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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 285 366
Rank change year-on-year -45 +81 +36
Contract jobs citing API Development 308 239 177
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.88% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.97% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 170 126
10th Percentile £369 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -6.82% -11.35%
75th Percentile £583 £597 £588
90th Percentile £668 £688 £655
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 38,234 24,648 31,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.43% 90.68% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,071 15,798 20,362
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,309 2,214
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.70 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%

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 16 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 16 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 -86 116 £550 +11.68% 33
North of England -8 111 £465 +9.41% 16
Yorkshire +9 73 £471 -5.90% 7
North West -46 28 £525 +30.60% 7
South East -57 26 £465 +3.33% 12
South West -20 17 £413 -21.43% 15
Midlands -72 12 £531 +22.13% 3
North East - 11 £450 - 2
West Midlands -58 10 £575 +32.18% 2
East of England -23 5 £413 -24.31% 5
East Midlands -21 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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 6 (1.95%) Anypoint
2 6 (1.95%) Mule
3 4 (1.30%) Appian
3 4 (1.30%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.32%) Apache
6 1 (0.32%) CICS
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) Luigi
6 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.62%) CPLEX
2 4 (1.30%) Navisworks
2 4 (1.30%) Revit
3 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.32%) Odoo
3 1 (0.32%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 115 (37.34%) Azure
2 81 (26.30%) AWS
3 56 (18.18%) GCP
4 44 (14.29%) GitHub
5 40 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (8.12%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (7.79%) Serverless
8 12 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (3.25%) Firebase
10 10 (3.25%) Power Platform
11 9 (2.92%) Azure AKS
11 9 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (2.60%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.60%) Azure AI
13 7 (2.27%) Apigee
13 7 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.27%) Kong
14 6 (1.95%) Azure Functions
14 6 (1.95%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.65%) CTI
1 2 (0.65%) 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%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.32%) SSH
2 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (16.23%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (10.71%) MongoDB
3 21 (6.82%) Relational Database
4 19 (6.17%) SQL Server
5 16 (5.19%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.60%) MySQL
6 8 (2.60%) Power BI
7 7 (2.27%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (1.95%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.95%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.62%) Metadata
9 5 (1.62%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.30%) Redis
11 3 (0.97%) Big Data
11 3 (0.97%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.65%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 59 (19.16%) Git
2 52 (16.88%) JIRA
3 41 (13.31%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.52%) GitLab
5 13 (4.22%) Gradle
6 12 (3.90%) Mockito
7 11 (3.57%) JUnit
8 10 (3.25%) fastlane
9 9 (2.92%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.95%) MSI
11 5 (1.62%) Android Studio
11 5 (1.62%) Crashlytics
11 5 (1.62%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.62%) Xcode
12 4 (1.30%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.30%) Maven
12 4 (1.30%) MLflow
13 3 (0.97%) Postman
13 3 (0.97%) Selenium
14 2 (0.65%) Vite
General
1 69 (22.40%) Finance
2 58 (18.83%) Social Skills
3 50 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (15.26%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.14%) Banking
6 15 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.62%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.30%) Retail
9 3 (0.97%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.97%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.97%) Law
9 3 (0.97%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.97%) Publishing
9 3 (0.97%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.65%) Billing
10 2 (0.65%) Front Office
10 2 (0.65%) Police
11 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 181 (58.77%) Developer
2 57 (18.51%) Python Developer
3 54 (17.53%) Senior
4 43 (13.96%) Java Developer
5 30 (9.74%) Senior Developer
6 27 (8.77%) Lead
7 23 (7.47%) Architect
8 21 (6.82%) Software Engineer
9 19 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (5.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 14 (4.55%) .NET Developer
12 11 (3.57%) Backend Developer
12 11 (3.57%) Senior Python Developer
13 9 (2.92%) Software Developer
14 8 (2.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.60%) Integration Architect
15 7 (2.27%) Data Engineer
15 7 (2.27%) Java Engineer
15 7 (2.27%) Senior Backend Developer
15 7 (2.27%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (28.25%) REST
2 85 (27.60%) RESTful
3 53 (17.21%) .NET
4 50 (16.23%) React
5 46 (14.94%) FastAPI
5 46 (14.94%) Spring
6 45 (14.61%) Node.js
6 45 (14.61%) Spring Boot
7 32 (10.39%) AngularJS
8 30 (9.74%) Kafka
8 30 (9.74%) OAuth
9 24 (7.79%) OAuth2
10 23 (7.47%) HTML
11 22 (7.14%) Flask
12 21 (6.82%) Django
12 21 (6.82%) OpenTelemetry
13 20 (6.49%) Swagger
14 19 (6.17%) .NET Core
14 19 (6.17%) JWT
14 19 (6.17%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 62 (20.13%) Cloud Native
2 34 (11.04%) Product Ownership
3 25 (8.12%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.52%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.25%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.92%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.60%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.27%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.27%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.30%) Derivative
11 4 (1.30%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.30%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.30%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.30%) NHS
12 3 (0.97%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.55%) Linux
2 10 (3.25%) Unix
3 8 (2.60%) Windows
4 5 (1.62%) Android
4 5 (1.62%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.65%) AIX
5 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.65%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (56.17%) CI/CD
2 132 (42.86%) Agile
3 105 (34.09%) Microservices
4 104 (33.77%) DevOps
5 85 (27.60%) Containerisation
6 77 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 70 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
8 58 (18.83%) Full-Stack Development
9 52 (16.88%) Software Engineering
10 51 (16.56%) AI
10 51 (16.56%) API Design
10 51 (16.56%) Event-Driven
10 51 (16.56%) Infrastructure as Code
11 47 (15.26%) Observability
12 41 (13.31%) API Integration
13 40 (12.99%) TDD
14 38 (12.34%) Deployment Automation
14 38 (12.34%) Scrum
15 37 (12.01%) Analytics
16 35 (11.36%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 140 (45.45%) Python
2 105 (34.09%) Java
3 69 (22.40%) SQL
4 49 (15.91%) JavaScript
5 43 (13.96%) C#
6 39 (12.66%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.84%) Kotlin
8 14 (4.55%) Go
9 9 (2.92%) Bicep
9 9 (2.92%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.60%) Rust
11 5 (1.62%) Swift
12 4 (1.30%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.97%) Bash
13 3 (0.97%) Scala
14 2 (0.65%) Groovy
14 2 (0.65%) PromQL
14 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.32%) Ruby
15 1 (0.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 67 (21.75%) Security Cleared
2 58 (18.83%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.17%) Degree
4 14 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.65%) CISSP
9 2 (0.65%) GIAC
10 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.74%) Accessibility
2 20 (6.49%) WCAG
3 16 (5.19%) QA
4 9 (2.92%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.27%) GDPR
6 6 (1.95%) NCSC
7 4 (1.30%) ISO 19650
8 3 (0.97%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.65%) PSD2
10 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.32%) NIST
10 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.32%) SLA
10 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 93 (30.19%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) IAG
3 1 (0.32%) KVM
Systems Management
1 97 (31.49%) Kubernetes
2 49 (15.91%) Terraform
3 28 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 27 (8.77%) Grafana
5 18 (5.84%) Control-M
5 18 (5.84%) IBM Guardium
5 18 (5.84%) Nessus
6 12 (3.90%) Ansible
7 2 (0.65%) Consul
7 2 (0.65%) Istio
7 2 (0.65%) Kibana
7 2 (0.65%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 43 (13.96%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.77%) Google
3 18 (5.84%) Tenable
4 15 (4.87%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.25%) MuleSoft
6 9 (2.92%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.92%) Oracle
7 8 (2.60%) Foundry
7 8 (2.60%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.27%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.95%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.95%) Okta
10 5 (1.62%) Apple
10 5 (1.62%) Databricks
11 4 (1.30%) Autodesk
11 4 (1.30%) Automation Anywhere
11 4 (1.30%) UiPath
11 4 (1.30%) webMethods
12 3 (0.97%) IBM
12 3 (0.97%) Veracode