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 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	21	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing API Development	11	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull	13.41%	-	-
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	14.86%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£575	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£600	-	-
75^th Percentile	£625	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
West Midlands median daily rate	£500	£450	£550
% change year-on-year	+11.11%	-18.18%	-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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	74	60	45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull	90.24%	93.75%	78.95%
Number of daily rates quoted	18	43	29
10^th Percentile	£351	£236	£313
25^th Percentile	£413	£358	£358
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£470	£447	£415
Median % change year-on-year	+5.15%	+7.71%	-24.55%
75^th Percentile	£531	£588	£489
90^th Percentile	£608	£623	£500
West Midlands median daily rate	£475	£500	£510
% change year-on-year	-5.00%	-1.96%	+2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	0	1
10^th Percentile	£21.13	-	-
25^th Percentile	£24.08	-	£15.00
Median hourly rate	£28.40	-	£16.00
75^th Percentile	£37.46	-	£17.00
90^th Percentile	£40.03	-	-
West Midlands median hourly rate	£22.46	£23.05	£23.60
% change year-on-year	-2.56%	-2.33%	-14.18%

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 Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

API Development Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing API Development also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Solihull region with a requirement for API Development.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Translating Business Requirements	100.0%	11
2	Agile	90.9%	10
2	AngularJS	90.9%	10
2	API Integration	90.9%	10
2	AWS	90.9%	10
2	CI/CD	90.9%	10
2	Code Quality	90.9%	10
2	Confluence	90.9%	10
2	Docker	90.9%	10
2	Git	90.9%	10
2	Hibernate	90.9%	10
2	Java	90.9%	10
2	Jenkins	90.9%	10
2	JIRA	90.9%	10
2	JPA	90.9%	10
2	JUnit	90.9%	10
2	Kanban	90.9%	10
2	Maven	90.9%	10
2	Microservices	90.9%	10
2	PostgreSQL	90.9%	10
2	Problem-Solving	90.9%	10
2	REST	90.9%	10
2	RESTful	90.9%	10
2	Scrum	90.9%	10
2	SOAP	90.9%	10
2	Spring	90.9%	10
2	Spring Boot	90.9%	10
2	Sprint Planning	90.9%	10
2	TDD	90.9%	10
2	TypeScript	90.9%	10

API Development Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Translating Business Requirements	100.0%	11
2	Agile	90.9%	10
2	API Integration	90.9%	10
2	CI/CD	90.9%	10
2	Code Quality	90.9%	10
2	Kanban	90.9%	10
2	Microservices	90.9%	10
2	Problem-Solving	90.9%	10
2	Scrum	90.9%	10
2	Sprint Planning	90.9%	10
2	TDD	90.9%	10
12	Backlog Refinement	81.8%	9
12	Containerisation	81.8%	9
12	Continuous Improvement	81.8%	9
12	SDLC	81.8%	9
12	Test Automation	81.8%	9
12	User Stories	81.8%	9
18	Front End Development	54.5%	6
19	Software Engineering	18.2%	2
20	BPMN	9.1%	1