API Development Contracts in the South East

API Development
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for API Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Development over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 206 234
Rank change year-on-year +28 +28 -52
Contract jobs citing API Development 25 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 0.17% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.19% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 17
10th Percentile £385 £434 £356
25th Percentile £434 £469 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £488
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +28.21% +14.71%
75th Percentile £625 £678 £550
90th Percentile - £738 £615
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

API Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,738 5,226 6,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.09% 89.47% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,767 3,619 4,727
10th Percentile £232 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £588
90th Percentile £698 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 219 290
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.29 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £63.80
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the South East

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in the South East.

Daily rate trend for API Development in the South East

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in the South East over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in the South East

API Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Development in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for API Development in the South East

API Development
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +27 13 £600 -11.11% 6
Berkshire - 11 £600 - 2
Surrey - 8 £441 - 4
West Sussex - 3 £400 -
Buckinghamshire +35 2 £450 -33.33% 3
Hampshire +3 1 £475 -20.83%
API Development
England

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) GeoServer
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Spatial
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) Azure
2 10 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 9 (36.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 9 (36.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 9 (36.00%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (20.00%) AWS
4 5 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (16.00%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (16.00%) Power Automate
5 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (16.00%) PowerApps
6 3 (12.00%) Serverless
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
7 2 (8.00%) SaaS
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (4.00%) GCP
8 1 (4.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
1 1 (4.00%) Internet
1 1 (4.00%) RNC
1 1 (4.00%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.00%) GIS
3 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.00%) Big Data
4 1 (4.00%) Couchbase
4 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.00%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) Maven
3 1 (4.00%) Subversion
General
1 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Developer
2 9 (36.00%) Lead
3 8 (32.00%) Designer
3 8 (32.00%) Lead Designer
4 5 (20.00%) Integration Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Full Stack Web Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Web Developer
7 1 (4.00%) .NET Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Applications Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Java Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Scala Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (52.00%) AngularJS
2 10 (40.00%) Node.js
3 5 (20.00%) CSS
3 5 (20.00%) HTML
4 4 (16.00%) ADO
4 4 (16.00%) JSON
4 4 (16.00%) XML
5 3 (12.00%) OpenLayers
5 3 (12.00%) REST
5 3 (12.00%) RESTful
6 2 (8.00%) Flask
6 2 (8.00%) PostGIS
6 2 (8.00%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (4.00%) .NET
7 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
7 1 (4.00%) HTML5
7 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (4.00%) React
7 1 (4.00%) scikit-learn
7 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Unix
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) DevOps
2 10 (40.00%) Agile
3 9 (36.00%) API Design
4 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (28.00%) Coaching
5 5 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 5 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 5 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 4 (16.00%) Data Mapping
6 4 (16.00%) Data Protection
6 4 (16.00%) Data-Driven Testing
6 4 (16.00%) Integration Testing
6 4 (16.00%) Security Testing
6 4 (16.00%) Software Testing
6 4 (16.00%) System Testing
6 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (12.00%) Product Backlog
8 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) SQL
2 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (24.00%) C#
4 4 (16.00%) PHP
4 4 (16.00%) T-SQL
4 4 (16.00%) X++
5 3 (12.00%) Python
6 2 (8.00%) Go
6 2 (8.00%) Java
7 1 (4.00%) C
7 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.00%) Scala
7 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Informatica
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.00%) Ericsson
2 1 (4.00%) Mapinfo
2 1 (4.00%) Nokia
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle