FastAPI Contract Job Trends

FastAPI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring FastAPI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 383 514
Rank change year-on-year -87 +131 +57
Contract jobs citing FastAPI 201 171 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.52% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.98% 2.29% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 110 43
10th Percentile £360 £331 £324
25th Percentile £423 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.55% -0.40% -4.76%
75th Percentile £663 £600 £563
90th Percentile £775 £825 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £480 £460
% change year-on-year -11.46% +4.35% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,138 7,471 8,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.01% 22.53% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,600 5,028 5,801
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.50% -6.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 171 241
10th Percentile £28.00 £30.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +13.04% -2.39% +0.16%

FastAPI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

FastAPI job vacancy trend in the UK

FastAPI
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

FastAPI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FastAPI over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for FastAPI in the UK

FastAPI
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FastAPI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FastAPI

FastAPI
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 August 2026. 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
England -71 166 £600 +23.71% 154
London -56 108 £625 +25.00% 107
UK excluding London -85 69 £425 -11.46% 62
Work from Home -71 46 £575 +15.00% 78
North of England -60 20 £420 -23.64% 14
Yorkshire -38 19 £435 -20.91% 1
Scotland -10 16 £425 -14.31% 9
South East -72 14 £390 -29.09% 15
South West -42 9 £563 +25.84% 9
East of England - 9 £450 - 6
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 2
Midlands - 4 £700 - 2
North West -44 1 £381 -12.91% 10

FastAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.49%) Confluence
3 4 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.00%) Apache
4 2 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.50%) nginx
5 1 (0.50%) Traefik
Applications
1 10 (4.98%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 81 (40.30%) AWS
2 55 (27.36%) Azure
3 46 (22.89%) Serverless
4 39 (19.40%) GitHub
5 36 (17.91%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (14.93%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (13.93%) GCP
8 27 (13.43%) Amazon S3
9 24 (11.94%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (5.97%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (3.48%) ChatGPT
15 6 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (2.99%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (2.99%) Entra ID
16 5 (2.49%) Azure AKS
16 5 (2.49%) Azure Functions
16 5 (2.49%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.49%) HTTP
2 3 (1.49%) 5G
2 3 (1.49%) DNS
2 3 (1.49%) SSH
2 3 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.00%) 4G
3 2 (1.00%) DSL
4 1 (0.50%) MQTT
4 1 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (28.36%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (18.41%) MongoDB
3 22 (10.95%) Relational Database
4 21 (10.45%) NoSQL
5 15 (7.46%) DynamoDB
6 14 (6.97%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (6.97%) Redis
7 7 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (3.48%) MySQL
8 5 (2.49%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.99%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.99%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.99%) SQLite
10 3 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.49%) Metadata
10 3 (1.49%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.00%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (18.91%) Git
2 20 (9.95%) Jenkins
3 19 (9.45%) JIRA
4 17 (8.46%) GitLab
5 4 (1.99%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.99%) MLflow
6 2 (1.00%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.00%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.00%) Selenium
7 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.50%) git-flow
7 1 (0.50%) Maven
General
1 42 (20.90%) Finance
2 25 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.44%) Social Skills
4 19 (9.45%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.96%) Banking
6 9 (4.48%) Publishing
7 7 (3.48%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.99%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.49%) Front Office
11 3 (1.49%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.00%) Legal
13 1 (0.50%) Advertising
13 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.50%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.50%) Marketing
13 1 (0.50%) Military
13 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 111 (55.22%) Developer
2 98 (48.76%) Python Developer
3 43 (21.39%) Senior
4 36 (17.91%) Python Engineer
5 21 (10.45%) Software Engineer
6 17 (8.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 16 (7.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 15 (7.46%) Python Software Engineer
8 15 (7.46%) Senior Developer
9 14 (6.97%) Lead
10 13 (6.47%) Senior Python Developer
11 11 (5.47%) Backend Developer
11 11 (5.47%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (5.47%) Technical Leader
12 10 (4.98%) AWS Developer
13 9 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) AWS Software Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Kafka Developer
14 7 (3.48%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (36.32%) Flask
2 54 (26.87%) React
3 50 (24.88%) Django
4 49 (24.38%) REST
5 44 (21.89%) Pandas
6 40 (19.90%) RESTful
7 35 (17.41%) NumPy
8 30 (14.93%) Kafka
9 23 (11.44%) pytest
10 20 (9.95%) Polars
11 17 (8.46%) Model Context Protocol
12 16 (7.96%) OpenTelemetry
12 16 (7.96%) RabbitMQ
13 14 (6.97%) LangChain
14 13 (6.47%) OpenAPI
14 13 (6.47%) Swagger
15 12 (5.97%) Next.js
16 11 (5.47%) LangGraph
17 10 (4.98%) PySpark
17 10 (4.98%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.39%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.44%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (9.95%) AI Agents
4 16 (7.96%) Hedge funds
5 13 (6.47%) Data Structures
5 13 (6.47%) Equities
6 11 (5.47%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.98%) Derivative
8 9 (4.48%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.99%) Market Risk
10 5 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.99%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.99%) Life Science
11 4 (1.99%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.49%) Equity Derivative
12 3 (1.49%) Exotic Derivative
12 3 (1.49%) Genomics
12 3 (1.49%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.45%) Linux
2 13 (6.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (55.22%) CI/CD
2 77 (38.31%) Containerisation
3 76 (37.81%) Agile
4 74 (36.82%) DevOps
5 73 (36.32%) AI
6 47 (23.38%) Microservices
6 47 (23.38%) Software Engineering
7 46 (22.89%) API Development
8 45 (22.39%) LLM
9 41 (20.40%) Data Pipeline
10 40 (19.90%) Observability
11 39 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (17.91%) Full-Stack Development
12 36 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (14.93%) Machine Learning
13 30 (14.93%) Performance Optimisation
14 29 (14.43%) Analytics
15 22 (10.95%) Event-Driven
16 21 (10.45%) Code Quality
16 21 (10.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 201 (100.00%) Python
2 66 (32.84%) SQL
3 47 (23.38%) TypeScript
4 18 (8.96%) Shell Script
5 17 (8.46%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.46%) C#
7 12 (5.97%) Java
8 6 (2.99%) Bash
8 6 (2.99%) Ruby
9 4 (1.99%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.49%) Bicep
10 3 (1.49%) Cypher
10 3 (1.49%) Go
10 3 (1.49%) SHACL
11 2 (1.00%) C
11 2 (1.00%) R
11 2 (1.00%) Rust
12 1 (0.50%) C++
12 1 (0.50%) Haskell
12 1 (0.50%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 33 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.94%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.97%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.98%) Degree
5 6 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.00%) PhD
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.98%) QA
2 9 (4.48%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.50%) GDPR
4 1 (0.50%) GRC
4 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) NIST
4 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 105 (52.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 76 (37.81%) Kubernetes
2 28 (13.93%) Grafana
3 24 (11.94%) Prometheus
3 24 (11.94%) Terraform
4 13 (6.47%) Control-M
4 13 (6.47%) IBM Guardium
4 13 (6.47%) Nessus
5 4 (1.99%) Kibana
6 3 (1.49%) Ansible
7 2 (1.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (6.47%) Tenable
2 9 (4.48%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.98%) Google
3 8 (3.98%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.48%) Databricks
5 4 (1.99%) Oracle
6 2 (1.00%) FactSet
6 2 (1.00%) Foundry
6 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.50%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.50%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.50%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.50%) VMware