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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 281 367
Rank change year-on-year -61 +86 +25
Contract jobs citing API Development 303 244 169
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.89% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.98% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 175 119
10th Percentile £366 £356 £373
25th Percentile £413 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -7.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £581
90th Percentile £683 £688 £645
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £25.60

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 38,549 24,860 29,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.39% 90.73% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,182 15,935 19,502
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,342 1,889
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.26 £13.67
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.90 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -85 117 £550 +10.00% 34
North of England -12 104 £470 +10.59% 19
Yorkshire +8 71 £471 -0.95% 5
South East -68 27 £445 -1.11% 14
North West -53 23 £550 +34.64% 12
South West -20 19 £413 +3.13% 15
Midlands -65 12 £531 +22.13% 4
North East - 11 £450 - 2
West Midlands -56 10 £575 +32.18% 3
East of England -20 5 £413 -24.31% 5
East Midlands -24 2 £381 +9.17% 1
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 27 (8.91%) Confluence
2 5 (1.65%) Anypoint
2 5 (1.65%) Mule
3 4 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.99%) Appian
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) Apache
6 1 (0.33%) CICS
6 1 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) Luigi
6 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.65%) CPLEX
2 4 (1.32%) Navisworks
2 4 (1.32%) Revit
3 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.33%) Odoo
3 1 (0.33%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 116 (38.28%) Azure
2 77 (25.41%) AWS
3 55 (18.15%) GCP
4 43 (14.19%) GitHub
5 41 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (8.25%) Serverless
7 24 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.30%) Azure AKS
9 10 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (3.30%) Firebase
10 9 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (2.97%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.64%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (2.31%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.31%) Apigee
12 7 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.31%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.31%) Kong
13 6 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.66%) CTI
1 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.33%) BGP
2 1 (0.33%) Firewall
2 1 (0.33%) NaaS
2 1 (0.33%) Network Security
2 1 (0.33%) SSH
2 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (15.18%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (11.22%) MongoDB
3 19 (6.27%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.61%) Relational Database
5 16 (5.28%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.64%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (2.64%) Power BI
7 7 (2.31%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.98%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.98%) MySQL
9 5 (1.65%) Metadata
10 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.32%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.32%) Redis
11 3 (0.99%) Big Data
11 3 (0.99%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.99%) SQLite
12 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 58 (19.14%) Git
2 50 (16.50%) JIRA
3 40 (13.20%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.96%) GitLab
4 12 (3.96%) Gradle
5 10 (3.30%) fastlane
6 9 (2.97%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.97%) Mockito
7 8 (2.64%) JUnit
8 7 (2.31%) MSI
9 5 (1.65%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.65%) Crashlytics
9 5 (1.65%) Xcode
10 4 (1.32%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.99%) Maven
11 3 (0.99%) MLflow
11 3 (0.99%) Postman
11 3 (0.99%) Selenium
11 3 (0.99%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.66%) GoCD
General
1 69 (22.77%) Finance
2 57 (18.81%) Social Skills
3 48 (15.84%) Public Sector
4 45 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.59%) Banking
6 16 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.98%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.32%) Retail
9 3 (0.99%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.99%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.99%) Law
9 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.99%) Publishing
9 3 (0.99%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.66%) Billing
10 2 (0.66%) Front Office
10 2 (0.66%) Police
11 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 176 (58.09%) Developer
2 58 (19.14%) Python Developer
3 55 (18.15%) Senior
4 40 (13.20%) Java Developer
5 30 (9.90%) Senior Developer
6 27 (8.91%) Lead
7 23 (7.59%) Architect
8 21 (6.93%) Software Engineer
9 17 (5.61%) .NET Developer
9 17 (5.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 17 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (3.96%) Senior Python Developer
11 10 (3.30%) Backend Developer
12 8 (2.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (2.64%) Integration Architect
12 8 (2.64%) Software Developer
13 7 (2.31%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (2.31%) Data Engineer
13 7 (2.31%) Java Engineer
13 7 (2.31%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (29.04%) REST
2 79 (26.07%) RESTful
3 58 (19.14%) .NET
4 48 (15.84%) React
5 45 (14.85%) FastAPI
6 41 (13.53%) Node.js
7 40 (13.20%) Spring
8 39 (12.87%) Spring Boot
9 32 (10.56%) AngularJS
10 31 (10.23%) OAuth
11 28 (9.24%) Kafka
12 26 (8.58%) OAuth2
13 23 (7.59%) HTML
14 21 (6.93%) Flask
15 20 (6.60%) .NET Core
15 20 (6.60%) .NET Framework
15 20 (6.60%) Django
15 20 (6.60%) OpenTelemetry
16 19 (6.27%) JSON
17 17 (5.61%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 63 (20.79%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.57%) Product Ownership
3 23 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (5.94%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (4.95%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (3.30%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.64%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.64%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.31%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.31%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.98%) NHS
12 5 (1.65%) Derivative
12 5 (1.65%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.99%) Legacy Code
14 3 (0.99%) Market Risk
14 3 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.62%) Linux
2 11 (3.63%) Unix
3 9 (2.97%) Windows
4 5 (1.65%) Android
4 5 (1.65%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.66%) AIX
5 2 (0.66%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.66%) VMS
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (55.12%) CI/CD
2 125 (41.25%) Agile
3 106 (34.98%) Microservices
4 102 (33.66%) DevOps
5 84 (27.72%) Containerisation
6 72 (23.76%) Test Automation
7 66 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (17.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 51 (16.83%) Software Engineering
10 50 (16.50%) AI
10 50 (16.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 49 (16.17%) API Design
11 49 (16.17%) Event-Driven
12 47 (15.51%) Observability
13 39 (12.87%) Analytics
13 39 (12.87%) TDD
14 38 (12.54%) API Integration
15 34 (11.22%) Code Quality
15 34 (11.22%) Deployment Automation
15 34 (11.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 140 (46.20%) Python
2 92 (30.36%) Java
3 67 (22.11%) SQL
4 48 (15.84%) JavaScript
5 45 (14.85%) C#
6 41 (13.53%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.94%) Kotlin
8 13 (4.29%) Go
9 10 (3.30%) Bicep
10 9 (2.97%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.64%) Rust
12 5 (1.65%) Swift
13 3 (0.99%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.99%) Bash
13 3 (0.99%) Scala
13 3 (0.99%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.66%) Groovy
14 2 (0.66%) PromQL
15 1 (0.33%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 65 (21.45%) Security Cleared
2 55 (18.15%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.94%) Degree
4 13 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.64%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (0.99%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.66%) CISSP
8 2 (0.66%) GIAC
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.89%) Accessibility
2 21 (6.93%) WCAG
3 17 (5.61%) QA
4 8 (2.64%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.31%) GDPR
5 7 (2.31%) NCSC
6 4 (1.32%) ISO 19650
7 2 (0.66%) HL7
7 2 (0.66%) IEC 62304
7 2 (0.66%) ISO 13485
7 2 (0.66%) PSD2
7 2 (0.66%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.33%) NIST
8 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 92 (30.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) IAG
3 1 (0.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 97 (32.01%) Kubernetes
2 48 (15.84%) Terraform
3 28 (9.24%) Prometheus
4 25 (8.25%) Grafana
5 17 (5.61%) Control-M
5 17 (5.61%) IBM Guardium
5 17 (5.61%) Nessus
6 12 (3.96%) Ansible
7 2 (0.66%) Consul
7 2 (0.66%) Istio
7 2 (0.66%) Kibana
7 2 (0.66%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.33%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.33%) Argo
8 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 45 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.25%) Google
3 17 (5.61%) Tenable
4 16 (5.28%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.30%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.64%) Oracle
7 7 (2.31%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.98%) CyberArk
8 6 (1.98%) Databricks
8 6 (1.98%) Foundry
8 6 (1.98%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.65%) Apple
9 5 (1.65%) Okta
10 4 (1.32%) Autodesk
10 4 (1.32%) IBM
10 4 (1.32%) webMethods
11 3 (0.99%) Automation Anywhere
11 3 (0.99%) UiPath
12 2 (0.66%) Workday