API Development Contracts in Wales

API Development
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing API Development 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.68% - 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% - 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £503
25th Percentile - - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile - - £563
90th Percentile - - £578
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.14% +1.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 311 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.03% 78.73% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 212 421
10th Percentile £185 £168 £183
25th Percentile £285 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in Wales

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in Wales.

Daily rate trend for API Development in Wales

API Development
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
Dyfed - 1 £400 -
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Adabas
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Natural
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian