API Development Contracts in Central London

API Development
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for API Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Development over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 156 162
Rank change year-on-year +37 +6 -21
Contract jobs citing API Development 18 18 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.75% 0.49% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.53% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 22
10th Percentile £453 £412 £425
25th Percentile £494 £467 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £575 £581
Median % change year-on-year +23.91% -1.08% +1.09%
75th Percentile £775 £631 £697
90th Percentile £820 £767 £713
London median daily rate £563 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +21.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

API Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,386 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.81% 91.29% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,291 3,136
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.85 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.56 £25.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.38 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in Central London

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for API Development in Central London

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in Central London

API Development
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
City of London +44 16 £725 +26.09% 5
Southwark - 1 £700 -
API Development
London

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (11.11%) Apache
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) Serverless
5 2 (11.11%) Azure API Management
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Android Studio
2 2 (11.11%) JUnit
2 2 (11.11%) Mockito
2 2 (11.11%) ScalaTest
2 2 (11.11%) Subversion
2 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.56%) git-flow
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Architect
3 5 (27.78%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (22.22%) Python Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Scala Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Data Integration Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Designer
6 1 (5.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Full Stack JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Integration Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.56%) React Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Solutions Designer
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Workday Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) RESTful
2 3 (16.67%) Kafka
3 2 (11.11%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (5.56%) Apache Camel
4 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.56%) Entity Framework
4 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
4 1 (5.56%) Flask
4 1 (5.56%) OAuth
4 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.56%) React
4 1 (5.56%) SOAP
4 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Mainframe
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) Blockchain
3 1 (5.56%) CBDC
3 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.56%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Microservices
2 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
4 4 (22.22%) API Design
4 4 (22.22%) API Integration
5 3 (16.67%) Architectural Design
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 3 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Strategy
5 3 (16.67%) SDLC
5 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Functional Programming
6 2 (11.11%) Scrum
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Java
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Scala
2 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) IBM
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Temenos
2 1 (5.56%) Workday