API Development Contracts in Scotland

API Development
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 99 125 140
Rank change year-on-year +26 +15 +17
Contract jobs citing API Development 17 4 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.05% 0.18% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.20% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 19
10th Percentile £400 £422 £425
25th Percentile £404 £435 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% -7.80% +5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £510 £606
90th Percentile £613 £537 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.14% +1.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in Scotland

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for API Development in Scotland

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for API Development in Scotland

API Development
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +15 13 £500 +12.55% 6
Stirling - 2 £456 -
Glasgow +3 1 £358 -33.21% 1
Perthshire - 1 - -
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (5.88%) JBoss
1 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
1 1 (5.88%) WebLogic
1 1 (5.88%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Serverless
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (17.65%) CloudFront
4 3 (17.65%) Route 53
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.76%) Yarn
6 1 (5.88%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Relational Database
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle Database
2 5 (29.41%) RDBMS
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (17.65%) MySQL
4 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.88%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (11.76%) Ant
3 2 (11.76%) webpack
4 1 (5.88%) Appium
4 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.88%) Storybook
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
3 5 (29.41%) Back Office
4 4 (23.53%) Games
5 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) GCP Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.88%) React Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) RESTful
2 6 (35.29%) REST
3 5 (29.41%) Node.js
4 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
4 3 (17.65%) CSS
4 3 (17.65%) HTML
4 3 (17.65%) JSON
4 3 (17.65%) JSON Schema
4 3 (17.65%) OAuth
4 3 (17.65%) SOAP
5 2 (11.76%) GraphQL
5 2 (11.76%) Spring
5 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 2 (11.76%) TypeORM
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.88%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (5.88%) Ajax
6 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
6 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
1 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) AIX
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 9 (52.94%) Agile
3 8 (47.06%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Microservices
4 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Web Development
5 3 (17.65%) API Integration
5 3 (17.65%) Data Design
5 3 (17.65%) Fintech
5 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
6 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
6 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Software Delivery
7 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (5.88%) Mobile Development
7 1 (5.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) Java
2 6 (35.29%) PL/SQL
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) NCSC
2 1 (5.88%) WCAG
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) ForgeRock
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Ping Identity
3 1 (5.88%) VMware