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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 346 367
Rank change year-on-year +64 +21 +20
Contract jobs citing API Development 208 196 315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.53% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.61% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 147 226
10th Percentile £357 £396 £412
25th Percentile £404 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £650 £694 £715
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £586
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.14% +1.91%

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 22,408 32,208 45,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.09% 86.52% 90.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,700 21,179 32,145
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,233 1,631
10th Percentile £14.66 £12.86 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.95 £16.74
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £38.35
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -8.74% +59.79%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% -6.67% +50.00%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +71 125 £558 -3.04% 191
North of England -10 29 £402 -26.91% 50
South East +46 23 £450 -14.29% 52
Midlands +41 17 £435 +2.65% 14
North West +5 16 £400 -23.81% 25
West Midlands +22 14 £435 -3.33% 6
Yorkshire -3 11 £453 -17.73% 24
South West +44 7 £650 -13.09% 31
East Midlands +19 3 £326 -17.99% 8
East of England - 3 £575 - 10
North East - 2 £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 22 (10.58%) Confluence
2 8 (3.85%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.44%) JBoss
3 3 (1.44%) Mule
3 3 (1.44%) Mule ESB
3 3 (1.44%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.44%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.44%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.48%) Camunda
4 1 (0.48%) CICS
4 1 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.48%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) BASE24
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 74 (35.58%) AWS
2 65 (31.25%) Azure
3 22 (10.58%) GitHub
4 20 (9.62%) Serverless
5 16 (7.69%) GCP
6 13 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (3.85%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.37%) Apigee
9 7 (3.37%) Azure Functions
9 7 (3.37%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (3.37%) OCI
10 6 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.88%) Datadog
11 5 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.88%) HTTP
2 3 (1.44%) Firewall
3 2 (0.96%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.96%) 4G
3 2 (0.96%) 5G
3 2 (0.96%) Wireless
4 1 (0.48%) ATM
4 1 (0.48%) BGP
4 1 (0.48%) DNS
4 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.23%) NoSQL
2 33 (15.87%) MongoDB
3 30 (14.42%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.29%) MySQL
5 10 (4.81%) SQL Server
6 9 (4.33%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.88%) Power BI
8 5 (2.40%) Redis
9 4 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.92%) DB2
9 4 (1.92%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.96%) Big Data
11 2 (0.96%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.48%) Data Mart
12 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 45 (21.63%) Git
2 32 (15.38%) JIRA
3 24 (11.54%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.25%) Bitbucket
5 9 (4.33%) GitLab
5 9 (4.33%) Postman
6 8 (3.85%) Subversion
7 7 (3.37%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.88%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.88%) Maven
8 6 (2.88%) Selenium
9 5 (2.40%) Babel
9 5 (2.40%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.40%) JUnit
9 5 (2.40%) webpack
10 4 (1.92%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (1.92%) Newman
10 4 (1.92%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 51 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.90%) Public Sector
3 24 (11.54%) Finance
4 20 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.85%) Advertising
5 8 (3.85%) Banking
6 7 (3.37%) Retail
7 6 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.92%) Marketing
10 2 (0.96%) Billing
10 2 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.96%) Local Government
10 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Law
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 141 (67.79%) Developer
2 30 (14.42%) Senior
3 29 (13.94%) Java Developer
4 27 (12.98%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (8.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 15 (7.21%) Python Developer
6 15 (7.21%) Senior Developer
7 12 (5.77%) React Developer
7 12 (5.77%) Software Engineer
8 11 (5.29%) .NET Developer
8 11 (5.29%) Applications Developer
8 11 (5.29%) Architect
8 11 (5.29%) Lead
9 10 (4.81%) Lead Developer
10 9 (4.33%) Support Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) Azure Developer
11 8 (3.85%) Web Developer
12 7 (3.37%) AWS Developer
12 7 (3.37%) Backend Developer
12 7 (3.37%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (31.25%) React
2 57 (27.40%) RESTful
3 45 (21.63%) Spring
4 40 (19.23%) Spring Boot
5 36 (17.31%) Kafka
6 35 (16.83%) .NET
7 31 (14.90%) REST
8 28 (13.46%) Node.js
9 26 (12.50%) HTML
10 22 (10.58%) CSS
10 22 (10.58%) Web Services
11 18 (8.65%) JSON
12 17 (8.17%) FastAPI
13 14 (6.73%) SOAP
14 13 (6.25%) OAuth
14 13 (6.25%) Swagger
15 12 (5.77%) OpenAPI
16 11 (5.29%) .NET Core
16 11 (5.29%) AngularJS
17 10 (4.81%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.33%) Cloud Native
1 9 (4.33%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.37%) Public Cloud
2 7 (3.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 6 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.92%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.92%) Hedge funds
4 4 (1.92%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.44%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.44%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.44%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.96%) NHS
6 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.85%) Linux
2 5 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.92%) VMS
4 2 (0.96%) Android
5 1 (0.48%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (55.29%) Agile
2 81 (38.94%) CI/CD
3 80 (38.46%) DevOps
4 68 (32.69%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (29.33%) Microservices
6 44 (21.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 31 (14.90%) API Design
8 30 (14.42%) Test Automation
9 28 (13.46%) API Integration
10 26 (12.50%) Code Quality
10 26 (12.50%) Software Engineering
11 24 (11.54%) Containerisation
12 20 (9.62%) Clean Code
12 20 (9.62%) Front End Development
13 19 (9.13%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (9.13%) Event-Driven
13 19 (9.13%) Scrum
13 19 (9.13%) SOLID
14 17 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 85 (40.87%) Java
2 78 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 76 (36.54%) Python
4 72 (34.62%) SQL
5 29 (13.94%) C#
6 27 (12.98%) TypeScript
7 22 (10.58%) PHP
8 12 (5.77%) Kotlin
9 9 (4.33%) Go
10 7 (3.37%) Scala
10 7 (3.37%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.88%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.40%) Bash
12 5 (2.40%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.92%) DataWeave
13 4 (1.92%) Ruby
13 4 (1.92%) Rust
14 3 (1.44%) C++
15 2 (0.96%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.96%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 33 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.17%) AWS Certified Developer
4 13 (6.25%) Degree
5 7 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.96%) CEH
8 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.96%) CISSP
8 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.48%) OCP
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.40%) QA
2 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.96%) GDPR
2 2 (0.96%) HIPAA
2 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (20.67%) Docker
2 5 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.92%) VirtualBox
3 4 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (27.40%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.98%) Terraform
3 8 (3.85%) Puppet
4 6 (2.88%) Kibana
4 6 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.40%) Ansible
5 5 (2.40%) CloudHub
5 5 (2.40%) Grafana
6 4 (1.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (1.92%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.48%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 22 (10.58%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.10%) Oracle
3 10 (4.81%) MuleSoft
4 8 (3.85%) Google
5 7 (3.37%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.37%) Splunk
6 4 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (1.92%) VMware
7 3 (1.44%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.44%) Zend
8 2 (0.96%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.96%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.96%) SAP
9 1 (0.48%) Cisco
9 1 (0.48%) Databricks
9 1 (0.48%) IBM
9 1 (0.48%) Okta
9 1 (0.48%) OutSystems
9 1 (0.48%) Snow
9 1 (0.48%) TIBCO