API Development Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

API Development
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 33 51
Rank change year-on-year -41 +18 +4
Contract jobs citing API Development 14 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.94% 2.27% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 2.47% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 3
10th Percentile £404 £437 -
25th Percentile £468 £517 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% +47.37%
75th Percentile - £623 -
90th Percentile £675 £634 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% +47.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 689 283 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.56% 91.88% 95.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 161 235
10th Percentile £317 £220 £385
25th Percentile £400 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £620 £675 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £515 £539
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.41% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Sheffield

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in Sheffield over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in Sheffield

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) GCP
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) Apigee
4 1 (7.14%) AWS KMS
4 1 (7.14%) Cohesity
4 1 (7.14%) Kong
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
3 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) JIRA
2 4 (28.57%) GitLab
2 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Liquibase
3 1 (7.14%) Travis CI
General
1 9 (64.29%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Python Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Angular Developer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) FastAPI
1 9 (64.29%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (28.57%) REST
3 3 (21.43%) RESTful
4 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 2 (14.29%) CSS
4 2 (14.29%) CSS3
4 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (14.29%) Express.js
4 2 (14.29%) HTML
4 2 (14.29%) HTML5
4 2 (14.29%) MEAN Stack
4 2 (14.29%) NestJS
4 2 (14.29%) NgRx
4 2 (14.29%) Node.js
4 2 (14.29%) Sass
5 1 (7.14%) JSON
5 1 (7.14%) XML
5 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (92.86%) Containerisation
3 12 (85.71%) Agile
4 9 (64.29%) Observability
4 9 (64.29%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (35.71%) DevOps
6 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (21.43%) Microservices
8 2 (14.29%) Code Quality
8 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (14.29%) Scrum
8 2 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
8 2 (14.29%) User Experience
8 2 (14.29%) UX Design
9 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
9 1 (7.14%) High Availability
9 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (7.14%) Use Case
9 1 (7.14%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.14%) Go
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 11 (78.57%) Grafana
2 11 (78.57%) Prometheus
3 9 (64.29%) Control-M
3 9 (64.29%) IBM Guardium
3 9 (64.29%) Nessus
4 4 (28.57%) Terraform
5 3 (21.43%) Ansible
6 2 (14.29%) Puppet
7 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (7.14%) Kibana
7 1 (7.14%) logstash
7 1 (7.14%) NetBackup
7 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Tenable
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Commvault
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat