API Development Contracts in Manchester

API Development
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 106 133
Rank change year-on-year +26 +27 -43
Contract jobs citing API Development 16 12 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.05% 0.63% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.69% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 8
10th Percentile £469 £444 £465
25th Percentile £475 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.61% -8.00% +56.25%
75th Percentile £694 £588 £644
90th Percentile - £619 -
North West median daily rate £538 £586 £498
% change year-on-year -8.28% +17.79% +24.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,321 1,738 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.08% 91.81% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 898 1,273 1,807
10th Percentile £319 £315 £263
25th Percentile £407 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year - +1.73% +9.22%
75th Percentile £595 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £663 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 51
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in Manchester

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for API Development in Manchester

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in Manchester

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 8 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 8 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 8 (50.00%) Route 53
2 8 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (18.75%) OCI
4 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) GitLab
1 8 (50.00%) webpack
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Maven
2 1 (6.25%) Postman
2 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (18.75%) Law
1 3 (18.75%) Legal
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Lead
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Leader
4 3 (18.75%) Systems Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Sitecore Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
6 1 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (6.25%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) Node.js
2 10 (62.50%) React
3 9 (56.25%) Express.js
4 8 (50.00%) Redux
5 5 (31.25%) .NET
6 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (6.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Containerisation
1 9 (56.25%) End-to-End Testing
1 9 (56.25%) Front End Development
1 9 (56.25%) Full Stack Development
1 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
2 8 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 8 (50.00%) ETL
2 8 (50.00%) QA Automation
3 7 (43.75%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (18.75%) CRM
5 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) C#
2 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (68.75%) QA
2 3 (18.75%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Sitecore