API Development Contracts in Surrey

API Development
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 35 47 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 4 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.34% 1.53% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.86% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £442 £429 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% - -
75th Percentile £517 - -
90th Percentile £603 £480 -
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £625
% change year-on-year -10.00% -20.00% +28.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 484 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.60% 82.45% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 352 436
10th Percentile £188 £213 £198
25th Percentile £280 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £544 £619 £625
90th Percentile £659 £700 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 55 33
10th Percentile £20.63 £11.71 £32.10
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £26.33 £20.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% -54.44% +87.50%
75th Percentile £40.98 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in Surrey

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for API Development in Surrey

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

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

Daily rate histogram for API Development in Surrey

API Development
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Horley - 2 £444 - 1
API Development
South East

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 3 (75.00%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) MuleSoft Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) OpenAPI
1 3 (75.00%) RAML
1 3 (75.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) OCP
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (25.00%) NEC
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce