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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 389 421
Rank change year-on-year +105 +32 -12
Contract jobs citing API Development 246 139 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.89% 0.43% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.50% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 95 135
10th Percentile £363 £377 £375
25th Percentile £413 £450 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £619
90th Percentile £688 £687 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £38.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £25.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year - -31.73% -38.62%

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 25,024 27,970 37,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.88% 86.03% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,893 17,419 26,295
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,490 1,309 1,438
10th Percentile £14.37 £14.96 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%
75th Percentile £49.31 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

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
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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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 +92 138 £510 -7.27% 56
North of England +4 47 £439 -11.86% 25
North West +15 33 £425 +10.46% 12
South East +36 25 £450 -2.70% 34
Midlands +2 17 £368 -33.09% 11
Yorkshire -24 13 £500 -0.50% 11
East Midlands +5 10 £358 -34.91% 5
East of England +9 8 £523 +74.17% 11
West Midlands -7 7 £435 -20.91% 6
South West +14 4 £375 -16.67% 6
North East - 1 - - 2
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 22 (8.94%) Confluence
2 8 (3.25%) Anypoint
2 8 (3.25%) WebLogic
3 7 (2.85%) JBoss
3 7 (2.85%) Tomcat
3 7 (2.85%) WebSphere
4 5 (2.03%) Mule
5 4 (1.63%) nginx
6 3 (1.22%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.81%) CICS
7 2 (0.81%) Mule ESB
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.41%) Camunda
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.41%) Traefik
8 1 (0.41%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.41%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.41%) Maximo
1 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.41%) SAP MRS
1 1 (0.41%) SAP PM
1 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.41%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 88 (35.77%) AWS
2 64 (26.02%) Azure
3 31 (12.60%) GitHub
4 21 (8.54%) GCP
5 20 (8.13%) Serverless
6 16 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.25%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (2.85%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.85%) Apigee
9 7 (2.85%) Azure AKS
9 7 (2.85%) SaaS
10 6 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.03%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.03%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.28%) HTTP
2 9 (3.66%) Firewall
3 7 (2.85%) HTTPS
4 6 (2.44%) SSL
5 2 (0.81%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.81%) 4G
5 2 (0.81%) 5G
5 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.81%) Wireless
5 2 (0.81%) X.509
6 1 (0.41%) BGP
6 1 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (12.20%) NoSQL
2 23 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (9.35%) SQL Server
3 22 (8.94%) MongoDB
4 14 (5.69%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.66%) DB2
6 6 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.44%) MySQL
7 5 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.63%) Power BI
9 3 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.22%) Big Data
9 3 (1.22%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.22%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.22%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.81%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.81%) Metadata
10 2 (0.81%) Redis
10 2 (0.81%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 44 (17.89%) JIRA
2 32 (13.01%) Git
3 28 (11.38%) Jenkins
4 19 (7.72%) GitLab
5 13 (5.28%) Bitbucket
6 11 (4.47%) Postman
7 10 (4.07%) CircleCI
7 10 (4.07%) JUnit
7 10 (4.07%) SpecFlow
8 9 (3.66%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.63%) Maven
10 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.22%) Gradle
10 3 (1.22%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.22%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.81%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.81%) Mockito
11 2 (0.81%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 84 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.58%) Finance
3 30 (12.20%) Banking
4 27 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 25 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.44%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.44%) Retail
7 5 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.63%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.63%) Digital Healthcare
8 4 (1.63%) Retail Banking
8 4 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.22%) Military
9 3 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.81%) Back Office
10 2 (0.81%) Billing
10 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 139 (56.50%) Developer
2 67 (27.24%) Senior
3 40 (16.26%) Senior Developer
4 39 (15.85%) Java Developer
5 23 (9.35%) Architect
5 23 (9.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (6.91%) Python Developer
6 17 (6.91%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.50%) Senior Java Developer
8 11 (4.47%) .NET Developer
8 11 (4.47%) Angular Developer
8 11 (4.47%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 11 (4.47%) React Developer
9 9 (3.66%) Backend Developer
9 9 (3.66%) Lead
9 9 (3.66%) Technical Architect
10 8 (3.25%) C# Developer
11 7 (2.85%) Scrum Master
11 7 (2.85%) Senior Architect
12 6 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (36.99%) RESTful
2 65 (26.42%) React
3 57 (23.17%) REST
4 51 (20.73%) Spring
5 49 (19.92%) .NET
6 47 (19.11%) Spring Boot
7 40 (16.26%) AngularJS
8 29 (11.79%) HTML
8 29 (11.79%) Kafka
8 29 (11.79%) SOAP
9 28 (11.38%) Node.js
9 28 (11.38%) OAuth
10 27 (10.98%) JSON
11 24 (9.76%) Web Services
12 20 (8.13%) CSS
13 19 (7.72%) Swagger
14 16 (6.50%) .NET Framework
14 16 (6.50%) OAuth2
14 16 (6.50%) RAML
15 15 (6.10%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.10%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.85%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.03%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.03%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.63%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.22%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.22%) State Machine
9 3 (1.22%) Wiki
10 2 (0.81%) DataPower
10 2 (0.81%) PKI
10 2 (0.81%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.41%) Derivative
11 1 (0.41%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.88%) Linux
2 3 (1.22%) Unix
2 3 (1.22%) VMS
2 3 (1.22%) Windows
3 2 (0.81%) Android
3 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.81%) zOS
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%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (54.07%) Agile
2 110 (44.72%) CI/CD
3 96 (39.02%) Microservices
4 93 (37.80%) DevOps
5 81 (32.93%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (20.33%) Containerisation
7 43 (17.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 37 (15.04%) Scrum
9 36 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
10 32 (13.01%) Event-Driven
11 29 (11.79%) Software Engineering
12 28 (11.38%) API Design
13 27 (10.98%) Clean Code
14 26 (10.57%) Test Automation
15 25 (10.16%) SDLC
16 23 (9.35%) Performance Optimisation
16 23 (9.35%) Project Management
17 22 (8.94%) API Integration
17 22 (8.94%) TDD
17 22 (8.94%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 110 (44.72%) Java
2 82 (33.33%) Python
3 77 (31.30%) SQL
4 63 (25.61%) JavaScript
5 51 (20.73%) TypeScript
6 44 (17.89%) C#
7 12 (4.88%) Go
8 11 (4.47%) Bash
8 11 (4.47%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.25%) PHP
10 7 (2.85%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.03%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.63%) C++
12 4 (1.63%) Ruby
13 3 (1.22%) Bicep
13 3 (1.22%) C
13 3 (1.22%) DataWeave
14 2 (0.81%) Scala
14 2 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.81%) XPath
Qualifications
1 41 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 31 (12.60%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.35%) Degree
4 11 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.44%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.63%) CEH
7 4 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.63%) CISSP
8 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.81%) OCP
8 2 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.81%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.41%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.35%) QA
2 6 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.44%) GDPR
3 5 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.63%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.22%) NIST
6 2 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.41%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.41%) MiFID
7 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (24.39%) Docker
2 8 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 69 (28.05%) Kubernetes
2 36 (14.63%) Terraform
3 10 (4.07%) Ansible
4 9 (3.66%) Grafana
5 8 (3.25%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.03%) CloudHub
6 5 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.22%) Puppet
8 2 (0.81%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.81%) Kibana
8 2 (0.81%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.81%) Rsyslog
8 2 (0.81%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.81%) Salt
8 2 (0.81%) SCOM
9 1 (0.41%) Argo
9 1 (0.41%) Cilium
9 1 (0.41%) Istio
9 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (10.57%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.16%) Oracle
3 16 (6.50%) Google
4 12 (4.88%) MuleSoft
4 12 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.25%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.03%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.63%) ForgeRock
7 4 (1.63%) Pega
7 4 (1.63%) VMware
8 3 (1.22%) Axway
8 3 (1.22%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.22%) Workday
9 2 (0.81%) IBM
9 2 (0.81%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.81%) SAP
10 1 (0.41%) Cisco
10 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.41%) Trillium
10 1 (0.41%) webMethods