FastAPI Contracts

FastAPI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring FastAPI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FastAPI over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 539 618
Rank change year-on-year +166 +79 +120
Contract jobs citing FastAPI 148 61 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.23% 0.68% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 41 47
10th Percentile £375 £450 £448
25th Percentile £445 £487 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -7.29%
75th Percentile £850 £615 £794
90th Percentile £881 £650 £818
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -22.26% -1.37% -7.46%

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 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

FastAPI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FastAPI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FastAPI in the UK

FastAPI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FastAPI.

Daily rate trend for FastAPI in the UK

FastAPI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FastAPI over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FastAPI in the UK

FastAPI
Top 10 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +126 114 £600 +4.35% 105
London +89 88 £725 +31.82% 72
Work from Home +99 79 £600 +9.09% 77
UK excluding London +64 25 £447 -22.26% 40
South East +49 7 £438 - 7
North of England +22 7 £550 -4.35% 12
South West - 7 £442 - 3
North West +11 5 £532 +9.24% 9
Scotland +12 4 £467 - 4
Yorkshire +9 2 £615 +0.82% 3

FastAPI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.73%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.68%) Apache
2 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Endur
1 1 (0.68%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 58 (39.19%) AWS
2 42 (28.38%) Azure
3 20 (13.51%) GitHub
4 14 (9.46%) GCP
5 11 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (3.38%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (2.70%) Amazon Bedrock
7 4 (2.70%) Slack
7 4 (2.70%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.03%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.03%) Cloud Run
8 3 (2.03%) Serverless
9 2 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.68%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.68%) Kong
10 1 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.68%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.84%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.41%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.05%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.38%) Redis
5 4 (2.70%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.70%) MySQL
6 3 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.03%) Metadata
6 3 (2.03%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.35%) Impala
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.68%) ObjectStore
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.68%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 52 (35.14%) Git
2 34 (22.97%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.38%) MLflow
4 4 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.70%) GitLab
5 3 (2.03%) JIRA
5 3 (2.03%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.35%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.68%) Newman
7 1 (0.68%) Postman
7 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.68%) Vagrant
General
1 38 (25.68%) Banking
2 35 (23.65%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (21.62%) Investment Banking
4 25 (16.89%) Finance
5 23 (15.54%) Social Skills
6 18 (12.16%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (8.11%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.05%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.38%) Front Office
10 4 (2.70%) Marketing
11 2 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.35%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.68%) Retail
12 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 108 (72.97%) Developer
2 81 (54.73%) Python Developer
3 28 (18.92%) Gen AI Developer
4 26 (17.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 26 (17.57%) Python Engineer
5 19 (12.84%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (6.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 10 (6.76%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 10 (6.76%) JavaScript Developer
7 8 (5.41%) Backend Developer
8 7 (4.73%) AWS Developer
8 7 (4.73%) Senior
8 7 (4.73%) Software Developer
9 6 (4.05%) JavaScript Engineer
10 5 (3.38%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.38%) Python Software Engineer
10 5 (3.38%) Software Engineer
11 4 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
12 3 (2.03%) C# Developer
12 3 (2.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (43.92%) React
2 61 (41.22%) Django
3 44 (29.73%) Flask
4 24 (16.22%) .NET
5 20 (13.51%) AngularJS
6 19 (12.84%) NumPy
6 19 (12.84%) Pandas
7 18 (12.16%) pytest
7 18 (12.16%) Vue
8 15 (10.14%) RESTful
9 12 (8.11%) HTML
10 11 (7.43%) CSS
10 11 (7.43%) REST
11 10 (6.76%) OpenID
12 9 (6.08%) Ajax
12 9 (6.08%) Polars
12 9 (6.08%) SciPy
13 8 (5.41%) SQLAlchemy
14 6 (4.05%) LangChain
14 6 (4.05%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.43%) Onboarding
2 9 (6.08%) Hedge funds
3 7 (4.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.68%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.43%) Linux
2 3 (2.03%) Mac OS
2 3 (2.03%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (47.97%) Artificial Intelligence
2 64 (43.24%) Agile
2 64 (43.24%) CI/CD
3 57 (38.51%) DevOps
4 51 (34.46%) Generative AI
5 41 (27.70%) Machine Learning
6 38 (25.68%) LLM
7 35 (23.65%) Full-Stack Development
8 31 (20.95%) Use Case
9 29 (19.59%) SDLC
10 28 (18.92%) Technical Analysis
11 27 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (16.89%) Software Engineering
14 21 (14.19%) Containerisation
15 19 (12.84%) Microservices
16 18 (12.16%) Data Engineering
17 16 (10.81%) API Development
18 13 (8.78%) Test Automation
19 12 (8.11%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 148 (100.00%) Python
2 46 (31.08%) SQL
3 39 (26.35%) C#
4 36 (24.32%) TypeScript
5 29 (19.59%) Java
6 21 (14.19%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.76%) C++
8 9 (6.08%) Rust
9 1 (0.68%) PHP
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.38%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.70%) Degree
5 3 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.38%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
System Software
1 73 (49.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) VirtualBox
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (41.89%) Kubernetes
2 31 (20.95%) Ansible
3 12 (8.11%) Terraform
4 10 (6.76%) MIIS
5 2 (1.35%) Podman
5 2 (1.35%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.68%) Grafana
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (3.38%) Databricks
2 4 (2.70%) Dataiku
2 4 (2.70%) DataRobot
2 4 (2.70%) Oracle
3 3 (2.03%) Google
3 3 (2.03%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.03%) Splunk
4 2 (1.35%) Netskope
4 2 (1.35%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.35%) Proofpoint
4 2 (1.35%) Symantec
5 1 (0.68%) IBM
5 1 (0.68%) Sage
5 1 (0.68%) VMware