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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 268 375
Rank change year-on-year -52 +107 +20
Contract jobs citing API Development 308 231 188
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 0.92% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.01% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 164 138
10th Percentile £366 £352 £375
25th Percentile £420 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £586 £591 £608
90th Percentile £688 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -6.25%
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 37,051 22,942 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 91.40% 85.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,408 14,828 20,735
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £416 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,328 1,099 2,362
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.76
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.48
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -71 129 £525 +5.00% 22
North of England -1 107 £471 +17.04% 16
Yorkshire +2 66 £473 +11.24% 6
North West -32 30 £500 +24.38% 9
South East -60 24 £439 -3.84% 13
Midlands -71 13 £550 +26.44% 4
West Midlands -59 11 £600 +34.83% 1
North East - 11 £450 - 1
South West -44 10 £413 -21.43% 7
East of England -26 7 £600 +10.09% 4
East Midlands -27 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 22 (7.14%) Confluence
2 7 (2.27%) Anypoint
2 7 (2.27%) Appian
2 7 (2.27%) Mule
3 6 (1.95%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.65%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.32%) CICS
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.62%) CPLEX
2 4 (1.30%) Navisworks
2 4 (1.30%) Revit
3 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.97%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) Odoo
3 1 (0.32%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 120 (38.96%) Azure
2 80 (25.97%) AWS
3 58 (18.83%) GCP
4 43 (13.96%) GitHub
5 38 (12.34%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (8.77%) Serverless
7 25 (8.12%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (5.19%) Power Platform
9 15 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (4.55%) Azure AI
11 13 (4.22%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (3.57%) Azure Functions
12 11 (3.57%) Power Automate
13 10 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (3.25%) Firebase
14 9 (2.92%) Azure AKS
15 8 (2.60%) Apigee
15 8 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (2.60%) Copilot Studio
16 7 (2.27%) Cloud Run
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 47 (15.26%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (9.42%) MongoDB
3 24 (7.79%) NoSQL
4 22 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 18 (5.84%) SQL Server
6 14 (4.55%) Power BI
7 9 (2.92%) MySQL
8 8 (2.60%) Pinecone
9 6 (1.95%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.95%) Metadata
10 5 (1.62%) Redis
11 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.30%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.97%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.65%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 56 (18.18%) Git
2 45 (14.61%) JIRA
3 41 (13.31%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.52%) GitLab
5 12 (3.90%) Gradle
6 10 (3.25%) fastlane
6 10 (3.25%) Mockito
7 9 (2.92%) JUnit
8 7 (2.27%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.27%) MLflow
9 5 (1.62%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.62%) Crashlytics
9 5 (1.62%) Xcode
10 4 (1.30%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.30%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.97%) GoCD
11 3 (0.97%) Maven
11 3 (0.97%) MSI
11 3 (0.97%) Postman
11 3 (0.97%) Selenium
General
1 72 (23.38%) Finance
2 59 (19.16%) Social Skills
3 47 (15.26%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (14.94%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.17%) Banking
6 14 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.30%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.30%) Retail
8 3 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.97%) Financial Institution
8 3 (0.97%) Law
8 3 (0.97%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.97%) Publishing
8 3 (0.97%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.65%) Aviation
9 2 (0.65%) Billing
9 2 (0.65%) Front Office
9 2 (0.65%) Marketing
9 2 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 171 (55.52%) Developer
2 57 (18.51%) Python Developer
3 50 (16.23%) Senior
4 41 (13.31%) Java Developer
5 27 (8.77%) Senior Developer
6 25 (8.12%) Lead
7 24 (7.79%) Architect
8 23 (7.47%) Software Engineer
9 22 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
10 21 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (3.57%) Backend Developer
12 10 (3.25%) Senior Python Developer
12 10 (3.25%) Software Developer
13 8 (2.60%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (2.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (2.60%) Integration Architect
13 8 (2.60%) Java Engineer
14 7 (2.27%) Data Engineer
14 7 (2.27%) Security Engineer
14 7 (2.27%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (28.90%) RESTful
2 82 (26.62%) REST
3 53 (17.21%) React
4 48 (15.58%) Node.js
5 46 (14.94%) .NET
5 46 (14.94%) Spring
6 45 (14.61%) FastAPI
6 45 (14.61%) Spring Boot
7 35 (11.36%) OAuth
8 31 (10.06%) AngularJS
9 26 (8.44%) JWT
9 26 (8.44%) Swagger
10 25 (8.12%) Kafka
10 25 (8.12%) OAuth2
10 25 (8.12%) OpenAPI
11 23 (7.47%) Django
12 22 (7.14%) Flask
13 20 (6.49%) JSON
13 20 (6.49%) OpenTelemetry
14 19 (6.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (18.83%) Cloud Native
2 37 (12.01%) Product Ownership
3 26 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.22%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.25%) AI Agents
6 10 (3.25%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.25%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.92%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.60%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.27%) Low-Code
9 7 (2.27%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.62%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.30%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.30%) NHS
12 2 (0.65%) CMDB
12 2 (0.65%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.90%) Linux
2 7 (2.27%) Unix
3 5 (1.62%) Android
3 5 (1.62%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.62%) Windows
4 2 (0.65%) AIX
4 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.65%) VMS
5 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (57.47%) CI/CD
2 122 (39.61%) Agile
3 106 (34.42%) Microservices
4 105 (34.09%) DevOps
5 89 (28.90%) Containerisation
6 75 (24.35%) Test Automation
7 64 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (19.48%) Full-Stack Development
9 53 (17.21%) AI
9 53 (17.21%) Software Engineering
10 52 (16.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 51 (16.56%) Event-Driven
12 48 (15.58%) Observability
13 46 (14.94%) API Design
14 43 (13.96%) API Integration
15 39 (12.66%) Clean Code
16 37 (12.01%) Analytics
16 37 (12.01%) Deployment Automation
16 37 (12.01%) Scrum
17 36 (11.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 139 (45.13%) Python
2 101 (32.79%) Java
3 77 (25.00%) SQL
4 48 (15.58%) JavaScript
5 42 (13.64%) TypeScript
6 40 (12.99%) C#
7 16 (5.19%) Kotlin
8 13 (4.22%) Go
9 10 (3.25%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.60%) Rust
11 6 (1.95%) Bicep
12 5 (1.62%) Swift
13 4 (1.30%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.97%) Bash
15 2 (0.65%) Groovy
15 2 (0.65%) PromQL
15 2 (0.65%) Scala
16 1 (0.32%) Gremlin
16 1 (0.32%) R
16 1 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 64 (20.78%) Security Cleared
2 52 (16.88%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.82%) Degree
4 16 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.30%) 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 (8.77%) Accessibility
2 17 (5.52%) WCAG
3 15 (4.87%) QA
4 12 (3.90%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.95%) GDPR
6 4 (1.30%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.30%) ISO 19650
7 3 (0.97%) NCSC
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 97 (31.49%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.32%) IAG
3 1 (0.32%) KVM
Systems Management
1 99 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 51 (16.56%) Terraform
3 27 (8.77%) Prometheus
4 26 (8.44%) Grafana
5 17 (5.52%) Control-M
5 17 (5.52%) IBM Guardium
5 17 (5.52%) Nessus
6 11 (3.57%) Ansible
7 3 (0.97%) Istio
8 2 (0.65%) Consul
8 2 (0.65%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.32%) Kibana
9 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.06%) Google
3 17 (5.52%) Tenable
4 15 (4.87%) Dynatrace
4 15 (4.87%) OpenAI
5 11 (3.57%) Foundry
5 11 (3.57%) MuleSoft
6 10 (3.25%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.60%) Oracle
7 8 (2.60%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.27%) Automation Anywhere
8 7 (2.27%) Okta
8 7 (2.27%) UiPath
9 6 (1.95%) Databricks
10 5 (1.62%) Apple
10 5 (1.62%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.30%) Autodesk
11 4 (1.30%) Ping Identity
11 4 (1.30%) webMethods
12 3 (0.97%) Veracode