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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 73 80
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 0
Contract jobs citing API Development 6 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.86% 0.66% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.73% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £422 £350 -
25th Percentile £435 £354 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £356 £536
Median % change year-on-year +30.62% -33.58% +12.84%
75th Percentile £508 £401 £554
90th Percentile £529 £483 -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -7.22%

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 610 686 800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 87.14% 90.86% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 427 539
10th Percentile £283 £311 £350
25th Percentile £391 £363 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £625
90th Percentile £631 £657 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 16
10th Percentile £14.49 £16.75 £12.06
25th Percentile £16.13 £17.32 £14.60
Median hourly rate £25.92 £21.87 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +36.69% -46.16%
75th Percentile £52.65 £32.81 £19.50
90th Percentile £62.31 £43.58 £41.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £18.59
% change year-on-year -15.22% +26.90% -0.19%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Software Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) OAuth
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (16.67%) boto
3 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) Hugging Face
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) JWT
3 1 (16.67%) NumPy
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
3 1 (16.67%) OpenCV
3 1 (16.67%) Pandas
3 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) API Design
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Community of Practice
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) LLM
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) OCR
4 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) F5
1 1 (16.67%) Infoblox
1 1 (16.67%) Pega