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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 268 346
Rank change year-on-year -58 +78 +36
Contract jobs citing API Development 292 228 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.94% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.03% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 161 144
10th Percentile £380 £350 £377
25th Percentile £420 £400 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £492 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% -10.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £625
90th Percentile £641 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £498 £550
% change year-on-year +0.50% -9.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 35,715 22,116 31,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.05% 91.31% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,658 14,376 20,600
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,231 961 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.48% -23.33% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% -0.73%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -75 126 £501 -9.00% 41
North of England -7 102 £470 +17.50% 19
Yorkshire -6 60 £471 +10.71% 4
North West -30 34 £489 +22.19% 12
South East -61 20 £441 -2.11% 17
Midlands -64 15 £531 +22.13% 3
West Midlands -60 13 £575 +32.18%
North East -17 8 £450 -18.18% 3
East of England -28 8 £625 +25.00% 3
South West -34 7 £490 -6.71% 6
East Midlands -32 2 £381 +6.42% 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 21 (7.19%) Confluence
2 8 (2.74%) Appian
3 7 (2.40%) Anypoint
3 7 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.71%) Mule
5 3 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.68%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.34%) CICS
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.34%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Navisworks
1 4 (1.37%) Revit
2 3 (1.03%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Distributed Ledger
1 3 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.68%) Remedy AR System
2 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.34%) Odoo
3 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 110 (37.67%) Azure
2 75 (25.68%) AWS
3 53 (18.15%) GCP
4 40 (13.70%) GitHub
5 28 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (7.88%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (7.53%) Serverless
8 18 (6.16%) Power Platform
9 17 (5.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (5.48%) Azure AI
11 12 (4.11%) Power Automate
12 10 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (3.42%) Azure Functions
12 10 (3.42%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (3.08%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (3.08%) Apigee
13 9 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (3.08%) Copilot Studio
13 9 (3.08%) Kong
14 8 (2.74%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.68%) Firewall
2 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.34%) BGP
3 1 (0.34%) DNS
3 1 (0.34%) HTTP
3 1 (0.34%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) NaaS
3 1 (0.34%) Network Security
3 1 (0.34%) SSH
3 1 (0.34%) VPN
3 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (14.38%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (9.25%) NoSQL
3 25 (8.56%) MongoDB
4 23 (7.88%) Relational Database
5 18 (6.16%) SQL Server
6 15 (5.14%) Power BI
7 12 (4.11%) MySQL
8 8 (2.74%) BigQuery
8 8 (2.74%) Pinecone
9 7 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.05%) Metadata
11 5 (1.71%) Redis
12 4 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.37%) DynamoDB
13 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.03%) Big Data
13 3 (1.03%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.68%) Neo4j
14 2 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 48 (16.44%) Git
2 45 (15.41%) JIRA
3 39 (13.36%) Jenkins
4 19 (6.51%) GitLab
5 11 (3.77%) Gradle
6 9 (3.08%) Mockito
7 8 (2.74%) fastlane
7 8 (2.74%) MLflow
8 7 (2.40%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.40%) JUnit
9 5 (1.71%) Android Studio
10 4 (1.37%) Crashlytics
10 4 (1.37%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.37%) Postman
10 4 (1.37%) Xcode
11 3 (1.03%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.03%) Maven
11 3 (1.03%) Selenium
11 3 (1.03%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.68%) Liquibase
General
1 66 (22.60%) Finance
2 64 (21.92%) Social Skills
3 48 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (12.67%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.82%) Banking
6 10 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.37%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.37%) Law
9 3 (1.03%) Front Office
9 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.03%) Publishing
9 3 (1.03%) Retail
9 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.68%) Aviation
10 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.68%) Marketing
10 2 (0.68%) Police
10 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 160 (54.79%) Developer
2 50 (17.12%) Python Developer
3 40 (13.70%) Senior
4 38 (13.01%) Java Developer
5 27 (9.25%) Architect
6 24 (8.22%) Lead
7 22 (7.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 22 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (6.51%) Senior Developer
8 19 (6.51%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.11%) Software Developer
10 10 (3.42%) Applications Developer
10 10 (3.42%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (2.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (2.74%) Integration Architect
11 8 (2.74%) Integration Developer
12 7 (2.40%) C# Developer
12 7 (2.40%) Java Engineer
12 7 (2.40%) Lead Developer
12 7 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (27.40%) RESTful
2 74 (25.34%) REST
3 49 (16.78%) React
4 43 (14.73%) Spring
5 42 (14.38%) Node.js
5 42 (14.38%) Spring Boot
6 41 (14.04%) FastAPI
7 39 (13.36%) .NET
8 34 (11.64%) OAuth
9 30 (10.27%) AngularJS
10 26 (8.90%) JWT
11 24 (8.22%) Swagger
12 23 (7.88%) Django
12 23 (7.88%) OpenAPI
13 22 (7.53%) JSON
13 22 (7.53%) OAuth2
13 22 (7.53%) OpenTelemetry
14 20 (6.85%) Flask
14 20 (6.85%) Kafka
15 17 (5.82%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.73%) Cloud Native
2 33 (11.30%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.79%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.08%) AI Agents
6 9 (3.08%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.74%) Low-Code
8 7 (2.40%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.40%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.05%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.71%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.37%) CMDB
11 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.03%) Fixed Income
13 2 (0.68%) Derivative
13 2 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.79%) Linux
2 9 (3.08%) Unix
3 5 (1.71%) Android
4 4 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.68%) AIX
5 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.68%) VMS
5 2 (0.68%) Windows
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (54.45%) CI/CD
2 108 (36.99%) Agile
3 95 (32.53%) DevOps
3 95 (32.53%) Microservices
4 82 (28.08%) Containerisation
5 66 (22.60%) Test Automation
6 65 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (17.12%) Infrastructure as Code
8 49 (16.78%) AI
8 49 (16.78%) Observability
9 46 (15.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 43 (14.73%) Software Engineering
11 40 (13.70%) API Design
12 39 (13.36%) Event-Driven
13 38 (13.01%) API Integration
14 36 (12.33%) Analytics
15 34 (11.64%) Clean Code
16 31 (10.62%) Deployment Automation
16 31 (10.62%) LLM
16 31 (10.62%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 127 (43.49%) Python
2 93 (31.85%) Java
3 84 (28.77%) SQL
4 45 (15.41%) JavaScript
5 39 (13.36%) C#
6 30 (10.27%) TypeScript
7 14 (4.79%) Kotlin
8 10 (3.42%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.74%) Go
10 4 (1.37%) Bash
10 4 (1.37%) Rust
10 4 (1.37%) Swift
11 3 (1.03%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.03%) Bicep
11 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.68%) C++
12 2 (0.68%) PromQL
12 2 (0.68%) Scala
13 1 (0.34%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 55 (18.84%) Security Cleared
2 43 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.19%) Degree
4 16 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.68%) CISSP
10 2 (0.68%) GIAC
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) CBAP
11 1 (0.34%) CSPO
11 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.85%) Accessibility
1 20 (6.85%) QA
2 13 (4.45%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.42%) WCAG
4 7 (2.40%) GDPR
5 4 (1.37%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.37%) ISO 19650
6 3 (1.03%) SLA
7 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.34%) NIST
8 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.34%) PMO
8 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 93 (31.85%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) IAG
3 1 (0.34%) KVM
Systems Management
1 96 (32.88%) Kubernetes
2 50 (17.12%) Terraform
3 29 (9.93%) Grafana
3 29 (9.93%) Prometheus
4 17 (5.82%) Control-M
4 17 (5.82%) IBM Guardium
4 17 (5.82%) Nessus
5 9 (3.08%) Ansible
6 4 (1.37%) Istio
7 3 (1.03%) Puppet
8 2 (0.68%) Consul
8 2 (0.68%) Kibana
8 2 (0.68%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.34%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.34%) logstash
9 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.59%) Google
3 17 (5.82%) OpenAI
3 17 (5.82%) Tenable
4 14 (4.79%) Dynatrace
5 12 (4.11%) Foundry
6 11 (3.77%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.74%) Automation Anywhere
7 8 (2.74%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.74%) UiPath
8 7 (2.40%) Okta
8 7 (2.40%) Oracle
9 6 (2.05%) Databricks
10 4 (1.37%) Autodesk
10 4 (1.37%) Ping Identity
10 4 (1.37%) webMethods
11 3 (1.03%) Apple
11 3 (1.03%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.03%) Veracode