API Development Contract Job Trends in Essex

API Development
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.40% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
East of England median daily rate £600 £500 -
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 195 88 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 77.08% 94.62% 81.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 40 91
10th Percentile £300 £188 £194
25th Percentile £346 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £505 £473 £557
90th Percentile £588 £490 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £442
% change year-on-year - +13.12% -7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 18 51
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £10.42
25th Percentile £16.13 £15.19 £15.87
Median hourly rate £20.26 £32.50 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.68% -45.38% +34.98%
75th Percentile £40.09 £48.30 £80.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £144.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £27.96 £38.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -26.42% -5.00% +88.50%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

API Development job vacancy trend in Essex

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing API Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing API Development

API Development
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. 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
Basildon - 1 £350 -
API Development
East of England

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java