API Development Contracts in the Midlands

API Development
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 128 147
Rank change year-on-year +34 +19 +50
Contract jobs citing API Development 16 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.83% 0.15% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.18% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 15
10th Percentile £398 £396 £330
25th Percentile £428 £407 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.88% +8.97%
75th Percentile £546 £525 £600
90th Percentile £700 £555 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -

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 1,699 2,260 3,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.62% 82.30% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,110 1,511 2,116
10th Percentile £200 £250 £250
25th Percentile £359 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year - -4.52% +4.74%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 171 121
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.71 £15.10
Median hourly rate £18.17 £19.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +2.70% +5.71%
75th Percentile £24.33 £35.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £35.50 £55.00 £53.75
England median hourly rate £29.90 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -18.08% -1.75% +52.57%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the Midlands

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for API Development in the Midlands

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 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 7 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
West Midlands +29 13 £435 -3.33% 7
East Midlands +12 3 £326 -31.19% 7
API Development
England

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CodeCommit
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (12.50%) Boomi
3 2 (12.50%) OCI
3 2 (12.50%) PaaS
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Apigee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (12.50%) Gradle
3 2 (12.50%) HP UFT
3 2 (12.50%) IntelliJ
3 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) JUnit
3 2 (12.50%) Maven
3 2 (12.50%) NetBeans
3 2 (12.50%) Selenium
3 2 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 5 (31.25%) Advertising
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Support Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Python Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Credit Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) React
2 5 (31.25%) RESTful
3 4 (25.00%) CSS
3 4 (25.00%) HTML
3 4 (25.00%) Node.js
4 3 (18.75%) Spring
4 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
5 2 (12.50%) Ajax
5 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 2 (12.50%) Blazor
5 2 (12.50%) Bootstrap
5 2 (12.50%) Django
5 2 (12.50%) HTML5
5 2 (12.50%) jQuery
5 2 (12.50%) Kafka
5 2 (12.50%) MACH
5 2 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (12.50%) Spring Integration
5 2 (12.50%) Spring MVC
5 2 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 2 (12.50%) Mainframe
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (31.25%) Microservices
5 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
5 5 (31.25%) Project Management
6 4 (25.00%) API Design
6 4 (25.00%) DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) Open Source
7 3 (18.75%) API Integration
7 3 (18.75%) Code Quality
7 3 (18.75%) Scrum
8 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (12.50%) MVC
8 2 (12.50%) Pair Programming
8 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) JavaScript
2 9 (56.25%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) PHP
4 4 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (12.50%) Go
5 2 (12.50%) R
5 2 (12.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 2 (12.50%) Puppet
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle