API Development Contract Job Trends in Northampton

API Development
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 38 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 1 10 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 0.78% 3.52% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 3.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £358 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.29% - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £358 -
% change year-on-year +12.29% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 109 274 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 85.16% 96.48% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 247 158
10th Percentile £358 £268 £355
25th Percentile £400 £340 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £445
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -15.73% -1.11%
75th Percentile £575 £447 £575
90th Percentile £624 £500 £620
Northamptonshire median daily rate £450 £375 £445
% change year-on-year +20.00% -15.73% -6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £15.22 £16.81 -
25th Percentile £15.55 - -
Median hourly rate £16.10 £21.39 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.73% - -
75th Percentile £16.65 - -
90th Percentile £16.98 - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £14.78 £21.39 £36.34
% change year-on-year -30.90% -41.14% -28.75%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Northampton

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing API Development

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes