API Development Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

API Development
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 22 35
Rank change year-on-year -12 +13 -
Contract jobs citing API Development 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.41% 0.76% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.88% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile £713 - £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £488
75th Percentile £738 - £494
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +3.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 193 113 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 79.75% 85.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 80 167
10th Percentile £176 £190 £213
25th Percentile £257 £376 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £518
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% -8.30% +3.60%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £588
90th Percentile £720 £738 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £520
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.96% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 2 5
10th Percentile £12.63 £16.20 £18.92
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £28.92
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% -55.21% +149.35%
75th Percentile £20.69 £25.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.50 £27.60 £68.04
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £57.38 £53.50
% change year-on-year -61.66% +7.24% +22.99%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

API Development job vacancy trend in West Sussex

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

API Development
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
Gatwick - 1 £725 - 1
API Development
South East

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform