API Development Contract Job Trends in South Wales

API Development
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.22% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - -
Wales median daily rate £313 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 348 223 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 75.82% 90.28% 76.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 154 180
10th Percentile £300 £190 £142
25th Percentile £375 £294 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £405 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.28% -10.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £590 £488 £553
90th Percentile £775 £625 £626
Wales median daily rate £475 £405 £475
% change year-on-year +17.28% -14.74% -3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 21 34
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.08 £12.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.23 £15.48
Median hourly rate £22.00 £16.00 £20.35
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -21.39% +4.43%
75th Percentile £46.85 £23.75 £49.69
90th Percentile £55.00 £45.00 £85.70
Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £21.01 £20.24
% change year-on-year +4.71% +3.83% +3.82%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

API Development job vacancy trend in South Wales

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing API Development

API Development
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Cardiff - 1 £250 - 2
API Development
Wales

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Confluent