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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.34% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile £430 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £424 £550 £700
% change year-on-year -22.95% -21.43% +40.00%

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 326 103 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 87.17% 88.79% 68.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 68 24
10th Percentile £400 £221 £271
25th Percentile £446 £360 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% +19.25% -24.53%
75th Percentile £538 £529 £500
90th Percentile £552 £567 £536
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £23.20 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% - -
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile £32.58 £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £21.80 £24.60
% change year-on-year -13.42% -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 26 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 - 5 £411 - 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 2 (40.00%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) MuleSoft Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) JPA
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) MUnit
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (20.00%) RAML
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Integration
3 2 (40.00%) API Management
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) MuleSoft