API Development Contract Job Trends in Telford

API Development
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 1.53% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile £430 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £411 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 293 84 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 89.88% 90.32% 75.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 62 19
10th Percentile £400 £308 £339
25th Percentile £450 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £410
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% +17.20% -23.00%
75th Percentile £538 £527 £500
90th Percentile £552 £567 £539
Shropshire median daily rate £500 £477 £400
% change year-on-year +4.82% +19.25% -24.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 -
% change year-on-year +106.49% - -

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Telford

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 2 (40.00%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) MuleSoft Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) JPA
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) MUnit
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (20.00%) RAML
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Integration
3 2 (40.00%) API Management
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) MuleSoft