API Development Contracts in England

API Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring API Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Development over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 427 407
Rank change year-on-year +80 -20 -89
Contract jobs citing API Development 168 165 404
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.41% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.46% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 128 305
10th Percentile £377 £375 £416
25th Percentile £460 £461 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £670
90th Percentile £685 £700 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% +9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £41.48 - £52.84
25th Percentile £41.81 £36.25 £53.36
Median hourly rate £43.25 £37.50 £56.09
Median % change year-on-year +15.33% -33.14% -8.64%
75th Percentile £45.31 £38.75 £58.20
90th Percentile £46.03 - £58.34
UK median hourly rate £33.55 £37.50 £56.09
% change year-on-year -10.53% -33.14% -8.64%

All Process and 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 26,975 35,624 61,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 88.74% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,463 24,518 43,144
10th Percentile £313 £313 £339
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 1,490 1,588
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.00 £19.06 £17.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in England

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in England.

Daily rate trend for API Development in England

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in England

API Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Development in England.

Hourly rate trend for API Development in England

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 31 October 2024. 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 +40 90 £575 +4.55% 47
North of England +50 34 £500 -19.68% 19
Yorkshire +38 25 £500 -28.57% 5
South West +37 15 £450 -18.18% 6
Midlands +4 9 £550 -8.33% 8
West Midlands +2 9 £550 -8.33% 4
North West +24 8 £382 -36.20% 10
East of England +22 8 £300 -57.14% 3
South East +26 7 £488 -11.36% 7
North East - 1 £550 - 4
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (11.90%) Confluence
2 2 (1.19%) Apache
2 2 (1.19%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.60%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Drupal
3 1 (0.60%) JBoss
3 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Trello
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (5.36%) Misys Opics
2 5 (2.98%) NEC Housing
3 2 (1.19%) Quorum
4 1 (0.60%) Endur
4 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (35.12%) Azure
2 56 (33.33%) AWS
3 23 (13.69%) GCP
4 15 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (7.74%) Serverless
6 12 (7.14%) GitHub
7 10 (5.95%) Azure API Management
8 8 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (4.76%) Kong
9 7 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.17%) Azure Functions
10 6 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.98%) Azure App Service
11 5 (2.98%) Azure Event Grid
11 5 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.98%) OCI
11 5 (2.98%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.38%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.98%) FTP
2 1 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.69%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.74%) MongoDB
4 12 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.95%) Oracle Database
5 10 (5.95%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.17%) MySQL
7 6 (3.57%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.38%) Power BI
9 3 (1.79%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.60%) Big Data
10 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.60%) HBase
10 1 (0.60%) Redis
10 1 (0.60%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.60%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 44 (26.19%) Git
2 29 (17.26%) JIRA
3 14 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (3.57%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.98%) GitLab
5 5 (2.98%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.38%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.38%) Newman
6 4 (2.38%) Postman
6 4 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.38%) Vagrant
7 2 (1.19%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.60%) Babel
8 1 (0.60%) Gradle
8 1 (0.60%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.60%) Subversion
8 1 (0.60%) webpack
8 1 (0.60%) Xcode
General
1 41 (24.40%) Finance
2 39 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 14 (8.33%) Banking
5 13 (7.74%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.57%) Marketing
7 6 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.98%) Electronics
8 5 (2.98%) Local Government
8 5 (2.98%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.79%) Legal
10 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.19%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.19%) Retail
11 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.60%) Front Office
11 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 99 (58.93%) Developer
2 22 (13.10%) Senior
3 20 (11.90%) Java Developer
4 18 (10.71%) .NET Developer
5 15 (8.93%) Architect
5 15 (8.93%) Python Developer
6 14 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 12 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (6.55%) Lead
9 10 (5.95%) Azure Developer
10 9 (5.36%) C# Developer
11 8 (4.76%) Applications Developer
11 8 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
11 8 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.76%) React Developer
12 7 (4.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 7 (4.17%) Software Engineer
12 7 (4.17%) Web Applications Developer
12 7 (4.17%) Web Developer
13 6 (3.57%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (32.74%) RESTful
2 29 (17.26%) .NET
2 29 (17.26%) Spring Boot
3 23 (13.69%) REST
4 22 (13.10%) AngularJS
4 22 (13.10%) Spring
5 21 (12.50%) React
6 18 (10.71%) JSON
6 18 (10.71%) Swagger
7 15 (8.93%) FastAPI
7 15 (8.93%) SOAP
8 14 (8.33%) GraphQL
8 14 (8.33%) Kafka
8 14 (8.33%) Node.js
9 13 (7.74%) Web Services
10 12 (7.14%) HTML
10 12 (7.14%) OpenAPI
11 11 (6.55%) .NET Framework
11 11 (6.55%) Middleware
12 10 (5.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.98%) Housing Association
4 5 (2.98%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.19%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.19%) CMDB
5 2 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.19%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.19%) Web3
6 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.60%) Equities
6 1 (0.60%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.60%) iPad
6 1 (0.60%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.14%) Linux
2 6 (3.57%) Unix
3 4 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.38%) VMS
4 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.60%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.69%) DevOps
2 64 (38.10%) CI/CD
3 63 (37.50%) Agile
4 53 (31.55%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (22.02%) API Design
6 34 (20.24%) Containerisation
7 32 (19.05%) Microservices
8 26 (15.48%) Test Automation
9 23 (13.69%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (13.10%) TDD
11 21 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (12.50%) Data Modelling
11 21 (12.50%) Design Patterns
12 20 (11.90%) Software Engineering
13 18 (10.71%) API Integration
13 18 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (10.12%) Scrum
15 15 (8.93%) Architectural Patterns
15 15 (8.93%) Front End Development
16 13 (7.74%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 68 (40.48%) Python
2 65 (38.69%) Java
3 48 (28.57%) SQL
4 39 (23.21%) C#
5 34 (20.24%) JavaScript
6 15 (8.93%) Shell Script
7 10 (5.95%) PL/SQL
8 9 (5.36%) Kotlin
8 9 (5.36%) PHP
9 8 (4.76%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.57%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.98%) Scala
12 4 (2.38%) Ruby
12 4 (2.38%) Rust
13 3 (1.79%) Go
14 2 (1.19%) Solidity
15 1 (0.60%) R
15 1 (0.60%) Swift
15 1 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.31%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.93%) Degree
4 11 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.98%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.36%) QA
2 8 (4.76%) GDPR
3 6 (3.57%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.60%) SEPA
6 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (26.19%) Docker
2 4 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.38%) VirtualBox
2 4 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.19%) IAG
Systems Management
1 37 (22.02%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.33%) Ansible
2 14 (8.33%) Terraform
3 12 (7.14%) Puppet
4 6 (3.57%) Kibana
5 4 (2.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 4 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.60%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.60%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (8.33%) Oracle
2 11 (6.55%) Google
3 7 (4.17%) SAP
4 6 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.57%) Splunk
5 5 (2.98%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.98%) NEC
6 4 (2.38%) VMware
7 3 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.19%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.19%) Cisco
8 2 (1.19%) ConsenSys
8 2 (1.19%) Juniper
9 1 (0.60%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.60%) Apple
9 1 (0.60%) IBM
9 1 (0.60%) Northgate
9 1 (0.60%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.60%) Sybase
9 1 (0.60%) Temenos