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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 286 365
Rank change year-on-year -62 +79 +58
Contract jobs citing API Development 325 246 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.88% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.97% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 174 108
10th Percentile £381 £370 £377
25th Percentile £413 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.10% -6.18%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £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 39,417 25,490 28,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.96% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,890 16,169 17,141
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,564 1,197
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.44 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.59 £17.87 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.27
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.49% -0.55%

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 3 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 3 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 -79 129 £560 +9.54% 166
North of England -32 97 £450 -7.12% 52
Yorkshire +9 68 £460 -8.00% 19
Midlands -35 29 £475 +30.85% 19
South East -60 24 £475 +5.56% 36
West Midlands -23 21 £613 +44.12% 15
South West -23 19 £413 +10.00% 22
North East -36 15 £450 -21.74% 2
North West -64 15 £489 +15.06% 31
East Midlands -20 8 £402 +12.29% 4
East of England -24 8 £400 -26.61% 13
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 42 (12.92%) Confluence
2 5 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.92%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.92%) Mule
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.31%) Luigi
5 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) CPLEX
1 4 (1.23%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.23%) Revit
2 3 (0.92%) Windchill
3 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 122 (37.54%) Azure
2 107 (32.92%) AWS
3 68 (20.92%) GCP
4 52 (16.00%) GitHub
5 39 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (7.08%) Serverless
8 14 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (3.38%) Power Platform
10 10 (3.08%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.77%) Cloud Run
12 8 (2.46%) Azure AKS
12 8 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (2.46%) Firebase
12 8 (2.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (2.15%) Azure API Management
13 7 (2.15%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.15%) Google Gemini
13 7 (2.15%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.54%) 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 49 (15.08%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (11.38%) Relational Database
3 30 (9.23%) MongoDB
4 20 (6.15%) SQL Server
5 16 (4.92%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.38%) Redis
7 9 (2.77%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.77%) Geospatial Data
7 9 (2.77%) Power BI
8 7 (2.15%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.85%) Metadata
9 6 (1.85%) MySQL
10 5 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.23%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.92%) SQLite
13 2 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.62%) Db2
13 2 (0.62%) ZAP BI
14 1 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.31%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 81 (24.92%) Git
2 61 (18.77%) JIRA
3 46 (14.15%) Jenkins
4 20 (6.15%) JUnit
5 17 (5.23%) Bitbucket
6 16 (4.92%) Maven
7 15 (4.62%) Mockito
8 13 (4.00%) GitLab
8 13 (4.00%) SonarQube
9 12 (3.69%) Gradle
10 9 (2.77%) MSI
11 8 (2.46%) fastlane
12 4 (1.23%) Android Studio
12 4 (1.23%) Crashlytics
12 4 (1.23%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.23%) git-flow
12 4 (1.23%) Postman
12 4 (1.23%) Xcode
13 3 (0.92%) Selenium
13 3 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 84 (25.85%) Social Skills
2 72 (22.15%) Finance
3 55 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (16.00%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.69%) Banking
6 22 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.08%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.85%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.54%) Retail
10 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.23%) Publishing
10 4 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.62%) Advertising
11 2 (0.62%) Automotive
11 2 (0.62%) Billing
11 2 (0.62%) Law
12 1 (0.31%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (55.38%) Developer
2 54 (16.62%) Senior
3 46 (14.15%) Python Developer
4 45 (13.85%) Java Developer
5 39 (12.00%) Lead
6 33 (10.15%) Senior Developer
7 24 (7.38%) .NET Developer
7 24 (7.38%) Software Engineer
8 21 (6.46%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (6.15%) Architect
10 15 (4.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 12 (3.69%) Technical Leader
12 11 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (3.38%) Senior Python Developer
13 10 (3.08%) C# Developer
13 10 (3.08%) Python Engineer
13 10 (3.08%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (2.77%) Applications Developer
14 9 (2.77%) Java Engineer
15 8 (2.46%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (32.31%) RESTful
2 102 (31.38%) REST
3 62 (19.08%) .NET
4 60 (18.46%) React
5 49 (15.08%) Spring
6 48 (14.77%) Spring Boot
7 47 (14.46%) Terraform
8 41 (12.62%) AngularJS
9 38 (11.69%) HTML
10 35 (10.77%) FastAPI
11 34 (10.46%) OAuth
12 32 (9.85%) Node.js
12 32 (9.85%) OAuth2
13 26 (8.00%) Kafka
14 25 (7.69%) CSS
14 25 (7.69%) Django
15 24 (7.38%) OpenID
16 23 (7.08%) .NET Core
17 21 (6.46%) .NET Framework
17 21 (6.46%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 97 (29.85%) Cloud Native
2 33 (10.15%) Product Ownership
3 31 (9.54%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (6.77%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (5.54%) AI Agents
6 15 (4.62%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.77%) NHS
9 8 (2.46%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.46%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.15%) Derivative
11 6 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.85%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.85%) Market Risk
11 6 (1.85%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.23%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.54%) Linux
2 13 (4.00%) Unix
2 13 (4.00%) Windows
3 4 (1.23%) Android
3 4 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.62%) AIX
5 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (59.38%) CI/CD
2 148 (45.54%) Agile
3 141 (43.38%) Microservices
4 116 (35.69%) DevOps
5 98 (30.15%) Test Automation
6 88 (27.08%) Containerisation
7 70 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
8 67 (20.62%) AI
8 67 (20.62%) Full-Stack Development
9 66 (20.31%) Event-Driven
9 66 (20.31%) Software Engineering
10 62 (19.08%) Code Quality
11 53 (16.31%) Infrastructure as Code
12 51 (15.69%) Observability
12 51 (15.69%) TDD
13 48 (14.77%) Scrum
14 47 (14.46%) API Design
14 47 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (14.15%) API Integration
16 45 (13.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 142 (43.69%) Python
2 97 (29.85%) Java
3 74 (22.77%) SQL
4 69 (21.23%) JavaScript
5 60 (18.46%) TypeScript
6 51 (15.69%) C#
7 21 (6.46%) Kotlin
8 20 (6.15%) Go
9 13 (4.00%) Bicep
10 11 (3.38%) Rust
11 9 (2.77%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.77%) Scala
11 9 (2.77%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.54%) Bash
13 4 (1.23%) C++
13 4 (1.23%) Swift
14 3 (0.92%) Ruby
15 2 (0.62%) ABAP
15 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.62%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 69 (21.23%) Security Cleared
2 59 (18.15%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.38%) Degree
4 19 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.92%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.54%) Accessibility
2 30 (9.23%) QA
3 24 (7.38%) WCAG
4 9 (2.77%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.77%) GDPR
4 9 (2.77%) NCSC
5 4 (1.23%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.23%) ISO 19650
5 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.23%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.92%) HL7
7 2 (0.62%) IEC 62304
7 2 (0.62%) ISO 13485
7 2 (0.62%) MISRA
7 2 (0.62%) PSD2
7 2 (0.62%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 102 (31.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 100 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.00%) Grafana
3 25 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.77%) Ansible
5 8 (2.46%) Control-M
6 7 (2.15%) IBM Guardium
6 7 (2.15%) Nessus
7 6 (1.85%) Kibana
8 3 (0.92%) Argo
9 2 (0.62%) Consul
9 2 (0.62%) Istio
9 2 (0.62%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 55 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.31%) Google
3 14 (4.31%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.69%) Oracle
5 9 (2.77%) Databricks
5 9 (2.77%) Okta
6 8 (2.46%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.46%) Splunk
7 7 (2.15%) CyberArk
7 7 (2.15%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.15%) Tenable
8 6 (1.85%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.85%) SAP
9 5 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.54%) webMethods
10 4 (1.23%) Apple
10 4 (1.23%) Autodesk
10 4 (1.23%) Foundry
10 4 (1.23%) IBM
10 4 (1.23%) Ping Identity