FastAPI Contract Job Trends in London

FastAPI
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring FastAPI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 287 374
Rank change year-on-year -42 +87 +56
Contract jobs citing FastAPI 101 77 25
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 0.57% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.25% 2.18% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 50 21
10th Percentile £451 £324 £425
25th Percentile £525 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £747 £844 £611
90th Percentile £788 £881 £750
England median daily rate £588 £514 £505
% change year-on-year +14.30% +1.78% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

FastAPI falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,495 3,534 4,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.75% 26.15% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,982 2,458 3,483
10th Percentile £385 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £713
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 26
10th Percentile £24.63 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £70.69 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £91.88 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%

FastAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FastAPI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

FastAPI job vacancy trend in London

FastAPI
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing FastAPI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing FastAPI

FastAPI
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FastAPI in London over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for FastAPI in London

FastAPI
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 FastAPI within the London region over the 6 months to 10 July 2026. 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
West London - 9 £775 - 3
Central London -10 5 £613 +53.13% 13
FastAPI
England

FastAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (3.96%) Appian
2 3 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.99%) CMS
4 1 (0.99%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.98%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 54 (53.47%) AWS
2 34 (33.66%) Azure
3 29 (28.71%) Serverless
4 26 (25.74%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (24.75%) GitHub
6 20 (19.80%) Amazon S3
6 20 (19.80%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (16.83%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (13.86%) GCP
9 12 (11.88%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (10.89%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (6.93%) Azure AI
12 5 (4.95%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (4.95%) Entra ID
12 5 (4.95%) SaaS
13 4 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (3.96%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (3.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.98%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.88%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (11.88%) Relational Database
2 11 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.90%) DynamoDB
4 9 (8.91%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.93%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.94%) Pinecone
7 5 (4.95%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.97%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.98%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.98%) Redis
11 1 (0.99%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.99%) Metadata
11 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.99%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (18.81%) Git
2 12 (11.88%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.95%) GitLab
4 4 (3.96%) CircleCI
4 4 (3.96%) MLflow
5 3 (2.97%) JIRA
6 2 (1.98%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.98%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.99%) Claude Code
General
1 37 (36.63%) Finance
2 17 (16.83%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.87%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.91%) Publishing
5 8 (7.92%) Banking
6 5 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.96%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.96%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.97%) Front Office
8 3 (2.97%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.97%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Advertising
10 1 (0.99%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Legal
10 1 (0.99%) Marketing
10 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (47.52%) Developer
2 42 (41.58%) Python Developer
3 24 (23.76%) Senior
4 17 (16.83%) Python Engineer
5 15 (14.85%) Software Engineer
6 12 (11.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 12 (11.88%) Python Software Engineer
7 10 (9.90%) AWS Developer
7 10 (9.90%) Lead
8 9 (8.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (8.91%) Kafka Developer
8 9 (8.91%) Technical Leader
9 8 (7.92%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (6.93%) Senior Developer
10 7 (6.93%) Senior Python Developer
10 7 (6.93%) SQL Developer
11 6 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (5.94%) AWS Software Engineer
12 5 (4.95%) Azure Developer
13 4 (3.96%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (45.54%) Flask
2 34 (33.66%) React
3 33 (32.67%) Django
4 29 (28.71%) REST
5 26 (25.74%) Pandas
6 23 (22.77%) NumPy
7 20 (19.80%) Polars
7 20 (19.80%) RESTful
8 12 (11.88%) Kafka
9 11 (10.89%) LangChain
9 11 (10.89%) pytest
10 9 (8.91%) AngularJS
10 9 (8.91%) Apache Avro
10 9 (8.91%) LangGraph
10 9 (8.91%) Next.js
11 8 (7.92%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (6.93%) OpenAPI
12 7 (6.93%) Swagger
13 6 (5.94%) OAuth
13 6 (5.94%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.81%) Cloud Native
2 16 (15.84%) AI Agents
2 16 (15.84%) Hedge funds
3 13 (12.87%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (12.87%) Equities
4 9 (8.91%) Management Information System
5 8 (7.92%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (6.93%) Derivative
7 4 (3.96%) Low-Code
7 4 (3.96%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.97%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (2.97%) Exotic Derivative
8 3 (2.97%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.98%) Genomics
9 2 (1.98%) Life Science
9 2 (1.98%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.99%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.99%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.89%) Linux
2 10 (9.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (60.40%) CI/CD
2 41 (40.59%) DevOps
3 36 (35.64%) AI
4 34 (33.66%) Containerisation
5 30 (29.70%) Agile
5 30 (29.70%) Data Pipeline
6 26 (25.74%) LLM
7 23 (22.77%) Microservices
8 20 (19.80%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (17.82%) Machine Learning
9 18 (17.82%) Observability
10 17 (16.83%) Software Engineering
11 16 (15.84%) Performance Optimisation
12 15 (14.85%) Clean Code
12 15 (14.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (14.85%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 13 (12.87%) API Development
13 13 (12.87%) Code Quality
13 13 (12.87%) Prompt Engineering
13 13 (12.87%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 101 (100.00%) Python
2 44 (43.56%) SQL
3 34 (33.66%) TypeScript
4 16 (15.84%) C#
5 10 (9.90%) Java
5 10 (9.90%) Shell Script
6 9 (8.91%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.96%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.96%) Ruby
8 2 (1.98%) Bash
8 2 (1.98%) Cypher
8 2 (1.98%) R
8 2 (1.98%) Rust
8 2 (1.98%) SHACL
9 1 (0.99%) C
9 1 (0.99%) C++
9 1 (0.99%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 15 (14.85%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.92%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.98%) Degree
4 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.92%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.96%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.98%) GDPR
4 1 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.99%) GRC
4 1 (0.99%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.99%) NIST
4 1 (0.99%) QA
4 1 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (54.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (35.64%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.86%) Terraform
3 6 (5.94%) Grafana
4 4 (3.96%) Kibana
4 4 (3.96%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.98%) Argo
6 1 (0.99%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (8.91%) OpenAI
2 4 (3.96%) Automation Anywhere
2 4 (3.96%) Oracle
2 4 (3.96%) UiPath
3 3 (2.97%) Databricks
3 3 (2.97%) Google
4 2 (1.98%) FactSet
4 2 (1.98%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.99%) Foundry
5 1 (0.99%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.99%) Salesforce