API Development Contract Job Trends in Somerset

API Development
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.02% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £413 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 298 157 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 76.02% 94.01% 73.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 100 94
10th Percentile £357 £225 £200
25th Percentile £413 £374 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +4.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £600
90th Percentile £725 £775 £625
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 22 32
10th Percentile £25.10 £14.83 £12.50
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.74%
75th Percentile £58.75 £20.39 £40.00
90th Percentile £61.25 £63.75 £59.93
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £28.55 £55.00
% change year-on-year +101.40% -48.09% -4.35%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Somerset

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

API Development
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing API Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing API Development

API Development
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. 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
Taunton - 3 £413 - 2
Bath - 1 - -
API Development
South West

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 3 (75.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (25.00%) GIS
2 1 (25.00%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) MSI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) GIS Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (75.00%) ATL
2 3 (75.00%) COM
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) CSS3
2 3 (75.00%) GeoJSON
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) MFC
2 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 3 (75.00%) WPF
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) API Design
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Client Onboarding
2 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (75.00%) Dependency Management
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (75.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) OOP
2 3 (75.00%) OWASP
2 3 (75.00%) SOLID
2 3 (75.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Bicep
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (75.00%) NCSC
1 3 (75.00%) WCAG
2 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft