API Development Contracts in the North West

API Development
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for API Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Development over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 133 159
Rank change year-on-year +24 +26 -26
Contract jobs citing API Development 27 23 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.97% 0.71% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.79% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 10 18
10th Percentile £463 £544 £393
25th Percentile £475 £563 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £586 £498
Median % change year-on-year -10.41% +17.79% +24.38%
75th Percentile £694 £625 £622
90th Percentile - £653 £644
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.80
25th Percentile - - £57.38
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £49.75

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

API Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,393 2,921 3,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.30% 90.71% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,532 2,076 2,595
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 147 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.61 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.30 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +13.51%
75th Percentile £45.88 £48.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £59.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for API Development in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for API Development in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Manchester +19 17 £575 - 8
Cheshire +1 8 £487 -16.89% 1
Cumbria - 2 £545 -
API Development
England

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (11.11%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (29.63%) Amazon ECR
2 8 (29.63%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (29.63%) Amazon S3
2 8 (29.63%) Amazon SQS
2 8 (29.63%) Route 53
2 8 (29.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 6 (22.22%) Azure
4 4 (14.81%) SaaS
5 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (11.11%) OCI
5 3 (11.11%) Power Automate
5 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.41%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) GitLab
1 8 (29.63%) webpack
2 2 (7.41%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Maven
3 1 (3.70%) Postman
3 1 (3.70%) SoapUI
3 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Law
3 3 (11.11%) Legal
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (66.67%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Lead
3 4 (14.81%) Python Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Technical Leader
4 3 (11.11%) Pega Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Systems Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Sitecore Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Developer
6 1 (3.70%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.70%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Scientist
6 1 (3.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.70%) Integration Developer
6 1 (3.70%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) Node.js
2 11 (40.74%) React
3 10 (37.04%) .NET
4 9 (33.33%) Express.js
5 8 (29.63%) Redux
6 5 (18.52%) CSS
6 5 (18.52%) HTML
6 5 (18.52%) REST
7 4 (14.81%) Django
7 4 (14.81%) FastAPI
7 4 (14.81%) Flask
7 4 (14.81%) JSON
8 3 (11.11%) .NET Framework
8 3 (11.11%) XHTML
9 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET
9 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (3.70%) OAuth
10 1 (3.70%) Swagger
10 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Low-Code
1 3 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Unix
2 4 (14.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Agile
2 10 (37.04%) Containerisation
2 10 (37.04%) Full Stack Development
2 10 (37.04%) Test Automation
3 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 9 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 9 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 8 (29.63%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 8 (29.63%) Customer Engagement
4 8 (29.63%) DevOps
4 8 (29.63%) ETL
4 8 (29.63%) QA Automation
5 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (14.81%) Observability
6 4 (14.81%) Prototyping
6 4 (14.81%) Rapid Prototyping
6 4 (14.81%) Scrum
6 4 (14.81%) Sprint Backlog
6 4 (14.81%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) C#
2 8 (29.63%) Python
3 5 (18.52%) Java
3 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.41%) Perl
5 2 (7.41%) PHP
6 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) SC Cleared
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (40.74%) QA
2 3 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.81%) Ansible
2 4 (14.81%) Progress Chef
2 4 (14.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) IBM
2 3 (11.11%) Nintex
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Pega
2 3 (11.11%) SAP
3 2 (7.41%) Sitecore