API Development Contract Job Trends in England

API Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 277 386
Rank change year-on-year -54 +109 +32
Contract jobs citing API Development 311 255 149
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.92% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.02% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 181 108
10th Percentile £388 £358 £376
25th Percentile £413 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -10.67% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £25.60
% change year-on-year - - -31.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,772 25,064 28,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.82% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,937 15,945 18,292
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,483 1,510
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

API Development job vacancy trend in England

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing API Development

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in England over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in England

API Development
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing API Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing API Development

API Development
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 August 2026. 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
London -84 129 £545 +9.00% 160
North of England -28 89 £471 +10.06% 34
Yorkshire -1 60 £475 - 8
South East -54 30 £475 +5.56% 24
South West -25 22 £413 +10.00% 30
North West -61 18 £500 +17.65% 21
Midlands -58 14 £447 +12.74% 11
North East - 12 £450 - 5
East of England -20 9 £475 -12.84% 9
East Midlands -16 8 £402 +12.29% 5
West Midlands -53 6 £925 +112.64% 6
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 31 (9.97%) Confluence
2 4 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.96%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.96%) Mule
4 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Luigi
5 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.29%) CPLEX
1 4 (1.29%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.29%) Revit
2 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.32%) Trello
3 1 (0.32%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.32%) Odoo
3 1 (0.32%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 130 (41.80%) Azure
2 97 (31.19%) AWS
3 63 (20.26%) GCP
4 50 (16.08%) GitHub
5 44 (14.15%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (9.32%) Serverless
7 15 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (3.86%) Azure AKS
9 11 (3.54%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (3.22%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.22%) Firebase
11 9 (2.89%) Azure Functions
12 8 (2.57%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (2.57%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.25%) Google Gemini
14 6 (1.93%) Azure API Management
14 6 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (1.93%) LangSmith
14 6 (1.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.64%) CTI
1 2 (0.64%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.32%) 4G
2 1 (0.32%) 5G
2 1 (0.32%) DNS
2 1 (0.32%) Firewall
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.32%) NaaS
2 1 (0.32%) Network Security
2 1 (0.32%) SSH
2 1 (0.32%) SSL
2 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.18%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (9.97%) MongoDB
3 26 (8.36%) Relational Database
4 22 (7.07%) SQL Server
5 17 (5.47%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.22%) Geospatial Data
7 9 (2.89%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.57%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.25%) MySQL
9 7 (2.25%) Power BI
9 7 (2.25%) Redis
10 6 (1.93%) Metadata
11 5 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.29%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.96%) SQLite
14 2 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.64%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 71 (22.83%) Git
2 46 (14.79%) JIRA
3 43 (13.83%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.18%) Bitbucket
4 13 (4.18%) GitLab
4 13 (4.18%) Gradle
5 10 (3.22%) fastlane
5 10 (3.22%) JUnit
6 9 (2.89%) MSI
7 7 (2.25%) Mockito
8 6 (1.93%) Maven
9 5 (1.61%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.61%) Crashlytics
9 5 (1.61%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.61%) Xcode
10 4 (1.29%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.29%) git-flow
10 4 (1.29%) Selenium
11 3 (0.96%) Postman
12 2 (0.64%) GoCD
General
1 69 (22.19%) Social Skills
2 67 (21.54%) Finance
3 51 (16.40%) Public Sector
4 39 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.40%) Banking
6 22 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.25%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.25%) Publishing
8 5 (1.61%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.29%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.29%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.29%) Retail
10 2 (0.64%) Automotive
10 2 (0.64%) Billing
10 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.64%) Front Office
10 2 (0.64%) Law
11 1 (0.32%) Advertising
11 1 (0.32%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 172 (55.31%) Developer
2 56 (18.01%) Senior
3 46 (14.79%) Python Developer
4 44 (14.15%) Java Developer
5 36 (11.58%) Lead
6 31 (9.97%) Senior Developer
7 24 (7.72%) .NET Developer
7 24 (7.72%) Software Engineer
8 23 (7.40%) Architect
9 20 (6.43%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (4.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 12 (3.86%) Senior Python Developer
11 12 (3.86%) Technical Leader
12 10 (3.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (3.22%) Integration Architect
13 9 (2.89%) Backend Developer
13 9 (2.89%) Java Engineer
14 8 (2.57%) C# Developer
15 7 (2.25%) Senior Software Engineer
15 7 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (31.83%) REST
2 92 (29.58%) RESTful
3 69 (22.19%) .NET
4 57 (18.33%) React
5 49 (15.76%) Terraform
6 46 (14.79%) Spring
7 44 (14.15%) Spring Boot
8 37 (11.90%) AngularJS
9 36 (11.58%) Node.js
10 34 (10.93%) HTML
10 34 (10.93%) OAuth
11 32 (10.29%) FastAPI
11 32 (10.29%) OAuth2
12 31 (9.97%) Kafka
13 26 (8.36%) .NET Core
14 24 (7.72%) Django
15 23 (7.40%) .NET Framework
15 23 (7.40%) CSS
16 20 (6.43%) OpenID
17 19 (6.11%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 79 (25.40%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.68%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (8.68%) Product Ownership
3 22 (7.07%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (5.79%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.18%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.22%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.89%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.57%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.25%) NHS
11 6 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.93%) Derivative
11 6 (1.93%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.93%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.29%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.29%) Market Risk
12 4 (1.29%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.47%) Linux
2 12 (3.86%) Unix
2 12 (3.86%) Windows
3 5 (1.61%) Android
3 5 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.64%) AIX
5 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.32%) VMS
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (56.59%) CI/CD
2 131 (42.12%) Agile
3 123 (39.55%) Microservices
4 114 (36.66%) DevOps
5 82 (26.37%) Test Automation
6 81 (26.05%) Containerisation
7 61 (19.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (19.29%) AI
9 58 (18.65%) Event-Driven
10 57 (18.33%) Software Engineering
11 53 (17.04%) Infrastructure as Code
12 49 (15.76%) API Design
13 47 (15.11%) Code Quality
14 44 (14.15%) Analytics
15 42 (13.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 41 (13.18%) Scrum
17 40 (12.86%) Observability
17 40 (12.86%) TDD
17 40 (12.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 138 (44.37%) Python
2 97 (31.19%) Java
3 76 (24.44%) SQL
4 61 (19.61%) JavaScript
5 53 (17.04%) C#
6 47 (15.11%) TypeScript
7 21 (6.75%) Kotlin
8 14 (4.50%) Go
9 13 (4.18%) Bicep
10 9 (2.89%) Rust
11 8 (2.57%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.61%) C++
12 5 (1.61%) Scala
12 5 (1.61%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.61%) Swift
13 3 (0.96%) Bash
14 2 (0.64%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.64%) PromQL
15 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.32%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 73 (23.47%) Security Cleared
2 60 (19.29%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.07%) Degree
4 16 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.57%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.32%) CISSP
10 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.32%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.86%) Accessibility
2 27 (8.68%) QA
3 24 (7.72%) WCAG
4 9 (2.89%) NCSC
5 8 (2.57%) GDPR
6 7 (2.25%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.29%) ISO 19650
8 3 (0.96%) HL7
9 2 (0.64%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.64%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.64%) MISRA
9 2 (0.64%) PSD2
9 2 (0.64%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.32%) NIST
10 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 95 (30.55%) Docker
2 2 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 100 (32.15%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.75%) Prometheus
3 17 (5.47%) Grafana
4 10 (3.22%) Ansible
5 7 (2.25%) Control-M
5 7 (2.25%) IBM Guardium
5 7 (2.25%) Nessus
6 3 (0.96%) Argo
6 3 (0.96%) Kibana
7 2 (0.64%) Consul
7 2 (0.64%) Istio
7 2 (0.64%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 50 (16.08%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.04%) Google
3 16 (5.14%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.86%) Oracle
5 9 (2.89%) Databricks
6 8 (2.57%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.25%) CyberArk
7 7 (2.25%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.25%) Tenable
8 5 (1.61%) Apple
8 5 (1.61%) Foundry
8 5 (1.61%) Okta
8 5 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.61%) webMethods
9 4 (1.29%) Autodesk
9 4 (1.29%) IBM
9 4 (1.29%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.29%) SAP
10 2 (0.64%) Ariba
10 2 (0.64%) Centrify