API Development Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

API Development
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.48% 0.57% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 0.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £575 £550 -
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 217 160 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 89.67% 91.43% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 67 99
10th Percentile £220 £320 £345
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -9.09% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £600
90th Percentile £638 £678 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.22% -9.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 20 7
10th Percentile £13.83 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.26% +14.71%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £34.46 £70.00 £32.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.26% +39.29%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing API Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing API Development

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Mocha
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
1 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 2 (33.33%) Jest
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) Functional Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) API Design
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
4 2 (33.33%) User Stories
4 2 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Grafana
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform