API Development Contracts in the South East

API Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring API Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 179 212
Rank change year-on-year +44 +33 +29
Contract jobs citing API Development 24 26 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.80% 0.47% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.55% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 6
10th Percentile £321 £390 £434
25th Percentile £353 £439 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -20.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £540 £625 £678
90th Percentile £644 - £738
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Thames Valley +39 9 £563 -6.25% 69
Berkshire +29 9 £563 -6.25% 30
Hampshire +33 8 £390 -17.89% 36
Surrey +12 4 £456 +1.39% 27
East Sussex - 3 £338 - 13
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 7 (29.17%) Anypoint
2 3 (12.50%) Mule
2 3 (12.50%) Mule ESB
3 1 (4.17%) CMS
3 1 (4.17%) Headless CMS
3 1 (4.17%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) NEC Housing
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (12.50%) iPaaS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Functions
5 2 (8.33%) Serverless
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure API Management
6 1 (4.17%) Azure App Service
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.17%) npm
6 1 (4.17%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) BGP
1 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) MySQL
1 5 (20.83%) NoSQL
2 3 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.50%) Redis
2 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) Subversion
3 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (8.33%) Selenium
4 1 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (4.17%) Postman
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (83.33%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) MuleSoft Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (16.67%) .NET Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Azure Developer
5 3 (12.50%) PHP Developer
5 3 (12.50%) React Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (4.17%) Integration Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Product Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) React
2 7 (29.17%) .NET
2 7 (29.17%) RESTful
3 6 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 6 (25.00%) RAML
3 6 (25.00%) Web Services
4 4 (16.67%) OpenAPI
4 4 (16.67%) Swagger
4 4 (16.67%) Vue
5 3 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (12.50%) JSON
5 3 (12.50%) Kafka
5 3 (12.50%) Laravel
5 3 (12.50%) Phalcon
5 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (12.50%) SOAP
5 3 (12.50%) Symfony
5 3 (12.50%) XML
6 2 (8.33%) CSS
6 2 (8.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) CI/CD
2 10 (41.67%) Agile
2 10 (41.67%) DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (25.00%) Microservices
3 6 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 5 (20.83%) API Management
4 5 (20.83%) E-Commerce
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) SDLC
5 4 (16.67%) API Design
5 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 3 (12.50%) Code Quality
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (12.50%) MVC
6 3 (12.50%) OO
6 3 (12.50%) OO PHP
6 3 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) C#
2 8 (33.33%) Java
3 7 (29.17%) SQL
4 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (20.83%) PHP
5 5 (20.83%) Python
6 4 (16.67%) DataWeave
7 1 (4.17%) Bicep
7 1 (4.17%) Perl
7 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) OCP
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) CloudHub
3 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) MuleSoft
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 3 (12.50%) Zend
4 2 (8.33%) SAP
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) Meraki
5 1 (4.17%) NEC
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) Snow