API Development Contracts in the North of England

API Development
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 135 191
Rank change year-on-year -4 +56 -14
Contract jobs citing API Development 27 50 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.82% 1.05% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.22% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 47 16
10th Percentile £380 £463 £373
25th Percentile - £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +17.35%
75th Percentile £463 £624 £588
90th Percentile £534 £694 £644
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the North of England

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for API Development in the North of England

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in the North of England

API Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Development in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for API Development in the North of England

API Development
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +9 18 £400 -25.58% 41
Yorkshire -9 7 £407 -26.00% 24
North East - 2 £550 - 2
API Development
England

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (14.81%) JBoss
1 4 (14.81%) Tomcat
1 4 (14.81%) WebLogic
1 4 (14.81%) WebSphere
2 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) Apigee
3 4 (14.81%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 4 (14.81%) DB2
4 2 (7.41%) MySQL
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) JIRA
2 6 (22.22%) Git
2 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 5 (18.52%) Babel
3 5 (18.52%) Bitbucket
3 5 (18.52%) webpack
4 4 (14.81%) CircleCI
4 4 (14.81%) GitLab
5 2 (7.41%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (7.41%) Cypress.io
5 2 (7.41%) Gradle
5 2 (7.41%) HP UFT
5 2 (7.41%) IntelliJ
5 2 (7.41%) JUnit
5 2 (7.41%) Maven
5 2 (7.41%) NetBeans
5 2 (7.41%) Selenium
5 2 (7.41%) Subversion
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (14.81%) Banking
5 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 5 (18.52%) JavaScript Developer
2 5 (18.52%) React Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Scala Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Scrum Master
4 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.70%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.70%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) REST
1 11 (40.74%) RESTful
2 10 (37.04%) React
3 8 (29.63%) CSS
3 8 (29.63%) HTML
4 7 (25.93%) .NET
4 7 (25.93%) HTML5
4 7 (25.93%) Spring
5 6 (22.22%) J2EE
5 6 (22.22%) Spring Boot
5 6 (22.22%) Web Services
6 5 (18.52%) Akka
6 5 (18.52%) Play Framework
7 4 (14.81%) EJB
7 4 (14.81%) JSP
7 4 (14.81%) Kafka
7 4 (14.81%) Node.js
7 4 (14.81%) Servlets
7 4 (14.81%) SOAP
7 4 (14.81%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Cloud Native
1 5 (18.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (14.81%) Private Cloud
2 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (85.19%) Agile
2 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 11 (40.74%) Code Quality
3 11 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (37.04%) Microservices
5 8 (29.63%) Front End Development
6 7 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (25.93%) SDLC
7 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (22.22%) Scrum
7 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 6 (22.22%) Visualisation
8 5 (18.52%) API Integration
8 5 (18.52%) B2B
8 5 (18.52%) BDD
8 5 (18.52%) Functional Programming
8 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
8 5 (18.52%) Strategic Thinking
8 5 (18.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) Java
1 12 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 9 (33.33%) SQL
3 6 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 5 (18.52%) Scala
5 3 (11.11%) Python
6 2 (7.41%) Bash
6 2 (7.41%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kibana
2 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.41%) Grafana
3 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
3 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.41%) Puppet
3 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) Oracle
3 4 (14.81%) Google
4 2 (7.41%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (7.41%) PagerDuty