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

 6 months to
9 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 353 394
Rank change year-on-year +50 +41 +6
Contract jobs citing API Development 256 156 178
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.59% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 112 134
10th Percentile £385 £418 £375
25th Percentile £427 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £632 £638
90th Percentile £680 £687 £689
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £41.48 -
25th Percentile - £41.81 £36.25
Median hourly rate £74.26 £43.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.70% +15.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile - £45.31 £38.75
90th Percentile - £46.03 -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £33.55 £37.50
% change year-on-year +121.34% -10.53% -31.82%

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 27,655 26,658 34,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.31% 87.92% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,614 16,424 23,309
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,796 941 1,445
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

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 December 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 9 December 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 +49 142 £510 -11.30% 44
North of England -1 61 £500 - 31
North West +10 28 £458 +14.50% 17
Yorkshire -31 26 £500 -4.76% 8
South East -4 20 £500 -20.00% 36
Midlands -29 12 £423 -26.52% 24
East of England -11 10 £625 +108.33% 10
North East +2 7 £575 +4.55% 6
West Midlands -29 6 £425 -26.09% 19
East Midlands - 6 £349 - 3
South West -22 4 - - 8
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 16 (6.25%) Confluence
2 4 (1.56%) nginx
3 3 (1.17%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.78%) CMS
4 2 (0.78%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.39%) CICS
5 1 (0.39%) JBoss
5 1 (0.39%) Mule
5 1 (0.39%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.39%) Traefik
5 1 (0.39%) Tuxedo
5 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.39%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.39%) SAP MRS
2 1 (0.39%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) Shopify
2 1 (0.39%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 98 (38.28%) AWS
2 69 (26.95%) Azure
3 40 (15.63%) GitHub
4 30 (11.72%) GCP
5 26 (10.16%) Serverless
6 18 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (4.30%) Power Platform
9 11 (4.30%) SaaS
10 8 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.34%) Azure AI
12 6 (2.34%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.95%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.13%) HTTPS
2 7 (2.73%) HTTP
2 7 (2.73%) SSL
3 6 (2.34%) Firewall
4 4 (1.56%) VPN
5 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.78%) X.509
6 1 (0.39%) DNS
6 1 (0.39%) FTP
6 1 (0.39%) Internet
6 1 (0.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.89%) NoSQL
2 27 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (8.98%) Relational Database
3 23 (8.98%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.47%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.52%) Power BI
6 8 (3.13%) MySQL
7 6 (2.34%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (1.95%) Big Data
8 5 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.17%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.17%) Metadata
10 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.78%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.78%) DB2
11 2 (0.78%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (17.58%) Git
2 38 (14.84%) JIRA
3 23 (8.98%) Jenkins
4 22 (8.59%) GitLab
5 16 (6.25%) JUnit
6 8 (3.13%) SpecFlow
7 7 (2.73%) Postman
8 6 (2.34%) Mockito
9 5 (1.95%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.95%) Maven
10 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.56%) Mocha
10 4 (1.56%) Storybook
11 3 (1.17%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.17%) Gradle
12 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
General
1 88 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 75 (29.30%) Finance
3 34 (13.28%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.77%) Banking
5 24 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.34%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.95%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.56%) Digital Healthcare
9 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.17%) Electronics
10 3 (1.17%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.17%) Marketing
10 3 (1.17%) Military
11 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.39%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Front Office
12 1 (0.39%) Publishing
12 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 139 (54.30%) Developer
2 61 (23.83%) Senior
3 37 (14.45%) Senior Developer
4 35 (13.67%) Java Developer
5 26 (10.16%) Full-Stack Developer
6 24 (9.38%) Python Developer
7 18 (7.03%) Software Engineer
8 16 (6.25%) Architect
8 16 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
9 12 (4.69%) Java Engineer
10 10 (3.91%) Angular Developer
10 10 (3.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 10 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.91%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 10 (3.91%) Lead
10 10 (3.91%) Python Engineer
11 9 (3.52%) C# Developer
11 9 (3.52%) Node.js Developer
12 8 (3.13%) .NET Developer
12 8 (3.13%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (41.80%) RESTful
2 65 (25.39%) REST
3 49 (19.14%) Spring
4 45 (17.58%) Spring Boot
5 43 (16.80%) React
6 38 (14.84%) AngularJS
7 36 (14.06%) .NET
8 29 (11.33%) Node.js
9 26 (10.16%) SOAP
10 25 (9.77%) JSON
11 24 (9.38%) FastAPI
11 24 (9.38%) OAuth
12 22 (8.59%) Kafka
13 19 (7.42%) HTML
14 17 (6.64%) .NET Framework
15 16 (6.25%) OAuth2
16 15 (5.86%) Jest
16 15 (5.86%) XML
17 14 (5.47%) CSS
18 12 (4.69%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.94%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.47%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.73%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.34%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.95%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.17%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.17%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.17%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.17%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.78%) CBDC
11 2 (0.78%) Digital Currency
11 2 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.42%) Linux
2 9 (3.52%) Windows
3 7 (2.73%) Unix
4 2 (0.78%) VMS
4 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (56.64%) CI/CD
2 134 (52.34%) Agile
3 105 (41.02%) Microservices
4 95 (37.11%) DevOps
5 85 (33.20%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (25.39%) Containerisation
7 44 (17.19%) Full-Stack Development
8 42 (16.41%) Code Quality
9 39 (15.23%) Test Automation
10 35 (13.67%) TDD
11 34 (13.28%) Software Engineering
12 33 (12.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 31 (12.11%) API Integration
14 29 (11.33%) AI
14 29 (11.33%) API Design
15 27 (10.55%) Scrum
16 25 (9.77%) Mentoring
17 24 (9.38%) Event-Driven
18 23 (8.98%) Deployment Automation
19 21 (8.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 96 (37.50%) Python
2 79 (30.86%) Java
3 71 (27.73%) SQL
4 45 (17.58%) TypeScript
5 38 (14.84%) C#
5 38 (14.84%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.91%) Bash
7 9 (3.52%) Go
7 9 (3.52%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.73%) PHP
9 5 (1.95%) C
9 5 (1.95%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.56%) C++
10 4 (1.56%) Scala
11 3 (1.17%) Ruby
11 3 (1.17%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.78%) R
12 2 (0.78%) Rust
13 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 61 (23.83%) Security Cleared
2 52 (20.31%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.59%) Degree
4 12 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.78%) CEH
7 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.78%) CISSP
7 2 (0.78%) OCP
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.78%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.39%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.16%) QA
2 6 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.17%) GDPR
5 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.39%) HL7
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.39%) MiFID
6 1 (0.39%) NCSC
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 96 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 86 (33.59%) Kubernetes
2 35 (13.67%) Terraform
3 15 (5.86%) Grafana
4 13 (5.08%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.69%) Ansible
6 9 (3.52%) Control-M
6 9 (3.52%) IBM Guardium
6 9 (3.52%) Nessus
7 3 (1.17%) CloudHub
7 3 (1.17%) Kibana
7 3 (1.17%) Puppet
8 2 (0.78%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.78%) Rsyslog
8 2 (0.78%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.78%) Salt
8 2 (0.78%) SCOM
8 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.39%) Consul
9 1 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.39%) Istio
Vendors
1 33 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.42%) Google
3 10 (3.91%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.52%) Axway
4 9 (3.52%) MuleSoft
4 9 (3.52%) OpenAI
4 9 (3.52%) Oracle
4 9 (3.52%) Tenable
5 6 (2.34%) Foundry
5 6 (2.34%) Ping Identity
6 5 (1.95%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.56%) Blue Prism
7 4 (1.56%) Pega
7 4 (1.56%) SAP
8 3 (1.17%) Adobe
8 3 (1.17%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.17%) Databricks
8 3 (1.17%) Splunk
8 3 (1.17%) VMware
8 3 (1.17%) Workday
145 API Development jobs in England