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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 286 355
Rank change year-on-year -35 +69 +20
Contract jobs citing API Development 285 200 191
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.82% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.90% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 147 141
10th Percentile £357 £356 £389
25th Percentile £413 £401 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £583 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £653 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -5.98%
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 34,459 22,249 31,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,987 14,574 20,950
10th Percentile £319 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 932 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.67 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%

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 6 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 6 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 -34 133 £500 -9.09% 35
North of England -2 89 £470 +17.50% 23
Yorkshire -12 52 £470 +15.48% 7
North West -27 34 £478 +19.38% 11
South East -55 19 £413 -8.33% 25
Midlands -69 17 £531 +22.13% 10
West Midlands -53 16 £550 +26.44% 4
East of England -28 9 £625 +8.70% 7
South West -35 6 £490 -24.65% 11
North East -18 3 £400 -27.27% 5
East Midlands -31 1 £360 +10.43% 6
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 17 (5.96%) Confluence
2 8 (2.81%) Anypoint
2 8 (2.81%) Appian
2 8 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.75%) Mule
5 3 (1.05%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.40%) Revit
2 3 (1.05%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.05%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.70%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.35%) Odoo
4 1 (0.35%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 103 (36.14%) Azure
2 84 (29.47%) AWS
3 48 (16.84%) GCP
4 32 (11.23%) GitHub
5 27 (9.47%) Serverless
6 20 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (6.67%) Power Platform
8 17 (5.96%) Azure AI
8 17 (5.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (4.56%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (4.56%) Power Automate
11 12 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.21%) Azure Functions
12 11 (3.86%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.51%) Copilot Studio
14 9 (3.16%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (3.16%) Apigee
14 9 (3.16%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.05%) Firewall
1 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.70%) HTTP
2 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.70%) VPN
3 1 (0.35%) BGP
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) NaaS
3 1 (0.35%) Network Security
3 1 (0.35%) SSH
3 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.44%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (9.82%) NoSQL
3 26 (9.12%) MongoDB
3 26 (9.12%) Relational Database
4 23 (8.07%) SQL Server
5 15 (5.26%) MySQL
5 15 (5.26%) Power BI
6 9 (3.16%) BigQuery
7 8 (2.81%) Metadata
7 8 (2.81%) Pinecone
8 7 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.11%) Big Data
10 5 (1.75%) Redis
11 3 (1.05%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.05%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.05%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 54 (18.95%) Git
2 38 (13.33%) JIRA
3 35 (12.28%) Jenkins
4 23 (8.07%) GitLab
5 9 (3.16%) Gradle
5 9 (3.16%) Mockito
6 8 (2.81%) MLflow
7 7 (2.46%) JUnit
8 6 (2.11%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.75%) Maven
10 4 (1.40%) Mocha
11 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.05%) fastlane
11 3 (1.05%) Postman
11 3 (1.05%) Selenium
11 3 (1.05%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.70%) GoCD
12 2 (0.70%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.70%) Xcode
General
1 70 (24.56%) Finance
2 64 (22.46%) Social Skills
3 48 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.96%) Banking
6 6 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.40%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.05%) Aviation
8 3 (1.05%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.05%) Front Office
8 3 (1.05%) Publishing
9 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.70%) Law
9 2 (0.70%) Marketing
9 2 (0.70%) Police
9 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 162 (56.84%) Developer
2 47 (16.49%) Python Developer
3 41 (14.39%) Senior
4 37 (12.98%) Java Developer
5 24 (8.42%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (8.07%) Architect
6 23 (8.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 23 (8.07%) Lead
7 22 (7.72%) Senior Developer
8 14 (4.91%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (4.21%) Software Developer
10 10 (3.51%) Applications Developer
10 10 (3.51%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (3.16%) Data Engineer
12 8 (2.81%) .NET Developer
13 7 (2.46%) Backend Developer
13 7 (2.46%) Integration Architect
13 7 (2.46%) Integration Developer
13 7 (2.46%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (27.37%) REST
2 77 (27.02%) RESTful
3 45 (15.79%) Spring
4 43 (15.09%) Spring Boot
5 41 (14.39%) React
6 40 (14.04%) .NET
7 39 (13.68%) FastAPI
8 37 (12.98%) Node.js
9 28 (9.82%) OAuth
10 25 (8.77%) AngularJS
11 24 (8.42%) JSON
11 24 (8.42%) JWT
11 24 (8.42%) Swagger
12 23 (8.07%) OpenAPI
13 22 (7.72%) Django
14 21 (7.37%) Kafka
15 20 (7.02%) Flask
15 20 (7.02%) OpenTelemetry
16 17 (5.96%) Pandas
17 16 (5.61%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.58%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.47%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (4.56%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (3.16%) AI Agents
7 9 (3.16%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.81%) Low-Code
8 8 (2.81%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.75%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.75%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.40%) CMDB
11 4 (1.40%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.40%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.40%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.05%) Credit Risk
12 3 (1.05%) Market Risk
13 2 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.61%) Linux
2 10 (3.51%) Unix
3 6 (2.11%) Windows
4 2 (0.70%) AIX
4 2 (0.70%) Android
4 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.70%) VMS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (55.44%) CI/CD
2 107 (37.54%) Agile
3 96 (33.68%) Microservices
4 88 (30.88%) DevOps
5 84 (29.47%) Containerisation
6 62 (21.75%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (20.70%) Test Automation
8 50 (17.54%) AI
9 44 (15.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 42 (14.74%) Full-Stack Development
10 42 (14.74%) Observability
11 38 (13.33%) API Integration
12 33 (11.58%) Machine Learning
13 32 (11.23%) API Design
14 31 (10.88%) Software Engineering
15 30 (10.53%) Analytics
15 30 (10.53%) Generative AI
15 30 (10.53%) LLM
16 29 (10.18%) Clean Code
17 28 (9.82%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 125 (43.86%) Python
2 90 (31.58%) SQL
3 86 (30.18%) Java
4 44 (15.44%) JavaScript
5 40 (14.04%) C#
6 30 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.81%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.46%) Bash
8 7 (2.46%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.40%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.40%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.40%) Ruby
10 4 (1.40%) Scala
11 3 (1.05%) Go
11 3 (1.05%) PHP
11 3 (1.05%) R
12 2 (0.70%) C++
12 2 (0.70%) Swift
13 1 (0.35%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 62 (21.75%) Security Cleared
2 48 (16.84%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.02%) Degree
4 15 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.70%) CISSP
9 2 (0.70%) GIAC
10 1 (0.35%) CBAP
10 1 (0.35%) CSPO
10 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.35%) OCP
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.61%) QA
2 15 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.21%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.40%) GDPR
4 4 (1.40%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.40%) ISO 19650
5 3 (1.05%) SLA
6 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.70%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) NIST
7 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.35%) PMO
7 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 96 (33.68%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) IAG
3 1 (0.35%) KVM
Systems Management
1 99 (34.74%) Kubernetes
2 46 (16.14%) Terraform
3 29 (10.18%) Prometheus
4 28 (9.82%) Grafana
5 17 (5.96%) Control-M
5 17 (5.96%) IBM Guardium
5 17 (5.96%) Nessus
6 7 (2.46%) Ansible
7 4 (1.40%) Istio
8 3 (1.05%) Kibana
8 3 (1.05%) Puppet
9 2 (0.70%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.35%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.35%) logstash
10 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.72%) Google
3 18 (6.32%) OpenAI
4 17 (5.96%) Tenable
5 13 (4.56%) MuleSoft
6 12 (4.21%) Foundry
7 10 (3.51%) Oracle
7 10 (3.51%) Salesforce
8 9 (3.16%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.81%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.81%) Databricks
9 8 (2.81%) Ping Identity
9 8 (2.81%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.81%) UiPath
10 6 (2.11%) Okta
11 4 (1.40%) Autodesk
11 4 (1.40%) webMethods
12 3 (1.05%) Veracode
13 2 (0.70%) VMware
13 2 (0.70%) Workday