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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 54 88
Rank change year-on-year -18 +34 +28
DemandTrendContract jobs citing API Development 3 19 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.40% 2.18% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 2.56% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 19 4
10th Percentile - £500 £381
25th Percentile £625 £513 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.20% +33.15%
75th Percentile £675 - £700
90th Percentile - £571 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £538 £613
% change year-on-year -11.63% -12.24% +33.15%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 663 741 1,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.87% 85.07% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 476 836
10th Percentile £285 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -7.11% +7.65%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £625
90th Percentile £639 £655 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 27 20
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £13.17
Median hourly rate £25.50 £15.00 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -15.82% -10.90%
75th Percentile £81.25 £31.25 £21.31
90th Percentile - £38.75 £24.38
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +59.63% -30.65% +5.26%

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
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

API Development
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -14 2 - - 3
Bradford - 1 £650 - 1
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP MRS
1 1 (33.33%) SAP PM
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) ABAP Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SAP PM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) BAPI
2 1 (33.33%) D3.js
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) JPA
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Parallel Processing
3 1 (33.33%) SOLID
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) UX Design
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) ABAP
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP