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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 272 381
Rank change year-on-year -66 +109 +16
Contract jobs citing API Development 304 249 155
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.90% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.99% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 180 111
10th Percentile £389 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £467 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -7.52% -12.17%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £645
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

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 38,794 25,132 28,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,129 16,058 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,653
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%

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 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 12 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 -89 122 £550 +10.00% 142
North of England -17 97 £468 +10.00% 34
Yorkshire +13 67 £471 -0.95% 5
South East -63 29 £467 +3.72% 23
South West -26 22 £413 +10.00% 21
North West -56 20 £525 +23.53% 27
North East - 11 £450 - 2
Midlands -66 9 £775 +82.35% 9
West Midlands -51 7 £925 +112.64% 5
East of England -19 6 £425 -22.02% 10
East Midlands -17 2 £381 +9.17% 4
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 28 (9.21%) Confluence
2 4 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.99%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.99%) Mule
4 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Luigi
5 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) CPLEX
1 4 (1.32%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.32%) Revit
2 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.33%) Odoo
3 1 (0.33%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 125 (41.12%) Azure
2 88 (28.95%) AWS
3 62 (20.39%) GCP
4 46 (15.13%) GitHub
5 44 (14.47%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (8.88%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (8.55%) Serverless
8 12 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (3.62%) Azure AKS
10 10 (3.29%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (3.29%) Firebase
11 8 (2.63%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.63%) Apigee
11 8 (2.63%) Azure Functions
11 8 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (2.63%) Power Platform
12 7 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (2.30%) Google Gemini
12 7 (2.30%) Kong
13 6 (1.97%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.66%) CTI
1 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.33%) BGP
2 1 (0.33%) Firewall
2 1 (0.33%) NaaS
2 1 (0.33%) Network Security
2 1 (0.33%) SSH
2 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (10.20%) MongoDB
3 19 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 19 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 15 (4.93%) NoSQL
5 10 (3.29%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (2.63%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.30%) Power BI
8 6 (1.97%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.97%) MySQL
9 5 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.64%) Metadata
9 5 (1.64%) Redis
10 3 (0.99%) Big Data
10 3 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.99%) SQLite
11 2 (0.66%) Db2
11 2 (0.66%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 66 (21.71%) Git
2 44 (14.47%) JIRA
3 41 (13.49%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.62%) Bitbucket
4 11 (3.62%) GitLab
4 11 (3.62%) Gradle
5 10 (3.29%) fastlane
6 9 (2.96%) MSI
7 8 (2.63%) JUnit
8 7 (2.30%) Mockito
9 5 (1.64%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.64%) Crashlytics
9 5 (1.64%) Xcode
10 4 (1.32%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.32%) Maven
10 4 (1.32%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.99%) git-flow
11 3 (0.99%) Postman
11 3 (0.99%) Selenium
12 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (20.39%) Finance
2 60 (19.74%) Social Skills
3 48 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 40 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.22%) Banking
6 18 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.30%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.32%) Retail
8 4 (1.32%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.99%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.99%) Publishing
10 2 (0.66%) Billing
10 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.66%) Front Office
10 2 (0.66%) Law
11 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Marketing
11 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 171 (56.25%) Developer
2 58 (19.08%) Senior
3 51 (16.78%) Python Developer
4 40 (13.16%) Java Developer
5 32 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 31 (10.20%) Lead
7 23 (7.57%) .NET Developer
7 23 (7.57%) Architect
8 21 (6.91%) Software Engineer
9 17 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 13 (4.28%) Senior Python Developer
12 10 (3.29%) Backend Developer
12 10 (3.29%) Integration Architect
13 9 (2.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 7 (2.30%) C# Developer
14 7 (2.30%) Data Engineer
14 7 (2.30%) Senior Backend Developer
14 7 (2.30%) Software Developer
14 7 (2.30%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (30.26%) REST
2 78 (25.66%) RESTful
3 69 (22.70%) .NET
4 54 (17.76%) React
5 39 (12.83%) Spring
6 37 (12.17%) Node.js
6 37 (12.17%) Spring Boot
7 35 (11.51%) AngularJS
7 35 (11.51%) FastAPI
8 31 (10.20%) OAuth
9 29 (9.54%) HTML
9 29 (9.54%) OAuth2
10 26 (8.55%) .NET Core
11 25 (8.22%) Kafka
12 23 (7.57%) .NET Framework
13 20 (6.58%) Django
13 20 (6.58%) JSON
14 19 (6.25%) CSS
14 19 (6.25%) Flask
15 18 (5.92%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 73 (24.01%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.21%) Product Ownership
3 25 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (5.92%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (5.92%) Onboarding
5 16 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.29%) AI Agents
7 10 (3.29%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.30%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.30%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.30%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.97%) Derivative
9 6 (1.97%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.97%) NHS
10 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.32%) Market Risk
11 3 (0.99%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.61%) Linux
2 12 (3.95%) Windows
3 10 (3.29%) Unix
4 5 (1.64%) Android
4 5 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.66%) AIX
5 2 (0.66%) VMS
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (55.92%) CI/CD
2 120 (39.47%) Agile
3 111 (36.51%) Microservices
4 109 (35.86%) DevOps
5 80 (26.32%) Containerisation
6 74 (24.34%) Test Automation
7 61 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (19.74%) AI
9 58 (19.08%) Full-Stack Development
10 56 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 54 (17.76%) Software Engineering
12 50 (16.45%) API Design
13 49 (16.12%) Event-Driven
14 42 (13.82%) Analytics
15 41 (13.49%) Code Quality
16 40 (13.16%) Observability
17 38 (12.50%) Scrum
17 38 (12.50%) TDD
18 37 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
19 36 (11.84%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 144 (47.37%) Python
2 89 (29.28%) Java
3 67 (22.04%) SQL
4 58 (19.08%) JavaScript
5 53 (17.43%) C#
6 46 (15.13%) TypeScript
7 20 (6.58%) Kotlin
8 14 (4.61%) Go
9 12 (3.95%) Bicep
10 9 (2.96%) Rust
11 8 (2.63%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.64%) Swift
13 4 (1.32%) C++
13 4 (1.32%) Scala
13 4 (1.32%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.66%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.66%) Bash
14 2 (0.66%) PromQL
15 1 (0.33%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 68 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 56 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.91%) Degree
4 15 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.99%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.66%) CISSP
9 2 (0.66%) GIAC
10 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.17%) Accessibility
2 23 (7.57%) WCAG
3 20 (6.58%) QA
4 9 (2.96%) NCSC
5 8 (2.63%) GDPR
6 6 (1.97%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.32%) ISO 19650
8 2 (0.66%) HL7
8 2 (0.66%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.66%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.66%) PSD2
8 2 (0.66%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.33%) MISRA
9 1 (0.33%) NIST
9 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 91 (29.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) IAG
3 1 (0.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 98 (32.24%) Kubernetes
2 51 (16.78%) Terraform
3 22 (7.24%) Prometheus
4 16 (5.26%) Grafana
5 11 (3.62%) Ansible
6 9 (2.96%) Control-M
6 9 (2.96%) IBM Guardium
6 9 (2.96%) Nessus
7 3 (0.99%) Kibana
8 2 (0.66%) Argo
8 2 (0.66%) Consul
8 2 (0.66%) Istio
8 2 (0.66%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.33%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 49 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.55%) Google
3 16 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.96%) MuleSoft
4 9 (2.96%) Tenable
5 8 (2.63%) Databricks
5 8 (2.63%) Oracle
5 8 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.97%) CyberArk
6 6 (1.97%) Foundry
7 5 (1.64%) Apple
7 5 (1.64%) Okta
7 5 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.64%) webMethods
8 4 (1.32%) Autodesk
8 4 (1.32%) IBM
8 4 (1.32%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.32%) SAP
9 2 (0.66%) Ariba
9 2 (0.66%) VMware