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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 473 554
Rank change year-on-year +107 +81 +176
Contract jobs citing FastAPI 228 80 57
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.23% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.78% 1.07% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 53 37
10th Percentile £382 £385 £390
25th Percentile £445 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -17.86%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £638
90th Percentile £750 £881 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £529
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.07% -3.91%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 - -

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 8,187 7,496 9,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.46% 21.86% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,419 4,761 6,980
10th Percentile £351 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 101 176
10th Percentile £30.75 £21.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.87 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -1.15% +25.26% -20.17%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 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 15 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
England +59 165 £550 -10.57% 307
London +25 98 £540 -18.57% 46
Work from Home +68 87 £506 -18.35% 241
UK excluding London +23 85 £525 -4.55% 293
North of England -17 31 £500 -13.61% 68
Yorkshire -17 29 £500 -14.16% 29
Scotland - 26 £525 - 14
Midlands -33 14 £650 +68.39% 55
West Midlands -19 12 £650 +18.18% 23
South West - 9 £650 - 32
South East -1 7 £600 - 79
East of England - 5 £409 - 38
East Midlands -22 2 £349 +8.23% 28
North West -23 1 - - 33
North East - 1 - - 6

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 8 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.07%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.44%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (3.51%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 100 (43.86%) AWS
2 71 (31.14%) Azure
3 46 (20.18%) GitHub
4 42 (18.42%) Serverless
5 41 (17.98%) GCP
6 23 (10.09%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (8.77%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (8.33%) Amazon S3
9 18 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (6.58%) Cloud Run
11 13 (5.70%) Amazon Bedrock
12 12 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.39%) Azure Key Vault
14 9 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.95%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 9 (3.95%) Azure Functions
14 9 (3.95%) Vertex AI
15 8 (3.51%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.75%) HTTP
2 1 (0.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (18.86%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (12.28%) NoSQL
3 18 (7.89%) Redis
4 13 (5.70%) MongoDB
5 12 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 10 (4.39%) Oracle Database
7 6 (2.63%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.19%) Big Data
8 5 (2.19%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.32%) Airbyte
9 3 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.32%) MySQL
9 3 (1.32%) Weaviate
10 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.88%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 71 (31.14%) Git
2 17 (7.46%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.14%) JIRA
4 9 (3.95%) Cypress.io
5 7 (3.07%) MLflow
6 4 (1.75%) RStudio
6 4 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.88%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.88%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.88%) GitLab
7 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.44%) Maven
8 1 (0.44%) Postman
8 1 (0.44%) Pylint
General
1 51 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.79%) Finance
3 27 (11.84%) Banking
4 18 (7.89%) Investment Banking
4 18 (7.89%) Pharmaceutical
5 16 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.63%) Retail
7 5 (2.19%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.75%) Front Office
8 4 (1.75%) Multimedia
8 4 (1.75%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Wearables
10 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.44%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.44%) Automotive
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.44%) Marketing
11 1 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 95 (41.67%) Developer
2 84 (36.84%) Python Developer
3 49 (21.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 30 (13.16%) Python Engineer
5 26 (11.40%) Full-Stack Developer
6 25 (10.96%) Senior
6 25 (10.96%) Software Engineer
7 21 (9.21%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 16 (7.02%) AWS Developer
8 16 (7.02%) Backend Developer
9 14 (6.14%) JavaScript Developer
10 12 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (4.82%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.82%) Senior Python Developer
12 10 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.39%) React Developer
13 9 (3.95%) Gen AI Engineer
14 8 (3.51%) Python Software Engineer
15 7 (3.07%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (31.58%) Flask
2 63 (27.63%) React
3 45 (19.74%) RESTful
4 37 (16.23%) Pandas
4 37 (16.23%) REST
5 33 (14.47%) pytest
6 32 (14.04%) LangChain
6 32 (14.04%) NumPy
7 31 (13.60%) Django
8 28 (12.28%) SQLAlchemy
9 25 (10.96%) PyTorch
10 23 (10.09%) LangGraph
11 18 (7.89%) Vue
12 17 (7.46%) AngularJS
13 16 (7.02%) Jest
13 16 (7.02%) OAuth
14 15 (6.58%) Hugging Face
14 15 (6.58%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (6.14%) AWS CDK
15 14 (6.14%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.60%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.65%) AI Agents
3 14 (6.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (6.14%) Hedge funds
3 14 (6.14%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.26%) Genomics
4 12 (5.26%) Life Science
5 9 (3.95%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.07%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.75%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (0.88%) NHS
10 2 (0.88%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.88%) Virtual Reality
11 1 (0.44%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.44%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 32 (14.04%) Linux
2 5 (2.19%) Unix
3 4 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (56.58%) AI
2 102 (44.74%) Agile
2 102 (44.74%) CI/CD
3 83 (36.40%) Machine Learning
4 73 (32.02%) DevOps
5 68 (29.82%) Containerisation
6 65 (28.51%) Software Engineering
7 61 (26.75%) Full-Stack Development
8 57 (25.00%) Generative AI
8 57 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (24.56%) LLM
10 41 (17.98%) Data Engineering
11 39 (17.11%) Microservices
12 38 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 31 (13.60%) API Development
14 29 (12.72%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (11.84%) Data Science
16 26 (11.40%) Clean Code
16 26 (11.40%) Observability
17 25 (10.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 225 (98.68%) Python
2 58 (25.44%) SQL
3 43 (18.86%) TypeScript
4 36 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 20 (8.77%) Java
6 16 (7.02%) C++
7 14 (6.14%) C#
7 14 (6.14%) Rust
7 14 (6.14%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.07%) Go
9 5 (2.19%) Bash
10 3 (1.32%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.32%) R
11 2 (0.88%) Bourne shell
12 1 (0.44%) Bicep
12 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (11.40%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.21%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.33%) Degree
4 13 (5.70%) MCP
5 8 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.95%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (1.32%) QA
3 2 (0.88%) GDPR
3 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.88%) NIST
4 1 (0.44%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.44%) MiFID
4 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (46.05%) Docker
2 10 (4.39%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 81 (35.53%) Kubernetes
2 34 (14.91%) Grafana
3 31 (13.60%) Terraform
4 27 (11.84%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.26%) Ansible
6 11 (4.82%) Control-M
6 11 (4.82%) IBM Guardium
6 11 (4.82%) Nessus
7 10 (4.39%) Data Guard
7 10 (4.39%) yum
8 3 (1.32%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.88%) Knative
10 1 (0.44%) Argo
10 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (13.60%) Google
2 25 (10.96%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.26%) OpenAI
4 11 (4.82%) Tenable
5 10 (4.39%) Oracle
6 9 (3.95%) Databricks
7 6 (2.63%) Virgin Media
8 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.88%) New Relic
8 2 (0.88%) Okta
8 2 (0.88%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.44%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.44%) DataRobot
9 1 (0.44%) Foundry
9 1 (0.44%) Netlify
9 1 (0.44%) Sybase