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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 281 377
Rank change year-on-year -52 +96 +6
Contract jobs citing API Development 302 240 169
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.88% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.97% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 172 120
10th Percentile £366 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £472 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -5.60% -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £588
90th Percentile £668 £688 £645
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
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 38,278 24,745 30,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.65% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,038 15,865 19,799
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,361 1,324 1,984
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.95 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £74.31
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 22 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 22 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 -87 115 £550 +10.00% 38
North of England -6 107 £468 +10.00% 22
Yorkshire +11 71 £471 -5.90% 7
North West -45 26 £525 +28.52% 13
South East -59 26 £465 +3.33% 15
South West -26 18 £413 +3.13% 16
Midlands -66 12 £531 +22.13% 4
North East - 11 £450 - 2
West Midlands -57 10 £575 +32.18% 3
East of England -22 5 £413 -24.31% 4
East Midlands -22 2 £381 +9.17% 1
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 (9.27%) Confluence
2 5 (1.66%) Anypoint
2 5 (1.66%) Mule
3 4 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.99%) Appian
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) Apache
6 1 (0.33%) CICS
6 1 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) Luigi
6 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.66%) CPLEX
2 4 (1.32%) Navisworks
2 4 (1.32%) Revit
3 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.33%) Odoo
3 1 (0.33%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 114 (37.75%) Azure
2 75 (24.83%) AWS
3 54 (17.88%) GCP
4 43 (14.24%) GitHub
5 40 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (7.95%) Serverless
7 11 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.31%) Azure AKS
8 10 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (3.31%) Firebase
9 9 (2.98%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (2.98%) Power Platform
10 8 (2.65%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.32%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.32%) Apigee
11 7 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.32%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.32%) Kong
12 6 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
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 45 (14.90%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (11.26%) MongoDB
3 19 (6.29%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.63%) Relational Database
5 16 (5.30%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.65%) Power BI
7 7 (2.32%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.32%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.99%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.99%) MySQL
9 5 (1.66%) Metadata
10 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.32%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.32%) Redis
11 3 (0.99%) Big Data
11 3 (0.99%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.99%) SQLite
12 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 56 (18.54%) Git
2 51 (16.89%) JIRA
3 40 (13.25%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.97%) GitLab
5 12 (3.97%) Gradle
6 10 (3.31%) fastlane
6 10 (3.31%) Mockito
7 9 (2.98%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.98%) JUnit
8 6 (1.99%) MSI
9 5 (1.66%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.66%) Crashlytics
9 5 (1.66%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.66%) Xcode
10 4 (1.32%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.99%) Maven
11 3 (0.99%) MLflow
11 3 (0.99%) Postman
11 3 (0.99%) Selenium
12 2 (0.66%) GoCD
General
1 68 (22.52%) Finance
2 56 (18.54%) Social Skills
3 46 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (15.23%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.28%) Banking
5 15 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (1.66%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.32%) Retail
8 3 (0.99%) Aerospace
8 3 (0.99%) Financial Institution
8 3 (0.99%) Law
8 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.99%) Publishing
8 3 (0.99%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.66%) Billing
9 2 (0.66%) Front Office
9 2 (0.66%) Police
10 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 176 (58.28%) Developer
2 57 (18.87%) Python Developer
3 53 (17.55%) Senior
4 40 (13.25%) Java Developer
5 29 (9.60%) Senior Developer
6 26 (8.61%) Lead
7 23 (7.62%) Architect
8 21 (6.95%) Software Engineer
9 18 (5.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (5.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 16 (5.30%) .NET Developer
12 11 (3.64%) Senior Python Developer
13 10 (3.31%) Backend Developer
14 8 (2.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.65%) Integration Architect
14 8 (2.65%) Software Developer
15 7 (2.32%) Cloud Engineer
15 7 (2.32%) Data Engineer
15 7 (2.32%) Java Engineer
15 7 (2.32%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (28.81%) REST
2 80 (26.49%) RESTful
3 57 (18.87%) .NET
4 47 (15.56%) React
5 44 (14.57%) FastAPI
6 40 (13.25%) Node.js
6 40 (13.25%) Spring
7 39 (12.91%) Spring Boot
8 32 (10.60%) AngularJS
9 30 (9.93%) OAuth
10 28 (9.27%) Kafka
11 25 (8.28%) OAuth2
12 22 (7.28%) HTML
13 20 (6.62%) Flask
13 20 (6.62%) OpenTelemetry
14 19 (6.29%) .NET Core
14 19 (6.29%) .NET Framework
14 19 (6.29%) JSON
15 18 (5.96%) Django
15 18 (5.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 62 (20.53%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.93%) Product Ownership
3 23 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (5.96%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (4.64%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.31%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.65%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.65%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.32%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.32%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.99%) NHS
12 4 (1.32%) Derivative
12 4 (1.32%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.99%) Legacy Code
13 3 (0.99%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.30%) Linux
2 10 (3.31%) Unix
3 8 (2.65%) Windows
4 5 (1.66%) Android
4 5 (1.66%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.66%) AIX
5 2 (0.66%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.66%) VMS
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (55.30%) CI/CD
2 125 (41.39%) Agile
3 103 (34.11%) Microservices
4 100 (33.11%) DevOps
5 82 (27.15%) Containerisation
6 72 (23.84%) Test Automation
7 66 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (18.21%) Full-Stack Development
9 52 (17.22%) Software Engineering
10 50 (16.56%) AI
10 50 (16.56%) API Design
11 49 (16.23%) Infrastructure as Code
12 48 (15.89%) Event-Driven
13 46 (15.23%) Observability
14 40 (13.25%) TDD
15 38 (12.58%) API Integration
16 37 (12.25%) Analytics
17 36 (11.92%) Scrum
18 34 (11.26%) Deployment Automation
19 33 (10.93%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 137 (45.36%) Python
2 95 (31.46%) Java
3 66 (21.85%) SQL
4 47 (15.56%) JavaScript
5 44 (14.57%) C#
6 39 (12.91%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.96%) Kotlin
8 13 (4.30%) Go
9 9 (2.98%) Bicep
9 9 (2.98%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.65%) Rust
11 5 (1.66%) Swift
12 4 (1.32%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.99%) Bash
13 3 (0.99%) Scala
14 2 (0.66%) Groovy
14 2 (0.66%) PromQL
14 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.33%) C++
15 1 (0.33%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 64 (21.19%) Security Cleared
2 54 (17.88%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.96%) Degree
4 13 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.65%) DV Cleared
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%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
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 31 (10.26%) Accessibility
2 20 (6.62%) WCAG
3 16 (5.30%) QA
4 8 (2.65%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.32%) GDPR
6 6 (1.99%) NCSC
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%) NIST
9 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (29.80%) 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 95 (31.46%) Kubernetes
2 47 (15.56%) Terraform
3 28 (9.27%) Prometheus
4 25 (8.28%) Grafana
5 17 (5.63%) Control-M
5 17 (5.63%) IBM Guardium
5 17 (5.63%) Nessus
6 12 (3.97%) Ansible
7 2 (0.66%) Consul
7 2 (0.66%) Istio
7 2 (0.66%) Kibana
7 2 (0.66%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.33%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.33%) Argo
8 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 44 (14.57%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.28%) Google
3 17 (5.63%) Tenable
4 16 (5.30%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.31%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.65%) Oracle
6 8 (2.65%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.32%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.99%) CyberArk
8 6 (1.99%) Databricks
8 6 (1.99%) Foundry
8 6 (1.99%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.66%) Apple
9 5 (1.66%) Okta
10 4 (1.32%) Autodesk
10 4 (1.32%) IBM
10 4 (1.32%) webMethods
11 3 (0.99%) Automation Anywhere
11 3 (0.99%) UiPath
11 3 (0.99%) Veracode