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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 167 202
Rank change year-on-year +44 +35 +39
Contract jobs citing API Development 23 22 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.77% 0.40% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.48% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 9
10th Percentile £321 £356 £525
25th Percentile £353 £429 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -22.92% +23.08%
75th Percentile £540 £606 £688
90th Percentile £661 £625 £758
England median daily rate £498 £550 £598
% change year-on-year -9.55% -7.95% -0.42%

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 2,731 4,596 5,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.43% 84.24% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 2,676 3,476
10th Percentile £250 £250 £248
25th Percentile £395 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -1.43% +1.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 439 218
10th Percentile £13.15 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £26.34 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.56% -5.00% +132.56%
75th Percentile £61.87 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%

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 20 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 20 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
Hampshire +37 8 £390 -17.89% 11
Thames Valley +34 8 £563 -6.25% 20
Berkshire +32 8 £563 -6.25% 13
Surrey +10 4 £456 +1.39% 1
East Sussex - 3 £338 - 1
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 (30.43%) Anypoint
2 3 (13.04%) Mule
2 3 (13.04%) Mule ESB
3 1 (4.35%) CMS
3 1 (4.35%) Headless CMS
3 1 (4.35%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (13.04%) iPaaS
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) npm
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.35%) Azure API Management
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) BGP
1 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) MySQL
2 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
3 3 (13.04%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
3 3 (13.04%) Redis
3 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) Subversion
3 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (4.35%) Postman
4 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (86.96%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) MuleSoft Developer
3 4 (17.39%) .NET Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.04%) PHP Developer
4 3 (13.04%) React Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Product Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior React Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) React
2 7 (30.43%) .NET
2 7 (30.43%) RESTful
3 6 (26.09%) .NET Core
3 6 (26.09%) RAML
3 6 (26.09%) Web Services
4 5 (21.74%) OpenAPI
4 5 (21.74%) Swagger
5 4 (17.39%) Vue
6 3 (13.04%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (13.04%) CSS
6 3 (13.04%) HTML
6 3 (13.04%) JSON
6 3 (13.04%) Kafka
6 3 (13.04%) Laravel
6 3 (13.04%) Phalcon
6 3 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (13.04%) SOAP
6 3 (13.04%) Symfony
6 3 (13.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) NHS
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
2 9 (39.13%) Agile
2 9 (39.13%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Microservices
3 6 (26.09%) Translating Business Requirements
4 5 (21.74%) API Management
4 5 (21.74%) E-Commerce
4 5 (21.74%) Front End Development
4 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (17.39%) SDLC
6 3 (13.04%) API Design
6 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (13.04%) MVC
6 3 (13.04%) OO
6 3 (13.04%) OO PHP
6 3 (13.04%) OWASP
6 3 (13.04%) Scrum
6 3 (13.04%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) C#
2 7 (30.43%) Java
2 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) PHP
4 4 (17.39%) DataWeave
4 4 (17.39%) Python
5 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.35%) Bicep
6 1 (4.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
1 1 (4.35%) OCP
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (17.39%) CloudHub
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) MuleSoft
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Zend
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle
4 2 (8.70%) SAP
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco
5 1 (4.35%) Meraki
5 1 (4.35%) NEC
5 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.35%) Snow