API Development Contract Job Trends in Leicester

API Development
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 3.90% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £394 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £550 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68 66 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 88.31% 85.71% 79.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 44 73
10th Percentile £194 £233 £220
25th Percentile £400 £275 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £469 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -3.85% +23.42%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £575
90th Percentile £625 £715 £665
Leicestershire median daily rate £425 £463 £380
% change year-on-year -8.11% +21.71% -3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £13.69 - £11.80
25th Percentile £14.88 £21.25 £11.88
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +66.67% -34.47%
75th Percentile £23.50 £23.75 £35.63
90th Percentile £25.38 - £47.85
Leicestershire median hourly rate £22.00 £26.25 £14.00
% change year-on-year -16.19% +87.50% -31.57%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Leicester

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in Leicester over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in Leicester

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 (66.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Kontent
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) CMS Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft