API Development Contracts in England

API Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring API Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Development over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 347 388
Rank change year-on-year +68 +41 -11
Contract jobs citing API Development 205 208 314
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.55% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.64% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 165 226
10th Percentile £363 £393 £411
25th Percentile £421 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £670 £694 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.14% +1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £46.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - -

All Process and 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 22,015 32,575 47,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.78% 86.67% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,498 21,510 33,288
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 854 2,156 1,665
10th Percentile £14.99 £12.92 £11.00
25th Percentile £19.21 £15.76 £16.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +56.84%
75th Percentile £64.52 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.66 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £31.58 £32.50 £36.28
% change year-on-year -2.83% -10.41% +46.25%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in England

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in England.

Daily rate trend for API Development in England

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in England over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in England

API Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Development in England.

Hourly rate trend for API Development in England

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 April 2025. 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 +63 125 £560 -2.61% 193
North of England +9 31 £432 -19.63% 85
South East +45 19 £499 -9.32% 82
Midlands +33 16 £435 -3.33% 48
North West -1 15 £400 -23.81% 45
West Midlands +26 13 £435 -8.42% 22
Yorkshire +11 13 £490 -10.91% 36
South West +35 8 £588 -21.45% 47
East Midlands +17 3 £326 -17.99% 24
North East - 3 £550 - 4
East of England - 3 £550 - 31
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (12.20%) Confluence
2 6 (2.93%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.46%) Mule
3 3 (1.46%) Mule ESB
4 2 (0.98%) JBoss
4 2 (0.98%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.98%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.98%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.49%) Camunda
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Drupal
5 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.49%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Misys Opics
2 1 (0.49%) BASE24
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 77 (37.56%) AWS
2 70 (34.15%) Azure
3 26 (12.68%) GitHub
4 19 (9.27%) GCP
5 17 (8.29%) Serverless
6 13 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (5.37%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (4.39%) Power Platform
11 8 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (3.41%) Apigee
12 7 (3.41%) Azure Functions
12 7 (3.41%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.93%) Datadog
13 6 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.93%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.93%) OCI
14 5 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) ATM
1 1 (0.49%) DNS
1 1 (0.49%) Firewall
1 1 (0.49%) HTTP
1 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (18.05%) NoSQL
2 34 (16.59%) MongoDB
3 28 (13.66%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.34%) MySQL
5 12 (5.85%) Relational Database
6 10 (4.88%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.41%) Power BI
8 5 (2.44%) Redis
9 4 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.95%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.98%) Big Data
11 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.98%) DB2
11 2 (0.98%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.98%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.49%) Data Mart
12 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 45 (21.95%) Git
2 35 (17.07%) JIRA
3 21 (10.24%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.37%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.90%) GitLab
5 8 (3.90%) Postman
5 8 (3.90%) Subversion
6 7 (3.41%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.93%) JUnit
7 6 (2.93%) Maven
7 6 (2.93%) Selenium
8 5 (2.44%) Babel
8 5 (2.44%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.44%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.44%) webpack
9 4 (1.95%) CA Release Automation
9 4 (1.95%) Gradle
9 4 (1.95%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.95%) Vagrant
General
1 49 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.66%) Finance
2 28 (13.66%) Public Sector
3 22 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.39%) Banking
5 8 (3.90%) Advertising
6 7 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.93%) Retail
8 4 (1.95%) Marketing
9 2 (0.98%) Billing
9 2 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Local Government
9 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.49%) Back Office
10 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.49%) Law
10 1 (0.49%) Legal
10 1 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 137 (66.83%) Developer
2 30 (14.63%) Senior
3 27 (13.17%) Full-Stack Developer
3 27 (13.17%) Java Developer
4 16 (7.80%) Senior Developer
5 15 (7.32%) Applications Developer
5 15 (7.32%) Python Developer
5 15 (7.32%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 12 (5.85%) Lead
6 12 (5.85%) React Developer
6 12 (5.85%) Software Engineer
6 12 (5.85%) Web Developer
7 11 (5.37%) Web Applications Developer
8 10 (4.88%) Architect
8 10 (4.88%) Lead Developer
9 9 (4.39%) .NET Developer
9 9 (4.39%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (2.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (2.93%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (32.20%) React
2 56 (27.32%) RESTful
3 45 (21.95%) Spring
4 41 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 33 (16.10%) .NET
5 33 (16.10%) Kafka
6 29 (14.15%) Node.js
7 27 (13.17%) HTML
7 27 (13.17%) REST
8 24 (11.71%) CSS
9 22 (10.73%) Web Services
10 16 (7.80%) FastAPI
11 15 (7.32%) AngularJS
12 14 (6.83%) JSON
12 14 (6.83%) SOAP
13 10 (4.88%) HTML5
13 10 (4.88%) OAuth
13 10 (4.88%) Vue
14 9 (4.39%) .NET Core
14 9 (4.39%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 8 (3.90%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.90%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.41%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.95%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.95%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.46%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.46%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.46%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.98%) NHS
7 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.98%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.93%) Linux
2 5 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.95%) VMS
4 2 (0.98%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (51.71%) Agile
2 82 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 80 (39.02%) DevOps
4 70 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (28.29%) Microservices
6 46 (22.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 39 (19.02%) API Design
8 28 (13.66%) Test Automation
9 27 (13.17%) API Integration
9 27 (13.17%) Software Engineering
10 25 (12.20%) Code Quality
11 23 (11.22%) Front End Development
12 20 (9.76%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (9.27%) Containerisation
14 18 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (8.29%) Clean Code
15 17 (8.29%) Event-Driven
15 17 (8.29%) Scrum
15 17 (8.29%) SOLID
16 16 (7.80%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 84 (40.98%) Java
2 78 (38.05%) JavaScript
3 70 (34.15%) Python
4 66 (32.20%) SQL
5 26 (12.68%) C#
6 24 (11.71%) TypeScript
7 21 (10.24%) PHP
8 17 (8.29%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.90%) Scala
10 7 (3.41%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.93%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.44%) Go
13 4 (1.95%) DataWeave
13 4 (1.95%) Ruby
13 4 (1.95%) Rust
14 3 (1.46%) Bash
14 3 (1.46%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.98%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.49%) Groovy
16 1 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (15.61%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.32%) AWS Certified Developer
4 14 (6.83%) Degree
5 9 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.44%) QA
2 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (20.49%) Docker
2 7 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.95%) VirtualBox
3 4 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (24.88%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.20%) Terraform
3 8 (3.90%) Puppet
4 6 (2.93%) CloudHub
4 6 (2.93%) Kibana
4 6 (2.93%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.44%) Ansible
5 5 (2.44%) Grafana
6 4 (1.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (1.95%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (9.27%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.78%) Oracle
3 10 (4.88%) MuleSoft
4 8 (3.90%) Google
5 7 (3.41%) Splunk
6 6 (2.93%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.95%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.95%) VMware
8 3 (1.46%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.46%) Zend
9 2 (0.98%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.98%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.98%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.98%) SAP
10 1 (0.49%) Databricks
10 1 (0.49%) OutSystems
10 1 (0.49%) Pardot
10 1 (0.49%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.49%) Snow
10 1 (0.49%) Workday