API Development Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

API Development
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 123 128
Rank change year-on-year -29 +5 +52
Contract jobs citing API Development 12 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.39% 0.36% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.42% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 4
10th Percentile £293 £530 £560
25th Percentile £322 £538 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -26.52% -17.86% +40.00%
75th Percentile £483 £613 -
90th Percentile £550 £620 -
England median daily rate £510 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -10.53% +3.64% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,688 2,125 2,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.96% 84.70% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 1,322 1,557
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £373 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 80 104
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.04
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.94 £17.41
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% -6.51% +41.41%
75th Percentile £25.15 £34.06 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

API Development job vacancy trend in the Midlands

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing API Development

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in the Midlands

API Development
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands -29 6 £425 -26.09% 21
East Midlands - 6 £349 - 6
API Development
England

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (16.67%) CMS
2 1 (8.33%) nginx
2 1 (8.33%) Tuxedo
2 1 (8.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Serverless
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 2 (16.67%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (16.67%) Kontent
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (8.33%) AWS KMS
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) JUnit
3 1 (8.33%) Liquibase
3 1 (8.33%) Maven
3 1 (8.33%) Mockito
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) CMS Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) RESTful
2 6 (50.00%) REST
3 5 (41.67%) Spring
3 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
4 4 (33.33%) SOAP
5 3 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 3 (25.00%) HTML
5 3 (25.00%) JSON
5 3 (25.00%) Swagger
6 2 (16.67%) .NET
6 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
6 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (16.67%) CSS
6 2 (16.67%) FastAPI
6 2 (16.67%) Flask
6 2 (16.67%) OpenAPI
6 2 (16.67%) React
7 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Microservices
5 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Code Quality
7 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (16.67%) Generative AI
7 2 (16.67%) High Availability
7 2 (16.67%) MVC
7 2 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
7 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 2 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
7 2 (16.67%) Scrum
7 2 (16.67%) Use Case
7 2 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (16.67%) C#
5 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (8.33%) Bash
6 1 (8.33%) C
6 1 (8.33%) Go
6 1 (8.33%) Korn
6 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
6 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Kibana
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Pega
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Trillium
3 1 (8.33%) webMethods