API Development Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

API Development
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 31 37
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 -
Contract jobs citing API Development 1 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.40% 3.78% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 4.02% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - £322 -
25th Percentile - £337 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £358 £398
Median % change year-on-year +12.29% -9.94% -
75th Percentile - £399 £406
90th Percentile - £492 -
East Midlands median daily rate £381 £358 £474
% change year-on-year +6.42% -24.43% +42.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 215 224 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 85.32% 94.12% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 194 178
10th Percentile £340 £261 £310
25th Percentile £393 £340 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £391 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% -12.25% +11.25%
75th Percentile £550 £450 £550
90th Percentile £588 £525 £619
East Midlands median daily rate £463 £423 £425
% change year-on-year +9.47% -0.59% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 15
10th Percentile £20.52 £17.57 £10.90
25th Percentile - - £12.45
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.39 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% +52.79% -72.55%
75th Percentile - - £38.75
90th Percentile £48.45 £38.20 £54.79
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £18.51 £17.00
% change year-on-year -2.76% +8.88% -31.53%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

API Development
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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
Northampton -10 1 £402 +12.29%
API Development
East Midlands

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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