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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 275 388
Rank change year-on-year -56 +113 +20
Contract jobs citing API Development 311 254 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.92% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.01% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 181 101
10th Percentile £382 £358 £377
25th Percentile £413 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -10.67% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -10.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £25.60
% change year-on-year - - -31.73%

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 39,013 25,190 28,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.87% 90.78% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,073 16,045 18,122
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,593 1,471 1,456
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

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 30 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 30 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 -88 129 £545 +9.00% 85
North of England -33 88 £471 +9.42% 27
Yorkshire -1 60 £475 -5.00% 9
South East -59 30 £475 +5.56% 17
South West -24 23 £413 +10.00% 26
North West -73 17 £500 +17.65% 12
Midlands -55 14 £447 +19.20% 8
North East - 12 £450 - 6
East of England -21 9 £475 -12.84% 8
East Midlands -14 8 £402 +12.29% 5
West Midlands -47 6 £925 +112.64% 3
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 31 (9.97%) Confluence
2 4 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.96%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.96%) Mule
4 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Luigi
5 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.29%) CPLEX
1 4 (1.29%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.29%) Revit
2 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.64%) Windchill
3 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.64%) 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
1 128 (41.16%) Azure
2 95 (30.55%) AWS
3 62 (19.94%) GCP
4 50 (16.08%) GitHub
5 44 (14.15%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (9.32%) Serverless
7 15 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (3.86%) Azure AKS
9 10 (3.22%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.22%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (3.22%) Firebase
10 9 (2.89%) Azure Functions
11 8 (2.57%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (2.57%) Power Platform
12 7 (2.25%) Google Gemini
13 6 (1.93%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (1.93%) LangSmith
13 6 (1.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.64%) CTI
1 2 (0.64%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.32%) 4G
2 1 (0.32%) 5G
2 1 (0.32%) DNS
2 1 (0.32%) Firewall
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.32%) NaaS
2 1 (0.32%) Network Security
2 1 (0.32%) SSH
2 1 (0.32%) SSL
2 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.18%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (9.97%) MongoDB
3 26 (8.36%) Relational Database
4 23 (7.40%) SQL Server
5 17 (5.47%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.22%) Geospatial Data
7 9 (2.89%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.57%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.25%) MySQL
9 7 (2.25%) Power BI
9 7 (2.25%) Redis
10 6 (1.93%) Metadata
11 5 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.29%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.96%) SQLite
14 2 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.64%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 73 (23.47%) Git
2 47 (15.11%) JIRA
3 43 (13.83%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.18%) Bitbucket
4 13 (4.18%) GitLab
4 13 (4.18%) Gradle
5 10 (3.22%) fastlane
5 10 (3.22%) JUnit
6 9 (2.89%) MSI
7 7 (2.25%) Mockito
8 6 (1.93%) Maven
9 5 (1.61%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.61%) Crashlytics
9 5 (1.61%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.61%) Xcode
10 4 (1.29%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.29%) git-flow
10 4 (1.29%) Selenium
11 3 (0.96%) Postman
12 2 (0.64%) Vite
General
1 69 (22.19%) Social Skills
2 67 (21.54%) Finance
3 51 (16.40%) Public Sector
4 39 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.07%) Banking
5 22 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.25%) Investment Banking
6 7 (2.25%) Publishing
7 5 (1.61%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.61%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.29%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.29%) Retail
9 2 (0.64%) Automotive
9 2 (0.64%) Billing
9 2 (0.64%) Front Office
9 2 (0.64%) Law
10 1 (0.32%) Advertising
10 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.32%) Legal
10 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 171 (54.98%) Developer
2 56 (18.01%) Senior
3 46 (14.79%) Python Developer
4 44 (14.15%) Java Developer
5 36 (11.58%) Lead
6 31 (9.97%) Senior Developer
7 25 (8.04%) Software Engineer
8 24 (7.72%) .NET Developer
9 21 (6.75%) Architect
10 20 (6.43%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (4.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (3.86%) Senior Python Developer
12 12 (3.86%) Technical Leader
13 10 (3.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (2.89%) Backend Developer
14 9 (2.89%) Integration Architect
14 9 (2.89%) Java Engineer
15 8 (2.57%) C# Developer
15 8 (2.57%) Python Engineer
16 7 (2.25%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (32.15%) REST
2 91 (29.26%) RESTful
3 69 (22.19%) .NET
4 57 (18.33%) React
5 49 (15.76%) Terraform
6 46 (14.79%) Spring
7 44 (14.15%) Spring Boot
8 37 (11.90%) AngularJS
9 36 (11.58%) Node.js
10 34 (10.93%) HTML
11 33 (10.61%) FastAPI
12 32 (10.29%) OAuth
13 30 (9.65%) Kafka
13 30 (9.65%) OAuth2
14 26 (8.36%) .NET Core
15 24 (7.72%) Django
16 23 (7.40%) .NET Framework
16 23 (7.40%) CSS
17 19 (6.11%) Flask
17 19 (6.11%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 79 (25.40%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.00%) Product Ownership
3 27 (8.68%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (6.75%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (5.79%) Onboarding
6 13 (4.18%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.22%) AI Agents
8 10 (3.22%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.57%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.25%) NHS
11 6 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.93%) Derivative
11 6 (1.93%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.93%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.29%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.29%) Market Risk
12 4 (1.29%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.47%) Linux
2 12 (3.86%) Unix
2 12 (3.86%) Windows
3 5 (1.61%) Android
3 5 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.64%) AIX
5 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.32%) VMS
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (56.91%) CI/CD
2 130 (41.80%) Agile
3 122 (39.23%) Microservices
4 116 (37.30%) DevOps
5 82 (26.37%) Test Automation
6 81 (26.05%) Containerisation
7 61 (19.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (19.29%) AI
9 58 (18.65%) Event-Driven
9 58 (18.65%) Software Engineering
10 54 (17.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 49 (15.76%) API Design
12 47 (15.11%) Code Quality
13 42 (13.50%) Analytics
13 42 (13.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 41 (13.18%) Observability
14 41 (13.18%) Scrum
15 40 (12.86%) Performance Optimisation
15 40 (12.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 138 (44.37%) Python
2 97 (31.19%) Java
3 76 (24.44%) SQL
4 60 (19.29%) JavaScript
5 53 (17.04%) C#
6 47 (15.11%) TypeScript
7 21 (6.75%) Kotlin
8 14 (4.50%) Go
9 13 (4.18%) Bicep
10 9 (2.89%) Rust
11 7 (2.25%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.61%) C++
12 5 (1.61%) Scala
12 5 (1.61%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.61%) Swift
13 3 (0.96%) Bash
14 2 (0.64%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.64%) PromQL
15 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.32%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 73 (23.47%) Security Cleared
2 60 (19.29%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.07%) Degree
4 16 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.57%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.86%) Accessibility
2 27 (8.68%) QA
3 24 (7.72%) WCAG
4 9 (2.89%) NCSC
5 8 (2.57%) GDPR
6 7 (2.25%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.29%) ISO 19650
8 3 (0.96%) HL7
9 2 (0.64%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.64%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.64%) MISRA
9 2 (0.64%) PSD2
9 2 (0.64%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.32%) NIST
10 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 95 (30.55%) Docker
2 2 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 100 (32.15%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.75%) Prometheus
3 17 (5.47%) Grafana
4 10 (3.22%) Ansible
5 7 (2.25%) Control-M
5 7 (2.25%) IBM Guardium
5 7 (2.25%) Nessus
6 3 (0.96%) Argo
6 3 (0.96%) Kibana
7 2 (0.64%) Consul
7 2 (0.64%) Istio
7 2 (0.64%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 49 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.04%) Google
3 16 (5.14%) Dynatrace
4 13 (4.18%) Oracle
5 9 (2.89%) Databricks
6 7 (2.25%) CyberArk
6 7 (2.25%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.25%) Tenable
7 6 (1.93%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.61%) Apple
8 5 (1.61%) Okta
8 5 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.61%) webMethods
9 4 (1.29%) Autodesk
9 4 (1.29%) Foundry
9 4 (1.29%) IBM
9 4 (1.29%) SAP
10 3 (0.96%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.64%) Centrify
11 2 (0.64%) Splunk