API Development Contract Job Trends in Southampton

API Development
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 21 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -
Contract jobs citing API Development 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 0.61% 1.30% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.79% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £613 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £615
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +1.63% -
75th Percentile - £638 £623
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £625 £350
% change year-on-year -20.00% +78.57% -41.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 137 112 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 83.03% 72.73% 83.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 73 106
10th Percentile £170 £200 £266
25th Percentile £230 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £550 £569 £631
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 6
10th Percentile £22.50 - £24.13
25th Percentile £23.75 - £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £29.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +61.99%
75th Percentile £72.25 - £34.31
90th Percentile £75.00 - £36.63
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -66.86% +25.00% +11.11%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Southampton

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing API Development

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Rsyslog
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM