API Development Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

API Development
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £610 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 617 208 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.41% 92.86% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 142 194
10th Percentile £351 £220 £239
25th Percentile £451 £352 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £429 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -4.72% -10.00%
75th Percentile £598 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £646
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £444 £450
% change year-on-year +18.31% -1.39% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 7
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.39 £16.89
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £19.63
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -44.38% +127.79%
75th Percentile £18.32 £18.00 £36.37
90th Percentile £43.75 £23.83 £37.25
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.91 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.77% -42.15% +83.52%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing API Development

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Backend Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared