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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 108 144
Rank change year-on-year +5 +36 +29
Contract jobs citing API Development 22 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.29% 0.32% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 0.37% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 5
10th Percentile £375 £381 £399
25th Percentile £400 £389 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -6.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £480 £444 £488
90th Percentile £500 £448 £510
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £566
% change year-on-year -5.00% -11.70% -1.52%

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 1,559 1,621 2,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.38% 86.92% 91.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 853 999 1,592
10th Percentile £263 £213 £231
25th Percentile £375 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £540 £550
90th Percentile £600 £651 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 57 55
10th Percentile £16.63 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.50 £13.16
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +3.49% -13.95%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £58.75
90th Percentile £27.99 £50.80 £64.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.33
% change year-on-year -39.40% -1.95% +59.73%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +13 14 £450 +7.14% 6
Glasgow - 6 £413 - 7
Stirling - 1 £400 -
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 3 (13.64%) JBoss
1 3 (13.64%) Tomcat
1 3 (13.64%) WebLogic
1 3 (13.64%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) GCP
3 4 (18.18%) Serverless
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.55%) BrowserStack
6 1 (4.55%) Dagster
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DHCP
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle Database
1 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.64%) DB2
2 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Bitbucket
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (4.55%) Appium
3 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) JUnit
3 1 (4.55%) Maven
3 1 (4.55%) Mockito
3 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.55%) Storybook
General
1 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Back Office
5 2 (9.09%) Games
6 1 (4.55%) Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Scrum Master
4 3 (13.64%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 2 (9.09%) GCP Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) React Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Agile Scrum Master
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) REST
2 9 (40.91%) RESTful
3 7 (31.82%) SOAP
4 4 (18.18%) HTML
4 4 (18.18%) OAuth
4 4 (18.18%) Spring
4 4 (18.18%) Spring Boot
5 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
5 3 (13.64%) CSS
5 3 (13.64%) RAML
5 3 (13.64%) Web Services
5 3 (13.64%) WSDL
6 2 (9.09%) .NET
6 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
6 2 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (9.09%) Ajax
6 2 (9.09%) JMS
6 2 (9.09%) Middleware
6 2 (9.09%) OAuth2
6 2 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Legacy Code
2 3 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Private Cloud
2 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Agile
2 13 (59.09%) DevOps
3 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 7 (31.82%) Microservices
5 4 (18.18%) API Integration
5 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 4 (18.18%) Scrum
6 3 (13.64%) API Design
6 3 (13.64%) Black-Box Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Budget Control
6 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
6 3 (13.64%) Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.64%) SDLC
6 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
6 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
6 3 (13.64%) User Experience
6 3 (13.64%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Java
2 9 (40.91%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) PL/SQL
4 3 (13.64%) Perl
4 3 (13.64%) Python
5 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) NCSC
3 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) F5
3 1 (4.55%) Infoblox
3 1 (4.55%) Pega