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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 369 436
Rank change year-on-year +79 +67 -41
Contract jobs citing API Development 240 167 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 0.52% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.60% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 116 124
10th Percentile £375 £376 £375
25th Percentile £413 £457 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £632 £634
90th Percentile £688 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% -2.59% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £41.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate - £41.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.67% -34.42%
75th Percentile - £41.75 £38.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £25.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year - -31.73% -34.42%

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 25,655 27,725 36,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.95% 86.47% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,262 16,906 24,993
10th Percentile £296 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,620 1,099 1,474
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%
75th Percentile £45.00 £66.80 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.55 £74.09 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025. 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 +63 127 £513 -10.87% 46
North of England -1 56 £488 -2.50% 27
North West +4 28 £425 +11.26% 14
Yorkshire -31 22 £500 -0.99% 8
South East +20 20 £450 -7.69% 37
Midlands -13 17 £368 -33.09% 13
East Midlands +3 13 £358 -34.91% 3
East of England +2 10 £545 +81.67% 3
North East - 6 £575 - 5
South West +2 5 £375 -16.67% 13
West Midlands -21 4 £450 -18.18% 10
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 (8.33%) Confluence
2 5 (2.08%) Anypoint
2 5 (2.08%) WebLogic
3 4 (1.67%) JBoss
3 4 (1.67%) Mule
3 4 (1.67%) nginx
3 4 (1.67%) Tomcat
3 4 (1.67%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.25%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (0.83%) CICS
5 2 (0.83%) CMS
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.42%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.42%) Traefik
6 1 (0.42%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.42%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.42%) Maximo
1 1 (0.42%) SAP MRS
1 1 (0.42%) SAP PM
1 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.42%) Shopify
1 1 (0.42%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 83 (34.58%) AWS
2 53 (22.08%) Azure
3 35 (14.58%) GitHub
4 21 (8.75%) Serverless
5 20 (8.33%) GCP
6 13 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.92%) SaaS
9 6 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.50%) Azure AKS
9 6 (2.50%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.67%) Apigee
11 4 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.67%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.58%) HTTPS
2 10 (4.17%) SSL
3 8 (3.33%) HTTP
4 7 (2.92%) Firewall
5 2 (0.83%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.83%) 4G
5 2 (0.83%) 5G
5 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.83%) Wireless
5 2 (0.83%) X.509
6 1 (0.42%) BGP
6 1 (0.42%) Internet
6 1 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.42%) VoIP
6 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.42%) NoSQL
1 25 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.58%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 14 (5.83%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.50%) DB2
6 5 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.67%) MySQL
7 4 (1.67%) Power BI
8 3 (1.25%) Big Data
8 3 (1.25%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.25%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.25%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.83%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.83%) Redis
9 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.83%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 45 (18.75%) JIRA
2 28 (11.67%) Git
3 20 (8.33%) GitLab
3 20 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.58%) SpecFlow
5 10 (4.17%) JUnit
6 8 (3.33%) Postman
7 7 (2.92%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.50%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.08%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.25%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.25%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.25%) Gradle
10 3 (1.25%) Maven
10 3 (1.25%) Mockito
10 3 (1.25%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.25%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.83%) Mocha
12 1 (0.42%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.42%) Liquibase
General
1 87 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 60 (25.00%) Finance
3 29 (12.08%) Banking
4 27 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.08%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.67%) Digital Healthcare
8 4 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.67%) Military
8 4 (1.67%) Retail
9 3 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.25%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.25%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 125 (52.08%) Developer
2 64 (26.67%) Senior
3 37 (15.42%) Senior Developer
4 32 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 28 (11.67%) Architect
6 18 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (7.50%) Python Developer
7 17 (7.08%) Software Engineer
8 16 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
9 12 (5.00%) Angular Developer
10 10 (4.17%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 9 (3.75%) .NET Developer
11 9 (3.75%) C# Developer
11 9 (3.75%) React Developer
11 9 (3.75%) Technical Architect
12 8 (3.33%) Java Engineer
12 8 (3.33%) Lead
13 7 (2.92%) Backend Developer
13 7 (2.92%) Python Engineer
13 7 (2.92%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (37.08%) RESTful
2 65 (27.08%) REST
3 49 (20.42%) React
4 44 (18.33%) .NET
4 44 (18.33%) AngularJS
5 42 (17.50%) Spring
6 38 (15.83%) Spring Boot
7 30 (12.50%) SOAP
8 26 (10.83%) JSON
9 25 (10.42%) Node.js
9 25 (10.42%) OAuth
10 24 (10.00%) HTML
11 23 (9.58%) FastAPI
12 21 (8.75%) Kafka
13 18 (7.50%) .NET Framework
14 17 (7.08%) CSS
14 17 (7.08%) Web Services
15 16 (6.67%) XML
16 13 (5.42%) .NET Core
16 13 (5.42%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.83%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.42%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.33%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.92%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.08%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.67%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.67%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.25%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.25%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.25%) State Machine
10 3 (1.25%) Wiki
11 2 (0.83%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.83%) DataPower
11 2 (0.83%) Digital Currency
11 2 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.92%) Linux
2 5 (2.08%) Windows
3 4 (1.67%) Unix
4 3 (1.25%) Android
4 3 (1.25%) VMS
5 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.83%) zOS
6 1 (0.42%) CentOS
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) SUSE
6 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (51.25%) Agile
2 115 (47.92%) CI/CD
3 95 (39.58%) Microservices
4 85 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (34.17%) DevOps
6 58 (24.17%) Containerisation
7 37 (15.42%) Full-Stack Development
7 37 (15.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 34 (14.17%) Scrum
9 31 (12.92%) API Design
10 30 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 30 (12.50%) Test Automation
11 27 (11.25%) TDD
12 26 (10.83%) Event-Driven
13 24 (10.00%) Mentoring
14 23 (9.58%) Clean Code
14 23 (9.58%) Code Quality
14 23 (9.58%) Unit Testing
15 22 (9.17%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (8.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 85 (35.42%) Java
2 79 (32.92%) Python
3 64 (26.67%) SQL
4 47 (19.58%) TypeScript
5 40 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 39 (16.25%) C#
7 12 (5.00%) Go
8 9 (3.75%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.33%) Bash
10 6 (2.50%) C++
10 6 (2.50%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.08%) C
11 5 (2.08%) PHP
12 4 (1.67%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.25%) Bicep
13 3 (1.25%) Ruby
14 2 (0.83%) DataWeave
14 2 (0.83%) Rust
14 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.83%) XPath
Qualifications
1 46 (19.17%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.58%) Degree
4 11 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.83%) CEH
7 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.83%) CISSP
7 2 (0.83%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.42%) MCP
8 1 (0.42%) OCP
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.58%) QA
2 6 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.08%) GDPR
4 3 (1.25%) NIST
5 2 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.83%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) MiFID
6 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (30.00%) Docker
2 6 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.83%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 74 (30.83%) Kubernetes
2 34 (14.17%) Terraform
3 19 (7.92%) Grafana
4 16 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.58%) Ansible
6 9 (3.75%) Control-M
6 9 (3.75%) IBM Guardium
6 9 (3.75%) Nessus
7 4 (1.67%) CloudHub
7 4 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.25%) Puppet
9 2 (0.83%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.83%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.83%) Rsyslog
9 2 (0.83%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.83%) Salt
9 2 (0.83%) SCOM
10 1 (0.42%) Argo
10 1 (0.42%) Consul
10 1 (0.42%) Istio
Vendors
1 26 (10.83%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.50%) Oracle
3 14 (5.83%) Google
4 10 (4.17%) MuleSoft
5 9 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.75%) Tenable
6 7 (2.92%) Axway
6 7 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.08%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.67%) Blue Prism
8 4 (1.67%) ForgeRock
8 4 (1.67%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.67%) Pega
8 4 (1.67%) VMware
9 3 (1.25%) Workday
10 2 (0.83%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.83%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.83%) SAP
10 2 (0.83%) Splunk
10 2 (0.83%) webMethods