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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 294 369
Rank change year-on-year -47 +75 +64
Contract jobs citing API Development 322 234 162
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.84% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.92% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 169 112
10th Percentile £381 £374 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £632
90th Percentile £700 £690 £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 39,254 25,364 27,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.88% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,668 16,092 16,994
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
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 3,012 1,593 1,122
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.47 £44.81 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.45 £74.40
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -9.60%

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 12 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 12 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 -88 128 £560 +9.54% 134
North of England -23 96 £450 -10.00% 33
Yorkshire +13 66 £460 -8.00% 12
Midlands -25 28 £472 +26.92% 15
South East -61 25 £475 +5.56% 21
West Midlands -28 20 £550 +22.22% 14
South West -17 19 £413 +10.00% 11
North West -54 17 £500 +16.28% 20
North East -31 14 £450 -21.74% 1
East Midlands -16 8 £402 +10.74% 1
East of England -24 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 (13.98%) Confluence
2 3 (0.93%) Anypoint
2 3 (0.93%) Mule
2 3 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.31%) CMS
4 1 (0.31%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.31%) Luigi
4 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.24%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.93%) Windchill
3 2 (0.62%) Navisworks
3 2 (0.62%) Revit
4 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 123 (38.20%) Azure
2 107 (33.23%) AWS
3 63 (19.57%) GCP
4 52 (16.15%) GitHub
5 40 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (7.14%) Serverless
8 14 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.11%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.11%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.80%) Cloud Run
10 9 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (2.48%) Azure AKS
11 8 (2.48%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (2.48%) Firebase
11 8 (2.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.17%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (1.86%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.55%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.62%) CTI
2 2 (0.62%) HTTP
2 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.31%) 4G
3 1 (0.31%) 5G
3 1 (0.31%) DNS
3 1 (0.31%) Firewall
3 1 (0.31%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) Network Security
3 1 (0.31%) SSH
3 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (14.91%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (11.49%) Relational Database
3 29 (9.01%) MongoDB
4 22 (6.83%) SQL Server
5 15 (4.66%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.80%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.80%) Geospatial Data
6 9 (2.80%) Redis
7 7 (2.17%) Power BI
8 5 (1.55%) Metadata
8 5 (1.55%) MySQL
9 4 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.24%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.24%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.93%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.93%) SQLite
11 2 (0.62%) Db2
11 2 (0.62%) ZAP BI
12 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.31%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 82 (25.47%) Git
2 64 (19.88%) JIRA
3 45 (13.98%) Jenkins
4 20 (6.21%) JUnit
5 19 (5.90%) Bitbucket
6 16 (4.97%) Maven
7 15 (4.66%) Mockito
8 13 (4.04%) SonarQube
9 12 (3.73%) GitLab
9 12 (3.73%) Gradle
10 9 (2.80%) MSI
11 8 (2.48%) fastlane
12 4 (1.24%) Android Studio
12 4 (1.24%) Crashlytics
12 4 (1.24%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.24%) git-flow
12 4 (1.24%) Postman
12 4 (1.24%) Xcode
13 3 (0.93%) ScalaTest
13 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 84 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 75 (23.29%) Finance
3 54 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (16.15%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.76%) Banking
6 24 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.11%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.86%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.55%) Retail
10 4 (1.24%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.24%) Publishing
10 4 (1.24%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.93%) Billing
12 2 (0.62%) Advertising
12 2 (0.62%) Automotive
12 2 (0.62%) Law
13 1 (0.31%) Legal
13 1 (0.31%) Military
13 1 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 181 (56.21%) Developer
2 55 (17.08%) Senior
3 46 (14.29%) Python Developer
4 42 (13.04%) Java Developer
5 36 (11.18%) Lead
6 33 (10.25%) Senior Developer
7 26 (8.07%) Software Engineer
8 25 (7.76%) .NET Developer
9 23 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (5.59%) Architect
11 12 (3.73%) Technical Leader
12 11 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (3.42%) C# Developer
12 11 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (3.42%) Python Engineer
12 11 (3.42%) Senior Python Developer
13 10 (3.11%) Java Engineer
13 10 (3.11%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (2.80%) Applications Developer
15 8 (2.48%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (32.92%) REST
2 105 (32.61%) RESTful
3 64 (19.88%) .NET
4 60 (18.63%) React
5 47 (14.60%) Spring
5 47 (14.60%) Terraform
6 46 (14.29%) Spring Boot
7 40 (12.42%) AngularJS
7 40 (12.42%) HTML
8 34 (10.56%) FastAPI
9 33 (10.25%) OAuth
10 31 (9.63%) Node.js
10 31 (9.63%) OAuth2
11 28 (8.70%) Kafka
12 25 (7.76%) CSS
12 25 (7.76%) Django
13 24 (7.45%) OpenID
14 23 (7.14%) .NET Core
15 22 (6.83%) Flask
16 21 (6.52%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 96 (29.81%) Cloud Native
2 33 (10.25%) Product Ownership
3 30 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (7.45%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (5.28%) AI Agents
6 16 (4.97%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.80%) NHS
10 8 (2.48%) Derivative
10 8 (2.48%) Mobile App
10 8 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.17%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.17%) Market Risk
12 6 (1.86%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.86%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.86%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (1.24%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.59%) Linux
2 13 (4.04%) Unix
2 13 (4.04%) Windows
3 4 (1.24%) Android
3 4 (1.24%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.62%) AIX
5 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (59.63%) CI/CD
2 153 (47.52%) Agile
3 139 (43.17%) Microservices
4 120 (37.27%) DevOps
5 104 (32.30%) Test Automation
6 82 (25.47%) Containerisation
7 69 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (21.43%) Software Engineering
8 68 (21.12%) Event-Driven
8 68 (21.12%) Full-Stack Development
9 65 (20.19%) Code Quality
10 64 (19.88%) AI
11 56 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 51 (15.84%) Observability
13 50 (15.53%) TDD
14 49 (15.22%) API Integration
14 49 (15.22%) Scrum
15 48 (14.91%) Continuous Improvement
16 47 (14.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 45 (13.98%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 137 (42.55%) Python
2 95 (29.50%) Java
3 75 (23.29%) SQL
4 70 (21.74%) JavaScript
5 59 (18.32%) TypeScript
6 54 (16.77%) C#
7 23 (7.14%) Kotlin
8 22 (6.83%) Go
9 13 (4.04%) Bicep
10 11 (3.42%) Rust
11 10 (3.11%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.80%) PowerShell
12 9 (2.80%) Scala
13 5 (1.55%) Bash
14 4 (1.24%) C++
14 4 (1.24%) Swift
15 3 (0.93%) Ruby
16 2 (0.62%) ABAP
16 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.62%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 67 (20.81%) Security Cleared
2 58 (18.01%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.14%) Degree
4 16 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.04%) Accessibility
2 32 (9.94%) QA
3 24 (7.45%) WCAG
4 10 (3.11%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.80%) GDPR
5 9 (2.80%) NCSC
6 4 (1.24%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.24%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.93%) HL7
8 2 (0.62%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.62%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.62%) ISO 19650
8 2 (0.62%) MISRA
8 2 (0.62%) PSD2
8 2 (0.62%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 95 (29.50%) Docker
2 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 95 (29.50%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.07%) Grafana
3 22 (6.83%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.80%) Ansible
5 8 (2.48%) Control-M
6 7 (2.17%) IBM Guardium
6 7 (2.17%) Nessus
7 6 (1.86%) Kibana
8 3 (0.93%) Argo
9 2 (0.62%) Consul
9 2 (0.62%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 56 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.76%) Google
3 14 (4.35%) Oracle
4 11 (3.42%) Databricks
4 11 (3.42%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.80%) Okta
6 8 (2.48%) CyberArk
6 8 (2.48%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.48%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.48%) Splunk
7 7 (2.17%) Tenable
8 6 (1.86%) Foundry
8 6 (1.86%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.86%) SAP
8 6 (1.86%) webMethods
9 5 (1.55%) IBM
9 5 (1.55%) Ping Identity
10 4 (1.24%) Apple
11 3 (0.93%) Brio