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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 309 364
Rank change year-on-year +10 +55 +35
Contract jobs citing API Development 283 174 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.67% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.75% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 135 145
10th Percentile £351 £400 £380
25th Percentile £425 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £560 £558
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +0.45% -7.08%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £675 £685 £723
UK median daily rate £522 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.14% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £70.43 £41.48 -
25th Percentile £71.07 £41.81 £36.25
Median hourly rate £72.13 £43.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.77% +15.33% -
75th Percentile £73.20 £45.31 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.83 £46.03 -
UK median hourly rate £72.13 £43.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.77% +15.33% -

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 29,784 23,344 33,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.41% 89.82% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,034 14,461 22,141
10th Percentile £310 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,874 730 1,983
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.23 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% - -
75th Percentile £60.41 £64.73 £60.32
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.03 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.28
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.35% -1.12%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 +22 150 £513 -11.64% 19
North of England -9 78 £500 - 30
Yorkshire -40 38 £500 -2.44% 9
North West -5 32 £464 +15.94% 16
Midlands -49 17 £411 -25.23% 13
East of England -12 13 £625 -21.88% 7
South East -32 13 £563 +4.65% 16
West Midlands -44 12 £423 -23.18% 9
North East -7 8 £575 +4.55% 5
East Midlands -22 5 £375 +15.03% 4
South West -33 3 - - 9
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 11 (3.89%) Confluence
2 8 (2.83%) Anypoint
2 8 (2.83%) Appian
3 5 (1.77%) Mule
4 4 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.06%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.71%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
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
7 1 (0.35%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.71%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.35%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.35%) Shopify
4 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 91 (32.16%) AWS
2 79 (27.92%) Azure
3 36 (12.72%) GCP
4 34 (12.01%) GitHub
5 25 (8.83%) Serverless
6 21 (7.42%) Power Platform
7 20 (7.07%) Azure AI
8 15 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (4.59%) Copilot Studio
10 13 (4.59%) Power Automate
11 12 (4.24%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (4.24%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (4.24%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (3.89%) Anthropic Claude
12 11 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.18%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (3.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.47%) HTTPS
1 7 (2.47%) SSL
2 3 (1.06%) VPN
3 2 (0.71%) Firewall
3 2 (0.71%) HTTP
3 2 (0.71%) Internet
3 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.35%) DNS
4 1 (0.35%) FTP
4 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (16.25%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (15.19%) NoSQL
3 30 (10.60%) Relational Database
4 24 (8.48%) SQL Server
5 19 (6.71%) MongoDB
6 17 (6.01%) Power BI
7 15 (5.30%) MySQL
8 8 (2.83%) Pinecone
9 6 (2.12%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.12%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.41%) Big Data
12 3 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.06%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.06%) Redis
12 3 (1.06%) Spark SQL
12 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (18.37%) Git
2 37 (13.07%) JIRA
3 25 (8.83%) GitLab
4 24 (8.48%) Jenkins
5 14 (4.95%) JUnit
6 12 (4.24%) Mockito
7 8 (2.83%) Gradle
7 8 (2.83%) MLflow
8 7 (2.47%) Maven
9 6 (2.12%) Mocha
10 4 (1.41%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.06%) Postman
11 3 (1.06%) Storybook
12 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.71%) GoCD
12 2 (0.71%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.71%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (30.74%) Social Skills
2 81 (28.62%) Finance
3 38 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.31%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.30%) Banking
6 10 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.77%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.77%) Marketing
8 4 (1.41%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.41%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.06%) Aviation
9 3 (1.06%) Electronics
9 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Front Office
10 2 (0.71%) Law
10 2 (0.71%) Military
10 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 157 (55.48%) Developer
2 41 (14.49%) Python Developer
2 41 (14.49%) Senior
3 33 (11.66%) Full-Stack Developer
4 26 (9.19%) Java Developer
5 21 (7.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 20 (7.07%) Senior Developer
7 18 (6.36%) Architect
8 17 (6.01%) Lead
9 15 (5.30%) Software Engineer
10 14 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.89%) Java Engineer
12 10 (3.53%) Integration Developer
12 10 (3.53%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (3.18%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (3.18%) C# Developer
13 9 (3.18%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 9 (3.18%) Python Engineer
14 8 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (2.83%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (34.63%) RESTful
2 78 (27.56%) REST
3 44 (15.55%) FastAPI
3 44 (15.55%) Spring
4 41 (14.49%) Spring Boot
5 39 (13.78%) React
6 38 (13.43%) Node.js
7 29 (10.25%) OAuth
8 23 (8.13%) AngularJS
9 22 (7.77%) .NET
9 22 (7.77%) OpenTelemetry
10 21 (7.42%) JSON
10 21 (7.42%) Swagger
11 20 (7.07%) JWT
11 20 (7.07%) Kafka
11 20 (7.07%) OpenAPI
12 18 (6.36%) GraphQL
12 18 (6.36%) PyTorch
12 18 (6.36%) scikit-learn
12 18 (6.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.07%) Cloud Native
1 20 (7.07%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.53%) Low-Code
4 8 (2.83%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.47%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.12%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.41%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.41%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.41%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.41%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.06%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.71%) CMDB
9 2 (0.71%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.48%) Linux
2 11 (3.89%) Unix
3 7 (2.47%) Windows
4 2 (0.71%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (55.83%) CI/CD
2 119 (42.05%) Agile
3 100 (35.34%) Microservices
4 89 (31.45%) DevOps
5 83 (29.33%) Containerisation
6 80 (28.27%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (21.55%) Test Automation
8 47 (16.61%) Full-Stack Development
9 43 (15.19%) AI
9 43 (15.19%) API Integration
10 42 (14.84%) Code Quality
11 35 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (12.37%) TDD
12 34 (12.01%) Observability
13 33 (11.66%) Deployment Automation
14 32 (11.31%) API Design
15 30 (10.60%) LLM
15 30 (10.60%) Machine Learning
15 30 (10.60%) Prompt Engineering
16 29 (10.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 117 (41.34%) Python
2 92 (32.51%) SQL
3 73 (25.80%) Java
4 46 (16.25%) JavaScript
5 44 (15.55%) TypeScript
6 34 (12.01%) C#
7 7 (2.47%) Go
7 7 (2.47%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.47%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.12%) Bash
9 5 (1.77%) PHP
10 4 (1.41%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.41%) C++
10 4 (1.41%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.41%) Ruby
10 4 (1.41%) Scala
11 3 (1.06%) C
11 3 (1.06%) R
12 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 64 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.43%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.01%) Degree
4 13 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.06%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.35%) CBAP
9 1 (0.35%) CSPO
9 1 (0.35%) OCP
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.59%) Data Quality
1 13 (4.59%) QA
2 5 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.41%) GDPR
3 4 (1.41%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.06%) SLA
4 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.35%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.35%) HL7
5 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.35%) NCSC
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
5 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 110 (38.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 107 (37.81%) Kubernetes
2 36 (12.72%) Terraform
3 31 (10.95%) Grafana
4 26 (9.19%) Prometheus
5 20 (7.07%) Control-M
5 20 (7.07%) IBM Guardium
5 20 (7.07%) Nessus
6 5 (1.77%) Ansible
7 4 (1.41%) Puppet
8 3 (1.06%) Istio
8 3 (1.06%) Kibana
9 2 (0.71%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.35%) Argo
10 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.35%) Consul
10 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.35%) logstash
10 1 (0.35%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.13%) Google
3 20 (7.07%) OpenAI
3 20 (7.07%) Tenable
4 14 (4.95%) Salesforce
5 13 (4.59%) MuleSoft
6 12 (4.24%) Foundry
7 10 (3.53%) Ping Identity
8 9 (3.18%) Axway
8 9 (3.18%) Oracle
9 8 (2.83%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.83%) UiPath
10 5 (1.77%) Adobe
11 4 (1.41%) Blue Prism
11 4 (1.41%) Databricks
12 3 (1.06%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.06%) SAP
12 3 (1.06%) Veracode
13 2 (0.71%) BMC
13 2 (0.71%) Dell
94 API Development jobs in England