API Development Contracts in West Yorkshire

API Development
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 58 61 104
Rank change year-on-year +3 +43 0
Contract jobs citing API Development 4 16 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.73% 1.60% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.83% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 3
10th Percentile - - £363
25th Percentile - £513 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% +14.13%
75th Percentile £469 - £538
90th Percentile £510 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £407 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -26.00% +10.00% +2.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in West Yorkshire

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for API Development in West Yorkshire

API Development
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds -9 4 £400 -27.27% 19
API Development
Yorkshire

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Scala Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Akka
1 3 (75.00%) Play Framework
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) D3.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) API Integration
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Functional Programming
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kibana