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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 276 359
Rank change year-on-year -59 +83 +11
Contract jobs citing API Development 269 209 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.87% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.95% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 151 138
10th Percentile £357 £350 £377
25th Percentile £410 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £498 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.31% -9.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £650 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £498 £550
% change year-on-year +0.50% -9.55% -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 34,138 22,003 31,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 91.23% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,766 14,379 20,694
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 924 2,243
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.42 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.47 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
% change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -65 119 £500 -9.05% 29
North of England -15 89 £450 +12.50% 19
Yorkshire -9 50 £470 +15.48% 4
North West -21 34 £450 +12.50% 11
South East -58 18 £413 -8.33% 17
Midlands -60 15 £550 +26.44% 2
West Midlands -56 14 £575 +32.18% 2
East of England -23 9 £625 +8.70% 1
South West -32 6 £490 -24.65% 7
North East -16 5 £450 -18.18% 4
East Midlands -35 1 £360 +3.15%
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 18 (6.69%) Confluence
2 8 (2.97%) Appian
2 8 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.60%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.86%) Mule
5 3 (1.12%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.37%) CICS
7 1 (0.37%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.37%) JBoss
7 1 (0.37%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.49%) Revit
2 3 (1.12%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Distributed Ledger
1 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.74%) Remedy AR System
2 2 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) Odoo
3 1 (0.37%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 100 (37.17%) Azure
2 74 (27.51%) AWS
3 49 (18.22%) GCP
4 32 (11.90%) GitHub
5 22 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (8.18%) Serverless
6 18 (6.69%) Power Platform
7 17 (6.32%) Azure AI
7 17 (6.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (4.46%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (4.46%) Power Automate
10 11 (4.09%) Azure Functions
11 10 (3.72%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (3.72%) Copilot Studio
12 9 (3.35%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (3.35%) Apigee
12 9 (3.35%) Kong
12 9 (3.35%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (2.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.74%) Firewall
2 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.37%) BGP
3 1 (0.37%) DNS
3 1 (0.37%) HTTP
3 1 (0.37%) Internet
3 1 (0.37%) NaaS
3 1 (0.37%) Network Security
3 1 (0.37%) SSH
3 1 (0.37%) VPN
3 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (15.61%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (9.67%) NoSQL
3 25 (9.29%) MongoDB
4 24 (8.92%) Relational Database
5 19 (7.06%) SQL Server
6 15 (5.58%) MySQL
6 15 (5.58%) Power BI
7 8 (2.97%) BigQuery
7 8 (2.97%) Pinecone
8 7 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.60%) Metadata
9 6 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.86%) Big Data
10 5 (1.86%) Redis
11 4 (1.49%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.74%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.74%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.74%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 44 (16.36%) Git
2 39 (14.50%) JIRA
3 34 (12.64%) Jenkins
4 22 (8.18%) GitLab
5 9 (3.35%) Gradle
5 9 (3.35%) Mockito
6 8 (2.97%) MLflow
7 7 (2.60%) JUnit
8 5 (1.86%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.86%) fastlane
9 4 (1.49%) Maven
10 3 (1.12%) Android Studio
10 3 (1.12%) Mocha
10 3 (1.12%) Postman
10 3 (1.12%) Selenium
10 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.12%) Xcode
11 2 (0.74%) Crashlytics
11 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.74%) GoCD
General
1 61 (22.68%) Finance
2 59 (21.93%) Social Skills
3 48 (17.84%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (13.01%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.95%) Banking
6 6 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.12%) Aviation
8 3 (1.12%) Front Office
8 3 (1.12%) Publishing
9 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.74%) Law
9 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.74%) Marketing
9 2 (0.74%) Police
9 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.37%) Billing
10 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 153 (56.88%) Developer
2 46 (17.10%) Python Developer
3 35 (13.01%) Java Developer
4 34 (12.64%) Senior
5 23 (8.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 23 (8.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (8.18%) Architect
7 21 (7.81%) Lead
8 17 (6.32%) Senior Developer
9 15 (5.58%) Software Engineer
10 11 (4.09%) Software Developer
11 10 (3.72%) Applications Developer
11 10 (3.72%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.35%) Data Engineer
13 8 (2.97%) Integration Developer
14 7 (2.60%) Backend Developer
14 7 (2.60%) Integration Architect
15 6 (2.23%) C# Developer
15 6 (2.23%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (26.39%) REST
2 70 (26.02%) RESTful
3 43 (15.99%) React
4 42 (15.61%) Spring
5 41 (15.24%) Spring Boot
6 39 (14.50%) FastAPI
7 35 (13.01%) .NET
7 35 (13.01%) Node.js
8 28 (10.41%) OAuth
9 25 (9.29%) AngularJS
10 24 (8.92%) JWT
11 23 (8.55%) JSON
11 23 (8.55%) OpenAPI
11 23 (8.55%) Swagger
12 22 (8.18%) Django
13 20 (7.43%) Flask
13 20 (7.43%) Kafka
13 20 (7.43%) OpenTelemetry
14 17 (6.32%) Pandas
15 16 (5.95%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.67%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.83%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (3.35%) AI Agents
7 9 (3.35%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.97%) Low-Code
9 6 (2.23%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.86%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.86%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.49%) CMDB
11 4 (1.49%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.49%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.12%) Fixed Income
13 2 (0.74%) Replication
14 1 (0.37%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.95%) Linux
2 10 (3.72%) Unix
3 3 (1.12%) Android
3 3 (1.12%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.12%) Windows
4 2 (0.74%) AIX
4 2 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.74%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (55.39%) CI/CD
2 97 (36.06%) Agile
3 87 (32.34%) Microservices
4 84 (31.23%) DevOps
5 83 (30.86%) Containerisation
6 59 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (21.56%) Test Automation
8 48 (17.84%) AI
9 41 (15.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 41 (15.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 41 (15.24%) Observability
10 35 (13.01%) API Integration
11 32 (11.90%) Analytics
11 32 (11.90%) API Design
11 32 (11.90%) Machine Learning
11 32 (11.90%) Software Engineering
12 31 (11.52%) Clean Code
12 31 (11.52%) TDD
13 30 (11.15%) LLM
14 28 (10.41%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 119 (44.24%) Python
2 85 (31.60%) Java
2 85 (31.60%) SQL
3 42 (15.61%) JavaScript
4 35 (13.01%) C#
5 29 (10.78%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.35%) Kotlin
7 7 (2.60%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.86%) Bash
8 5 (1.86%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.49%) Go
9 4 (1.49%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.12%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.12%) PHP
10 3 (1.12%) Scala
10 3 (1.12%) Swift
11 2 (0.74%) C++
11 2 (0.74%) R
11 2 (0.74%) Rust
11 2 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 40 (14.87%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.06%) Degree
4 15 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.23%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.74%) CISSP
8 2 (0.74%) GIAC
9 1 (0.37%) CBAP
9 1 (0.37%) CSPO
9 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.20%) Accessibility
1 14 (5.20%) Data Quality
1 14 (5.20%) QA
2 4 (1.49%) GDPR
2 4 (1.49%) HIPAA
2 4 (1.49%) ISO 19650
2 4 (1.49%) WCAG
3 3 (1.12%) SLA
4 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.37%) NCSC
5 1 (0.37%) NIST
5 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.37%) PMO
5 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 88 (32.71%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) IAG
3 1 (0.37%) KVM
Systems Management
1 91 (33.83%) Kubernetes
2 42 (15.61%) Terraform
3 27 (10.04%) Grafana
3 27 (10.04%) Prometheus
4 17 (6.32%) Control-M
4 17 (6.32%) IBM Guardium
4 17 (6.32%) Nessus
5 7 (2.60%) Ansible
6 4 (1.49%) Istio
7 3 (1.12%) Kibana
7 3 (1.12%) Puppet
8 1 (0.37%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.37%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.37%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.37%) logstash
8 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (11.52%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.55%) Google
3 18 (6.69%) OpenAI
4 17 (6.32%) Tenable
5 13 (4.83%) Foundry
6 12 (4.46%) MuleSoft
7 11 (4.09%) Dynatrace
8 10 (3.72%) Oracle
9 8 (2.97%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.97%) Databricks
9 8 (2.97%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.97%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.97%) UiPath
10 6 (2.23%) Okta
11 4 (1.49%) Autodesk
11 4 (1.49%) Ping Identity
11 4 (1.49%) webMethods
12 3 (1.12%) Veracode
13 2 (0.74%) Remedy
13 2 (0.74%) Workday