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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 255 351
Rank change year-on-year -70 +96 +36
Contract jobs citing API Development 296 234 196
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.96% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.05% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 167 146
10th Percentile £384 £354 £377
25th Percentile £420 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -13.64% -6.14%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £668 £668 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £550
% change year-on-year +3.09% -11.82% -4.35%
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 36,103 22,244 31,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.27% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,869 14,374 20,646
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,001 2,353
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -83 127 £501 -9.00% 29
North of England -5 104 £465 +16.25% 12
Yorkshire -9 60 £471 +17.63% 4
North West -21 35 £489 +22.19% 5
South East -59 21 £413 -8.33% 18
Midlands -69 15 £531 +22.13% 3
West Midlands -59 13 £575 +32.18%
North East -17 9 £450 -18.18% 3
East of England -28 8 £625 +25.00% 3
South West -30 7 £490 -6.71% 3
East Midlands -36 2 £381 +6.42% 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 20 (6.76%) Confluence
2 8 (2.70%) Anypoint
2 8 (2.70%) Appian
3 7 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.03%) Mule
5 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.68%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.34%) CICS
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.34%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.35%) CPLEX
1 4 (1.35%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.35%) Revit
2 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Distributed Ledger
1 3 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.68%) Remedy AR System
2 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.34%) Odoo
3 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 110 (37.16%) Azure
2 73 (24.66%) AWS
3 52 (17.57%) GCP
4 39 (13.18%) GitHub
5 30 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (7.77%) Serverless
7 18 (6.08%) Power Platform
8 17 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (5.41%) Azure AI
10 12 (4.05%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.38%) Azure Functions
11 10 (3.38%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (3.04%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (3.04%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (3.04%) Copilot Studio
13 8 (2.70%) Azure AKS
13 8 (2.70%) Kong
13 8 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.34%) BGP
2 1 (0.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.34%) Internet
2 1 (0.34%) NaaS
2 1 (0.34%) Network Security
2 1 (0.34%) SSH
2 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (9.46%) NoSQL
3 27 (9.12%) MongoDB
4 22 (7.43%) Relational Database
5 18 (6.08%) SQL Server
6 15 (5.07%) Power BI
7 11 (3.72%) MySQL
8 8 (2.70%) BigQuery
8 8 (2.70%) Pinecone
9 6 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.03%) Metadata
10 5 (1.69%) Redis
11 4 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.35%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.01%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.68%) Big Data
13 2 (0.68%) Neo4j
13 2 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 50 (16.89%) Git
2 44 (14.86%) JIRA
3 39 (13.18%) Jenkins
4 18 (6.08%) GitLab
5 12 (4.05%) Gradle
6 9 (3.04%) fastlane
6 9 (3.04%) Mockito
7 8 (2.70%) MLflow
8 7 (2.36%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.36%) JUnit
9 5 (1.69%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.69%) Xcode
10 4 (1.35%) Crashlytics
10 4 (1.35%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.35%) Postman
11 3 (1.01%) GoCD
11 3 (1.01%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.01%) Maven
11 3 (1.01%) Selenium
11 3 (1.01%) SonarQube
General
1 67 (22.64%) Finance
2 66 (22.30%) Social Skills
3 48 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (12.84%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.74%) Banking
6 11 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.35%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.35%) Law
9 3 (1.01%) Front Office
9 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.01%) Marketing
9 3 (1.01%) Publishing
9 3 (1.01%) Retail
9 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.68%) Aviation
10 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.68%) Police
10 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 161 (54.39%) Developer
2 50 (16.89%) Python Developer
3 40 (13.51%) Senior
4 39 (13.18%) Java Developer
5 28 (9.46%) Architect
6 25 (8.45%) Lead
7 22 (7.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 21 (7.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (7.09%) Software Engineer
9 19 (6.42%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.05%) Software Developer
11 10 (3.38%) Applications Developer
12 9 (3.04%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.70%) Integration Architect
13 8 (2.70%) Integration Developer
14 7 (2.36%) C# Developer
14 7 (2.36%) Java Engineer
14 7 (2.36%) Lead Developer
14 7 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (27.36%) RESTful
2 77 (26.01%) REST
3 48 (16.22%) React
4 43 (14.53%) Spring
5 42 (14.19%) FastAPI
5 42 (14.19%) Node.js
5 42 (14.19%) Spring Boot
6 39 (13.18%) .NET
7 34 (11.49%) OAuth
8 32 (10.81%) AngularJS
9 26 (8.78%) JWT
10 25 (8.45%) Swagger
11 24 (8.11%) OpenAPI
12 23 (7.77%) Django
13 22 (7.43%) JSON
13 22 (7.43%) Kafka
13 22 (7.43%) OAuth2
13 22 (7.43%) OpenTelemetry
14 21 (7.09%) Flask
15 17 (5.74%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.20%) Cloud Native
2 34 (11.49%) Product Ownership
3 20 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.73%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (3.38%) AI Agents
5 10 (3.38%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.70%) Low-Code
6 8 (2.70%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.36%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.36%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.03%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.35%) CMDB
9 4 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.68%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.68%) FMCG
10 2 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.39%) Linux
2 9 (3.04%) Unix
3 5 (1.69%) Android
3 5 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.68%) AIX
4 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.68%) VMS
4 2 (0.68%) Windows
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (53.72%) CI/CD
2 110 (37.16%) Agile
3 96 (32.43%) Microservices
4 95 (32.09%) DevOps
5 81 (27.36%) Containerisation
6 69 (23.31%) Test Automation
7 64 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (17.57%) AI
9 50 (16.89%) Observability
10 49 (16.55%) Infrastructure as Code
11 47 (15.88%) Full-Stack Development
12 46 (15.54%) Software Engineering
13 42 (14.19%) API Design
14 40 (13.51%) Event-Driven
15 39 (13.18%) Analytics
15 39 (13.18%) API Integration
16 36 (12.16%) Clean Code
17 35 (11.82%) TDD
18 33 (11.15%) Scrum
19 32 (10.81%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 127 (42.91%) Python
2 94 (31.76%) Java
3 83 (28.04%) SQL
4 45 (15.20%) JavaScript
5 39 (13.18%) C#
6 33 (11.15%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.41%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.04%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.70%) Go
10 5 (1.69%) Swift
11 4 (1.35%) Rust
12 3 (1.01%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.01%) Bash
12 3 (1.01%) Bicep
12 3 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.68%) C++
13 2 (0.68%) PromQL
13 2 (0.68%) Scala
14 1 (0.34%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 54 (18.24%) Security Cleared
2 42 (14.19%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.43%) Degree
4 16 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.03%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.68%) CISSP
10 2 (0.68%) GIAC
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) CBAP
11 1 (0.34%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.09%) Accessibility
2 19 (6.42%) QA
3 13 (4.39%) Data Quality
4 11 (3.72%) WCAG
5 7 (2.36%) GDPR
6 4 (1.35%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.35%) ISO 19650
7 3 (1.01%) SLA
8 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.34%) NIST
9 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.34%) PMO
9 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 92 (31.08%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) IAG
3 1 (0.34%) KVM
Systems Management
1 96 (32.43%) Kubernetes
2 48 (16.22%) Terraform
3 28 (9.46%) Grafana
3 28 (9.46%) Prometheus
4 17 (5.74%) Control-M
4 17 (5.74%) IBM Guardium
4 17 (5.74%) Nessus
5 9 (3.04%) Ansible
6 4 (1.35%) Istio
7 2 (0.68%) Consul
7 2 (0.68%) Puppet
7 2 (0.68%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.34%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 31 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.46%) Google
3 17 (5.74%) OpenAI
3 17 (5.74%) Tenable
4 15 (5.07%) Dynatrace
5 12 (4.05%) Foundry
5 12 (4.05%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.70%) Automation Anywhere
6 8 (2.70%) Oracle
6 8 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.70%) UiPath
7 7 (2.36%) Okta
8 6 (2.03%) Databricks
9 4 (1.35%) Apple
9 4 (1.35%) Autodesk
9 4 (1.35%) Ping Identity
9 4 (1.35%) webMethods
10 3 (1.01%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.01%) Veracode