API Development Contracts in Liverpool

API Development
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Liverpool 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing API Development 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 3.25% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
Merseyside median daily rate £510 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 131 126 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 85.06% 75.00% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 59 107
10th Percentile £191 £155 £255
25th Percentile £400 £213 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £388 £488
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% -20.51% +8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £494 £539
90th Percentile £687 £600 £600
Merseyside median daily rate £445 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +5.95% -16.00% +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 12
10th Percentile - £17.47 £15.35
25th Percentile £12.21 £20.17 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £22.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.37% +14.38% +16.79%
75th Percentile £17.44 £36.13 £34.25
90th Percentile - £37.75 £50.00
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.30 £27.69 £20.00
% change year-on-year -37.52% +38.44% +14.29%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in Liverpool

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) JSON
1 5 (100.00%) POJO
1 5 (100.00%) React
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 5 (100.00%) Thymeleaf
2 1 (20.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) MVC
2 4 (80.00%) User Research
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes