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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 280 363
Rank change year-on-year -64 +83 +65
Contract jobs citing API Development 325 252 155
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.91% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.00% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 180 104
10th Percentile £381 £363 £377
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.50% -8.64%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £623
90th Percentile £700 £688 £685
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.50% -8.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £41.50
75th Percentile £77.00 - £41.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 - £25.60
% change year-on-year - - -31.73%

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 39,415 25,251 27,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.00% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,982 16,042 16,911
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,873 1,537 1,195
10th Percentile £13.88 £14.39 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £47.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +54.51% -40.82% -

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -91 128 £558 +9.31% 102
North of England -44 97 £450 -10.00% 46
Yorkshire +4 67 £460 -8.00% 14
Midlands -24 29 £475 +32.68% 15
South East -58 25 £475 +5.56% 21
West Midlands -29 21 £613 +44.12% 13
South West -23 20 £413 +10.00% 20
North West -66 16 £500 +14.03% 31
North East -30 15 £450 -21.74% 1
East Midlands -19 8 £402 +12.29% 2
East of England -26 8 £400 -23.44% 5
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 43 (13.23%) Confluence
2 5 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.92%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.92%) Mule
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.31%) Luigi
5 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) CPLEX
1 4 (1.23%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.23%) Revit
2 3 (0.92%) Windchill
3 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 122 (37.54%) Azure
2 110 (33.85%) AWS
3 67 (20.62%) GCP
4 52 (16.00%) GitHub
5 38 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (8.31%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (7.08%) Serverless
8 14 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.08%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.77%) Cloud Run
11 8 (2.46%) Azure AKS
11 8 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (2.46%) Firebase
11 8 (2.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (2.46%) Power Platform
12 7 (2.15%) Google Gemini
12 7 (2.15%) LangSmith
13 6 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.62%) CTI
2 2 (0.62%) HTTP
2 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.31%) 4G
3 1 (0.31%) 5G
3 1 (0.31%) DNS
3 1 (0.31%) Firewall
3 1 (0.31%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) Network Security
3 1 (0.31%) SSH
3 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (15.08%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (10.77%) Relational Database
3 29 (8.92%) MongoDB
4 20 (6.15%) SQL Server
5 15 (4.62%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.77%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.77%) Geospatial Data
6 9 (2.77%) Redis
7 8 (2.46%) Power BI
8 7 (2.15%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.85%) Metadata
10 5 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.54%) MySQL
11 4 (1.23%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.92%) SQLite
13 2 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.62%) Db2
14 1 (0.31%) Big Data
14 1 (0.31%) Couchbase
14 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 79 (24.31%) Git
2 60 (18.46%) JIRA
3 45 (13.85%) Jenkins
4 20 (6.15%) JUnit
5 16 (4.92%) Bitbucket
5 16 (4.92%) Maven
6 15 (4.62%) Mockito
7 13 (4.00%) GitLab
7 13 (4.00%) SonarQube
8 12 (3.69%) Gradle
9 9 (2.77%) MSI
10 8 (2.46%) fastlane
11 4 (1.23%) Android Studio
11 4 (1.23%) Crashlytics
11 4 (1.23%) git-flow
11 4 (1.23%) Postman
11 4 (1.23%) Xcode
12 3 (0.92%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.92%) Selenium
12 3 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 85 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 68 (20.92%) Finance
3 55 (16.92%) Public Sector
4 54 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.38%) Banking
6 22 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.77%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.85%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.54%) Retail
10 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.23%) Publishing
10 4 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.62%) Advertising
11 2 (0.62%) Automotive
11 2 (0.62%) Law
12 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.31%) Front Office
12 1 (0.31%) Legal
12 1 (0.31%) Military
Job Titles
1 179 (55.08%) Developer
2 56 (17.23%) Senior
3 46 (14.15%) Java Developer
4 43 (13.23%) Python Developer
5 39 (12.00%) Lead
6 34 (10.46%) Senior Developer
7 24 (7.38%) .NET Developer
7 24 (7.38%) Software Engineer
8 22 (6.77%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (6.15%) Architect
10 15 (4.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 12 (3.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 12 (3.69%) Technical Leader
12 11 (3.38%) Senior Python Developer
13 10 (3.08%) C# Developer
13 10 (3.08%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (2.77%) Applications Developer
14 9 (2.77%) Java Engineer
14 9 (2.77%) Python Engineer
15 8 (2.46%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (32.31%) RESTful
2 103 (31.69%) REST
3 63 (19.38%) .NET
4 60 (18.46%) React
5 50 (15.38%) Spring
6 48 (14.77%) Spring Boot
6 48 (14.77%) Terraform
7 41 (12.62%) AngularJS
8 36 (11.08%) HTML
8 36 (11.08%) OAuth
9 34 (10.46%) Node.js
9 34 (10.46%) OAuth2
10 33 (10.15%) FastAPI
11 26 (8.00%) Kafka
12 25 (7.69%) OpenID
13 24 (7.38%) .NET Core
14 23 (7.08%) CSS
15 22 (6.77%) Django
16 21 (6.46%) .NET Framework
16 21 (6.46%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 94 (28.92%) Cloud Native
2 32 (9.85%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (9.85%) Product Ownership
3 21 (6.46%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (4.92%) AI Agents
5 15 (4.62%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.46%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.46%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.46%) NHS
7 8 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.15%) Derivative
9 6 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.85%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.85%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.54%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.23%) Legacy Code
11 4 (1.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.23%) Linux
2 13 (4.00%) Windows
3 12 (3.69%) Unix
4 4 (1.23%) Android
4 4 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.62%) AIX
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (58.77%) CI/CD
2 148 (45.54%) Agile
3 143 (44.00%) Microservices
4 114 (35.08%) DevOps
5 97 (29.85%) Test Automation
6 90 (27.69%) Containerisation
7 69 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
8 67 (20.62%) Full-Stack Development
9 66 (20.31%) Software Engineering
10 64 (19.69%) AI
10 64 (19.69%) Event-Driven
11 60 (18.46%) Code Quality
12 54 (16.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 50 (15.38%) Observability
14 49 (15.08%) API Design
14 49 (15.08%) TDD
15 48 (14.77%) Scrum
16 46 (14.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 45 (13.85%) API Integration
17 45 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 138 (42.46%) Python
2 102 (31.38%) Java
3 70 (21.54%) SQL
4 66 (20.31%) JavaScript
5 59 (18.15%) TypeScript
6 50 (15.38%) C#
7 21 (6.46%) Kotlin
8 20 (6.15%) Go
9 13 (4.00%) Bicep
10 10 (3.08%) Rust
11 9 (2.77%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.77%) Scala
12 8 (2.46%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.23%) Bash
13 4 (1.23%) C++
13 4 (1.23%) Swift
14 2 (0.62%) ABAP
14 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.62%) PromQL
14 2 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (22.46%) Security Cleared
2 62 (19.08%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.08%) Degree
4 18 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.92%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.92%) Accessibility
2 29 (8.92%) QA
3 24 (7.38%) WCAG
4 9 (2.77%) GDPR
4 9 (2.77%) NCSC
5 6 (1.85%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.23%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.23%) ISO 19650
6 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.23%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.92%) HL7
8 2 (0.62%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.62%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.62%) MISRA
8 2 (0.62%) PSD2
8 2 (0.62%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.31%) NIST
9 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 104 (32.00%) Docker
2 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 103 (31.69%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.00%) Grafana
2 26 (8.00%) Prometheus
3 9 (2.77%) Ansible
4 8 (2.46%) Control-M
5 7 (2.15%) IBM Guardium
5 7 (2.15%) Nessus
6 6 (1.85%) Kibana
7 3 (0.92%) Argo
8 2 (0.62%) Consul
8 2 (0.62%) Istio
8 2 (0.62%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 52 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.31%) Google
3 14 (4.31%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.69%) Oracle
5 10 (3.08%) Okta
6 9 (2.77%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.46%) Databricks
8 7 (2.15%) CyberArk
8 7 (2.15%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.15%) Splunk
8 7 (2.15%) Tenable
9 6 (1.85%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.85%) SAP
10 5 (1.54%) webMethods
11 4 (1.23%) Apple
11 4 (1.23%) Autodesk
11 4 (1.23%) Foundry
11 4 (1.23%) IBM
11 4 (1.23%) Ping Identity
11 4 (1.23%) Salesforce