0.50%) IBM
9 1 (0.50%) Meraki
9 1 (0.50%) Murex
9 1 (0.50%) NEC
9 1 (0.50%) Pardot
9 1 (0.50%) TIBCO