API Development Contract Job Trends in Surrey

API Development
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 54 83
Rank change year-on-year +7 +29 -
Contract jobs citing API Development 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.85% 0.98% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.14% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £434 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -25.00% -
75th Percentile £463 - £625
90th Percentile £466 - -
South East median daily rate £450 £463 £575
% change year-on-year -2.70% -19.57% +6.98%

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 334 438 708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 94.35% 85.88% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 310 568
10th Percentile £203 £203 £200
25th Percentile £244 £275 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £550 £543 £638
90th Percentile £621 £625 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 34
10th Percentile £16.27 £13.25 £24.14
25th Percentile £25.15 £30.00 £44.70
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.64% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.45 £76.53
90th Percentile - £78.12 £78.10
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £54.37
% change year-on-year -61.99% +7.37% +74.54%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Surrey

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

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 4 October 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 -
API Development
South East

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Anypoint
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) MuleSoft Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 3 (100.00%) RAML
1 3 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) OCP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce