API Development Contract Job Trends in Wales

API Development
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Development 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £263 - -
25th Percentile £281 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - -
75th Percentile £344 - -
90th Percentile £363 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -6.25%

All Process & 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 455 279 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 75.46% 88.57% 72.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 181 196
10th Percentile £300 £190 £143
25th Percentile £375 £293 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £405 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.28% -14.74% -3.80%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £551
90th Percentile £680 £625 £631
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 36 44
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.65 £11.75
25th Percentile £17.75 £14.81 £15.48
Median hourly rate £22.00 £21.01 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +3.83% +3.82%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.15 £50.44
90th Percentile £53.88 £28.74 £81.63
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

API Development job vacancy trend in Wales

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing API Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing API Development

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 3 July 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
West Wales - 1 £375 -
South Wales - 1 £250 - 2
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Confluent