API Development Contracts in Manchester

API Development
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 80 106
Rank change year-on-year +11 +26 +27
Contract jobs citing API Development 10 16 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.08% 1.05% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.21% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 6
10th Percentile - £469 £444
25th Percentile - £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £619 £575
Median % change year-on-year -35.35% +7.61% -8.00%
75th Percentile £505 £694 £588
90th Percentile £521 - £619
North West median daily rate £400 £538 £586
% change year-on-year -25.58% -8.28% +17.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

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
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Stockport - 5 £400 - 8
API Development
North West

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Apigee
2 4 (40.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Babel
1 5 (50.00%) webpack
2 4 (40.00%) CircleCI
2 4 (40.00%) GitLab
2 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript Developer
1 5 (50.00%) React Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Product Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) RESTful
2 7 (70.00%) React
3 5 (50.00%) .NET
3 5 (50.00%) CSS
3 5 (50.00%) HTML
3 5 (50.00%) HTML5
3 5 (50.00%) REST
4 3 (30.00%) OAuth
5 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
5 2 (20.00%) Kafka
5 2 (20.00%) Node.js
5 2 (20.00%) OpenAPI
5 2 (20.00%) Playwright
5 2 (20.00%) Puppeteer
5 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
1 7 (70.00%) Front End Development
2 5 (50.00%) B2B
2 5 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Zero Trust
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Observability
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Bash
4 2 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Google
3 2 (20.00%) PagerDuty