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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 284 346
Rank change year-on-year -40 +62 +25
Contract jobs citing API Development 283 194 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.80% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.88% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 147 162
10th Percentile £352 £363 £390
25th Percentile £413 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £625
90th Percentile £671 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £70.43 - -
25th Percentile £71.07 £43.50 -
Median hourly rate £72.13 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.29% - -
75th Percentile £73.20 £46.50 -
90th Percentile £73.83 - -
UK median hourly rate £72.13 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +60.29% - -

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 32,731 22,028 32,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.21% 90.81% 86.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,968 14,519 21,584
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,997 852 2,159
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -1.05% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.10 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -9.72%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -28 143 £515 -10.43% 26
North of England -14 77 £470 +4.44% 20
Yorkshire -26 42 £475 -9.52% 6
North West -12 33 £450 +12.50% 12
South East -55 18 £550 +10.55% 12
Midlands -74 17 £449 +3.16% 11
East of England -19 14 £625 -21.88% 6
West Midlands -57 13 £449 +0.84% 11
South West -25 7 £405 -31.15% 12
East Midlands -32 4 £455 +39.57%
North East -11 2 £439 -20.23% 2
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 13 (4.59%) Confluence
2 8 (2.83%) Anypoint
2 8 (2.83%) Appian
3 6 (2.12%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.77%) Mule
5 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.06%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.71%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) CICS
8 1 (0.35%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.35%) JBoss
8 1 (0.35%) Mule ESB
8 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.06%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.71%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.35%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.35%) Odoo
4 1 (0.35%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 99 (34.98%) Azure
2 94 (33.22%) AWS
3 46 (16.25%) GCP
4 35 (12.37%) GitHub
5 32 (11.31%) Serverless
6 21 (7.42%) Azure AI
7 19 (6.71%) Power Platform
8 18 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (6.01%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.95%) Copilot Studio
11 13 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
11 13 (4.59%) Microsoft Copilot
11 13 (4.59%) Power Automate
12 12 (4.24%) Azure Functions
12 12 (4.24%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (3.53%) Anthropic Claude
13 10 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (3.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.06%) VPN
2 2 (0.71%) Firewall
2 2 (0.71%) HTTP
2 2 (0.71%) Internet
2 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.35%) BGP
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) FTP
3 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.35%) NaaS
3 1 (0.35%) SSH
3 1 (0.35%) SSL
3 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.55%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (14.13%) NoSQL
3 29 (10.25%) Relational Database
4 24 (8.48%) SQL Server
5 23 (8.13%) MongoDB
6 17 (6.01%) MySQL
7 15 (5.30%) Power BI
8 8 (2.83%) Pinecone
9 7 (2.47%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.12%) Big Data
10 6 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.06%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.06%) Metadata
11 3 (1.06%) Redis
11 3 (1.06%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.71%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 58 (20.49%) Git
2 36 (12.72%) Jenkins
3 35 (12.37%) JIRA
4 23 (8.13%) GitLab
5 12 (4.24%) JUnit
6 10 (3.53%) Mockito
7 8 (2.83%) Gradle
7 8 (2.83%) MLflow
8 6 (2.12%) Maven
9 4 (1.41%) Mocha
9 4 (1.41%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.06%) fastlane
10 3 (1.06%) Selenium
10 3 (1.06%) Storybook
11 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.71%) GoCD
11 2 (0.71%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.71%) Xcode
General
1 79 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 75 (26.50%) Finance
3 36 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (12.01%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.01%) Banking
6 10 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.77%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.77%) Marketing
7 5 (1.77%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.41%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.06%) Aviation
9 3 (1.06%) Electronics
9 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.06%) Publishing
10 2 (0.71%) Front Office
10 2 (0.71%) Law
10 2 (0.71%) Police
11 1 (0.35%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 156 (55.12%) Developer
2 47 (16.61%) Senior
3 46 (16.25%) Python Developer
4 33 (11.66%) Full-Stack Developer
5 26 (9.19%) Java Developer
6 24 (8.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 23 (8.13%) Senior Developer
8 22 (7.77%) Architect
9 19 (6.71%) Lead
10 14 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.89%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.53%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (3.53%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.53%) Integration Developer
13 9 (3.18%) C# Developer
13 9 (3.18%) Software Developer
14 8 (2.83%) .NET Developer
14 8 (2.83%) Applications Developer
14 8 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (2.83%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (34.28%) RESTful
2 87 (30.74%) REST
3 46 (16.25%) React
4 43 (15.19%) Spring
5 41 (14.49%) Spring Boot
6 40 (14.13%) Node.js
7 39 (13.78%) .NET
7 39 (13.78%) FastAPI
8 32 (11.31%) AngularJS
9 27 (9.54%) OAuth
10 22 (7.77%) JWT
11 21 (7.42%) Kafka
11 21 (7.42%) OpenAPI
12 20 (7.07%) JSON
12 20 (7.07%) Swagger
13 19 (6.71%) Django
13 19 (6.71%) Flask
13 19 (6.71%) scikit-learn
14 18 (6.36%) CSS
14 18 (6.36%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.83%) Product Ownership
2 24 (8.48%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.89%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (3.18%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.83%) Low-Code
8 7 (2.47%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.47%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.77%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.77%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.41%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.41%) CMDB
11 4 (1.41%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.06%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.06%) Market Risk
13 2 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.71%) Linux
2 11 (3.89%) Unix
3 7 (2.47%) Windows
4 3 (1.06%) Android
5 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.71%) VMS
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Embedded Compact
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (56.18%) CI/CD
2 109 (38.52%) Agile
3 98 (34.63%) DevOps
4 96 (33.92%) Microservices
5 72 (25.44%) Containerisation
6 67 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (21.55%) Test Automation
8 50 (17.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 48 (16.96%) AI
10 46 (16.25%) API Integration
11 40 (14.13%) Infrastructure as Code
12 39 (13.78%) Code Quality
13 34 (12.01%) API Design
13 34 (12.01%) Machine Learning
14 33 (11.66%) Observability
15 32 (11.31%) LLM
15 32 (11.31%) TDD
16 31 (10.95%) Analytics
17 30 (10.60%) Clean Code
18 29 (10.25%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 129 (45.58%) Python
2 94 (33.22%) SQL
3 73 (25.80%) Java
4 49 (17.31%) JavaScript
5 42 (14.84%) C#
6 41 (14.49%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.47%) Bash
7 7 (2.47%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.41%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.41%) C++
9 4 (1.41%) Go
9 4 (1.41%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.41%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.41%) Ruby
9 4 (1.41%) Scala
10 3 (1.06%) PHP
10 3 (1.06%) R
11 2 (0.71%) C
11 2 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 53 (18.73%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.49%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.01%) Degree
4 12 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.71%) CISSP
9 2 (0.71%) GIAC
10 1 (0.35%) CBAP
10 1 (0.35%) CSPO
10 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.35%) OCP
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.30%) QA
2 14 (4.95%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.41%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.06%) GDPR
5 3 (1.06%) SLA
6 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.71%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) HL7
7 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 98 (34.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) IAG
2 1 (0.35%) KVM
2 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (34.63%) Kubernetes
2 43 (15.19%) Terraform
3 26 (9.19%) Grafana
4 24 (8.48%) Prometheus
5 15 (5.30%) Control-M
5 15 (5.30%) IBM Guardium
5 15 (5.30%) Nessus
6 8 (2.83%) Ansible
7 4 (1.41%) Puppet
8 3 (1.06%) Kibana
9 2 (0.71%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.71%) Istio
10 1 (0.35%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.35%) Consul
10 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.35%) logstash
10 1 (0.35%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 37 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.48%) Google
3 21 (7.42%) OpenAI
4 15 (5.30%) Foundry
4 15 (5.30%) Tenable
5 13 (4.59%) MuleSoft
5 13 (4.59%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.53%) Oracle
6 10 (3.53%) Ping Identity
7 8 (2.83%) Automation Anywhere
7 8 (2.83%) Databricks
7 8 (2.83%) UiPath
8 7 (2.47%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.12%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.77%) Adobe
11 3 (1.06%) Axway
11 3 (1.06%) SAP
11 3 (1.06%) Splunk
11 3 (1.06%) Veracode
12 2 (0.71%) Concur
82 API Development jobs in England