API Development Contract Job Trends in Leeds

API Development
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 54 77
Rank change year-on-year -14 +23 +32
Contract jobs citing API Development 6 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.83% 1.22% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.43% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £393 £499 -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -28.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £581 £576 -
90th Percentile £585 £655 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £500 £700
% change year-on-year +15.00% -28.57% +75.00%

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 642 561 903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.92% 85.65% 89.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 356 623
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £651 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £520
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 8
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £20.13 £18.88
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +42.81% -1.14%
75th Percentile £27.63 £38.75 £22.41
90th Percentile £28.30 £51.00 £35.23
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £20.35
% change year-on-year -19.49% +35.12% -3.08%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Leeds

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in Leeds over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in Leeds

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Composer
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Spanner
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Mockito
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
2 3 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (50.00%) JAX-RS
2 3 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (16.67%) J2EE
4 1 (16.67%) JPA
4 1 (16.67%) LangChain
4 1 (16.67%) LangGraph
4 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (66.67%) BDD
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (50.00%) Pair Programming
5 2 (33.33%) API Integration
5 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 2 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) API Design
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 1 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
6 1 (16.67%) SDLC
6 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
6 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google