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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 270 385
Rank change year-on-year -71 +115 +28
Contract jobs citing API Development 324 253 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 0.92% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.02% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 183 97
10th Percentile £381 £363 £377
25th Percentile £413 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £507
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -7.50% -11.83%
75th Percentile £591 £586 £600
90th Percentile £700 £686 £686
UK median daily rate £498 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +1.53% -2.00% -10.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £25.60
% change year-on-year - - -31.73%

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 38,940 24,864 27,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.85% 90.76% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,004 15,800 17,728
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,613 1,459 1,377
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.24 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.88
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.35% +3.33%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -87 135 £550 +10.00% 120
North of England -27 91 £460 +6.98% 24
Yorkshire +4 61 £474 -5.20% 4
South East -67 30 £475 +5.56% 16
South West -19 23 £413 +10.00% 24
Midlands -54 20 £447 +19.20% 16
North West -75 17 £500 +17.65% 15
North East - 14 £450 - 5
West Midlands -45 12 £925 +112.64% 9
East of England -20 9 £475 -12.84% 7
East Midlands -20 8 £402 +12.29% 7
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 38 (11.73%) Confluence
2 5 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.93%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.93%) Mule
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.31%) Luigi
5 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) CPLEX
1 4 (1.23%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.23%) Revit
2 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.62%) Windchill
3 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.31%) Odoo
3 1 (0.31%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 130 (40.12%) Azure
2 103 (31.79%) AWS
3 63 (19.44%) GCP
4 52 (16.05%) GitHub
5 44 (13.58%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (9.26%) Serverless
7 15 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (3.70%) Azure AKS
9 11 (3.40%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (3.09%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.09%) Azure Functions
10 10 (3.09%) Firebase
11 8 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (2.47%) Power Platform
12 7 (2.16%) Google Gemini
13 6 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (1.85%) LangSmith
13 6 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.62%) CTI
1 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.31%) 4G
2 1 (0.31%) 5G
2 1 (0.31%) DNS
2 1 (0.31%) Firewall
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
2 1 (0.31%) NaaS
2 1 (0.31%) Network Security
2 1 (0.31%) SSH
2 1 (0.31%) SSL
2 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (14.51%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (9.88%) Relational Database
3 31 (9.57%) MongoDB
4 23 (7.10%) SQL Server
5 17 (5.25%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.78%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
7 8 (2.47%) BigQuery
7 8 (2.47%) MySQL
7 8 (2.47%) Redis
8 7 (2.16%) Power BI
9 6 (1.85%) Metadata
10 5 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.23%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.93%) SQLite
13 2 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.62%) Big Data
13 2 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 78 (24.07%) Git
2 53 (16.36%) JIRA
3 48 (14.81%) Jenkins
4 16 (4.94%) JUnit
5 13 (4.01%) Bitbucket
5 13 (4.01%) GitLab
5 13 (4.01%) Gradle
5 13 (4.01%) Mockito
6 12 (3.70%) Maven
7 11 (3.40%) SonarQube
8 10 (3.09%) fastlane
9 9 (2.78%) MSI
10 5 (1.54%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.54%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.54%) Xcode
11 4 (1.23%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.23%) git-flow
11 4 (1.23%) Selenium
12 3 (0.93%) Postman
13 2 (0.62%) GoCD
General
1 74 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 69 (21.30%) Finance
3 56 (17.28%) Public Sector
4 46 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.10%) Banking
5 23 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.16%) Investment Banking
6 7 (2.16%) Publishing
7 5 (1.54%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.54%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.23%) Retail
9 2 (0.62%) Automotive
9 2 (0.62%) Billing
9 2 (0.62%) Front Office
9 2 (0.62%) Law
10 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.31%) Legal
10 1 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 177 (54.63%) Developer
2 62 (19.14%) Senior
3 50 (15.43%) Java Developer
4 45 (13.89%) Python Developer
5 39 (12.04%) Lead
6 36 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 26 (8.02%) Software Engineer
8 24 (7.41%) .NET Developer
9 21 (6.48%) Architect
10 19 (5.86%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (4.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (3.70%) Senior Python Developer
12 12 (3.70%) Technical Leader
13 10 (3.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (2.78%) Backend Developer
14 9 (2.78%) Integration Architect
14 9 (2.78%) Java Engineer
14 9 (2.78%) Python Engineer
14 9 (2.78%) Senior Java Developer
15 8 (2.47%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (32.72%) REST
2 100 (30.86%) RESTful
3 71 (21.91%) .NET
4 58 (17.90%) React
5 52 (16.05%) Spring
6 51 (15.74%) Terraform
7 50 (15.43%) Spring Boot
8 44 (13.58%) AngularJS
9 37 (11.42%) Node.js
10 34 (10.49%) HTML
11 33 (10.19%) FastAPI
11 33 (10.19%) OAuth
12 31 (9.57%) OAuth2
13 30 (9.26%) Kafka
14 26 (8.02%) .NET Core
15 25 (7.72%) Django
16 23 (7.10%) .NET Framework
16 23 (7.10%) CSS
17 20 (6.17%) OpenID
18 19 (5.86%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 87 (26.85%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.26%) Product Ownership
3 27 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (6.79%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (5.56%) Onboarding
6 13 (4.01%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.09%) AI Agents
8 10 (3.09%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.47%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.16%) NHS
11 6 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.85%) Derivative
11 6 (1.85%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.85%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.23%) Legacy Code
13 4 (1.23%) Market Risk
13 4 (1.23%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.25%) Linux
2 12 (3.70%) Unix
2 12 (3.70%) Windows
3 5 (1.54%) Android
3 5 (1.54%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.62%) AIX
5 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.31%) VMS
5 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (57.10%) CI/CD
2 136 (41.98%) Agile
3 133 (41.05%) Microservices
4 116 (35.80%) DevOps
5 91 (28.09%) Test Automation
6 87 (26.85%) Containerisation
7 70 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (18.83%) AI
8 61 (18.83%) Event-Driven
8 61 (18.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 61 (18.83%) Software Engineering
9 56 (17.28%) Infrastructure as Code
10 54 (16.67%) Code Quality
11 49 (15.12%) API Design
12 48 (14.81%) Scrum
13 47 (14.51%) TDD
14 45 (13.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 45 (13.89%) Observability
15 42 (12.96%) Analytics
15 42 (12.96%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 138 (42.59%) Python
2 105 (32.41%) Java
3 74 (22.84%) SQL
4 62 (19.14%) JavaScript
5 54 (16.67%) C#
6 53 (16.36%) TypeScript
7 21 (6.48%) Kotlin
8 14 (4.32%) Go
9 13 (4.01%) Bicep
10 10 (3.09%) Rust
11 8 (2.47%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.85%) Scala
13 5 (1.54%) C++
13 5 (1.54%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.54%) Swift
14 3 (0.93%) Bash
15 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.62%) PromQL
15 2 (0.62%) Ruby
16 1 (0.31%) DAML
Qualifications
1 74 (22.84%) Security Cleared
2 62 (19.14%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.48%) Degree
4 16 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.47%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.85%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.23%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.65%) Accessibility
2 27 (8.33%) QA
3 25 (7.72%) WCAG
4 9 (2.78%) NCSC
5 8 (2.47%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.47%) GDPR
6 4 (1.23%) ISO 19650
7 3 (0.93%) HL7
8 2 (0.62%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.62%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.62%) MISRA
8 2 (0.62%) PSD2
8 2 (0.62%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.31%) NIST
9 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 100 (30.86%) Docker
2 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 102 (31.48%) Kubernetes
2 27 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 24 (7.41%) Grafana
4 10 (3.09%) Ansible
5 7 (2.16%) Control-M
5 7 (2.16%) IBM Guardium
5 7 (2.16%) Nessus
6 3 (0.93%) Argo
6 3 (0.93%) Kibana
7 2 (0.62%) Consul
7 2 (0.62%) Istio
7 2 (0.62%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 51 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.72%) Google
3 17 (5.25%) Dynatrace
4 13 (4.01%) Oracle
5 9 (2.78%) Databricks
6 7 (2.16%) CyberArk
6 7 (2.16%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.16%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.16%) Tenable
7 5 (1.54%) Apple
7 5 (1.54%) Okta
7 5 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.54%) webMethods
8 4 (1.23%) Autodesk
8 4 (1.23%) Foundry
8 4 (1.23%) IBM
8 4 (1.23%) SAP
8 4 (1.23%) Splunk
9 3 (0.93%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.62%) Centrify