API Development Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

API Development
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 84 77
Rank change year-on-year +16 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing API Development 6 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.85% 0.36% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.39% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £504 £350 -
25th Percentile £511 £352 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £356 £536
Median % change year-on-year +46.49% -33.58% -23.43%
75th Percentile £532 - £554
90th Percentile £539 - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £500 £447
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.86% -10.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 585 768 829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.98% 93.20% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 484 531
10th Percentile £306 £311 £324
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £652 £623 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 35
10th Percentile £14.58 £16.60 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.46 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.17 £19.71 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.48% +9.50% +69.33%
75th Percentile £49.15 £38.81 £40.94
90th Percentile £58.91 £66.82 £68.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.44 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.86% +15.06% +10.05%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Glasgow

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (16.67%) boto
1 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 1 (16.67%) Hugging Face
1 1 (16.67%) JWT
1 1 (16.67%) NumPy
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OpenCV
1 1 (16.67%) Pandas
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) API Design
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Community of Practice
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) LLM
3 1 (16.67%) OCR
3 1 (16.67%) OOP
3 1 (16.67%) Operational Stability
3 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana