API Development Contracts in Yorkshire

API Development
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 70 115
Rank change year-on-year -23 +45 +18
Contract jobs citing API Development 12 36 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.89% 2.12% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 2.53% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 31 2
10th Percentile £392 £460 £344
25th Percentile £413 £510 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £497
90th Percentile £687 £645 £521
England median daily rate £475 £507 £575
% change year-on-year -6.31% -11.83% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,248 1,425 1,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.10% 83.87% 90.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 777 859 1,281
10th Percentile £263 £288 £285
25th Percentile £381 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 61 50
10th Percentile £15.63 - -
25th Percentile £18.29 £12.15 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -19.40% -10.43%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £32.22 £48.75 £49.02
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.59
% change year-on-year -34.02% -6.09% +56.12%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in Yorkshire

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for API Development in Yorkshire

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in Yorkshire

API Development
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
South Yorkshire -10 8 £475 -6.31% 6
West Yorkshire -9 3 £588 +6.82% 1
North Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 2
API Development
England

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (8.33%) SAP MRS
1 1 (8.33%) SAP PM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Postman
3 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Banking
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Angular Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
4 1 (8.33%) Scala Developer
4 1 (8.33%) SDLC Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Scala Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (16.67%) CSS3
2 2 (16.67%) Express.js
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) HTML5
2 2 (16.67%) MEAN Stack
2 2 (16.67%) NestJS
2 2 (16.67%) NgRx
2 2 (16.67%) Node.js
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) Sass
3 1 (8.33%) Akka
3 1 (8.33%) Pandas
3 1 (8.33%) Play Framework
3 1 (8.33%) pytest
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) CentOS
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) SUSE
2 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Microservices
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (25.00%) TDD
5 3 (25.00%) User Experience
5 3 (25.00%) UX Design
6 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
6 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Software Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) Kotlin
5 1 (8.33%) ABAP
5 1 (8.33%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) C#
5 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Postgraduate
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
1 2 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Kibana
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) MuleSoft
1 2 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) SAP