API Development Contracts in the South West

API Development
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 104 151 149
Rank change year-on-year +47 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing API Development 7 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.42% 0.19% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.23% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 15
10th Percentile £378 £330 £449
25th Percentile £450 £486 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £748 £630
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% +18.72% +10.04%
75th Percentile £688 £749 -
90th Percentile £700 £750 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the South West

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for API Development in the South West

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in the South West

API Development
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +20 2 £525 +110.00% 22
Gloucestershire - 2 £700 - 26
Wiltshire - 2 £588 - 11
Dorset - 1 £375 - 13
API Development
England

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) Datadog
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (14.29%) Route 53
4 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Ant
General
1 1 (14.29%) Billing
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Integration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Node.js
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) API Design
5 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
6 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 2 (28.57%) Go
4 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
5 1 (14.29%) Apex Code
5 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) Pardot
2 1 (14.29%) SnapLogic