API Development Contracts in Leeds

API Development
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring API Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 47 93
Rank change year-on-year -9 +46 +1
Contract jobs citing API Development 4 16 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.86% 2.00% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 2.31% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 3
10th Percentile - - £363
25th Percentile - £513 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% +14.13%
75th Percentile £469 - £538
90th Percentile £510 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% +14.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in Leeds

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for API Development in Leeds

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Scala Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Akka
1 3 (75.00%) Play Framework
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) D3.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) API Integration
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Functional Programming
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kibana