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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 289 366
Rank change year-on-year -44 +77 +68
Contract jobs citing API Development 329 240 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 0.85% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.94% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 172 108
10th Percentile £383 £369 £376
25th Percentile £413 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £685
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £41.50
75th Percentile £77.00 - £41.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 - £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 39,199 25,531 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.87% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,678 16,181 17,100
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,975 1,587 1,157
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.79 £20.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.92
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -89 132 £558 +7.47% 176
North of England -23 98 £450 -10.00% 35
Yorkshire +11 68 £460 -8.00% 13
Midlands -30 29 £475 +27.86% 20
South East -57 25 £475 +5.56% 20
West Midlands -28 21 £575 +27.78% 16
South West -16 19 £413 +10.00% 17
North West -59 17 £500 +16.28% 21
North East -32 14 £450 -21.74% 1
East Midlands -22 8 £402 +10.74% 4
East of England -29 7 £400 -26.61% 7
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 45 (13.68%) Confluence
2 4 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.91%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.91%) Mule
4 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.30%) Luigi
5 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.22%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.91%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.91%) Revit
2 3 (0.91%) Windchill
3 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 125 (37.99%) Azure
2 107 (32.52%) AWS
3 67 (20.36%) GCP
4 52 (15.81%) GitHub
5 40 (12.16%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (7.29%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (6.99%) Serverless
8 14 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (3.34%) Power Platform
10 10 (3.04%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.74%) Cloud Run
11 9 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (2.43%) Azure AKS
12 8 (2.43%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (2.43%) Firebase
12 8 (2.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (2.13%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.13%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.61%) CTI
2 2 (0.61%) HTTP
2 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.30%) 4G
3 1 (0.30%) 5G
3 1 (0.30%) DNS
3 1 (0.30%) Firewall
3 1 (0.30%) Internet
3 1 (0.30%) Network Security
3 1 (0.30%) SSH
3 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (14.59%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (11.25%) Relational Database
3 29 (8.81%) MongoDB
4 22 (6.69%) SQL Server
5 16 (4.86%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.04%) Redis
7 9 (2.74%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.74%) Geospatial Data
8 8 (2.43%) Power BI
9 7 (2.13%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.82%) Metadata
11 5 (1.52%) MySQL
12 4 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.22%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.91%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.91%) SQLite
14 2 (0.61%) Db2
14 2 (0.61%) ZAP BI
15 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.30%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 84 (25.53%) Git
2 64 (19.45%) JIRA
3 45 (13.68%) Jenkins
4 20 (6.08%) JUnit
5 19 (5.78%) Bitbucket
6 16 (4.86%) Maven
7 15 (4.56%) Mockito
8 13 (3.95%) SonarQube
9 12 (3.65%) GitLab
9 12 (3.65%) Gradle
10 9 (2.74%) MSI
11 8 (2.43%) fastlane
12 4 (1.22%) Android Studio
12 4 (1.22%) Crashlytics
12 4 (1.22%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.22%) git-flow
12 4 (1.22%) Postman
12 4 (1.22%) Xcode
13 3 (0.91%) ScalaTest
13 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 85 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 75 (22.80%) Finance
3 55 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (15.81%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.60%) Banking
6 24 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.04%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.82%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.52%) Retail
10 4 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.22%) Publishing
10 4 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.91%) Billing
12 2 (0.61%) Advertising
12 2 (0.61%) Automotive
12 2 (0.61%) Law
13 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.30%) Legal
13 1 (0.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 181 (55.02%) Developer
2 55 (16.72%) Senior
3 46 (13.98%) Python Developer
4 42 (12.77%) Java Developer
5 37 (11.25%) Lead
6 33 (10.03%) Senior Developer
7 26 (7.90%) Software Engineer
8 25 (7.60%) .NET Developer
9 23 (6.99%) Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (5.78%) Architect
11 15 (4.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (3.65%) Technical Leader
13 11 (3.34%) C# Developer
13 11 (3.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (3.34%) Python Engineer
13 11 (3.34%) Senior Python Developer
14 10 (3.04%) Java Engineer
14 10 (3.04%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (2.74%) Applications Developer
16 8 (2.43%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (32.22%) REST
2 105 (31.91%) RESTful
3 65 (19.76%) .NET
4 61 (18.54%) React
5 47 (14.29%) Spring
5 47 (14.29%) Terraform
6 46 (13.98%) Spring Boot
7 40 (12.16%) AngularJS
7 40 (12.16%) HTML
8 34 (10.33%) FastAPI
9 33 (10.03%) OAuth
10 31 (9.42%) Node.js
10 31 (9.42%) OAuth2
11 28 (8.51%) Kafka
12 25 (7.60%) CSS
12 25 (7.60%) Django
13 24 (7.29%) OpenID
14 23 (6.99%) .NET Core
15 22 (6.69%) Flask
16 21 (6.38%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 96 (29.18%) Cloud Native
2 34 (10.33%) Product Ownership
3 30 (9.12%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (7.29%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (5.47%) AI Agents
6 16 (4.86%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.74%) NHS
10 8 (2.43%) Algorithms
10 8 (2.43%) Derivative
10 8 (2.43%) Mobile App
10 8 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.13%) Market Risk
12 6 (1.82%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.82%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.82%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (1.22%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.47%) Linux
2 13 (3.95%) Unix
2 13 (3.95%) Windows
3 4 (1.22%) Android
3 4 (1.22%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.61%) AIX
5 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (59.57%) CI/CD
2 153 (46.50%) Agile
3 143 (43.47%) Microservices
4 120 (36.47%) DevOps
5 104 (31.61%) Test Automation
6 85 (25.84%) Containerisation
7 70 (21.28%) AI
8 69 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (20.97%) Software Engineering
9 68 (20.67%) Event-Driven
9 68 (20.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 65 (19.76%) Code Quality
11 56 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 54 (16.41%) Observability
13 50 (15.20%) TDD
14 49 (14.89%) API Integration
14 49 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (14.89%) Scrum
15 47 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 46 (13.98%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 143 (43.47%) Python
2 95 (28.88%) Java
3 75 (22.80%) SQL
4 71 (21.58%) JavaScript
5 60 (18.24%) TypeScript
6 55 (16.72%) C#
7 23 (6.99%) Kotlin
8 22 (6.69%) Go
9 13 (3.95%) Bicep
10 11 (3.34%) Rust
11 10 (3.04%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.74%) PowerShell
12 9 (2.74%) Scala
13 5 (1.52%) Bash
14 4 (1.22%) C++
14 4 (1.22%) Swift
15 3 (0.91%) Ruby
16 2 (0.61%) ABAP
16 2 (0.61%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.61%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 68 (20.67%) Security Cleared
2 58 (17.63%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.29%) Degree
4 17 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.82%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.91%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.07%) Accessibility
2 32 (9.73%) QA
3 24 (7.29%) WCAG
4 11 (3.34%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.74%) GDPR
5 9 (2.74%) NCSC
6 4 (1.22%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.22%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.91%) HL7
7 3 (0.91%) ISO 19650
8 2 (0.61%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.61%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.61%) MISRA
8 2 (0.61%) PSD2
8 2 (0.61%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 99 (30.09%) Docker
2 3 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (29.79%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.90%) Grafana
3 25 (7.60%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.74%) Ansible
5 8 (2.43%) Control-M
6 7 (2.13%) IBM Guardium
6 7 (2.13%) Nessus
7 6 (1.82%) Kibana
8 3 (0.91%) Argo
9 2 (0.61%) Consul
9 2 (0.61%) Istio
9 2 (0.61%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 57 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.90%) Google
3 14 (4.26%) Dynatrace
3 14 (4.26%) Oracle
4 11 (3.34%) Databricks
5 9 (2.74%) Okta
6 8 (2.43%) CyberArk
6 8 (2.43%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.43%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.43%) Splunk
7 7 (2.13%) Tenable
8 6 (1.82%) Foundry
8 6 (1.82%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.82%) SAP
8 6 (1.82%) webMethods
9 5 (1.52%) IBM
9 5 (1.52%) Ping Identity
10 4 (1.22%) Apple
11 3 (0.91%) Autodesk