API Development Contracts in England

API Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring API Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Development over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 380 401
Rank change year-on-year +106 +21 +11
Contract jobs citing API Development 244 177 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.90% 0.47% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.55% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 128 184
10th Percentile £356 £375 £412
25th Percentile £400 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £689 £725
UK median daily rate £485 £506 £559
% change year-on-year -4.15% -9.44% -2.83%

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 24,505 31,932 43,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.78% 85.68% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,746 20,751 30,509
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,256 2,274 1,546
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.54
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -5.96% +57.86%
75th Percentile £54.00 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £72.50 £77.47
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -6.25% +53.85%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in England

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in England.

Daily rate trend for API Development in England

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in England over the 6 months to 9 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in England

API Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Development in England.

Hourly rate trend for API Development in England

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 July 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 +94 140 £500 -7.41% 58
North of England 0 35 £409 -22.19% 36
Midlands +28 25 £435 -13.00% 10
North West +14 23 £402 -13.08% 24
South East +44 22 £450 -5.26% 36
West Midlands +17 13 £445 -11.00% 4
East Midlands +13 12 £349 -26.33% 6
Yorkshire -29 12 £500 -9.09% 11
South West +47 10 £525 +16.67% 17
East of England +23 7 £545 +50.34% 10
API Development
UK

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (8.61%) Confluence
2 10 (4.10%) Anypoint
3 8 (3.28%) WebLogic
4 7 (2.87%) JBoss
4 7 (2.87%) Tomcat
4 7 (2.87%) WebSphere
5 6 (2.46%) Mule
6 3 (1.23%) Mule ESB
6 3 (1.23%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.41%) Camunda
7 1 (0.41%) CICS
7 1 (0.41%) CMS
7 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.41%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.41%) Maximo
2 1 (0.41%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.41%) SAP MRS
2 1 (0.41%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.41%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 91 (37.30%) AWS
2 68 (27.87%) Azure
3 24 (9.84%) GitHub
3 24 (9.84%) Serverless
4 23 (9.43%) GCP
5 14 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (4.10%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (3.28%) Apigee
8 8 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (2.87%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.87%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.46%) Azure Functions
10 6 (2.46%) Datadog
10 6 (2.46%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.33%) HTTP
2 10 (4.10%) Firewall
3 3 (1.23%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.23%) SSL
4 2 (0.82%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.82%) 4G
4 2 (0.82%) 5G
4 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.82%) VPN
4 2 (0.82%) Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) BGP
5 1 (0.41%) DNS
5 1 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.41%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.16%) NoSQL
2 29 (11.89%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (10.25%) MongoDB
4 18 (7.38%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.69%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.28%) DB2
7 7 (2.87%) MySQL
8 6 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.05%) Big Data
10 4 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.64%) Power BI
10 4 (1.64%) Redis
11 3 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.23%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.23%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.23%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.82%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.82%) Metadata
12 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (15.98%) Git
2 36 (14.75%) JIRA
3 34 (13.93%) Jenkins
4 18 (7.38%) GitLab
5 16 (6.56%) Bitbucket
6 12 (4.92%) CircleCI
7 9 (3.69%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.87%) JUnit
8 7 (2.87%) Maven
9 6 (2.46%) Postman
9 6 (2.46%) SpecFlow
9 6 (2.46%) Subversion
10 5 (2.05%) Gradle
11 4 (1.64%) CA Release Automation
11 4 (1.64%) HP UFT
11 4 (1.64%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.64%) NetBeans
11 4 (1.64%) Selenium
11 4 (1.64%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.23%) REST Assured
General
1 78 (31.97%) Social Skills
2 41 (16.80%) Finance
3 25 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.61%) Banking
6 8 (3.28%) Advertising
6 8 (3.28%) Retail
7 6 (2.46%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.05%) Retail Banking
8 5 (2.05%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.64%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Marketing
10 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Billing
11 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.82%) Local Government
11 2 (0.82%) Military
12 1 (0.41%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 144 (59.02%) Developer
2 53 (21.72%) Senior
3 34 (13.93%) Java Developer
4 28 (11.48%) Senior Developer
5 27 (11.07%) Full-Stack Developer
6 26 (10.66%) Architect
7 17 (6.97%) Python Developer
8 13 (5.33%) React Developer
8 13 (5.33%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.92%) Lead
10 11 (4.51%) .NET Developer
10 11 (4.51%) Technical Architect
11 9 (3.69%) Lead Developer
11 9 (3.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 9 (3.69%) Senior Architect
12 8 (3.28%) Angular Developer
12 8 (3.28%) Backend Developer
12 8 (3.28%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 8 (3.28%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.28%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (31.15%) React
2 69 (28.28%) RESTful
3 59 (24.18%) REST
4 54 (22.13%) .NET
5 46 (18.85%) Spring
6 40 (16.39%) Spring Boot
7 36 (14.75%) Node.js
8 33 (13.52%) HTML
9 32 (13.11%) Kafka
10 31 (12.70%) AngularJS
11 30 (12.30%) Web Services
12 27 (11.07%) CSS
13 24 (9.84%) SOAP
14 19 (7.79%) JSON
14 19 (7.79%) OAuth
14 19 (7.79%) RAML
15 18 (7.38%) .NET Core
16 14 (5.74%) Swagger
17 13 (5.33%) .NET Framework
17 13 (5.33%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.28%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.87%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.87%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.05%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.64%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.64%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.64%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.23%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.23%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.23%) State Machine
9 2 (0.82%) NHS
9 2 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.46%) Linux
2 3 (1.23%) Android
3 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.41%) CentOS
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.41%) SUSE
4 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.41%) Unix
4 1 (0.41%) VMS
4 1 (0.41%) Windows
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (54.51%) Agile
2 106 (43.44%) CI/CD
3 82 (33.61%) Microservices
4 81 (33.20%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (31.97%) DevOps
6 48 (19.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 39 (15.98%) Scrum
8 33 (13.52%) Containerisation
9 31 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (12.30%) Event-Driven
11 29 (11.89%) API Design
11 29 (11.89%) API Integration
12 28 (11.48%) Software Engineering
12 28 (11.48%) Test Automation
13 27 (11.07%) SDLC
14 26 (10.66%) Clean Code
15 22 (9.02%) Code Quality
15 22 (9.02%) Project Management
16 20 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (41.80%) Java
2 91 (37.30%) Python
3 84 (34.43%) SQL
4 78 (31.97%) JavaScript
5 54 (22.13%) TypeScript
6 43 (17.62%) C#
7 15 (6.15%) PHP
8 10 (4.10%) Kotlin
9 9 (3.69%) Bash
9 9 (3.69%) Go
10 7 (2.87%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.46%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.05%) DataWeave
12 5 (2.05%) Ruby
13 4 (1.64%) Scala
13 4 (1.64%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.23%) Bicep
14 3 (1.23%) C++
15 2 (0.82%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 30 (12.30%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.97%) Degree
4 10 (4.10%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.64%) CEH
8 4 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.64%) CISSP
9 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.41%) OCP
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.92%) QA
2 6 (2.46%) GDPR
3 4 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.64%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.82%) NIST
6 1 (0.41%) MiFID
System Software
1 42 (17.21%) Docker
2 9 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (26.23%) Kubernetes
2 37 (15.16%) Terraform
3 11 (4.51%) Prometheus
4 10 (4.10%) Grafana
5 7 (2.87%) CloudHub
6 6 (2.46%) Puppet
6 6 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.64%) Kibana
7 4 (1.64%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.23%) Ansible
9 1 (0.41%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 31 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.48%) Oracle
3 14 (5.74%) MuleSoft
4 12 (4.92%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.51%) Google
6 10 (4.10%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.64%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.64%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.23%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.23%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.23%) Splunk
9 2 (0.82%) SAP
9 2 (0.82%) VMware
9 2 (0.82%) Workday
10 1 (0.41%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.41%) Databricks
10 1 (0.41%) Okta
10 1 (0.41%) Portware
10 1 (0.41%) Snow