API Development Contracts in London

API Development
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for API Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Development over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 293 345
Rank change year-on-year -3 +52 -64
Contract jobs citing API Development 99 198 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.75% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.83% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 147 211
10th Percentile £377 £462 £450
25th Percentile £459 £510 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £725
90th Percentile £749 £775 £863
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £57.89
England median hourly rate - - £53.47

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

API Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,587 23,906 35,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.68% 90.95% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,195 17,189 26,035
10th Percentile £340 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 270 421
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.45 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.19 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.93 £80.23 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in London

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for API Development in London

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in London

API Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Development in London.

Hourly rate trend for API Development in London

API Development
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
Central London +35 14 £713 +27.52% 3
South London +5 1 £748 +15.24%
API Development
England

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.02%) Apache
1 2 (2.02%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.01%) CICS
2 1 (1.01%) Confluence
2 1 (1.01%) Drupal
2 1 (1.01%) JBoss
2 1 (1.01%) SAS
2 1 (1.01%) Tornado
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (7.07%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.01%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.28%) Azure
2 27 (27.27%) AWS
3 13 (13.13%) Serverless
4 12 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.07%) Amazon S3
5 7 (7.07%) Datadog
6 6 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (6.06%) GCP
6 6 (6.06%) GitHub
7 5 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.04%) Azure API Management
8 4 (4.04%) Azure App Service
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.04%) Miro
8 4 (4.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.03%) Apigee
10 2 (2.02%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.06%) Internet
2 4 (4.04%) DHCP
3 3 (3.03%) DNS
3 3 (3.03%) HTTP
3 3 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.02%) Firewall
4 2 (2.02%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.16%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.05%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.04%) MySQL
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.03%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.03%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.02%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.01%) DB2
8 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (14.14%) Git
2 6 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.05%) Selenium
4 4 (4.04%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.03%) Maven
6 2 (2.02%) Android Studio
6 2 (2.02%) GitLab
6 2 (2.02%) JIRA
6 2 (2.02%) JUnit
6 2 (2.02%) Mockito
6 2 (2.02%) ScalaTest
6 2 (2.02%) Subversion
6 2 (2.02%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.02%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.01%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.01%) git-flow
7 1 (1.01%) Gradle
7 1 (1.01%) Moq
7 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (1.01%) webpack
General
1 30 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.21%) Finance
3 10 (10.10%) Banking
4 7 (7.07%) Retail
5 5 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.05%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.04%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.01%) Advertising
7 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (47.47%) Developer
2 16 (16.16%) Software Engineer
3 13 (13.13%) Senior
4 12 (12.12%) Architect
4 12 (12.12%) Software Developer
5 11 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 11 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (10.10%) Senior Java Engineer
7 9 (9.09%) Python Developer
8 7 (7.07%) Lead
9 6 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) .NET Developer
10 5 (5.05%) Azure Developer
10 5 (5.05%) Full Stack Developer
10 5 (5.05%) React Developer
11 4 (4.04%) C# Developer
11 4 (4.04%) Python Engineer
12 3 (3.03%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.20%) RESTful
2 18 (18.18%) REST
3 12 (12.12%) FastAPI
3 12 (12.12%) Node.js
3 12 (12.12%) React
3 12 (12.12%) Spring
4 11 (11.11%) WebSockets
5 10 (10.10%) .NET
5 10 (10.10%) HTML
5 10 (10.10%) Spring Boot
6 9 (9.09%) CSS
7 7 (7.07%) SOAP
8 5 (5.05%) GraphQL
8 5 (5.05%) Java EE
8 5 (5.05%) Redux
9 4 (4.04%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (4.04%) Flask
9 4 (4.04%) Kafka
9 4 (4.04%) Spring WebFlux
10 3 (3.03%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.08%) Blockchain
2 7 (7.07%) IoT
3 6 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.05%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.05%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.03%) CBDC
5 3 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.03%) Web3
6 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.02%) Android
1 2 (2.02%) Unix
2 1 (1.01%) AIX
2 1 (1.01%) Linux
2 1 (1.01%) Windows
2 1 (1.01%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 27 (27.27%) Microservices
3 26 (26.26%) DevOps
4 24 (24.24%) Software Engineering
5 23 (23.23%) Agile
6 21 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (18.18%) API Design
8 14 (14.14%) Analytics
8 14 (14.14%) Containerisation
9 12 (12.12%) Computer Science
9 12 (12.12%) Full Stack Development
9 12 (12.12%) Unit Testing
10 11 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
10 11 (11.11%) TDD
11 10 (10.10%) Data Encryption
11 10 (10.10%) Integration Testing
12 9 (9.09%) Front End Development
12 9 (9.09%) Scrum
13 8 (8.08%) API Integration
13 8 (8.08%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (34.34%) Python
2 31 (31.31%) Java
3 18 (18.18%) SQL
4 14 (14.14%) JavaScript
5 13 (13.13%) C#
6 12 (12.12%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.03%) Ruby
8 2 (2.02%) Go
8 2 (2.02%) Groovy
8 2 (2.02%) Scala
9 1 (1.01%) COBOL
9 1 (1.01%) Perl
9 1 (1.01%) PHP
9 1 (1.01%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 15 (15.15%) SC Cleared
1 15 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.13%) Degree
3 8 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.03%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (2.02%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.03%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.03%) QA
2 2 (2.02%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (15.15%) Docker
2 5 (5.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (14.14%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.09%) Terraform
3 6 (6.06%) Grafana
4 5 (5.05%) Kibana
5 3 (3.03%) Ansible
6 1 (1.01%) logstash
6 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.06%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.04%) Databricks
3 4 (4.04%) Google
3 4 (4.04%) New Relic
4 1 (1.01%) Cisco
4 1 (1.01%) Confluent
4 1 (1.01%) IBM
4 1 (1.01%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle
4 1 (1.01%) Temenos
4 1 (1.01%) Terracotta
4 1 (1.01%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.01%) Workday