API Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

API Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 237 309 358
Rank change year-on-year +72 +49 +18
Contract jobs citing API Development 99 90 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.43% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.51% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 75 80
10th Percentile £347 £406 £375
25th Percentile £400 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £526 £625 £607
90th Percentile £640 £694 £653
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.14% +1.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the UK excluding London

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for API Development in the UK excluding London

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for API Development in the UK excluding London

API Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Development in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for API Development in the UK excluding London

API Development
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England -4 27 £400 -27.27% 67
South East +44 24 £450 -10.00% 66
North West +9 18 £400 -25.58% 41
Midlands +35 17 £435 -3.33% 14
Scotland +26 17 £500 +8.46% 11
West Midlands +26 14 £435 -3.33% 8
South West +47 7 £650 -13.09% 27
Yorkshire -9 7 £407 -26.00% 24
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 6
East Midlands +11 3 £326 -31.19% 5
East of England - 3 £575 - 10
North East - 2 £550 - 2
Wales - 2 £400 - 7
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (11.11%) Anypoint
2 7 (7.07%) Mule
3 6 (6.06%) Confluence
4 5 (5.05%) JBoss
4 5 (5.05%) Tomcat
4 5 (5.05%) WebLogic
4 5 (5.05%) WebSphere
5 3 (3.03%) Mule ESB
6 1 (1.01%) CMS
6 1 (1.01%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.01%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) NetSuite
1 2 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.01%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.35%) Azure
2 33 (33.33%) AWS
3 14 (14.14%) Serverless
4 13 (13.13%) GCP
5 9 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (7.07%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.05%) Apigee
8 4 (4.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (4.04%) GitHub
8 4 (4.04%) Route 53
8 4 (4.04%) SaaS
9 3 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (3.03%) CloudFront
9 3 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.02%) 3GPP
1 2 (2.02%) 4G
1 2 (2.02%) 5G
1 2 (2.02%) Wireless
2 1 (1.01%) BGP
2 1 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.16%) NoSQL
2 14 (14.14%) Relational Database
3 13 (13.13%) MongoDB
4 10 (10.10%) MySQL
5 6 (6.06%) RDBMS
6 5 (5.05%) DB2
6 5 (5.05%) Oracle Database
6 5 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (5.05%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.03%) Redis
8 2 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.01%) Adabas
9 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.01%) Power BI
9 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 26 (26.26%) Git
2 15 (15.15%) JIRA
3 9 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 9 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.07%) Subversion
4 7 (7.07%) webpack
5 6 (6.06%) Selenium
6 5 (5.05%) Babel
6 5 (5.05%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (4.04%) CA Release Automation
7 4 (4.04%) CircleCI
7 4 (4.04%) GitLab
7 4 (4.04%) Gradle
7 4 (4.04%) HP UFT
7 4 (4.04%) IntelliJ
7 4 (4.04%) JUnit
7 4 (4.04%) Maven
7 4 (4.04%) NetBeans
8 3 (3.03%) Ant
9 2 (2.02%) Cypress.io
General
1 22 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.19%) Finance
3 15 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.05%) Advertising
5 5 (5.05%) Back Office
5 5 (5.05%) Banking
5 5 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.05%) Retail
6 4 (4.04%) Games
6 4 (4.04%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.01%) Billing
7 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (61.62%) Developer
2 14 (14.14%) Senior
3 10 (10.10%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (10.10%) MuleSoft Developer
4 9 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 9 (9.09%) React Developer
4 9 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 9 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 6 (6.06%) .NET Developer
5 6 (6.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 6 (6.06%) Support Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) JavaScript Developer
6 5 (5.05%) JavaScript Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Python Developer
6 5 (5.05%) Scala Developer
6 5 (5.05%) Scrum Master
7 4 (4.04%) Analyst
7 4 (4.04%) Azure Developer
7 4 (4.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (36.36%) RESTful
2 27 (27.27%) React
3 24 (24.24%) REST
4 18 (18.18%) CSS
4 18 (18.18%) HTML
5 17 (17.17%) Node.js
5 17 (17.17%) SOAP
6 16 (16.16%) .NET
7 15 (15.15%) RAML
7 15 (15.15%) Web Services
8 14 (14.14%) OpenAPI
8 14 (14.14%) Swagger
9 12 (12.12%) JSON
9 12 (12.12%) Spring
10 11 (11.11%) Spring Boot
11 10 (10.10%) Kafka
12 9 (9.09%) AngularJS
12 9 (9.09%) HTML5
13 8 (8.08%) OAuth
13 8 (8.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.05%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.05%) Private Cloud
2 5 (5.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (4.04%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.04%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.03%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.02%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.01%) NHS
6 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.04%) Linux
2 1 (1.01%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (59.60%) Agile
2 51 (51.52%) CI/CD
3 31 (31.31%) Microservices
4 29 (29.29%) DevOps
4 29 (29.29%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (19.19%) Code Quality
6 16 (16.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (15.15%) SDLC
8 14 (14.14%) Front End Development
9 13 (13.13%) API Integration
9 13 (13.13%) Scrum
9 13 (13.13%) Test Automation
10 12 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (12.12%) Software Engineering
11 11 (11.11%) Containerisation
12 10 (10.10%) API Design
12 10 (10.10%) API Management
13 9 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (8.08%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 34 (34.34%) Java
3 31 (31.31%) SQL
4 23 (23.23%) Python
5 15 (15.15%) TypeScript
6 13 (13.13%) C#
7 11 (11.11%) PHP
8 8 (8.08%) DataWeave
9 6 (6.06%) PL/SQL
10 5 (5.05%) Scala
11 4 (4.04%) Go
12 3 (3.03%) Ruby
13 2 (2.02%) Bash
13 2 (2.02%) C++
13 2 (2.02%) R
14 1 (1.01%) Apex Code
14 1 (1.01%) Bicep
14 1 (1.01%) Natural
14 1 (1.01%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.07%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.06%) Degree
4 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.01%) OCP
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.02%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.01%) NCSC
3 1 (1.01%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (13.13%) Docker
2 3 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (16.16%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.08%) Terraform
3 5 (5.05%) Kibana
4 4 (4.04%) CloudHub
4 4 (4.04%) Progress Chef
4 4 (4.04%) Puppet
5 3 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.02%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (18.18%) Oracle
2 12 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.12%) MuleSoft
3 6 (6.06%) Google
4 5 (5.05%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.04%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (3.03%) Zend
7 2 (2.02%) ForgeRock
7 2 (2.02%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.02%) Ping Identity
7 2 (2.02%) SAP
7 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.01%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.01%) Cisco
8 1 (1.01%) Meraki
8 1 (1.01%) NEC
8 1 (1.01%) Pardot
8 1 (1.01%) SnapLogic
8 1 (1.01%) Snow
8 1 (1.01%) VMware