API Development Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

API Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 201 229 282
Rank change year-on-year +28 +53 +51
Contract jobs citing API Development 103 116 201
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.04% 0.76% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.86% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 89 159
10th Percentile £325 £406 £405
25th Percentile £400 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £550 £569 £603
90th Percentile £638 £623 £655
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.14% +1.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

API Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

API Development trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

API Development
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing API Development.

API Development daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing API Development over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

API Development daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

API Development
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing API Development.

API Development hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (1.94%) Anypoint
1 2 (1.94%) Confluence
2 1 (0.97%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.97%) CMS
2 1 (0.97%) Documentum
2 1 (0.97%) FileNet
2 1 (0.97%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.97%) Mule
2 1 (0.97%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.97%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (38.83%) Azure
2 31 (30.10%) AWS
3 18 (17.48%) Serverless
4 13 (12.62%) GCP
5 8 (7.77%) Amazon S3
5 8 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.77%) GitHub
6 5 (4.85%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.88%) Apigee
7 4 (3.88%) Cloud Run
7 4 (3.88%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.91%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.91%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.94%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.85%) HTTP
2 2 (1.94%) 3GPP
2 2 (1.94%) 4G
2 2 (1.94%) 5G
2 2 (1.94%) Wireless
3 1 (0.97%) BGP
3 1 (0.97%) DNS
3 1 (0.97%) Firewall
3 1 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.59%) NoSQL
2 11 (10.68%) SQL Server
3 10 (9.71%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (8.74%) MongoDB
5 8 (7.77%) MySQL
6 6 (5.83%) DynamoDB
7 5 (4.85%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.85%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.91%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.91%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.97%) Adabas
10 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.97%) Looker
10 1 (0.97%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (15.53%) Git
2 10 (9.71%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.71%) JIRA
3 6 (5.83%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.88%) NUnit
4 4 (3.88%) Subversion
5 3 (2.91%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (2.91%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.91%) GitLab
5 3 (2.91%) Gradle
5 3 (2.91%) HP UFT
5 3 (2.91%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.91%) JUnit
5 3 (2.91%) Maven
5 3 (2.91%) NetBeans
5 3 (2.91%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (2.91%) Postman
5 3 (2.91%) Selenium
6 2 (1.94%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.94%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.42%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.77%) Advertising
3 8 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.83%) Finance
5 4 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.88%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.91%) Back Office
6 3 (2.91%) Retail
7 2 (1.94%) Banking
7 2 (1.94%) Local Government
7 2 (1.94%) Marketing
8 1 (0.97%) Billing
8 1 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Danish Language
8 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Law
8 1 (0.97%) Legal
8 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (61.17%) Developer
2 13 (12.62%) .NET Developer
3 11 (10.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 10 (9.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (8.74%) Support Engineer
6 7 (6.80%) Azure Developer
6 7 (6.80%) Python Developer
6 7 (6.80%) Senior
7 6 (5.83%) Architect
7 6 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.83%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.85%) JavaScript Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Scala Developer
9 4 (3.88%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 4 (3.88%) Lead
10 3 (2.91%) GCP Developer
10 3 (2.91%) Lead Developer
10 3 (2.91%) Middleware Developer
10 3 (2.91%) Software Engineer
11 2 (1.94%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (29.13%) React
2 26 (25.24%) RESTful
3 21 (20.39%) .NET
3 21 (20.39%) Node.js
4 16 (15.53%) REST
5 15 (14.56%) OAuth
6 13 (12.62%) AngularJS
6 13 (12.62%) HTML
7 11 (10.68%) .NET Core
7 11 (10.68%) CSS
7 11 (10.68%) OpenAPI
7 11 (10.68%) Swagger
8 10 (9.71%) Spring
9 9 (8.74%) Kafka
10 7 (6.80%) ASP.NET
10 7 (6.80%) FastAPI
10 7 (6.80%) JSON
10 7 (6.80%) OpenID
10 7 (6.80%) Vue
11 6 (5.83%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.77%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.83%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.88%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.91%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.94%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.94%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.94%) NHS
5 2 (1.94%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.94%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.97%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.88%) Linux
2 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (61.17%) Agile
2 48 (46.60%) CI/CD
3 34 (33.01%) Full-Stack Development
3 34 (33.01%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (31.07%) DevOps
5 25 (24.27%) API Integration
5 25 (24.27%) Microservices
6 23 (22.33%) Containerisation
7 18 (17.48%) Test Automation
8 13 (12.62%) TDD
9 12 (11.65%) Scrum
10 11 (10.68%) Project Management
11 10 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (9.71%) User Experience
12 9 (8.74%) BDD
12 9 (8.74%) Computer Science
12 9 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (7.77%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (7.77%) Software Engineering
13 8 (7.77%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 40 (38.83%) Python
2 33 (32.04%) JavaScript
3 28 (27.18%) Java
4 24 (23.30%) SQL
5 21 (20.39%) C#
5 21 (20.39%) TypeScript
6 15 (14.56%) PHP
7 6 (5.83%) Go
8 5 (4.85%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.88%) Scala
10 3 (2.91%) C++
11 2 (1.94%) Bash
12 1 (0.97%) ABAP
12 1 (0.97%) Groovy
12 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.97%) Natural
12 1 (0.97%) Perl
12 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.97%) Ruby
12 1 (0.97%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (12.62%) SC Cleared
1 13 (12.62%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.68%) Degree
3 8 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.97%) CEH
5 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.97%) CISSP
5 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.97%) OCP
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.77%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.80%) QA
3 2 (1.94%) GDPR
3 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.97%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.97%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (20.39%) Docker
2 3 (2.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (21.36%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.68%) Terraform
3 5 (4.85%) Kibana
4 3 (2.91%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.91%) Puppet
5 2 (1.94%) Grafana
5 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.97%) Ansible
6 1 (0.97%) MIIS
Vendors
1 13 (12.62%) Oracle
2 10 (9.71%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.80%) Google
4 3 (2.91%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (2.91%) MuleSoft
4 3 (2.91%) SAP
4 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.94%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.94%) Cisco
5 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.97%) Ariba
6 1 (0.97%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.97%) Meraki
6 1 (0.97%) NEC
6 1 (0.97%) Okta
6 1 (0.97%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.97%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.97%) Snow
6 1 (0.97%) Splunk
6 1 (0.97%) Typelevel