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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 269 366
Rank change year-on-year -53 +97 +9
Contract jobs citing API Development 279 210 187
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.86% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.94% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 153 139
10th Percentile £359 £351 £377
25th Percentile £412 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £685 £655 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 34,470 22,336 31,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 91.22% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,971 14,617 20,828
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,149 942 2,251
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.50 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.52% -21.23% +0.69%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -47 125 £500 -9.09% 28
North of England -7 93 £458 +14.38% 18
Yorkshire -6 53 £475 +16.71% 5
North West -27 35 £464 +15.94% 11
South East -62 18 £413 -8.33% 17
Midlands -70 16 £531 +22.13% 3
West Midlands -58 15 £550 +26.44% 2
East of England -24 9 £625 +8.70% 1
South West -35 6 £490 -24.65% 7
North East -14 5 £450 -18.18% 2
East Midlands -40 1 £360 +3.15% 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 18 (6.45%) Confluence
2 8 (2.87%) Appian
2 8 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.51%) Anypoint
4 6 (2.15%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.79%) Mule
6 3 (1.08%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) CICS
8 1 (0.36%) CMS
8 1 (0.36%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.36%) JBoss
8 1 (0.36%) Mule ESB
8 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.43%) Revit
2 3 (1.08%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.08%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.72%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.36%) Odoo
4 1 (0.36%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 104 (37.28%) Azure
2 80 (28.67%) AWS
3 50 (17.92%) GCP
4 33 (11.83%) GitHub
5 25 (8.96%) Serverless
6 23 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (6.81%) Power Platform
8 18 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (6.09%) Azure AI
9 17 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (4.66%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (4.66%) Power Automate
11 12 (4.30%) Azure Functions
12 11 (3.94%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (3.58%) Copilot Studio
14 9 (3.23%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (3.23%) Apigee
14 9 (3.23%) Kong
14 9 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.72%) Firewall
2 2 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.36%) BGP
3 1 (0.36%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) HTTP
3 1 (0.36%) Internet
3 1 (0.36%) NaaS
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
3 1 (0.36%) SSH
3 1 (0.36%) VPN
3 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.41%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (9.68%) NoSQL
3 26 (9.32%) MongoDB
4 25 (8.96%) Relational Database
5 20 (7.17%) SQL Server
6 16 (5.73%) Power BI
7 15 (5.38%) MySQL
8 9 (3.23%) BigQuery
9 8 (2.87%) Metadata
9 8 (2.87%) Pinecone
10 7 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.15%) Big Data
12 5 (1.79%) Redis
13 4 (1.43%) DynamoDB
14 3 (1.08%) Delta Lake
14 3 (1.08%) Spark SQL
15 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 48 (17.20%) Git
2 39 (13.98%) JIRA
3 36 (12.90%) Jenkins
4 23 (8.24%) GitLab
5 9 (3.23%) Gradle
5 9 (3.23%) Mockito
6 8 (2.87%) MLflow
7 7 (2.51%) JUnit
8 5 (1.79%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.79%) fastlane
9 4 (1.43%) Maven
9 4 (1.43%) Mocha
10 3 (1.08%) Android Studio
10 3 (1.08%) Postman
10 3 (1.08%) Selenium
10 3 (1.08%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.08%) Xcode
11 2 (0.72%) Crashlytics
11 2 (0.72%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.72%) GoCD
General
1 66 (23.66%) Finance
2 61 (21.86%) Social Skills
3 48 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (13.26%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.73%) Banking
6 6 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.43%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.08%) Aviation
8 3 (1.08%) Front Office
8 3 (1.08%) Publishing
9 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.72%) Law
9 2 (0.72%) Marketing
9 2 (0.72%) Police
9 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.36%) Billing
10 1 (0.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 158 (56.63%) Developer
2 47 (16.85%) Python Developer
3 36 (12.90%) Java Developer
4 35 (12.54%) Senior
5 24 (8.60%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (8.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 22 (7.89%) Architect
7 22 (7.89%) Lead
8 18 (6.45%) Senior Developer
9 15 (5.38%) Software Engineer
10 11 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (3.94%) Software Developer
11 10 (3.58%) Applications Developer
11 10 (3.58%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (3.58%) Data Engineer
12 7 (2.51%) Backend Developer
12 7 (2.51%) Integration Architect
12 7 (2.51%) Integration Developer
12 7 (2.51%) Java Engineer
13 6 (2.15%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (26.88%) RESTful
2 74 (26.52%) REST
3 45 (16.13%) Spring
4 44 (15.77%) React
4 44 (15.77%) Spring Boot
5 39 (13.98%) FastAPI
6 38 (13.62%) Node.js
7 37 (13.26%) .NET
8 28 (10.04%) OAuth
9 26 (9.32%) AngularJS
10 24 (8.60%) JWT
10 24 (8.60%) Swagger
11 23 (8.24%) JSON
11 23 (8.24%) OpenAPI
12 22 (7.89%) Django
13 21 (7.53%) Kafka
14 20 (7.17%) Flask
14 20 (7.17%) OpenTelemetry
15 17 (6.09%) Pandas
16 16 (5.73%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.83%) Cloud Native
2 28 (10.04%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.66%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.58%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (3.23%) AI Agents
6 9 (3.23%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.87%) Low-Code
8 7 (2.51%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.15%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.79%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.43%) CMDB
11 4 (1.43%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.43%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.43%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.72%) Replication
13 1 (0.36%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.73%) Linux
2 10 (3.58%) Unix
3 4 (1.43%) Windows
4 3 (1.08%) Android
4 3 (1.08%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.72%) AIX
5 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.72%) VMS
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (55.20%) CI/CD
2 103 (36.92%) Agile
3 92 (32.97%) Microservices
4 88 (31.54%) DevOps
5 84 (30.11%) Containerisation
6 61 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (21.51%) Test Automation
8 49 (17.56%) AI
9 43 (15.41%) Full-Stack Development
10 42 (15.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 41 (14.70%) Observability
12 36 (12.90%) API Integration
13 32 (11.47%) Analytics
13 32 (11.47%) API Design
13 32 (11.47%) Machine Learning
13 32 (11.47%) Software Engineering
14 31 (11.11%) Clean Code
14 31 (11.11%) TDD
15 30 (10.75%) LLM
16 29 (10.39%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 121 (43.37%) Python
2 89 (31.90%) SQL
3 88 (31.54%) Java
4 44 (15.77%) JavaScript
5 37 (13.26%) C#
6 30 (10.75%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.23%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.51%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.15%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.79%) Bash
11 4 (1.43%) Go
11 4 (1.43%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.43%) Scala
12 3 (1.08%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.08%) PHP
12 3 (1.08%) R
12 3 (1.08%) Swift
13 2 (0.72%) C++
13 2 (0.72%) Rust
13 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (20.79%) Security Cleared
2 44 (15.77%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.81%) Degree
4 15 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.72%) CISSP
9 2 (0.72%) GIAC
10 1 (0.36%) CBAP
10 1 (0.36%) CSPO
10 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.38%) Data Quality
1 15 (5.38%) QA
2 14 (5.02%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.43%) GDPR
3 4 (1.43%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.43%) ISO 19650
3 4 (1.43%) WCAG
4 3 (1.08%) SLA
5 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.36%) NCSC
6 1 (0.36%) NIST
6 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.36%) PMO
6 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 90 (32.26%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) IAG
3 1 (0.36%) KVM
Systems Management
1 94 (33.69%) Kubernetes
2 44 (15.77%) Terraform
3 28 (10.04%) Grafana
4 27 (9.68%) Prometheus
5 17 (6.09%) Control-M
5 17 (6.09%) IBM Guardium
5 17 (6.09%) Nessus
6 7 (2.51%) Ansible
7 4 (1.43%) Istio
8 3 (1.08%) Kibana
8 3 (1.08%) Puppet
9 1 (0.36%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.36%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.36%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.36%) logstash
9 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (11.47%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.60%) Google
3 18 (6.45%) OpenAI
4 17 (6.09%) Tenable
5 13 (4.66%) Foundry
6 12 (4.30%) MuleSoft
7 11 (3.94%) Dynatrace
8 10 (3.58%) Oracle
9 9 (3.23%) Databricks
10 8 (2.87%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (2.87%) Salesforce
10 8 (2.87%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.87%) UiPath
11 6 (2.15%) Okta
11 6 (2.15%) Ping Identity
12 4 (1.43%) Autodesk
12 4 (1.43%) webMethods
13 3 (1.08%) Veracode
14 2 (0.72%) Remedy
14 2 (0.72%) Workday