API Development Contracts in the West Midlands

API Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 83 109 130
Rank change year-on-year +26 +21 +39
Contract jobs citing API Development 14 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.04% 0.10% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.12% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 9
10th Percentile £423 - £412
25th Percentile £428 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -25.00% +34.83%
75th Percentile £575 £475 -
90th Percentile £700 - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the West Midlands

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for API Development in the West Midlands

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in the West Midlands

API Development
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +24 8 £435 -3.33% 1
Coventry - 2 £413 - 3
Herefordshire - 2 £700 -
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 1
Worcestershire - 2 £700 - 1
API Development
England

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CodeCommit
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (14.29%) Boomi
3 2 (14.29%) OCI
3 2 (14.29%) PaaS
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Advertising
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
1 6 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Senior
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Python Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Credit Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) React
2 5 (35.71%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) Blazor
3 2 (14.29%) CSS
3 2 (14.29%) Django
3 2 (14.29%) HTML
3 2 (14.29%) MACH
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js
3 2 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) Spring
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
1 10 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (35.71%) Project Delivery
3 5 (35.71%) Project Management
4 4 (28.57%) API Design
5 3 (21.43%) API Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Code Quality
5 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) OO
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (14.29%) CRM
6 2 (14.29%) Load Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Open Source
6 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 9 (64.29%) Python
3 6 (42.86%) PHP
4 4 (28.57%) SQL
5 3 (21.43%) Java
6 2 (14.29%) Go
6 2 (14.29%) R
6 2 (14.29%) Ruby
6 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle