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

 6 months to
9 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 269 337
Rank change year-on-year -59 +68 +52
Contract jobs citing API Development 287 211 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.87% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.95% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 159 165
10th Percentile £354 £363 £393
25th Percentile £413 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £625
90th Percentile £638 £665 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.58% -6.68% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £70.43 - -
25th Percentile £71.07 £43.50 -
Median hourly rate £72.13 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.29% - -
75th Percentile £73.20 £46.50 -
90th Percentile £73.83 - -
UK median hourly rate £72.13 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +60.29% - -

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 33,539 22,147 32,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.75% 90.94% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,506 14,596 21,405
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,075 867 2,189
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.91 £19.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%
75th Percentile £65.74 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.80 £76.25 £70.78
UK median hourly rate £36.70 £31.64 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.99% -4.31% -8.15%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -48 144 £500 -13.04% 26
North of England -21 80 £471 +13.83% 20
Yorkshire -24 43 £500 +9.89% 6
North West -12 34 £464 +15.94% 12
South East -53 19 £550 +10.55% 12
Midlands -64 15 £411 -5.46% 11
East of England -23 14 £625 +13.64% 6
West Midlands -59 13 £468 +7.47% 11
South West -26 7 £490 -16.64% 12
North East -16 3 £400 -27.27% 2
East Midlands -34 2 £341 +4.60%
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 14 (4.88%) Confluence
2 8 (2.79%) Anypoint
2 8 (2.79%) Appian
3 6 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.74%) Mule
4 5 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.05%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.35%) Navisworks
2 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.05%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.70%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.35%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.35%) Odoo
4 1 (0.35%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 103 (35.89%) Azure
2 96 (33.45%) AWS
3 46 (16.03%) GCP
4 37 (12.89%) GitHub
5 32 (11.15%) Serverless
6 20 (6.97%) Azure AI
6 20 (6.97%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (6.62%) Power Platform
8 17 (5.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (4.53%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (4.53%) Copilot Studio
10 13 (4.53%) Power Automate
11 12 (4.18%) Azure Functions
11 12 (4.18%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (4.18%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.48%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (3.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.05%) VPN
2 2 (0.70%) Firewall
2 2 (0.70%) HTTP
2 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.35%) BGP
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) FTP
3 1 (0.35%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) NaaS
3 1 (0.35%) SSH
3 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.33%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (12.89%) NoSQL
3 27 (9.41%) Relational Database
4 24 (8.36%) SQL Server
5 23 (8.01%) MongoDB
6 18 (6.27%) MySQL
7 15 (5.23%) Power BI
8 8 (2.79%) Pinecone
9 7 (2.44%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.09%) Big Data
11 5 (1.74%) Metadata
12 4 (1.39%) Redis
13 3 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.05%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.05%) Spark SQL
14 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.70%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 55 (19.16%) Git
2 35 (12.20%) Jenkins
3 34 (11.85%) JIRA
4 23 (8.01%) GitLab
5 11 (3.83%) JUnit
6 10 (3.48%) Mockito
7 8 (2.79%) MLflow
8 7 (2.44%) Gradle
9 5 (1.74%) Maven
10 4 (1.39%) Mocha
10 4 (1.39%) Selenium
11 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.05%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.05%) fastlane
11 3 (1.05%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.05%) Storybook
12 2 (0.70%) Android Studio
12 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.70%) GoCD
12 2 (0.70%) Postman
General
1 74 (25.78%) Finance
1 74 (25.78%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
2 38 (13.24%) Public Sector
3 17 (5.92%) Banking
4 9 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (1.74%) Manufacturing
5 5 (1.74%) Marketing
5 5 (1.74%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.39%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.05%) Aviation
7 3 (1.05%) Electronics
7 3 (1.05%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.05%) Front Office
7 3 (1.05%) Publishing
8 2 (0.70%) Law
8 2 (0.70%) Police
8 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.35%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 161 (56.10%) Developer
2 47 (16.38%) Python Developer
3 46 (16.03%) Senior
4 32 (11.15%) Full-Stack Developer
5 31 (10.80%) Java Developer
6 23 (8.01%) Senior Developer
7 22 (7.67%) Architect
7 22 (7.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 22 (7.67%) Lead
8 13 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (4.18%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.48%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (3.48%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.48%) Integration Developer
10 10 (3.48%) Software Developer
11 9 (3.14%) C# Developer
12 8 (2.79%) .NET Developer
12 8 (2.79%) Applications Developer
12 8 (2.79%) Java Engineer
12 8 (2.79%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (32.75%) RESTful
2 87 (30.31%) REST
3 47 (16.38%) React
3 47 (16.38%) Spring
4 45 (15.68%) Spring Boot
5 42 (14.63%) Node.js
6 40 (13.94%) .NET
6 40 (13.94%) FastAPI
7 29 (10.10%) OAuth
8 28 (9.76%) AngularJS
9 26 (9.06%) JWT
10 22 (7.67%) OpenAPI
10 22 (7.67%) Swagger
11 21 (7.32%) JSON
11 21 (7.32%) Kafka
12 20 (6.97%) Django
12 20 (6.97%) Flask
13 18 (6.27%) scikit-learn
14 17 (5.92%) OAuth2
14 17 (5.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.06%) Cloud Native
1 26 (9.06%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.83%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (3.14%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.79%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.44%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.44%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.39%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.39%) CMDB
10 4 (1.39%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.39%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.05%) Market Risk
12 2 (0.70%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.92%) Linux
2 12 (4.18%) Unix
3 6 (2.09%) Windows
4 2 (0.70%) Android
4 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.70%) VMS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 112 (39.02%) Agile
3 100 (34.84%) Microservices
4 99 (34.49%) DevOps
5 76 (26.48%) Containerisation
6 67 (23.34%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (20.56%) Test Automation
8 50 (17.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 47 (16.38%) AI
10 46 (16.03%) API Integration
11 41 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 34 (11.85%) API Design
12 34 (11.85%) Code Quality
13 33 (11.50%) Observability
14 32 (11.15%) Machine Learning
14 32 (11.15%) TDD
15 31 (10.80%) Clean Code
16 30 (10.45%) Analytics
16 30 (10.45%) Event-Driven
16 30 (10.45%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 129 (44.95%) Python
2 96 (33.45%) SQL
3 85 (29.62%) Java
4 49 (17.07%) JavaScript
5 42 (14.63%) C#
6 40 (13.94%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.44%) Bash
7 7 (2.44%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.74%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.39%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.39%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.39%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.39%) Ruby
9 4 (1.39%) Scala
10 3 (1.05%) C++
10 3 (1.05%) Go
10 3 (1.05%) PHP
10 3 (1.05%) R
11 2 (0.70%) Swift
12 1 (0.35%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 59 (20.56%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.03%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.27%) Degree
4 13 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.70%) CISSP
8 2 (0.70%) GIAC
9 1 (0.35%) CBAP
9 1 (0.35%) CSPO
9 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.35%) OCP
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.92%) QA
2 14 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.79%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.39%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.05%) GDPR
5 3 (1.05%) SLA
6 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.70%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) HL7
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) NIST
7 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 98 (34.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) IAG
2 1 (0.35%) KVM
2 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 100 (34.84%) Kubernetes
2 45 (15.68%) Terraform
3 25 (8.71%) Grafana
4 23 (8.01%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.88%) Control-M
5 14 (4.88%) IBM Guardium
5 14 (4.88%) Nessus
6 7 (2.44%) Ansible
7 4 (1.39%) Puppet
8 3 (1.05%) Kibana
9 2 (0.70%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.70%) Istio
10 1 (0.35%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.35%) Consul
10 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.35%) logstash
10 1 (0.35%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.36%) Google
3 20 (6.97%) OpenAI
4 14 (4.88%) Foundry
4 14 (4.88%) Tenable
5 13 (4.53%) MuleSoft
5 13 (4.53%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.48%) Ping Identity
7 9 (3.14%) Oracle
8 8 (2.79%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (2.79%) Databricks
8 8 (2.79%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.79%) UiPath
9 6 (2.09%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.74%) Adobe
11 4 (1.39%) Okta
12 3 (1.05%) SAP
12 3 (1.05%) Veracode
13 2 (0.70%) BMC
13 2 (0.70%) Red Hat
82 API Development jobs in England