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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 292 340
Rank change year-on-year -13 +48 +47
Contract jobs citing API Development 283 185 213
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.75% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.83% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 138 165
10th Percentile £351 £380 £393
25th Percentile £425 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £625
90th Percentile £680 £678 £694
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -5.73% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £70.43 £41.48 -
25th Percentile £71.07 £41.81 -
Median hourly rate £72.13 £43.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +66.77% - -
75th Percentile £73.20 £45.31 -
90th Percentile £73.83 £46.03 -
UK median hourly rate £72.13 £43.25 -
% change year-on-year +66.77% - -

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 31,421 22,365 33,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.61% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,102 14,445 21,880
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,952 795 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.80 £21.01 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.81 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -18 141 £525 -7.49% 37
North of England -5 84 £478 -4.50% 20
Yorkshire -35 45 £469 -12.74% 7
North West -10 32 £464 +15.94% 10
Midlands -65 17 £449 -18.41% 16
South East -44 14 £550 +2.33% 16
West Midlands -57 13 £449 -18.41% 14
East of England -16 12 £625 -21.88% 7
North East -8 7 £575 +4.55% 3
South West -22 5 - - 9
East Midlands -33 4 £455 +39.57% 2
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 9 (3.18%) Confluence
2 8 (2.83%) Anypoint
2 8 (2.83%) Appian
3 5 (1.77%) Mule
4 4 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.06%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.71%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.71%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.35%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.35%) Odoo
4 1 (0.35%) Shopify
4 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 93 (32.86%) AWS
2 83 (29.33%) Azure
3 44 (15.55%) GCP
4 31 (10.95%) GitHub
5 27 (9.54%) Serverless
6 21 (7.42%) Azure AI
7 19 (6.71%) Power Platform
8 15 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.95%) Copilot Studio
9 14 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (4.59%) Microsoft Copilot
10 13 (4.59%) Power Automate
11 12 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (3.53%) Anthropic Claude
13 10 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (3.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.41%) HTTPS
1 4 (1.41%) SSL
2 3 (1.06%) VPN
3 2 (0.71%) Firewall
3 2 (0.71%) HTTP
3 2 (0.71%) Internet
3 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.35%) BGP
4 1 (0.35%) DNS
4 1 (0.35%) FTP
4 1 (0.35%) SSH
4 1 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.31%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (14.49%) NoSQL
3 28 (9.89%) Relational Database
4 21 (7.42%) MongoDB
4 21 (7.42%) SQL Server
5 15 (5.30%) Power BI
6 14 (4.95%) MySQL
7 8 (2.83%) Pinecone
8 6 (2.12%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.77%) Big Data
9 5 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.06%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.06%) Metadata
11 3 (1.06%) Redis
11 3 (1.06%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.71%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 57 (20.14%) Git
2 37 (13.07%) JIRA
3 28 (9.89%) Jenkins
4 25 (8.83%) GitLab
5 13 (4.59%) JUnit
6 10 (3.53%) Mockito
7 8 (2.83%) Gradle
7 8 (2.83%) MLflow
8 7 (2.47%) Maven
9 6 (2.12%) Mocha
10 4 (1.41%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.06%) Storybook
12 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.71%) GoCD
12 2 (0.71%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.71%) Selenium
13 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 76 (26.86%) Finance
3 41 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.95%) Banking
6 10 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.77%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.77%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.77%) Marketing
8 4 (1.41%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.06%) Aviation
9 3 (1.06%) Electronics
9 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Front Office
10 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.71%) Law
11 1 (0.35%) Legal
11 1 (0.35%) Military
11 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 156 (55.12%) Developer
2 49 (17.31%) Python Developer
3 39 (13.78%) Senior
4 33 (11.66%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (8.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 21 (7.42%) Architect
7 20 (7.07%) Java Developer
8 17 (6.01%) Lead
8 17 (6.01%) Senior Developer
9 14 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.24%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.53%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (3.53%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.18%) Backend Developer
12 9 (3.18%) Integration Developer
12 9 (3.18%) Python Engineer
13 8 (2.83%) Data Engineer
13 8 (2.83%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 8 (2.83%) Node.js Developer
13 8 (2.83%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (33.22%) RESTful
2 81 (28.62%) REST
3 48 (16.96%) FastAPI
4 40 (14.13%) React
5 39 (13.78%) Spring
6 37 (13.07%) Node.js
7 36 (12.72%) Spring Boot
8 29 (10.25%) OAuth
9 25 (8.83%) .NET
10 24 (8.48%) AngularJS
10 24 (8.48%) OpenTelemetry
11 22 (7.77%) JWT
12 21 (7.42%) JSON
13 20 (7.07%) OpenAPI
14 19 (6.71%) Kafka
14 19 (6.71%) scikit-learn
14 19 (6.71%) Swagger
15 18 (6.36%) PyTorch
15 18 (6.36%) TensorFlow
16 17 (6.01%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.42%) Product Ownership
2 19 (6.71%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.53%) Low-Code
6 9 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (3.18%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.83%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.47%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.77%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.41%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.41%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.06%) CMDB
11 3 (1.06%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.71%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.77%) Linux
2 10 (3.53%) Unix
3 7 (2.47%) Windows
4 2 (0.71%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (56.89%) CI/CD
2 115 (40.64%) Agile
3 97 (34.28%) Microservices
4 90 (31.80%) DevOps
5 82 (28.98%) Containerisation
6 77 (27.21%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (20.49%) Test Automation
8 46 (16.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 45 (15.90%) API Integration
10 44 (15.55%) AI
11 43 (15.19%) Code Quality
12 36 (12.72%) Observability
13 34 (12.01%) Infrastructure as Code
14 33 (11.66%) LLM
14 33 (11.66%) Machine Learning
14 33 (11.66%) TDD
15 32 (11.31%) API Design
16 30 (10.60%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 29 (10.25%) Deployment Automation
17 29 (10.25%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 130 (45.94%) Python
2 90 (31.80%) SQL
3 63 (22.26%) Java
4 44 (15.55%) JavaScript
5 41 (14.49%) TypeScript
6 35 (12.37%) C#
7 7 (2.47%) Bash
7 7 (2.47%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.77%) Go
8 5 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.41%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.41%) PHP
9 4 (1.41%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.41%) Ruby
9 4 (1.41%) Scala
10 3 (1.06%) C++
10 3 (1.06%) R
11 2 (0.71%) C
11 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 59 (20.85%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.65%) Degree
4 11 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.71%) CISSP
7 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.71%) GIAC
8 1 (0.35%) CBAP
8 1 (0.35%) CSPO
8 1 (0.35%) OCP
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.59%) QA
2 11 (3.89%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.77%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.41%) GDPR
4 4 (1.41%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.06%) SLA
6 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.35%) HL7
7 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 111 (39.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) IAG
2 1 (0.35%) KVM
2 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 106 (37.46%) Kubernetes
2 36 (12.72%) Terraform
3 32 (11.31%) Grafana
4 28 (9.89%) Prometheus
5 22 (7.77%) Control-M
5 22 (7.77%) IBM Guardium
5 22 (7.77%) Nessus
6 7 (2.47%) Ansible
7 4 (1.41%) Puppet
8 3 (1.06%) Kibana
9 2 (0.71%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.71%) Istio
10 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.35%) Consul
10 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.35%) logstash
10 1 (0.35%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 37 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.77%) OpenAI
2 22 (7.77%) Tenable
3 21 (7.42%) Google
4 15 (5.30%) MuleSoft
5 14 (4.95%) Foundry
6 13 (4.59%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.53%) Ping Identity
8 9 (3.18%) Oracle
9 8 (2.83%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.83%) UiPath
10 6 (2.12%) Axway
11 5 (1.77%) Adobe
11 5 (1.77%) Databricks
12 4 (1.41%) Blue Prism
12 4 (1.41%) ServiceNow
13 3 (1.06%) Dynatrace
13 3 (1.06%) SAP
13 3 (1.06%) Splunk
13 3 (1.06%) Veracode