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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 270 375
Rank change year-on-year -69 +105 +28
Contract jobs citing API Development 314 253 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.92% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.01% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 180 110
10th Percentile £396 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £472 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -7.41% -13.01%
75th Percentile £589 £589 £588
90th Percentile £702 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £25.60

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 38,779 25,035 28,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.92% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,017 15,949 18,476
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 £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,455 1,574
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.92 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -1.22%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -91 131 £550 +10.00% 28
North of England -29 91 £471 +10.06% 15
Yorkshire +9 62 £475 -0.11% 3
South East -63 31 £472 +4.83% 17
South West -31 22 £413 +10.00% 14
North West -55 19 £525 +23.53% 9
Midlands -56 13 £499 +25.73% 6
North East - 11 £450 - 3
East of England -13 8 £525 -3.67% 6
West Midlands -54 7 £925 +112.64% 3
East Midlands -22 6 £402 +12.29% 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 31 (9.87%) Confluence
2 4 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.96%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.96%) Mule
4 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Luigi
5 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.27%) CPLEX
1 4 (1.27%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.27%) Revit
2 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.32%) Trello
3 1 (0.32%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.32%) Odoo
3 1 (0.32%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 130 (41.40%) Azure
2 98 (31.21%) AWS
3 64 (20.38%) GCP
4 48 (15.29%) GitHub
5 43 (13.69%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (8.92%) Serverless
7 27 (8.60%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (3.50%) Azure AKS
10 10 (3.18%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.18%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (3.18%) Firebase
11 8 (2.55%) Azure Functions
11 8 (2.55%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (2.55%) Power Platform
12 7 (2.23%) Apigee
12 7 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (2.23%) Google Gemini
12 7 (2.23%) Kong
13 6 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.64%) CTI
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%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.06%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (9.55%) MongoDB
3 25 (7.96%) Relational Database
4 22 (7.01%) SQL Server
5 16 (5.10%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.18%) Geospatial Data
7 9 (2.87%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.55%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.23%) Power BI
10 6 (1.91%) Metadata
10 6 (1.91%) MySQL
10 6 (1.91%) Redis
11 5 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.96%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.96%) SQLite
13 2 (0.64%) Big Data
13 2 (0.64%) Db2
13 2 (0.64%) Neo4j
13 2 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (22.61%) Git
2 48 (15.29%) JIRA
3 43 (13.69%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.14%) Bitbucket
4 13 (4.14%) Gradle
5 12 (3.82%) GitLab
6 10 (3.18%) fastlane
6 10 (3.18%) JUnit
7 9 (2.87%) MSI
8 7 (2.23%) Mockito
9 6 (1.91%) Maven
10 5 (1.59%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.59%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.59%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.59%) Xcode
11 4 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.27%) Selenium
12 3 (0.96%) git-flow
12 3 (0.96%) Postman
13 2 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (21.66%) Social Skills
2 66 (21.02%) Finance
3 50 (15.92%) Public Sector
4 41 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.32%) Banking
6 21 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.23%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.23%) Publishing
8 4 (1.27%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.27%) Retail
8 4 (1.27%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.64%) Automotive
9 2 (0.64%) Billing
9 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.64%) Front Office
9 2 (0.64%) Law
10 1 (0.32%) Advertising
10 1 (0.32%) Legal
10 1 (0.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 172 (54.78%) Developer
2 57 (18.15%) Senior
3 48 (15.29%) Python Developer
4 43 (13.69%) Java Developer
5 35 (11.15%) Lead
6 30 (9.55%) Senior Developer
7 25 (7.96%) .NET Developer
8 24 (7.64%) Architect
9 23 (7.32%) Software Engineer
10 19 (6.05%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (4.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (3.82%) Senior Python Developer
13 11 (3.50%) Technical Leader
14 10 (3.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (3.18%) Integration Architect
15 9 (2.87%) Java Engineer
16 8 (2.55%) Backend Developer
16 8 (2.55%) C# Developer
17 7 (2.23%) Data Engineer
17 7 (2.23%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (30.89%) REST
2 90 (28.66%) RESTful
3 70 (22.29%) .NET
4 57 (18.15%) React
5 48 (15.29%) Terraform
6 45 (14.33%) Spring
7 43 (13.69%) Spring Boot
8 38 (12.10%) AngularJS
9 36 (11.46%) Node.js
10 34 (10.83%) FastAPI
10 34 (10.83%) HTML
10 34 (10.83%) OAuth
11 32 (10.19%) OAuth2
12 30 (9.55%) Kafka
13 27 (8.60%) .NET Core
14 23 (7.32%) .NET Framework
14 23 (7.32%) CSS
14 23 (7.32%) Django
15 20 (6.37%) JSON
15 20 (6.37%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 79 (25.16%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.60%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (8.28%) Product Ownership
4 22 (7.01%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (5.73%) Onboarding
6 13 (4.14%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.18%) AI Agents
8 10 (3.18%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.55%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.23%) NHS
11 6 (1.91%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.91%) Derivative
11 6 (1.91%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.91%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.27%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.27%) Market Risk
12 4 (1.27%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.41%) Linux
2 13 (4.14%) Unix
3 12 (3.82%) Windows
4 5 (1.59%) Android
4 5 (1.59%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.64%) AIX
5 2 (0.64%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (56.37%) CI/CD
2 128 (40.76%) Agile
3 123 (39.17%) Microservices
4 115 (36.62%) DevOps
5 82 (26.11%) Test Automation
6 81 (25.80%) Containerisation
7 63 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (19.75%) AI
9 60 (19.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 58 (18.47%) Event-Driven
11 57 (18.15%) Software Engineering
12 53 (16.88%) Infrastructure as Code
13 50 (15.92%) API Design
14 48 (15.29%) Code Quality
15 45 (14.33%) Analytics
16 42 (13.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 41 (13.06%) Observability
18 40 (12.74%) Performance Optimisation
18 40 (12.74%) Technical Leadership
19 39 (12.42%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 142 (45.22%) Python
2 96 (30.57%) Java
3 73 (23.25%) SQL
4 62 (19.75%) JavaScript
5 54 (17.20%) C#
6 46 (14.65%) TypeScript
7 21 (6.69%) Kotlin
8 14 (4.46%) Go
9 12 (3.82%) Bicep
10 9 (2.87%) Rust
11 8 (2.55%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.59%) C++
12 5 (1.59%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.59%) Swift
13 4 (1.27%) Scala
14 2 (0.64%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.64%) Bash
14 2 (0.64%) PromQL
15 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.32%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 72 (22.93%) Security Cleared
2 59 (18.79%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.32%) Degree
4 16 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.91%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.96%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.64%) CISSP
10 2 (0.64%) GIAC
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (12.42%) Accessibility
2 26 (8.28%) QA
3 23 (7.32%) WCAG
4 9 (2.87%) NCSC
5 8 (2.55%) GDPR
6 7 (2.23%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.27%) ISO 19650
8 3 (0.96%) HL7
9 2 (0.64%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.64%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.64%) MISRA
9 2 (0.64%) PSD2
9 2 (0.64%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.32%) NIST
10 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 96 (30.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) IAG
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 101 (32.17%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.69%) Prometheus
3 16 (5.10%) Grafana
4 11 (3.50%) Ansible
5 8 (2.55%) Control-M
5 8 (2.55%) IBM Guardium
5 8 (2.55%) Nessus
6 3 (0.96%) Kibana
7 2 (0.64%) Argo
7 2 (0.64%) Consul
7 2 (0.64%) Istio
7 2 (0.64%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 50 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.96%) Google
3 16 (5.10%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.82%) Oracle
5 9 (2.87%) Databricks
5 9 (2.87%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.55%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.55%) Tenable
7 7 (2.23%) CyberArk
8 6 (1.91%) Foundry
9 5 (1.59%) Apple
9 5 (1.59%) Okta
9 5 (1.59%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.59%) webMethods
10 4 (1.27%) Autodesk
10 4 (1.27%) IBM
10 4 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.27%) SAP
11 2 (0.64%) Ariba
11 2 (0.64%) Brio