FastAPI Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

FastAPI
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring FastAPI skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 110 120
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 -
Contract jobs citing FastAPI 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 0.87% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £503 £281
25th Percentile - £511 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £524 £350
Median % change year-on-year +24.05% +49.71% -
75th Percentile - £537 £375
90th Percentile - £545 -
England median daily rate £505 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +3.59% -4.88% -29.31%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 322 344 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.75% 18.14% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 202 216
10th Percentile £368 £364 £325
25th Percentile £414 £461 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £674 £600
90th Percentile £679 £761 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 3
10th Percentile £33.91 £22.40 £17.20
25th Percentile £41.96 £34.63 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +214.29% -69.83%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £30.63
90th Percentile - £71.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.19% +5.59% -7.69%

FastAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for FastAPI in the West Midlands

FastAPI
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

FastAPI
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 FastAPI within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Herefordshire +7 3 £650 +18.18% 1
Worcestershire - 3 £650 -
FastAPI
England

FastAPI
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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (100.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Flask
1 4 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 4 (100.00%) WebSockets
2 3 (75.00%) gRPC
2 3 (75.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Django
3 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth
3 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (25.00%) pytest
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft