API Development Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

API Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 104 110
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +59
Contract jobs citing API Development 4 9 16
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.47% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.57% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 14
10th Percentile - - £420
25th Percentile £413 £525 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £438 £600 £675
90th Percentile - £615 £700
England median daily rate £500 £516 £550
% change year-on-year -3.10% -6.18% -6.78%

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 1,658 1,568 1,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.38% 82.70% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 990 1,202
10th Percentile £250 £231 £263
25th Percentile £400 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 40 54
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.81 £21.48
Median hourly rate £23.00 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% -8.54% +55.19%
75th Percentile £33.88 £35.00 £49.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.45 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

API Development job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing API Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing API Development

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 4 October 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
Staffordshire +4 1 - -
Birmingham -2 1 £425 -29.17% 4
Coventry - 1 - -
Shropshire - 1 - -
API Development
England

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) nginx
1 1 (25.00%) Tuxedo
1 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Boomi
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Gradle
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (25.00%) Xcode
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) React Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) Django
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Jest
3 1 (25.00%) MACH
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) React Native
3 1 (25.00%) Redux
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) Swagger
3 1 (25.00%) WireMock
3 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) API Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Code Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Cross-Platform Development
4 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (25.00%) Mobile Development
4 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) JSX
3 1 (25.00%) Korn
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) R
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Pega
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Trillium
2 1 (25.00%) webMethods