API Development Contracts in Merseyside

API Development
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing API Development 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 2.78% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
North West median daily rate £425 £388 £586
% change year-on-year +9.68% -33.87% +37.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 148 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 84.44% 71.84% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 76 144
10th Percentile £129 £176 £262
25th Percentile £213 £213 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.95% -16.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £573 £513 £538
90th Percentile £682 £594 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 12
10th Percentile - £16.37 £15.35
25th Percentile £12.21 £19.14 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £27.69 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.52% +38.44% +14.29%
75th Percentile £17.44 £39.06 £34.25
90th Percentile - £54.00 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% +1.03% +60.70%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in Merseyside

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing API Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing API Development

API Development
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool - 5 £510 - 2
API Development
North West

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) JSON
1 5 (100.00%) POJO
1 5 (100.00%) React
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 5 (100.00%) Thymeleaf
2 1 (20.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) MVC
2 4 (80.00%) User Research
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes