API Development Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

API Development
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.23% - 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - £475
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £413 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 326 272 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 73.76% 88.31% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 179 198
10th Percentile £340 £220 £363
25th Percentile £463 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £800 £709 £738
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 19 32
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.22 £23.05
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.00 £29.50
Median hourly rate £38.00 £36.00 £37.52
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -4.04% -48.72%
75th Percentile £50.00 £69.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £71.25 £71.00 £73.75
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +7.14%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

API Development
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 24 September 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
Cheltenham - 1 £340 - 2
API Development
South West

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Windchill
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) PTC