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 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 346 391
Rank change year-on-year +47 +45 -19
Contract jobs citing API Development 188 207 317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.74% 0.55% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.63% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 156 233
10th Percentile £385 £388 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £685 £698 £748
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £580
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £41.48 - -
25th Percentile £41.81 - -
Median hourly rate £43.25 - -
75th Percentile £45.31 - -
90th Percentile £46.03 - -
UK median hourly rate £43.25 - -

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 23,109 32,878 49,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.41% 87.07% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,675 21,783 34,284
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £673
90th Percentile £750 £750 £769
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 786 2,094 1,671
10th Percentile £15.44 £13.29 £11.00
25th Percentile £21.09 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.11 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -3.93% +54.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.13 £71.90 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.52% -5.71% +45.83%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +48 119 £575 - 74
North of England +6 21 £500 -4.76% 44
South East +34 15 £538 -2.27% 25
Midlands +25 15 £550 +22.22% 10
South West +39 12 £650 +4.17% 18
West Midlands +22 12 £550 +15.79% 8
Yorkshire +20 12 £538 +2.38% 11
North West -12 6 £400 -23.81% 32
East of England - 4 £800 - 8
East Midlands +12 3 £326 -17.99% 2
North East - 3 £550 - 1
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 26 (13.83%) Confluence
2 3 (1.60%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.53%) CMS
3 1 (0.53%) Drupal
3 1 (0.53%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.06%) Trello
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (4.79%) Misys Opics
2 2 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.53%) BASE24
3 1 (0.53%) Endur
3 1 (0.53%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.53%) Quorum
Cloud Services
1 66 (35.11%) AWS
2 63 (33.51%) Azure
3 25 (13.30%) GitHub
4 16 (8.51%) Serverless
5 14 (7.45%) GCP
6 13 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (4.79%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (4.79%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.72%) Azure Functions
9 7 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (3.72%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.19%) OCI
11 5 (2.66%) Azure API Management
11 5 (2.66%) Datadog
11 5 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.66%) PaaS
11 5 (2.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) ATM
1 1 (0.53%) Firewall
1 1 (0.53%) FTP
1 1 (0.53%) HTTP
1 1 (0.53%) SSL
1 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.43%) MongoDB
2 27 (14.36%) NoSQL
3 25 (13.30%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (7.45%) MySQL
4 14 (7.45%) SQL Server
5 13 (6.91%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.66%) Power BI
6 5 (2.66%) Redis
7 4 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.13%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.53%) Big Data
10 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.53%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 44 (23.40%) Git
2 34 (18.09%) JIRA
3 10 (5.32%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.72%) Bitbucket
4 7 (3.72%) Visual Studio
5 6 (3.19%) Babel
5 6 (3.19%) Postman
5 6 (3.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (3.19%) webpack
6 5 (2.66%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.66%) Subversion
7 4 (2.13%) GitLab
7 4 (2.13%) JUnit
7 4 (2.13%) Newman
7 4 (2.13%) Selenium
7 4 (2.13%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.13%) Vagrant
8 3 (1.60%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.60%) Maven
General
1 44 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.09%) Finance
3 23 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (12.23%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.79%) Banking
5 8 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.66%) Retail
7 4 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.13%) Marketing
8 3 (1.60%) Legal
9 2 (1.06%) Advertising
9 2 (1.06%) Local Government
10 1 (0.53%) Billing
10 1 (0.53%) Electronics
10 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Law
10 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.53%) Military
10 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 131 (69.68%) Developer
2 28 (14.89%) Java Developer
3 27 (14.36%) Senior
4 26 (13.83%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (9.57%) Senior Developer
6 17 (9.04%) Architect
7 16 (8.51%) React Developer
8 15 (7.98%) .NET Developer
8 15 (7.98%) Applications Developer
9 13 (6.91%) Lead
10 12 (6.38%) Python Developer
10 12 (6.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 12 (6.38%) Web Developer
11 11 (5.85%) Web Applications Developer
12 9 (4.79%) Lead Developer
13 8 (4.26%) Scala Developer
14 7 (3.72%) AWS Developer
14 7 (3.72%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 6 (3.19%) Azure Developer
16 5 (2.66%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (27.13%) RESTful
2 50 (26.60%) React
3 36 (19.15%) .NET
4 34 (18.09%) Spring
4 34 (18.09%) Spring Boot
5 27 (14.36%) REST
6 23 (12.23%) Kafka
7 22 (11.70%) Node.js
8 21 (11.17%) HTML
9 19 (10.11%) CSS
9 19 (10.11%) Web Services
10 15 (7.98%) AngularJS
10 15 (7.98%) FastAPI
11 14 (7.45%) SOAP
12 13 (6.91%) JSON
12 13 (6.91%) Middleware
13 10 (5.32%) Vue
14 8 (4.26%) Akka
14 8 (4.26%) Play Framework
14 8 (4.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 8 (4.26%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.66%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.13%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.60%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.60%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.06%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.53%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.66%) Linux
1 5 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.13%) VMS
3 2 (1.06%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (47.87%) Agile
2 75 (39.89%) DevOps
3 74 (39.36%) CI/CD
4 56 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (25.53%) Microservices
6 41 (21.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 37 (19.68%) API Design
8 29 (15.43%) API Integration
9 24 (12.77%) Code Quality
10 23 (12.23%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (11.70%) Front End Development
12 20 (10.64%) TDD
12 20 (10.64%) Test Automation
13 17 (9.04%) Software Engineering
14 14 (7.45%) Clean Code
14 14 (7.45%) Data Modelling
14 14 (7.45%) SOLID
15 13 (6.91%) Mentoring
15 13 (6.91%) OO
15 13 (6.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 76 (40.43%) Java
2 63 (33.51%) Python
3 62 (32.98%) JavaScript
4 60 (31.91%) SQL
5 38 (20.21%) C#
6 19 (10.11%) PHP
7 17 (9.04%) Kotlin
8 14 (7.45%) TypeScript
9 9 (4.79%) Scala
10 6 (3.19%) Go
10 6 (3.19%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.66%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.13%) Ruby
12 4 (2.13%) Rust
13 3 (1.60%) PowerShell
14 2 (1.06%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.53%) Bash
15 1 (0.53%) Dart
15 1 (0.53%) Groovy
15 1 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.09%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.51%) Degree
4 12 (6.38%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.19%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.26%) QA
2 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.53%) GDPR
2 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (17.55%) Docker
2 6 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.13%) VirtualBox
3 4 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (19.15%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.11%) Terraform
3 8 (4.26%) Kibana
4 6 (3.19%) Ansible
4 6 (3.19%) Puppet
5 4 (2.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 4 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.60%) CloudHub
6 3 (1.60%) Grafana
7 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.45%) Oracle
3 7 (3.72%) MuleSoft
3 7 (3.72%) Splunk
4 5 (2.66%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.13%) VMware
6 3 (1.60%) Google
6 3 (1.60%) SAP
6 3 (1.60%) Zend
7 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.06%) Cisco
7 2 (1.06%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.53%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.53%) ConsenSys
8 1 (0.53%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.53%) Pardot
8 1 (0.53%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.53%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.53%) Workday