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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 345 381
Rank change year-on-year +74 +36 -3
Contract jobs citing API Development 203 207 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.84% 0.55% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.63% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 163 232
10th Percentile £359 £391 £410
25th Percentile £428 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £670 £694 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £585
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.98% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £46.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - -

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 22,022 32,609 47,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.79% 86.68% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,510 21,557 33,589
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,153 1,678
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £15.89 £16.72
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +56.54%
75th Percentile £64.64 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £71.25 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £32.50 £36.65
% change year-on-year -2.65% -11.33% +47.41%

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 2 April 2025.

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 2 April 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 +56 125 £560 -2.61% 189
North of England +9 28 £453 -15.81% 68
South East +48 20 £498 -9.55% 68
Midlands +36 16 £435 -3.33% 33
West Midlands +27 13 £435 -8.42% 15
Yorkshire +11 13 £490 -10.91% 28
North West -8 12 £400 -23.81% 38
South West +35 8 £588 -21.45% 40
East Midlands +17 3 £326 -17.99% 17
North East - 3 £550 - 2
East of England - 3 £550 - 21
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 25 (12.32%) Confluence
2 6 (2.96%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.48%) Mule
3 3 (1.48%) Mule ESB
4 2 (0.99%) CMS
4 2 (0.99%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.49%) Camunda
5 1 (0.49%) Drupal
5 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Misys Opics
2 1 (0.49%) BASE24
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 74 (36.45%) AWS
2 72 (35.47%) Azure
3 26 (12.81%) GitHub
4 18 (8.87%) GCP
5 17 (8.37%) Serverless
6 13 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (4.93%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.43%) Power Platform
11 8 (3.94%) Azure Functions
11 8 (3.94%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (2.96%) Apigee
13 6 (2.96%) Datadog
13 6 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.96%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.96%) OCI
14 5 (2.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.49%) ATM
1 1 (0.49%) DNS
1 1 (0.49%) Firewall
1 1 (0.49%) HTTP
1 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (17.24%) NoSQL
2 33 (16.26%) MongoDB
3 28 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.40%) MySQL
5 12 (5.91%) Relational Database
6 10 (4.93%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.45%) Power BI
8 5 (2.46%) Redis
9 4 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.97%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.99%) Big Data
11 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.49%) Data Mart
12 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.49%) Power Query
12 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 44 (21.67%) Git
2 35 (17.24%) JIRA
3 20 (9.85%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.43%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.94%) Postman
5 8 (3.94%) Subversion
6 7 (3.45%) GitLab
7 6 (2.96%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.96%) JUnit
7 6 (2.96%) Maven
7 6 (2.96%) Selenium
8 5 (2.46%) Babel
8 5 (2.46%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.46%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.46%) webpack
9 4 (1.97%) Gradle
9 4 (1.97%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.97%) Terragrunt
9 4 (1.97%) Vagrant
General
1 49 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 26 (12.81%) Finance
4 22 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.43%) Banking
6 8 (3.94%) Advertising
7 7 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.96%) Retail
9 4 (1.97%) Marketing
10 2 (0.99%) Billing
10 2 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Local Government
10 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.49%) Back Office
11 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.49%) Law
11 1 (0.49%) Legal
11 1 (0.49%) Military
11 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 139 (68.47%) Developer
2 30 (14.78%) Senior
3 28 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
3 28 (13.79%) Java Developer
4 17 (8.37%) Senior Developer
5 15 (7.39%) Applications Developer
5 15 (7.39%) Python Developer
5 15 (7.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 12 (5.91%) Lead
6 12 (5.91%) React Developer
6 12 (5.91%) Software Engineer
6 12 (5.91%) Web Developer
7 11 (5.42%) Web Applications Developer
8 10 (4.93%) .NET Developer
8 10 (4.93%) Architect
8 10 (4.93%) Lead Developer
9 9 (4.43%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (2.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (2.96%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (32.51%) React
2 55 (27.09%) RESTful
3 43 (21.18%) Spring
4 40 (19.70%) Spring Boot
5 34 (16.75%) .NET
6 32 (15.76%) Kafka
7 29 (14.29%) Node.js
8 28 (13.79%) HTML
9 26 (12.81%) REST
10 25 (12.32%) CSS
11 21 (10.34%) Web Services
12 16 (7.88%) FastAPI
13 15 (7.39%) AngularJS
13 15 (7.39%) JSON
14 13 (6.40%) SOAP
15 10 (4.93%) HTML5
15 10 (4.93%) Vue
16 9 (4.43%) .NET Core
16 9 (4.43%) OAuth
16 9 (4.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 7 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 6 (2.96%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.46%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.97%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.97%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.48%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.48%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.99%) NHS
7 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.49%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.49%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.96%) Linux
2 5 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.97%) VMS
4 2 (0.99%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (51.72%) Agile
2 83 (40.89%) CI/CD
3 79 (38.92%) DevOps
4 70 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (28.57%) Microservices
6 47 (23.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 40 (19.70%) API Design
8 28 (13.79%) API Integration
9 27 (13.30%) Software Engineering
9 27 (13.30%) Test Automation
10 25 (12.32%) Code Quality
11 23 (11.33%) Front End Development
12 20 (9.85%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (8.87%) Containerisation
14 17 (8.37%) Clean Code
14 17 (8.37%) SOLID
15 16 (7.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (7.88%) Event-Driven
15 16 (7.88%) TDD
15 16 (7.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 82 (40.39%) Java
2 76 (37.44%) JavaScript
3 70 (34.48%) Python
4 63 (31.03%) SQL
5 27 (13.30%) C#
6 22 (10.84%) TypeScript
7 21 (10.34%) PHP
8 17 (8.37%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.94%) Scala
10 7 (3.45%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.96%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.46%) Go
13 4 (1.97%) DataWeave
13 4 (1.97%) Ruby
13 4 (1.97%) Rust
14 3 (1.48%) Bash
14 3 (1.48%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.99%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.49%) Groovy
16 1 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (15.76%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.39%) AWS Certified Developer
4 14 (6.90%) Degree
5 9 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.46%) QA
2 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 41 (20.20%) Docker
2 7 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.97%) VirtualBox
3 4 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (24.63%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.32%) Terraform
3 8 (3.94%) Puppet
4 6 (2.96%) CloudHub
4 6 (2.96%) Kibana
4 6 (2.96%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.46%) Ansible
5 5 (2.46%) Grafana
6 4 (1.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (1.97%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (9.36%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.88%) Oracle
3 10 (4.93%) MuleSoft
4 7 (3.45%) Google
4 7 (3.45%) Splunk
5 6 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.97%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (1.97%) VMware
7 3 (1.48%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.48%) Zend
8 2 (0.99%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.99%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.99%) SAP
9 1 (0.49%) Databricks
9 1 (0.49%) OutSystems
9 1 (0.49%) Pardot
9 1 (0.49%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.49%) Snow
9 1 (0.49%) Workday