API Development Contract Job Trends in Solihull

API Development
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Solihull requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 12.79% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £613 £430 £550
% change year-on-year +42.44% -21.82% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 79 64 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 91.86% 95.52% 78.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 48 29
10th Percentile £351 £276 £313
25th Percentile £413 £372 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £430
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +4.65% -21.82%
75th Percentile £531 £588 £489
90th Percentile £608 £616 £500
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £21.13 - -
25th Percentile £24.08 - £15.00
Median hourly rate £28.40 - £16.00
75th Percentile £37.46 - £17.00
90th Percentile £40.03 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.30 £23.05 £26.13
% change year-on-year +22.75% -11.77% -5.00%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Solihull

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

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

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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 10 (90.91%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (81.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Git
1 10 (90.91%) Jenkins
1 10 (90.91%) JIRA
1 10 (90.91%) JUnit
1 10 (90.91%) Maven
2 9 (81.82%) Mockito
2 9 (81.82%) SonarQube
3 1 (9.09%) Hudson
General
1 10 (90.91%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
3 7 (63.64%) Public Sector
4 6 (54.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (90.91%) Java Developer
3 6 (54.55%) Senior
3 6 (54.55%) Senior Developer
3 6 (54.55%) Senior Java Developer
4 4 (36.36%) Lead
4 4 (36.36%) Lead Developer
4 4 (36.36%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Integration Developer
5 1 (9.09%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) AngularJS
1 10 (90.91%) Hibernate
1 10 (90.91%) JPA
1 10 (90.91%) REST
1 10 (90.91%) RESTful
1 10 (90.91%) SOAP
1 10 (90.91%) Spring
1 10 (90.91%) Spring Boot
2 9 (81.82%) ActiveMQ
2 9 (81.82%) Spring Cloud
2 9 (81.82%) Web Services
3 1 (9.09%) IDoc
3 1 (9.09%) JDBC
3 1 (9.09%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Cloud Native
2 6 (54.55%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) API Integration
2 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 10 (90.91%) Code Quality
2 10 (90.91%) Kanban
2 10 (90.91%) Microservices
2 10 (90.91%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (90.91%) Scrum
2 10 (90.91%) Sprint Planning
2 10 (90.91%) TDD
3 9 (81.82%) Backlog Refinement
3 9 (81.82%) Containerisation
3 9 (81.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (81.82%) SDLC
3 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
3 9 (81.82%) User Stories
4 6 (54.55%) Front End Development
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) BPMN
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Java
1 10 (90.91%) TypeScript
2 1 (9.09%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Grafana
1 9 (81.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) SAP