API Development Contract Job Trends in Reading

API Development
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 86 83
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 -
Contract jobs citing API Development 3 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.41% 0.49% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.54% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £429 £365
25th Percentile £413 £547 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £438 £646 £625
90th Percentile - £660 -
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -24.00% +4.17% +17.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 653 931 950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.70% 91.27% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 527 620
10th Percentile £350 £317 £213
25th Percentile £431 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £615 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £698 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 7 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £27.90 £41.24
25th Percentile £24.81 £35.75 £59.89
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -9.15% -2.63%
75th Percentile £94.06 £63.24 £65.25
90th Percentile £99.25 £68.78 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
% change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Reading

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (33.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Remedy AR System
1 2 (66.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Healthcare
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CMDB
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Escalation Management
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Project Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) BMC
1 2 (66.67%) Remedy
2 1 (33.33%) Pega