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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 264 375
Rank change year-on-year -79 +111 +19
Contract jobs citing API Development 315 250 155
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.91% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.00% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 179 113
10th Percentile £399 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £465 £507
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% -8.28% -13.48%
75th Percentile £590 £585 £588
90th Percentile £702 £688 £645
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -13.04%
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 38,860 25,068 28,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.79% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,530
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,442 1,597
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%

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 18 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 18 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 -79 130 £550 +10.00% 105
North of England -26 95 £470 +10.65% 28
Yorkshire +7 65 £472 -0.58% 6
South East -73 31 £472 +4.83% 19
South West -24 22 £413 +10.00% 14
North West -57 20 £525 +23.53% 18
North East - 11 £450 - 4
Midlands -63 10 £625 +57.63% 9
East of England -22 8 £525 -3.67% 8
West Midlands -49 7 £925 +112.64% 5
East Midlands -26 3 £402 +12.29% 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 30 (9.52%) Confluence
2 4 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.95%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.95%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.95%) Mule
4 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Luigi
5 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.27%) CPLEX
1 4 (1.27%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.27%) Revit
2 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.32%) Odoo
3 1 (0.32%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 131 (41.59%) Azure
2 96 (30.48%) AWS
3 64 (20.32%) GCP
4 47 (14.92%) GitHub
5 43 (13.65%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (8.57%) Serverless
7 14 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.49%) Azure AKS
8 11 (3.49%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (3.17%) Firebase
10 9 (2.86%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.54%) Azure Functions
11 8 (2.54%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (2.54%) Power Platform
12 7 (2.22%) Apigee
12 7 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (2.22%) Google Gemini
12 7 (2.22%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.63%) CTI
1 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.32%) BGP
2 1 (0.32%) Firewall
2 1 (0.32%) NaaS
2 1 (0.32%) Network Security
2 1 (0.32%) SSH
2 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.02%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (9.21%) MongoDB
3 24 (7.62%) Relational Database
4 22 (6.98%) SQL Server
5 15 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.17%) Geospatial Data
7 8 (2.54%) BigQuery
8 7 (2.22%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.22%) Power BI
9 6 (1.90%) Metadata
9 6 (1.90%) MySQL
10 5 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.59%) Redis
11 3 (0.95%) Big Data
11 3 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.95%) SQLite
12 2 (0.63%) Db2
12 2 (0.63%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 69 (21.90%) Git
2 45 (14.29%) JIRA
3 42 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.81%) Gradle
5 11 (3.49%) Bitbucket
5 11 (3.49%) GitLab
6 10 (3.17%) fastlane
6 10 (3.17%) JUnit
7 9 (2.86%) MSI
8 7 (2.22%) Mockito
9 5 (1.59%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.59%) Crashlytics
9 5 (1.59%) Maven
9 5 (1.59%) Xcode
10 4 (1.27%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.27%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.95%) git-flow
11 3 (0.95%) Postman
11 3 (0.95%) Selenium
12 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 65 (20.63%) Finance
3 51 (16.19%) Public Sector
4 41 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.62%) Banking
6 21 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.22%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.59%) Publishing
9 4 (1.27%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.27%) Retail
9 4 (1.27%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.95%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.63%) Automotive
11 2 (0.63%) Billing
11 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.63%) Front Office
11 2 (0.63%) Law
12 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 174 (55.24%) Developer
2 58 (18.41%) Senior
3 49 (15.56%) Python Developer
4 43 (13.65%) Java Developer
5 35 (11.11%) Lead
6 31 (9.84%) Senior Developer
7 26 (8.25%) .NET Developer
8 24 (7.62%) Architect
9 23 (7.30%) Software Engineer
10 18 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (3.81%) Senior Python Developer
13 11 (3.49%) Technical Leader
14 10 (3.17%) Integration Architect
15 9 (2.86%) Backend Developer
15 9 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 8 (2.54%) C# Developer
16 8 (2.54%) Java Engineer
17 7 (2.22%) Cloud Engineer
17 7 (2.22%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (31.43%) REST
2 87 (27.62%) RESTful
3 71 (22.54%) .NET
4 56 (17.78%) React
5 44 (13.97%) Spring
6 42 (13.33%) Spring Boot
7 37 (11.75%) AngularJS
7 37 (11.75%) Node.js
8 35 (11.11%) FastAPI
9 33 (10.48%) OAuth
10 31 (9.84%) HTML
10 31 (9.84%) OAuth2
11 28 (8.89%) .NET Core
12 27 (8.57%) Kafka
13 24 (7.62%) .NET Framework
14 23 (7.30%) Django
15 21 (6.67%) CSS
16 20 (6.35%) JSON
16 20 (6.35%) OpenID
17 19 (6.03%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 78 (24.76%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (8.57%) Product Ownership
3 22 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 16 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (3.49%) AI Agents
6 11 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.17%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.54%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.22%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.22%) NHS
9 7 (2.22%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.90%) Derivative
10 6 (1.90%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.27%) Legacy Code
11 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.27%) Market Risk
12 3 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.08%) Linux
2 12 (3.81%) Unix
2 12 (3.81%) Windows
3 5 (1.59%) Android
3 5 (1.59%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.63%) AIX
4 2 (0.63%) VMS
5 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 125 (39.68%) Agile
3 119 (37.78%) Microservices
4 114 (36.19%) DevOps
5 82 (26.03%) Test Automation
6 80 (25.40%) Containerisation
7 65 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (20.32%) AI
9 58 (18.41%) Full-Stack Development
9 58 (18.41%) Software Engineering
10 55 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 54 (17.14%) Event-Driven
12 50 (15.87%) API Design
13 46 (14.60%) Code Quality
14 45 (14.29%) Analytics
15 40 (12.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 40 (12.70%) Observability
15 40 (12.70%) Technical Leadership
16 39 (12.38%) TDD
17 38 (12.06%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 145 (46.03%) Python
2 94 (29.84%) Java
3 70 (22.22%) SQL
4 59 (18.73%) JavaScript
5 55 (17.46%) C#
6 47 (14.92%) TypeScript
7 20 (6.35%) Kotlin
8 14 (4.44%) Go
9 12 (3.81%) Bicep
10 9 (2.86%) Rust
11 8 (2.54%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.59%) C++
12 5 (1.59%) Swift
13 4 (1.27%) Scala
13 4 (1.27%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.63%) Bash
14 2 (0.63%) PromQL
15 1 (0.32%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 71 (22.54%) Security Cleared
2 59 (18.73%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.30%) Degree
4 16 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.54%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.95%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.63%) CISSP
10 2 (0.63%) GIAC
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (12.38%) Accessibility
2 25 (7.94%) QA
3 23 (7.30%) WCAG
4 9 (2.86%) NCSC
5 8 (2.54%) GDPR
6 7 (2.22%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.27%) ISO 19650
8 3 (0.95%) HL7
9 2 (0.63%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.63%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.63%) MISRA
9 2 (0.63%) PSD2
9 2 (0.63%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.32%) NIST
10 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 94 (29.84%) Docker
2 2 (0.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.32%) IAG
3 1 (0.32%) KVM
Systems Management
1 100 (31.75%) Kubernetes
2 51 (16.19%) Terraform
3 21 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 15 (4.76%) Grafana
5 12 (3.81%) Ansible
6 8 (2.54%) Control-M
6 8 (2.54%) IBM Guardium
6 8 (2.54%) Nessus
7 3 (0.95%) Kibana
8 2 (0.63%) Argo
8 2 (0.63%) Consul
8 2 (0.63%) Istio
8 2 (0.63%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 50 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.94%) Google
3 16 (5.08%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.17%) Oracle
5 9 (2.86%) Databricks
5 9 (2.86%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.54%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.54%) Tenable
7 7 (2.22%) CyberArk
8 6 (1.90%) Foundry
9 5 (1.59%) Apple
9 5 (1.59%) Okta
9 5 (1.59%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.59%) webMethods
10 4 (1.27%) Autodesk
10 4 (1.27%) IBM
10 4 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.27%) SAP
11 2 (0.63%) Brio
11 2 (0.63%) VMware