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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 268 388
Rank change year-on-year -57 +120 +11
Contract jobs citing API Development 310 243 175
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.92% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.01% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 173 127
10th Percentile £363 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £646 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 - -
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 37,549 23,970 31,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.39% 91.01% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,634 15,421 20,733
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,193 2,304
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.85 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -82 121 £525 +5.00% 53
North of England +6 117 £470 +16.92% 22
Yorkshire +10 75 £471 +4.56% 6
North West -33 31 £500 +24.38% 13
South East -55 23 £413 -8.33% 11
South West -29 13 £413 -21.43% 18
Midlands -67 13 £550 +26.44% 5
North East - 12 £450 - 3
West Midlands -65 11 £600 +34.83% 2
East of England -31 5 £500 -8.26% 5
East Midlands -25 2 £381 +9.17% 3
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 25 (8.06%) Confluence
2 7 (2.26%) Anypoint
2 7 (2.26%) Mule
3 5 (1.61%) Appian
4 4 (1.29%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.32%) Apache
6 1 (0.32%) CICS
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) Luigi
6 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.61%) CPLEX
2 4 (1.29%) Navisworks
2 4 (1.29%) Revit
3 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Odoo
3 1 (0.32%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 115 (37.10%) Azure
2 80 (25.81%) AWS
3 58 (18.71%) GCP
4 43 (13.87%) GitHub
5 38 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (7.42%) Serverless
8 13 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (3.87%) Power Platform
10 10 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.23%) Azure AI
10 10 (3.23%) Firebase
11 9 (2.90%) Azure AKS
11 9 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (2.58%) Apigee
13 7 (2.26%) Azure Functions
13 7 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.26%) Cloud Run
13 7 (2.26%) Kong
13 7 (2.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (0.65%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.32%) BGP
2 1 (0.32%) Firewall
2 1 (0.32%) NaaS
2 1 (0.32%) Network Security
2 1 (0.32%) SSH
2 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (15.81%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (10.32%) MongoDB
3 23 (7.42%) Relational Database
4 22 (7.10%) NoSQL
5 18 (5.81%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.23%) MySQL
6 10 (3.23%) Power BI
7 7 (2.26%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.94%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (1.94%) Metadata
8 6 (1.94%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.29%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.29%) Redis
10 3 (0.97%) Big Data
10 3 (0.97%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.65%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 55 (17.74%) Git
2 49 (15.81%) JIRA
3 41 (13.23%) Jenkins
4 16 (5.16%) GitLab
5 12 (3.87%) Gradle
6 11 (3.55%) Mockito
7 10 (3.23%) fastlane
7 10 (3.23%) JUnit
8 7 (2.26%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.61%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.61%) Crashlytics
9 5 (1.61%) MLflow
9 5 (1.61%) MSI
9 5 (1.61%) Xcode
10 4 (1.29%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.29%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.97%) Maven
11 3 (0.97%) Postman
11 3 (0.97%) Selenium
12 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 74 (23.87%) Finance
2 56 (18.06%) Social Skills
3 47 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (15.16%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.45%) Banking
5 14 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.29%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.29%) Retail
7 3 (0.97%) Aerospace
7 3 (0.97%) Financial Institution
7 3 (0.97%) Law
7 3 (0.97%) Manufacturing
7 3 (0.97%) Publishing
7 3 (0.97%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.65%) Billing
8 2 (0.65%) Front Office
8 2 (0.65%) Police
9 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 177 (57.10%) Developer
2 59 (19.03%) Python Developer
3 54 (17.42%) Senior
4 42 (13.55%) Java Developer
5 29 (9.35%) Senior Developer
6 24 (7.74%) Architect
7 23 (7.42%) Software Engineer
8 22 (7.10%) Lead
9 20 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (6.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 12 (3.87%) .NET Developer
12 11 (3.55%) Backend Developer
13 10 (3.23%) Senior Python Developer
14 9 (2.90%) Java Engineer
14 9 (2.90%) Software Developer
15 8 (2.58%) Data Engineer
15 8 (2.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (2.58%) Integration Architect
16 7 (2.26%) Applications Developer
16 7 (2.26%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (28.06%) RESTful
2 83 (26.77%) REST
3 50 (16.13%) React
4 49 (15.81%) .NET
5 47 (15.16%) Node.js
5 47 (15.16%) Spring
6 46 (14.84%) FastAPI
6 46 (14.84%) Spring Boot
7 33 (10.65%) OAuth
8 31 (10.00%) AngularJS
9 27 (8.71%) Kafka
10 25 (8.06%) OAuth2
11 23 (7.42%) JWT
11 23 (7.42%) Swagger
12 22 (7.10%) OpenAPI
13 21 (6.77%) Django
13 21 (6.77%) OpenTelemetry
14 20 (6.45%) Flask
14 20 (6.45%) HTML
15 19 (6.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 60 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 37 (11.94%) Product Ownership
3 27 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.23%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.90%) AI Agents
8 8 (2.58%) Algorithms
8 8 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.26%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.61%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.61%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.29%) NHS
12 3 (0.97%) Legacy Code
13 2 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.65%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.19%) Linux
2 8 (2.58%) Unix
3 7 (2.26%) Windows
4 5 (1.61%) Android
4 5 (1.61%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.65%) AIX
5 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.65%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (56.45%) CI/CD
2 127 (40.97%) Agile
3 108 (34.84%) Microservices
4 104 (33.55%) DevOps
5 91 (29.35%) Containerisation
6 79 (25.48%) Test Automation
7 67 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
9 53 (17.10%) Software Engineering
10 52 (16.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 50 (16.13%) Event-Driven
12 49 (15.81%) API Design
12 49 (15.81%) Observability
13 48 (15.48%) AI
14 43 (13.87%) API Integration
15 37 (11.94%) Clean Code
15 37 (11.94%) Scrum
15 37 (11.94%) TDD
16 36 (11.61%) Deployment Automation
17 35 (11.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 140 (45.16%) Python
2 104 (33.55%) Java
3 74 (23.87%) SQL
4 45 (14.52%) JavaScript
5 42 (13.55%) C#
5 42 (13.55%) TypeScript
6 16 (5.16%) Kotlin
7 14 (4.52%) Go
8 9 (2.90%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.58%) Bicep
9 8 (2.58%) Rust
10 5 (1.61%) Swift
11 4 (1.29%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.97%) Bash
12 3 (0.97%) Scala
13 2 (0.65%) Groovy
13 2 (0.65%) PromQL
14 1 (0.32%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.32%) Ruby
14 1 (0.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 63 (20.32%) Security Cleared
2 54 (17.42%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.77%) Degree
4 16 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.58%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.65%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.65%) CISSP
10 2 (0.65%) GIAC
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.71%) Accessibility
2 19 (6.13%) WCAG
3 15 (4.84%) QA
4 11 (3.55%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.26%) GDPR
6 5 (1.61%) NCSC
7 4 (1.29%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.29%) ISO 19650
8 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.65%) PSD2
8 2 (0.65%) SLA
8 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.32%) NIST
9 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 98 (31.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) IAG
3 1 (0.32%) KVM
Systems Management
1 100 (32.26%) Kubernetes
2 50 (16.13%) Terraform
3 28 (9.03%) Prometheus
4 27 (8.71%) Grafana
5 18 (5.81%) Control-M
5 18 (5.81%) IBM Guardium
5 18 (5.81%) Nessus
6 12 (3.87%) Ansible
7 2 (0.65%) Consul
7 2 (0.65%) Istio
7 2 (0.65%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.32%) Kibana
8 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.68%) Google
3 18 (5.81%) Tenable
4 15 (4.84%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.55%) MuleSoft
5 11 (3.55%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.90%) Foundry
6 9 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.58%) Oracle
7 8 (2.58%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.26%) Okta
9 6 (1.94%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.94%) Databricks
10 5 (1.61%) Apple
10 5 (1.61%) Automation Anywhere
10 5 (1.61%) UiPath
11 4 (1.29%) Autodesk
11 4 (1.29%) Ping Identity
11 4 (1.29%) webMethods
12 3 (0.97%) Veracode