API Development Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

API Development
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.23% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 - -
75th Percentile £434 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £575 £700
% change year-on-year -26.09% -17.86% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 293 104 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 90.15% 83.87% 80.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 73 25
10th Percentile £400 £240 £274
25th Percentile £450 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £477 £410
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% +16.34% -22.64%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £495
90th Percentile £560 £567 £573
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £12.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +157.02% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 £17.89 -
90th Percentile £38.53 £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £21.80 £24.60
% change year-on-year -8.24% -11.40% +38.98%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Shropshire

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

API Development
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Telford - 4 £423 - 4
API Development
West Midlands

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (25.00%) Tuxedo
1 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (75.00%) Swagger
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) Korn
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Trillium
1 1 (25.00%) webMethods