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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 281 375
Rank change year-on-year -76 +94 +14
Contract jobs citing API Development 298 242 162
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.88% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.97% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 174 115
10th Percentile £381 £357 £375
25th Percentile £413 £401 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £464 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.07% -7.25% -13.04%
75th Percentile £589 £585 £581
90th Percentile £700 £696 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.71%
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 38,641 24,977 29,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.76% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,154 16,016 19,101
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
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% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,371 1,780
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -82 119 £550 +10.00% 41
North of England -10 100 £470 +10.65% 14
Yorkshire +6 69 £472 -0.58% 6
South East -61 27 £445 -1.11% 14
North West -58 21 £550 +32.53% 7
South West -28 20 £413 +6.45% 16
North East - 11 £450 - 1
Midlands -67 9 £738 +69.54% 6
West Midlands -66 7 £925 +112.64% 4
East of England -20 6 £425 -22.02% 6
East Midlands -22 2 £381 +9.17% 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 27 (9.06%) Confluence
2 4 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.01%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.01%) Mule
4 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.67%) Appian
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) CICS
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) Luigi
5 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.68%) CPLEX
2 4 (1.34%) Navisworks
2 4 (1.34%) Revit
3 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.34%) Odoo
3 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 119 (39.93%) Azure
2 79 (26.51%) AWS
3 55 (18.46%) GCP
4 44 (14.77%) GitHub
5 43 (14.43%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (8.05%) Serverless
7 11 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (3.69%) Azure AKS
8 10 (3.36%) Firebase
9 9 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (3.02%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (2.68%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (2.68%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.35%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.35%) Apigee
11 7 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.35%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.35%) Kong
12 6 (2.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.67%) CTI
1 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.34%) BGP
2 1 (0.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.34%) NaaS
2 1 (0.34%) Network Security
2 1 (0.34%) SSH
2 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.09%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (11.74%) MongoDB
3 19 (6.38%) SQL Server
4 16 (5.37%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.37%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.68%) Geospatial Data
6 7 (2.35%) BigQuery
6 7 (2.35%) Power BI
7 6 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.01%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.68%) Metadata
8 5 (1.68%) MySQL
9 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.34%) Redis
10 3 (1.01%) Big Data
10 3 (1.01%) Db2
10 3 (1.01%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.01%) SQLite
11 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.67%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 58 (19.46%) Git
2 45 (15.10%) JIRA
3 38 (12.75%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.69%) Gradle
5 10 (3.36%) Bitbucket
5 10 (3.36%) fastlane
6 9 (3.02%) GitLab
6 9 (3.02%) Mockito
7 8 (2.68%) JUnit
8 7 (2.35%) MSI
9 5 (1.68%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.68%) Crashlytics
9 5 (1.68%) Xcode
10 4 (1.34%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.01%) Maven
11 3 (1.01%) Postman
11 3 (1.01%) Selenium
11 3 (1.01%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.67%) Flyway
12 2 (0.67%) git-flow
General
1 68 (22.82%) Finance
2 59 (19.80%) Social Skills
3 47 (15.77%) Public Sector
4 42 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.05%) Banking
6 16 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.35%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.34%) Retail
8 4 (1.34%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.01%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.01%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.01%) Publishing
10 2 (0.67%) Billing
10 2 (0.67%) Front Office
10 2 (0.67%) Law
11 1 (0.34%) Advertising
11 1 (0.34%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Military
11 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 169 (56.71%) Developer
2 58 (19.46%) Senior
3 55 (18.46%) Python Developer
4 40 (13.42%) Java Developer
5 33 (11.07%) Senior Developer
6 30 (10.07%) Lead
7 22 (7.38%) Architect
8 21 (7.05%) Software Engineer
9 19 (6.38%) .NET Developer
10 16 (5.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 15 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (4.36%) Senior Python Developer
13 9 (3.02%) Backend Developer
13 9 (3.02%) Integration Architect
14 8 (2.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.68%) Software Developer
15 7 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
15 7 (2.35%) Data Engineer
15 7 (2.35%) Java Engineer
15 7 (2.35%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (29.87%) REST
2 77 (25.84%) RESTful
3 62 (20.81%) .NET
4 50 (16.78%) React
5 41 (13.76%) FastAPI
6 38 (12.75%) Node.js
7 37 (12.42%) Spring
8 36 (12.08%) Spring Boot
9 34 (11.41%) AngularJS
10 29 (9.73%) OAuth
11 28 (9.40%) Kafka
12 26 (8.72%) OAuth2
13 24 (8.05%) HTML
14 22 (7.38%) Flask
15 21 (7.05%) .NET Core
15 21 (7.05%) .NET Framework
15 21 (7.05%) Django
16 19 (6.38%) JSON
17 16 (5.37%) ASP.NET
17 16 (5.37%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 64 (21.48%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.40%) Product Ownership
3 23 (7.72%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.70%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (5.03%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.70%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.36%) Mobile App
9 9 (3.02%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.68%) Data Structures
11 7 (2.35%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.35%) Virtual Team
12 6 (2.01%) Derivative
12 6 (2.01%) Fixed Income
12 6 (2.01%) NHS
13 4 (1.34%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.34%) Market Risk
14 3 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
14 3 (1.01%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.03%) Linux
2 12 (4.03%) Unix
3 9 (3.02%) Windows
4 5 (1.68%) Android
4 5 (1.68%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.67%) AIX
5 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.67%) VMS
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (55.37%) CI/CD
2 122 (40.94%) Agile
3 107 (35.91%) Microservices
4 103 (34.56%) DevOps
5 81 (27.18%) Containerisation
6 73 (24.50%) Test Automation
7 63 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (18.12%) AI
9 53 (17.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 53 (17.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 52 (17.45%) Software Engineering
11 50 (16.78%) Event-Driven
12 48 (16.11%) API Design
13 43 (14.43%) Observability
14 41 (13.76%) TDD
15 40 (13.42%) Analytics
16 38 (12.75%) Code Quality
17 36 (12.08%) Scrum
18 35 (11.74%) API Integration
18 35 (11.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 140 (46.98%) Python
2 88 (29.53%) Java
3 66 (22.15%) SQL
4 51 (17.11%) JavaScript
5 46 (15.44%) C#
6 44 (14.77%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.38%) Kotlin
8 13 (4.36%) Go
9 10 (3.36%) Bicep
10 9 (3.02%) Rust
11 8 (2.68%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.68%) Swift
13 4 (1.34%) Scala
13 4 (1.34%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.67%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.67%) Bash
14 2 (0.67%) C++
14 2 (0.67%) PromQL
15 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (21.81%) Security Cleared
2 55 (18.46%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.38%) Degree
4 14 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.01%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.01%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.67%) CISSP
9 2 (0.67%) GIAC
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.07%) Accessibility
2 21 (7.05%) WCAG
3 17 (5.70%) QA
4 7 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.35%) GDPR
4 7 (2.35%) NCSC
5 4 (1.34%) ISO 19650
6 2 (0.67%) HL7
6 2 (0.67%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.67%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.67%) PSD2
6 2 (0.67%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.34%) NIST
7 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 89 (29.87%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) IAG
3 1 (0.34%) KVM
Systems Management
1 93 (31.21%) Kubernetes
2 48 (16.11%) Terraform
3 24 (8.05%) Prometheus
4 20 (6.71%) Grafana
5 12 (4.03%) Control-M
5 12 (4.03%) IBM Guardium
5 12 (4.03%) Nessus
6 11 (3.69%) Ansible
7 3 (1.01%) Kibana
8 2 (0.67%) Argo
8 2 (0.67%) Consul
8 2 (0.67%) Istio
8 2 (0.67%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.34%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 46 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.39%) Google
3 16 (5.37%) Dynatrace
4 12 (4.03%) Tenable
5 8 (2.68%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.35%) Databricks
6 7 (2.35%) Oracle
6 7 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.01%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.01%) Foundry
7 6 (2.01%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.68%) Apple
8 5 (1.68%) IBM
8 5 (1.68%) Okta
8 5 (1.68%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.34%) Autodesk
9 4 (1.34%) webMethods
10 2 (0.67%) Brio
10 2 (0.67%) SAP
10 2 (0.67%) VMware