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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 384 407
Rank change year-on-year +44 +23 -73
Contract jobs citing API Development 196 265 418
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.56% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.63% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 191 319
10th Percentile £377 £413 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% -2.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £688
90th Percentile £694 £750 £815
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +20.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £52.84
25th Percentile - - £56.42
Median hourly rate - - £61.45
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £65.38
UK median hourly rate - - £61.45
% change year-on-year - - +36.54%

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 32,009 42,303 63,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.42% 89.91% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,803 29,700 45,505
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,367 1,525 1,690
10th Percentile £12.80 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +37.27% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 0 98 £550 -8.33% 43
North of England +59 55 £550 -4.35% 18
Yorkshire +35 34 £550 +4.76% 4
North West +14 21 £563 -2.17% 12
South East +26 20 £450 -25.00% 13
South West +4 8 £450 -18.18% 12
Midlands +3 5 £500 +13.64% 14
West Midlands +2 3 £500 -16.67% 9
East Midlands +6 2 £474 +42.48% 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 8 (4.08%) Confluence
2 4 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.53%) Apache
3 3 (1.53%) IIS
4 2 (1.02%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.02%) JBoss
5 1 (0.51%) CICS
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.57%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.53%) Maximo
2 3 (1.53%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.51%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 66 (33.67%) Azure
2 64 (32.65%) AWS
3 26 (13.27%) GCP
4 19 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.67%) Serverless
6 16 (8.16%) Amazon S3
7 13 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (6.12%) GitHub
8 12 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (5.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (4.59%) Amazon ECR
10 9 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (4.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (4.59%) Route 53
11 8 (4.08%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.57%) Apigee
12 7 (3.57%) Kong
12 7 (3.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.10%) HTTP
2 9 (4.59%) DNS
2 9 (4.59%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.57%) Firewall
3 7 (3.57%) Internet
4 6 (3.06%) VPN
5 4 (2.04%) DHCP
6 1 (0.51%) RNC
6 1 (0.51%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.71%) NoSQL
2 15 (7.65%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.55%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.04%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.04%) MySQL
6 4 (2.04%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.53%) GIS
7 3 (1.53%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.53%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.02%) Big Data
8 2 (1.02%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.51%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.51%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 40 (20.41%) Git
2 18 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.16%) GitLab
4 12 (6.12%) JIRA
5 9 (4.59%) webpack
6 7 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (3.57%) CircleCI
7 6 (3.06%) Travis CI
8 5 (2.55%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.55%) Selenium
9 4 (2.04%) Subversion
10 3 (1.53%) JUnit
11 2 (1.02%) Android Studio
11 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.02%) Maven
11 2 (1.02%) Mockito
11 2 (1.02%) ScalaTest
11 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio
11 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 49 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.29%) Finance
3 27 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.12%) Banking
5 10 (5.10%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.59%) Retail
7 5 (2.55%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.53%) Electronics
8 3 (1.53%) Law
8 3 (1.53%) Legal
8 3 (1.53%) Local Government
8 3 (1.53%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.53%) Marketing
9 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 99 (50.51%) Developer
2 20 (10.20%) Senior
3 18 (9.18%) Lead
4 17 (8.67%) Software Developer
4 17 (8.67%) Software Engineer
5 16 (8.16%) Architect
5 16 (8.16%) Python Developer
6 13 (6.63%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (6.12%) Java Engineer
8 11 (5.61%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (5.61%) Senior Java Engineer
9 9 (4.59%) Full Stack Developer
9 9 (4.59%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.08%) .NET Developer
10 8 (4.08%) Consultant
10 8 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.08%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 7 (3.57%) Azure Developer
11 7 (3.57%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (21.43%) RESTful
2 33 (16.84%) REST
3 25 (12.76%) Node.js
4 24 (12.24%) React
5 21 (10.71%) FastAPI
5 21 (10.71%) HTML
6 20 (10.20%) .NET
7 18 (9.18%) CSS
7 18 (9.18%) Spring
7 18 (9.18%) Spring Boot
8 17 (8.67%) JSON
8 17 (8.67%) Web Services
9 13 (6.63%) Redux
9 13 (6.63%) XML
10 12 (6.12%) AngularJS
11 11 (5.61%) Express.js
11 11 (5.61%) GraphQL
12 10 (5.10%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (5.10%) Java EE
13 9 (4.59%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.59%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.08%) Blockchain
3 7 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.57%) IoT
3 7 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.06%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.06%) Mainframe
5 5 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.53%) CBDC
6 3 (1.53%) Housing Association
6 3 (1.53%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.53%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.53%) Web3
7 2 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.51%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.59%) Unix
2 6 (3.06%) Linux
3 2 (1.02%) Android
3 2 (1.02%) Windows
3 2 (1.02%) zOS
4 1 (0.51%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (33.16%) CI/CD
2 53 (27.04%) DevOps
3 48 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (23.98%) Agile
4 47 (23.98%) Containerisation
5 34 (17.35%) Microservices
6 30 (15.31%) API Design
7 29 (14.80%) Software Engineering
8 27 (13.78%) Test Automation
9 25 (12.76%) Scrum
10 24 (12.24%) Full Stack Development
11 20 (10.20%) API Integration
11 20 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (9.69%) Front End Development
12 19 (9.69%) TDD
13 18 (9.18%) Asset Management
14 17 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (8.67%) Customer Service
14 17 (8.67%) End-to-End Testing
15 16 (8.16%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (36.73%) Python
2 56 (28.57%) Java
3 33 (16.84%) SQL
4 26 (13.27%) C#
4 26 (13.27%) JavaScript
5 17 (8.67%) PowerShell
6 12 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.10%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.06%) Bash
9 4 (2.04%) PHP
9 4 (2.04%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.04%) X++
10 3 (1.53%) Go
10 3 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.53%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.53%) Scala
11 2 (1.02%) COBOL
11 2 (1.02%) Perl
11 2 (1.02%) Ruby
12 1 (0.51%) C
Qualifications
1 43 (21.94%) Security Cleared
2 42 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.65%) Degree
4 9 (4.59%) 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 20 (10.20%) QA
2 9 (4.59%) GDPR
3 6 (3.06%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.04%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) SEPA
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (24.49%) Docker
2 6 (3.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.16%) Ansible
3 14 (7.14%) Terraform
4 13 (6.63%) Puppet
5 12 (6.12%) Grafana
6 11 (5.61%) Kibana
7 7 (3.57%) logstash
8 6 (3.06%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (3.06%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.06%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (9.69%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.65%) ServiceNow
3 12 (6.12%) Google
4 10 (5.10%) Oracle
5 8 (4.08%) OpenAI
5 8 (4.08%) SAP
6 7 (3.57%) Splunk
7 5 (2.55%) IBM
8 4 (2.04%) Informatica
8 4 (2.04%) New Relic
9 3 (1.53%) NEC
9 3 (1.53%) Nintex
9 3 (1.53%) Pega
10 2 (1.02%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.02%) Databricks
10 2 (1.02%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.02%) Temenos
11 1 (0.51%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.51%) Workday
11 1 (0.51%) Zuora