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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 305 343
Rank change year-on-year +66 +38 +28
Contract jobs citing API Development 100 85 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.41% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.49% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 70 79
10th Percentile £349 £399 £374
25th Percentile £400 £466 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.68% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £526 £625 £629
90th Percentile £650 £694 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £585
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.98% +1.74%

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 11,581 17,478 21,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.43% 84.68% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,255 10,443 14,838
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 839 2,054 1,309
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.31 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.34 £15.24 £15.63
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.96 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.35% -0.11% +44.00%

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 7 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 7 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 0 28 £400 -27.27% 50
South East +30 23 £450 -10.00% 71
Scotland +32 19 £500 +8.46% 10
North West +14 19 £400 -27.27% 29
Midlands +34 16 £435 -3.33% 16
West Midlands +29 13 £435 -3.33% 8
South West +35 7 £650 -13.09% 31
Yorkshire -2 7 £407 -26.00% 19
Northern Ireland - 4 £475 - 4
East Midlands +12 3 £326 -31.19% 8
East of England - 3 £575 - 13
North East - 2 £550 - 2
Wales - 2 £400 - 3
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 (11.00%) Anypoint
2 7 (7.00%) Mule
3 6 (6.00%) Confluence
4 5 (5.00%) JBoss
4 5 (5.00%) Tomcat
4 5 (5.00%) WebLogic
4 5 (5.00%) WebSphere
5 3 (3.00%) Mule ESB
6 1 (1.00%) CMS
6 1 (1.00%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.00%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) NetSuite
1 2 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.00%) Azure
2 33 (33.00%) AWS
3 14 (14.00%) GCP
4 13 (13.00%) Serverless
5 9 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (7.00%) Amazon S3
7 6 (6.00%) Apigee
8 4 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.00%) GitHub
8 4 (4.00%) Route 53
8 4 (4.00%) SaaS
9 3 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.00%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.00%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.00%) CloudFront
9 3 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.00%) iPaaS
9 3 (3.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) 3GPP
1 2 (2.00%) 4G
1 2 (2.00%) 5G
1 2 (2.00%) Wireless
2 1 (1.00%) BGP
2 1 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.00%) NoSQL
2 15 (15.00%) MongoDB
3 14 (14.00%) Relational Database
4 10 (10.00%) MySQL
5 6 (6.00%) Oracle Database
5 6 (6.00%) RDBMS
6 5 (5.00%) DB2
6 5 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.00%) Redis
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.00%) Adabas
9 1 (1.00%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.00%) Power BI
9 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 27 (27.00%) Git
2 16 (16.00%) JIRA
3 11 (11.00%) Jenkins
4 9 (9.00%) Bitbucket
5 7 (7.00%) Subversion
5 7 (7.00%) webpack
6 5 (5.00%) Babel
6 5 (5.00%) CircleCI
6 5 (5.00%) GitLab
6 5 (5.00%) JUnit
6 5 (5.00%) Maven
6 5 (5.00%) Oracle APEX
6 5 (5.00%) Selenium
7 4 (4.00%) CA Release Automation
7 4 (4.00%) Gradle
7 4 (4.00%) HP UFT
7 4 (4.00%) IntelliJ
7 4 (4.00%) NetBeans
8 3 (3.00%) Ant
8 3 (3.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 21 (21.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.00%) Finance
3 15 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.00%) Banking
5 5 (5.00%) Advertising
5 5 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.00%) Back Office
5 5 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.00%) Games
6 4 (4.00%) Retail
6 4 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.00%) Billing
7 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (62.00%) Developer
2 15 (15.00%) Senior
3 10 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 10 (10.00%) MuleSoft Developer
3 10 (10.00%) React Developer
3 10 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 9 (9.00%) Senior Developer
5 7 (7.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 6 (6.00%) .NET Developer
7 5 (5.00%) Analyst
7 5 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
7 5 (5.00%) JavaScript Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Scala Developer
7 5 (5.00%) Scrum Master
7 5 (5.00%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (38.00%) RESTful
2 28 (28.00%) React
3 23 (23.00%) REST
4 19 (19.00%) CSS
4 19 (19.00%) HTML
4 19 (19.00%) Node.js
5 16 (16.00%) .NET
5 16 (16.00%) SOAP
6 15 (15.00%) OpenAPI
6 15 (15.00%) RAML
6 15 (15.00%) Swagger
6 15 (15.00%) Web Services
7 13 (13.00%) Spring
8 12 (12.00%) JSON
8 12 (12.00%) Spring Boot
9 10 (10.00%) AngularJS
9 10 (10.00%) Kafka
9 10 (10.00%) OAuth
10 9 (9.00%) HTML5
11 8 (8.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.00%) Private Cloud
3 5 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.00%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.00%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.00%) NHS
7 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (59.00%) Agile
2 52 (52.00%) CI/CD
3 32 (32.00%) Microservices
4 29 (29.00%) DevOps
5 28 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (19.00%) Code Quality
7 16 (16.00%) Front End Development
7 16 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (14.00%) SDLC
8 14 (14.00%) Test Automation
9 13 (13.00%) API Integration
9 13 (13.00%) Containerisation
9 13 (13.00%) Scrum
9 13 (13.00%) Software Engineering
10 11 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (10.00%) API Management
12 9 (9.00%) API Design
12 9 (9.00%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (36.00%) JavaScript
2 35 (35.00%) Java
3 32 (32.00%) SQL
4 23 (23.00%) Python
5 17 (17.00%) TypeScript
6 13 (13.00%) C#
7 10 (10.00%) PHP
8 8 (8.00%) DataWeave
9 6 (6.00%) PL/SQL
10 5 (5.00%) Scala
11 4 (4.00%) Go
12 3 (3.00%) Bash
12 3 (3.00%) Ruby
13 2 (2.00%) C++
13 2 (2.00%) R
14 1 (1.00%) Apex Code
14 1 (1.00%) Bicep
14 1 (1.00%) Natural
14 1 (1.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (9.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.00%) Degree
4 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.00%) OCP
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.00%) NCSC
3 1 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (16.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (19.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.00%) Terraform
3 5 (5.00%) Kibana
4 4 (4.00%) CloudHub
4 4 (4.00%) Progress Chef
4 4 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.00%) Puppet
5 3 (3.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (18.00%) Oracle
2 12 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.00%) MuleSoft
3 7 (7.00%) Google
4 5 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.00%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (3.00%) PagerDuty
6 3 (3.00%) Zend
7 2 (2.00%) ForgeRock
7 2 (2.00%) Ping Identity
7 2 (2.00%) SAP
7 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.00%) Cisco
8 1 (1.00%) Meraki
8 1 (1.00%) NEC
8 1 (1.00%) Pardot
8 1 (1.00%) SnapLogic
8 1 (1.00%) Snow
8 1 (1.00%) VMware