API Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

API Development
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for API Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Development over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 356 381
Rank change year-on-year +60 +25 -70
Contract jobs citing API Development 94 103 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.43% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.48% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 79 94
10th Percentile £411 £374 £363
25th Percentile £459 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £625 £614 £550
90th Percentile £694 £655 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -6.14% +1.91% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £48.35
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £49.75
75th Percentile - - £57.38
90th Percentile - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate - - £49.75
% change year-on-year - - +24.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

API Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,611 21,615 27,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.77% 89.54% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,550 14,981 19,185
10th Percentile £248 £252 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,036 1,327 1,379
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.22 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.23 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +49 51 £550 -4.35% 20
North West +24 27 £525 -10.41% 13
South East +41 26 £500 -20.00% 10
Yorkshire +39 24 £550 +10.00% 5
Scotland +17 7 £449 -10.30% 7
South West +11 6 £748 +18.72% 3
Midlands +18 4 £450 +6.51% 11
West Midlands +25 2 £450 -25.00% 5
East Midlands +19 2 £474 +43.56% 6
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 7 (7.45%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) IIS
3 2 (2.13%) GeoServer
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.19%) Maximo
2 1 (1.06%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.04%) Azure
2 25 (26.60%) AWS
3 10 (10.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (9.57%) Amazon S3
4 9 (9.57%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 9 (9.57%) Azure Key Vault
4 9 (9.57%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (9.57%) GCP
5 8 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (8.51%) Amazon ECR
5 8 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (8.51%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (8.51%) Route 53
5 8 (8.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (7.45%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (7.45%) GitHub
6 7 (7.45%) Power Automate
6 7 (7.45%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.38%) Apigee
7 6 (6.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.57%) HTTP
2 7 (7.45%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.38%) DNS
3 6 (6.38%) Firewall
3 6 (6.38%) VPN
4 1 (1.06%) Internet
4 1 (1.06%) RNC
4 1 (1.06%) SGSN
4 1 (1.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.89%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.45%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.26%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.19%) GIS
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.06%) Big Data
6 1 (1.06%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.06%) MySQL
6 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.06%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (18.09%) Git
2 16 (17.02%) GitLab
3 10 (10.64%) Jenkins
4 9 (9.57%) JIRA
5 8 (8.51%) webpack
6 6 (6.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (6.38%) CircleCI
6 6 (6.38%) Travis CI
7 2 (2.13%) Maven
8 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.06%) JUnit
8 1 (1.06%) Postman
8 1 (1.06%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.06%) Subversion
8 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.26%) Finance
4 4 (4.26%) Law
5 3 (3.19%) Legal
6 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (57.45%) Developer
2 16 (17.02%) Lead
3 8 (8.51%) Consultant
3 8 (8.51%) Designer
3 8 (8.51%) Full Stack Developer
3 8 (8.51%) Lead Designer
3 8 (8.51%) ServiceNow Consultant
4 7 (7.45%) Java Developer
4 7 (7.45%) ServiceNow Developer
5 6 (6.38%) Integration Developer
5 6 (6.38%) Software Developer
6 5 (5.32%) Python Developer
6 5 (5.32%) Technical Leader
7 4 (4.26%) Architect
7 4 (4.26%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (4.26%) Senior
7 4 (4.26%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (27.66%) Node.js
2 18 (19.15%) React
3 17 (18.09%) AngularJS
3 17 (18.09%) HTML
3 17 (18.09%) REST
4 16 (17.02%) CSS
5 15 (15.96%) JSON
5 15 (15.96%) Web Services
6 12 (12.77%) .NET
7 11 (11.70%) Flask
7 11 (11.70%) XML
8 9 (9.57%) Express.js
9 8 (8.51%) Redux
10 7 (7.45%) YAML
11 6 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (5.32%) RESTful
13 4 (4.26%) ADO
13 4 (4.26%) Django
13 4 (4.26%) FastAPI
14 3 (3.19%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.19%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.13%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.06%) NHS
5 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.45%) Unix
2 5 (5.32%) Windows
3 1 (1.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (37.23%) Agile
2 30 (31.91%) CI/CD
3 27 (28.72%) DevOps
4 20 (21.28%) Full Stack Development
5 18 (19.15%) Asset Management
5 18 (19.15%) Containerisation
6 15 (15.96%) Customer Service
6 15 (15.96%) Front End Development
6 15 (15.96%) IT Asset Management
6 15 (15.96%) ITSM
6 15 (15.96%) Operations Management
6 15 (15.96%) Service Delivery
6 15 (15.96%) Service Management
6 15 (15.96%) Test Automation
7 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (13.83%) API Design
8 13 (13.83%) Scrum
9 10 (10.64%) ITIL
9 10 (10.64%) Microservices
9 10 (10.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.79%) Python
2 23 (24.47%) JavaScript
3 18 (19.15%) Java
4 16 (17.02%) C#
5 10 (10.64%) SQL
6 7 (7.45%) Bash
6 7 (7.45%) PHP
6 7 (7.45%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.32%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.26%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.26%) X++
9 3 (3.19%) Go
9 3 (3.19%) Perl
10 1 (1.06%) C
10 1 (1.06%) Scala
10 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 27 (28.72%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.13%) Degree
4 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (19.15%) QA
2 4 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.19%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (18.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (18.09%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.64%) Ansible
2 10 (10.64%) Progress Chef
2 10 (10.64%) Terraform
3 6 (6.38%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (6.38%) Grafana
3 6 (6.38%) Kibana
3 6 (6.38%) logstash
3 6 (6.38%) Prometheus
3 6 (6.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (15.96%) ServiceNow
2 8 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.38%) Splunk
4 4 (4.26%) Informatica
4 4 (4.26%) Oracle
5 3 (3.19%) IBM
5 3 (3.19%) Nintex
5 3 (3.19%) Pega
5 3 (3.19%) SAP
6 2 (2.13%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.06%) Brio
7 1 (1.06%) Ericsson
7 1 (1.06%) Mapinfo
7 1 (1.06%) Nokia
7 1 (1.06%) Sage
7 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.06%) Zuora