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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 316 382
Rank change year-on-year +25 +66 +125
Contract jobs citing FastAPI 98 53 23
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.35% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% 1.36% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 32 15
10th Percentile £384 £513 £435
25th Percentile £413 £569 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £663 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +10.42% -19.33%
75th Percentile £778 £881 £663
90th Percentile £883 - £690
England median daily rate £550 £615 £570
% change year-on-year -10.57% +7.89% -18.57%

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 3,728 3,886 4,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.16% 25.64% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,520 2,536 3,734
10th Percentile £359 £379 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £705 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 30
10th Percentile £33.79 £34.83 £31.77
25th Percentile £43.13 £37.88 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -9.30% -13.65%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.13 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.80 £71.90 £78.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.74% -19.70%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 +3 10 £775 +24.00% 9
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 6 (6.12%) Jupyter
2 3 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.02%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 49 (50.00%) AWS
2 26 (26.53%) GitHub
3 23 (23.47%) Azure
3 23 (23.47%) GCP
4 14 (14.29%) Cloud Run
5 12 (12.24%) Serverless
6 9 (9.18%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (8.16%) Amazon SageMaker
7 8 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
8 7 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
8 7 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (6.12%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 6 (6.12%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (5.10%) Google Gemini
10 5 (5.10%) Vertex AI
11 4 (4.08%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.08%) Azure Functions
11 4 (4.08%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) Firewall
1 1 (1.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 13 (13.27%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.12%) Redis
4 5 (5.10%) Pinecone
5 3 (3.06%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.06%) Weaviate
6 2 (2.04%) Airbyte
6 2 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.04%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.04%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.02%) Big Data
7 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.02%) MySQL
7 1 (1.02%) Parquet
7 1 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (39.80%) Git
2 9 (9.18%) Cypress.io
3 5 (5.10%) MLflow
4 4 (4.08%) RStudio
5 3 (3.06%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.04%) GitLab
6 2 (2.04%) JIRA
7 1 (1.02%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (1.02%) Maven
7 1 (1.02%) Postman
7 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (26.53%) Finance
2 19 (19.39%) Banking
3 16 (16.33%) Investment Banking
3 16 (16.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 14 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.08%) Front Office
6 4 (4.08%) Retail
7 3 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Agriculture
9 1 (1.02%) Marketing
9 1 (1.02%) Military
9 1 (1.02%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.02%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 51 (52.04%) Developer
2 45 (45.92%) Python Developer
3 22 (22.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 15 (15.31%) AWS Developer
4 15 (15.31%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
6 12 (12.24%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 12 (12.24%) Senior
7 11 (11.22%) Software Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) React Developer
9 6 (6.12%) Backend Developer
9 6 (6.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Python Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Senior Developer
9 6 (6.12%) Senior Python Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Integration Developer
12 3 (3.06%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 3 (3.06%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (42.86%) React
2 32 (32.65%) Flask
3 23 (23.47%) pytest
4 20 (20.41%) NumPy
5 19 (19.39%) Pandas
6 16 (16.33%) LangChain
6 16 (16.33%) LangGraph
6 16 (16.33%) Vue
7 15 (15.31%) AngularJS
7 15 (15.31%) RESTful
8 14 (14.29%) Polars
8 14 (14.29%) SciPy
9 13 (13.27%) SQLAlchemy
10 10 (10.20%) Django
10 10 (10.20%) Jest
11 9 (9.18%) Node.js
12 8 (8.16%) PyTorch
12 8 (8.16%) REST
13 6 (6.12%) Faiss
13 6 (6.12%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.35%) Cloud Native
2 14 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 12 (12.24%) Genomics
3 12 (12.24%) Life Science
4 9 (9.18%) AI Agents
5 5 (5.10%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.02%) Acoustics
9 1 (1.02%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (1.02%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.02%) Educational Technology
9 1 (1.02%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.39%) Linux
2 1 (1.02%) Unix
2 1 (1.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (60.20%) AI
2 43 (43.88%) CI/CD
2 43 (43.88%) Machine Learning
3 41 (41.84%) Software Engineering
4 40 (40.82%) Agile
5 32 (32.65%) Containerisation
5 32 (32.65%) DevOps
6 28 (28.57%) Data Engineering
7 27 (27.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 22 (22.45%) LLM
9 21 (21.43%) Clean Code
9 21 (21.43%) Test Automation
10 19 (19.39%) Generative AI
11 18 (18.37%) Data Science
11 18 (18.37%) Microservices
11 18 (18.37%) Natural Language Processing
12 17 (17.35%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 16 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (15.31%) Mathematics
15 14 (14.29%) Structured Programming
Programming Languages
1 95 (96.94%) Python
2 29 (29.59%) SQL
3 25 (25.51%) JavaScript
4 17 (17.35%) TypeScript
5 14 (14.29%) C#
5 14 (14.29%) C++
5 14 (14.29%) Java
5 14 (14.29%) Rust
6 4 (4.08%) Bash
7 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.02%) Bourne shell
8 1 (1.02%) PHP
8 1 (1.02%) R
8 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (15.31%) Degree
2 8 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.06%) MCP
6 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.04%) QA
2 1 (1.02%) EU AI Act
2 1 (1.02%) GDPR
2 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.02%) MiFID
2 1 (1.02%) NIST
2 1 (1.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (37.76%) Kubernetes
2 22 (22.45%) Terraform
3 4 (4.08%) Grafana
4 2 (2.04%) Knative
4 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.02%) Ansible
5 1 (1.02%) Control-M
5 1 (1.02%) IBM Guardium
5 1 (1.02%) Nessus
5 1 (1.02%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (25.51%) Google
2 11 (11.22%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.08%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.04%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.04%) Databricks
4 2 (2.04%) New Relic
4 2 (2.04%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.02%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.02%) DataRobot
5 1 (1.02%) Tenable