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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 280 386
Rank change year-on-year -53 +106 +17
Contract jobs citing API Development 318 252 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.92% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.01% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 180 101
10th Percentile £381 £362 £377
25th Percentile £413 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £472 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% -10.10% -8.70%
75th Percentile £589 £591 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +2.06% -3.00% -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 38,700 24,856 28,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,864 15,818 18,112
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,605 1,463 1,438
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.56
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 2 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 2 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 -77 132 £550 +8.64% 150
North of England -37 89 £465 +8.14% 29
Yorkshire +8 61 £474 -5.20% 6
South East -64 30 £475 +5.56% 19
South West -24 22 £413 +10.00% 25
Midlands -56 19 £447 +19.20% 15
North West -66 17 £500 +17.65% 17
North East - 12 £450 - 6
West Midlands -46 11 £925 +112.64% 9
East of England -21 9 £475 -12.84% 9
East Midlands -17 8 £402 +12.29% 6
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 36 (11.32%) Confluence
2 5 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.94%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.94%) Mule
4 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Luigi
5 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.26%) CPLEX
1 4 (1.26%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.26%) Revit
2 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.63%) Windchill
3 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.63%) 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
1 129 (40.57%) Azure
2 100 (31.45%) AWS
3 62 (19.50%) GCP
4 51 (16.04%) GitHub
5 44 (13.84%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (9.43%) Serverless
7 29 (9.12%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.77%) Azure AKS
10 11 (3.46%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (3.14%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.14%) Azure Functions
11 10 (3.14%) Firebase
12 8 (2.52%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (2.52%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.20%) Google Gemini
14 6 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (1.89%) LangSmith
14 6 (1.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.63%) CTI
1 2 (0.63%) 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 46 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (9.75%) Relational Database
3 30 (9.43%) MongoDB
4 23 (7.23%) SQL Server
5 17 (5.35%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.83%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.83%) Geospatial Data
7 8 (2.52%) BigQuery
7 8 (2.52%) MySQL
7 8 (2.52%) Redis
8 7 (2.20%) Power BI
9 6 (1.89%) Metadata
10 5 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.26%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.94%) SQLite
13 2 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.63%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 78 (24.53%) Git
2 51 (16.04%) JIRA
3 48 (15.09%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.72%) JUnit
5 13 (4.09%) Bitbucket
5 13 (4.09%) GitLab
5 13 (4.09%) Gradle
6 12 (3.77%) Mockito
7 11 (3.46%) Maven
8 10 (3.14%) fastlane
8 10 (3.14%) SonarQube
9 9 (2.83%) MSI
10 5 (1.57%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.57%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.57%) Xcode
11 4 (1.26%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.26%) git-flow
11 4 (1.26%) Selenium
12 3 (0.94%) Postman
13 2 (0.63%) Vite
General
1 73 (22.96%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.38%) Finance
3 54 (16.98%) Public Sector
4 44 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.92%) Banking
5 22 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.20%) Investment Banking
6 7 (2.20%) Publishing
7 5 (1.57%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.57%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.26%) Retail
9 3 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Automotive
10 2 (0.63%) Billing
10 2 (0.63%) Front Office
10 2 (0.63%) Law
11 1 (0.31%) Advertising
11 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.31%) Legal
Job Titles
1 176 (55.35%) Developer
2 60 (18.87%) Senior
3 49 (15.41%) Java Developer
4 45 (14.15%) Python Developer
5 38 (11.95%) Lead
6 35 (11.01%) Senior Developer
7 26 (8.18%) Software Engineer
8 24 (7.55%) .NET Developer
9 21 (6.60%) Architect
10 20 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (4.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (3.77%) Senior Python Developer
12 12 (3.77%) Technical Leader
13 10 (3.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (2.83%) Backend Developer
14 9 (2.83%) Integration Architect
14 9 (2.83%) Java Engineer
14 9 (2.83%) Python Engineer
14 9 (2.83%) Senior Java Developer
15 8 (2.52%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (33.02%) REST
2 97 (30.50%) RESTful
3 69 (21.70%) .NET
4 58 (18.24%) React
5 51 (16.04%) Spring
6 49 (15.41%) Spring Boot
6 49 (15.41%) Terraform
7 42 (13.21%) AngularJS
8 36 (11.32%) Node.js
9 34 (10.69%) HTML
10 33 (10.38%) FastAPI
10 33 (10.38%) OAuth
11 31 (9.75%) OAuth2
12 30 (9.43%) Kafka
13 26 (8.18%) .NET Core
14 25 (7.86%) Django
15 23 (7.23%) .NET Framework
15 23 (7.23%) CSS
16 20 (6.29%) OpenID
17 19 (5.97%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 85 (26.73%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.12%) Product Ownership
3 27 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (6.60%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (5.66%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.14%) AI Agents
8 10 (3.14%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.52%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.20%) NHS
11 6 (1.89%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.89%) Derivative
11 6 (1.89%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.89%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.26%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.26%) Market Risk
12 4 (1.26%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.35%) Linux
2 12 (3.77%) Unix
2 12 (3.77%) Windows
3 5 (1.57%) Android
3 5 (1.57%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.63%) AIX
5 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.31%) VMS
5 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (57.55%) CI/CD
2 135 (42.45%) Agile
3 128 (40.25%) Microservices
4 115 (36.16%) DevOps
5 88 (27.67%) Test Automation
6 86 (27.04%) Containerisation
7 67 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (19.18%) AI
8 61 (19.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 61 (19.18%) Software Engineering
9 60 (18.87%) Event-Driven
10 55 (17.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 53 (16.67%) Code Quality
12 49 (15.41%) API Design
13 46 (14.47%) Scrum
14 45 (14.15%) TDD
15 44 (13.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 43 (13.52%) Observability
17 42 (13.21%) Analytics
18 41 (12.89%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 138 (43.40%) Python
2 103 (32.39%) Java
3 75 (23.58%) SQL
4 60 (18.87%) JavaScript
5 53 (16.67%) C#
6 52 (16.35%) TypeScript
7 21 (6.60%) Kotlin
8 14 (4.40%) Go
9 13 (4.09%) Bicep
10 10 (3.14%) Rust
11 7 (2.20%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.57%) C++
12 5 (1.57%) Scala
12 5 (1.57%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.57%) Swift
13 3 (0.94%) Bash
14 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.63%) PromQL
14 2 (0.63%) Ruby
15 1 (0.31%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 73 (22.96%) Security Cleared
2 60 (18.87%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.60%) Degree
4 16 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.26%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.58%) Accessibility
2 26 (8.18%) QA
3 24 (7.55%) WCAG
4 9 (2.83%) NCSC
5 8 (2.52%) GDPR
6 7 (2.20%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.26%) ISO 19650
8 3 (0.94%) HL7
9 2 (0.63%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.63%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.63%) MISRA
9 2 (0.63%) PSD2
9 2 (0.63%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.31%) NIST
10 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 100 (31.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 101 (31.76%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.18%) Prometheus
3 22 (6.92%) Grafana
4 10 (3.14%) Ansible
5 7 (2.20%) Control-M
5 7 (2.20%) IBM Guardium
5 7 (2.20%) Nessus
6 3 (0.94%) Argo
6 3 (0.94%) Kibana
7 2 (0.63%) Consul
7 2 (0.63%) Istio
7 2 (0.63%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 51 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.86%) Google
3 16 (5.03%) Dynatrace
4 13 (4.09%) Oracle
5 9 (2.83%) Databricks
6 7 (2.20%) CyberArk
6 7 (2.20%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.20%) Tenable
7 6 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.57%) Apple
8 5 (1.57%) Okta
8 5 (1.57%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.57%) webMethods
9 4 (1.26%) Autodesk
9 4 (1.26%) Foundry
9 4 (1.26%) IBM
9 4 (1.26%) SAP
10 3 (0.94%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.63%) Centrify
11 2 (0.63%) Splunk