FastAPI Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

FastAPI
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring FastAPI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 338 373
Rank change year-on-year +30 +35 +114
Contract jobs citing FastAPI 81 16 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.43% 0.60% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 14 22
10th Percentile £410 £338 £333
25th Percentile £480 £451 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% +6.51%
75th Percentile £611 £614 £600
90th Percentile £660 £624 £635
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.55 - -
Median hourly rate £54.70 - -
75th Percentile £55.85 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.70 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

FastAPI falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,330 2,667 3,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.31% 17.86% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,186 1,666 2,399
10th Percentile £333 £340 £325
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £685 £676
UK median daily rate £507 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.06% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 68 137
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £39.02
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.13 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £58.73 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -6.04% +16.82% -17.69%

FastAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FastAPI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

FastAPI job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

FastAPI
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FastAPI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FastAPI

FastAPI
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FastAPI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FastAPI in the UK excluding London

FastAPI
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 FastAPI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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 -25 28 £500 -13.61% 6
Yorkshire -28 26 £500 -14.16% 3
Scotland - 26 £525 - 1
Midlands -29 14 £650 +44.44% 1
West Midlands -18 12 £650 +18.18% 1
South West - 9 £650 - 1
South East -16 6 £600 - 13
East of England - 5 £409 - 2
East Midlands -23 2 £349 -9.72%
North West -23 1 - - 2
North East - 1 - - 1
FastAPI
UK

FastAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (6.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 28 (34.57%) Azure
2 25 (30.86%) Serverless
3 24 (29.63%) AWS
4 14 (17.28%) Amazon S3
5 13 (16.05%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (16.05%) GitHub
5 13 (16.05%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (13.58%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (12.35%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (9.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (9.88%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (8.64%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (8.64%) GCP
11 4 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (4.94%) Azure Functions
11 4 (4.94%) OpenShift
11 4 (4.94%) Power Platform
12 3 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (3.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.93%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (14.81%) Redis
3 10 (12.35%) Oracle Database
3 10 (12.35%) SQL Server
4 9 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 6 (7.41%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.47%) Big Data
7 2 (2.47%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.23%) Power BI
8 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (24.69%) Git
2 11 (13.58%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.58%) JIRA
3 2 (2.47%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.47%) MLflow
4 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.88%) Banking
4 7 (8.64%) Finance
5 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.70%) Multimedia
7 2 (2.47%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Retail
7 2 (2.47%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.47%) Wearables
8 1 (1.23%) Automotive
8 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (35.80%) Developer
2 26 (32.10%) Python Developer
3 20 (24.69%) Python Engineer
4 13 (16.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 11 (13.58%) Software Engineer
6 9 (11.11%) Backend Developer
7 7 (8.64%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Senior
9 4 (4.94%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Senior Python Developer
10 3 (3.70%) Applications Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Cloud Developer
10 3 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (38.27%) Flask
2 24 (29.63%) REST
3 17 (20.99%) RESTful
4 12 (14.81%) OpenTelemetry
4 12 (14.81%) Pandas
4 12 (14.81%) PyTorch
5 11 (13.58%) GraphQL
5 11 (13.58%) NumPy
5 11 (13.58%) OAuth
6 10 (12.35%) AWS CDK
6 10 (12.35%) gRPC
6 10 (12.35%) React
6 10 (12.35%) WebSockets
7 9 (11.11%) Django
7 9 (11.11%) Hugging Face
7 9 (11.11%) SQLAlchemy
8 8 (9.88%) OpenCV
9 6 (7.41%) Kafka
10 5 (6.17%) boto
10 5 (6.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.88%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.94%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.70%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.47%) NHS
5 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.47%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.23%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.05%) Linux
2 3 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (61.73%) Agile
2 46 (56.79%) CI/CD
3 39 (48.15%) AI
4 33 (40.74%) DevOps
5 32 (39.51%) Containerisation
5 32 (39.51%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (27.16%) Generative AI
7 21 (25.93%) Software Engineering
8 20 (24.69%) Machine Learning
9 18 (22.22%) API Development
10 17 (20.99%) API Integration
10 17 (20.99%) LLM
11 16 (19.75%) Microservices
12 15 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (14.81%) Observability
13 12 (14.81%) Scrum
14 11 (13.58%) Computer Science
14 11 (13.58%) OOP
14 11 (13.58%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (20.99%) SQL
3 13 (16.05%) Shell Script
4 12 (14.81%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.88%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.64%) Go
7 4 (4.94%) Java
8 1 (1.23%) Bicep
8 1 (1.23%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 14 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.88%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.70%) Degree
4 3 (3.70%) MCP
5 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.23%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (40.74%) Docker
2 10 (12.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 35 (43.21%) Kubernetes
2 29 (35.80%) Grafana
3 24 (29.63%) Prometheus
4 10 (12.35%) Ansible
4 10 (12.35%) Control-M
4 10 (12.35%) Data Guard
4 10 (12.35%) IBM Guardium
4 10 (12.35%) Nessus
4 10 (12.35%) yum
5 6 (7.41%) Terraform
6 3 (3.70%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 15 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.35%) Oracle
2 10 (12.35%) Tenable
3 5 (6.17%) Databricks
3 5 (6.17%) Virgin Media
4 2 (2.47%) Google
5 1 (1.23%) Netlify
5 1 (1.23%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.23%) Sybase