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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 274 366
Rank change year-on-year -62 +92 +29
Contract jobs citing API Development 305 235 182
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.92% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.01% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 166 133
10th Percentile £366 £353 £375
25th Percentile £418 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £578 £597 £600
90th Percentile £679 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 37,130 23,233 31,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.23% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,419 14,972 20,715
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.23% -4.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,147 2,335
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.55
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +2.63%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -79 126 £525 +5.00% 34
North of England +7 109 £471 +17.04% 18
Yorkshire +10 67 £471 +10.71% 6
North West -40 31 £500 +24.38% 11
South East -56 23 £413 -9.59% 13
Midlands -71 13 £550 +26.44% 4
North East - 12 £450 - 1
West Midlands -61 11 £600 +34.83% 1
South West -36 10 £413 -21.43% 14
East of England -27 6 £575 +5.50% 4
East Midlands -23 2 £381 +9.17% 3
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 23 (7.54%) Confluence
2 7 (2.30%) Anypoint
2 7 (2.30%) Mule
3 6 (1.97%) Appian
4 5 (1.64%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.98%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.33%) CICS
6 1 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.64%) CPLEX
2 4 (1.31%) Navisworks
2 4 (1.31%) Revit
3 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Distributed Ledger
1 3 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.33%) Odoo
3 1 (0.33%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 117 (38.36%) Azure
2 81 (26.56%) AWS
3 57 (18.69%) GCP
4 44 (14.43%) GitHub
5 37 (12.13%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (8.20%) Serverless
7 14 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (4.59%) Power Platform
8 12 (3.93%) Azure AI
9 11 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.28%) Firebase
11 9 (2.95%) Azure AKS
11 9 (2.95%) Azure Functions
11 9 (2.95%) Power Automate
12 8 (2.62%) Apigee
13 7 (2.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.30%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
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 47 (15.41%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (9.84%) MongoDB
3 23 (7.54%) NoSQL
4 22 (7.21%) Relational Database
5 18 (5.90%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.93%) Power BI
7 9 (2.95%) MySQL
8 7 (2.30%) Pinecone
9 6 (1.97%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.97%) Metadata
10 5 (1.64%) Redis
11 4 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.31%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.31%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.66%) Big Data
13 2 (0.66%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 55 (18.03%) Git
2 46 (15.08%) JIRA
3 42 (13.77%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.57%) GitLab
5 12 (3.93%) Gradle
6 11 (3.61%) Mockito
7 10 (3.28%) fastlane
8 9 (2.95%) JUnit
9 7 (2.30%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.97%) MLflow
11 5 (1.64%) Android Studio
11 5 (1.64%) Crashlytics
11 5 (1.64%) Xcode
12 4 (1.31%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.31%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.98%) GoCD
13 3 (0.98%) Maven
13 3 (0.98%) MSI
13 3 (0.98%) Postman
13 3 (0.98%) Selenium
General
1 71 (23.28%) Finance
2 57 (18.69%) Social Skills
3 46 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (15.08%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.23%) Banking
5 14 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.31%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.31%) Retail
7 3 (0.98%) Financial Institution
7 3 (0.98%) Law
7 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
7 3 (0.98%) Publishing
7 3 (0.98%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.66%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.66%) Billing
8 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.66%) Front Office
8 2 (0.66%) Marketing
8 2 (0.66%) Police
9 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (56.07%) Developer
2 57 (18.69%) Python Developer
3 51 (16.72%) Senior
4 42 (13.77%) Java Developer
5 28 (9.18%) Senior Developer
6 24 (7.87%) Architect
6 24 (7.87%) Lead
7 23 (7.54%) Software Engineer
8 21 (6.89%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (6.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (3.61%) Backend Developer
11 10 (3.28%) Senior Python Developer
11 10 (3.28%) Software Developer
12 8 (2.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (2.62%) Integration Architect
12 8 (2.62%) Java Engineer
13 7 (2.30%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (2.30%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (2.30%) Data Engineer
13 7 (2.30%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (28.52%) RESTful
2 81 (26.56%) REST
3 52 (17.05%) React
4 48 (15.74%) Node.js
5 46 (15.08%) Spring
6 45 (14.75%) .NET
6 45 (14.75%) Spring Boot
7 44 (14.43%) FastAPI
8 34 (11.15%) OAuth
9 32 (10.49%) AngularJS
10 26 (8.52%) Kafka
11 25 (8.20%) JWT
11 25 (8.20%) OAuth2
11 25 (8.20%) Swagger
12 24 (7.87%) OpenAPI
13 22 (7.21%) Django
14 21 (6.89%) Flask
15 20 (6.56%) JSON
15 20 (6.56%) OpenTelemetry
16 19 (6.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (19.02%) Cloud Native
2 37 (12.13%) Product Ownership
3 26 (8.52%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.28%) AI Agents
6 10 (3.28%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.28%) Mobile App
6 10 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.62%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.30%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.97%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.31%) NHS
12 2 (0.66%) CMDB
12 2 (0.66%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.26%) Linux
2 8 (2.62%) Unix
3 5 (1.64%) Android
3 5 (1.64%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.64%) Windows
4 2 (0.66%) AIX
4 2 (0.66%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.66%) VMS
5 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (57.38%) CI/CD
2 123 (40.33%) Agile
3 106 (34.75%) Microservices
4 103 (33.77%) DevOps
5 88 (28.85%) Containerisation
6 76 (24.92%) Test Automation
7 64 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (19.34%) Full-Stack Development
9 53 (17.38%) Software Engineering
10 51 (16.72%) AI
10 51 (16.72%) Infrastructure as Code
11 50 (16.39%) Event-Driven
12 48 (15.74%) Observability
13 46 (15.08%) API Design
14 42 (13.77%) API Integration
15 38 (12.46%) Clean Code
16 37 (12.13%) Scrum
16 37 (12.13%) TDD
17 36 (11.80%) Analytics
17 36 (11.80%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 137 (44.92%) Python
2 102 (33.44%) Java
3 75 (24.59%) SQL
4 46 (15.08%) JavaScript
5 41 (13.44%) TypeScript
6 39 (12.79%) C#
7 16 (5.25%) Kotlin
8 13 (4.26%) Go
9 10 (3.28%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.62%) Rust
11 6 (1.97%) Bicep
12 5 (1.64%) Swift
13 4 (1.31%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.98%) Bash
15 2 (0.66%) Groovy
15 2 (0.66%) PromQL
15 2 (0.66%) Scala
16 1 (0.33%) Gremlin
16 1 (0.33%) Ruby
16 1 (0.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 62 (20.33%) Security Cleared
2 51 (16.72%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.89%) Degree
4 16 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.62%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.66%) CISSP
10 2 (0.66%) GIAC
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.52%) Accessibility
2 17 (5.57%) WCAG
3 16 (5.25%) QA
4 11 (3.61%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.97%) GDPR
6 4 (1.31%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.31%) ISO 19650
7 3 (0.98%) NCSC
8 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.66%) PSD2
8 2 (0.66%) SLA
8 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.33%) NIST
9 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 96 (31.48%) 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 98 (32.13%) Kubernetes
2 50 (16.39%) Terraform
3 27 (8.85%) Prometheus
4 26 (8.52%) Grafana
5 17 (5.57%) Control-M
5 17 (5.57%) IBM Guardium
5 17 (5.57%) Nessus
6 12 (3.93%) Ansible
7 3 (0.98%) Istio
8 2 (0.66%) Consul
8 2 (0.66%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.33%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.33%) Kibana
9 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (12.46%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.84%) Google
3 17 (5.57%) Tenable
4 15 (4.92%) Dynatrace
5 13 (4.26%) OpenAI
6 11 (3.61%) MuleSoft
7 10 (3.28%) Foundry
7 10 (3.28%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.62%) Oracle
8 8 (2.62%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.30%) Okta
10 6 (1.97%) Automation Anywhere
10 6 (1.97%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.97%) Databricks
10 6 (1.97%) UiPath
11 5 (1.64%) Apple
12 4 (1.31%) Autodesk
12 4 (1.31%) Ping Identity
12 4 (1.31%) webMethods
13 3 (0.98%) Veracode