API Development Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

API Development
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 73 93
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 +22
Contract jobs citing API Development 8 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.61% 0.54% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.64% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £282 £330 -
25th Percentile £325 £342 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +18.67% +7.14% -41.72%
75th Percentile £514 £513 £499
90th Percentile £519 £588 £573
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £573
% change year-on-year -9.52% -8.30% +6.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,082 777 1,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.17% 84.00% 87.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 730 539 619
10th Percentile £312 £356 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £634 £631 £649
90th Percentile £725 £690 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 52 76
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.21 £15.88
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.00 £21.04
Median hourly rate £20.71 £45.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.98% -9.09% +13.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.11 £62.81
90th Percentile £49.75 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £51.00 £51.96
% change year-on-year -56.86% -1.85% +38.56%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Hampshire

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in Hampshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in Hampshire

API Development
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing API Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing API Development

API Development
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
Farnborough - 6 £390 -
Southampton +3 1 £500 -20.00% 2
API Development
South East

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) Gatling
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Gradle
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) JUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
3 2 (25.00%) .NET
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (25.00%) JPA
3 2 (25.00%) SOAP
3 2 (25.00%) Spring
3 2 (25.00%) Swagger
4 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
4 1 (12.50%) ONNX
4 1 (12.50%) React
4 1 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (12.50%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Go
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) OCP
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Proxmox
2 2 (25.00%) Rsyslog
2 2 (25.00%) Rundeck
2 2 (25.00%) Salt
2 2 (25.00%) SCOM
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Cilium
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) NVIDIA