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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 289 366
Rank change year-on-year -56 +77 +71
Contract jobs citing API Development 322 238 158
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.86% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.94% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 169 107
10th Percentile £381 £367 £376
25th Percentile £413 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £685
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £516
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.10% -6.18%
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 39,251 25,237 27,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.91% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,728 16,010 16,947
10th Percentile £325 £297 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,965 1,563 1,177
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.57 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -94 128 £560 +9.80% 170
North of England -30 96 £450 -10.00% 52
Yorkshire +8 67 £465 -7.00% 19
Midlands -27 29 £475 +30.85% 21
South East -55 24 £475 +5.56% 34
West Midlands -29 21 £575 +35.29% 16
South West -21 19 £413 +10.00% 17
North East -28 15 £450 -21.74% 2
North West -58 15 £489 +13.72% 31
East Midlands -11 8 £402 +12.29% 5
East of England -26 7 £400 -26.61% 12
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 (13.35%) Confluence
2 4 (1.24%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.93%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.93%) 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 (1.24%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.93%) Navisworks
2 3 (0.93%) Revit
2 3 (0.93%) Windchill
3 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 121 (37.58%) Azure
2 106 (32.92%) AWS
3 68 (21.12%) GCP
4 50 (15.53%) GitHub
5 39 (12.11%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (6.83%) Serverless
8 13 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.11%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.80%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.80%) Cloud Run
11 8 (2.48%) Azure AKS
11 8 (2.48%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (2.48%) Firebase
11 8 (2.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (2.17%) Google Gemini
12 7 (2.17%) LangSmith
13 6 (1.86%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.55%) 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 48 (14.91%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (11.49%) Relational Database
3 30 (9.32%) MongoDB
4 20 (6.21%) SQL Server
5 16 (4.97%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.11%) Redis
7 9 (2.80%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.80%) Geospatial Data
8 8 (2.48%) Power BI
9 7 (2.17%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.55%) MySQL
11 4 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.24%) Metadata
11 4 (1.24%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.93%) SQLite
13 2 (0.62%) Db2
13 2 (0.62%) ZAP BI
14 1 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.31%) Big Data
14 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 81 (25.16%) Git
2 62 (19.25%) JIRA
3 45 (13.98%) Jenkins
4 20 (6.21%) JUnit
5 17 (5.28%) Bitbucket
6 16 (4.97%) Maven
7 15 (4.66%) Mockito
8 13 (4.04%) SonarQube
9 12 (3.73%) GitLab
9 12 (3.73%) Gradle
10 9 (2.80%) MSI
11 8 (2.48%) fastlane
12 4 (1.24%) Android Studio
12 4 (1.24%) Crashlytics
12 4 (1.24%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.24%) git-flow
12 4 (1.24%) Postman
12 4 (1.24%) Xcode
13 3 (0.93%) ScalaTest
13 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 84 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 73 (22.67%) Finance
3 54 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (16.15%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.76%) Banking
6 22 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.11%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.86%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.55%) Retail
10 4 (1.24%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.24%) Publishing
10 4 (1.24%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.62%) Advertising
11 2 (0.62%) Automotive
11 2 (0.62%) Billing
11 2 (0.62%) Law
12 1 (0.31%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Military
12 1 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 181 (56.21%) Developer
2 54 (16.77%) Senior
3 46 (14.29%) Python Developer
4 45 (13.98%) Java Developer
5 37 (11.49%) Lead
6 33 (10.25%) Senior Developer
7 25 (7.76%) .NET Developer
8 24 (7.45%) Software Engineer
9 22 (6.83%) Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (5.90%) Architect
11 15 (4.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (3.73%) Technical Leader
13 11 (3.42%) C# Developer
13 11 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (3.42%) Senior Python Developer
14 10 (3.11%) Python Engineer
14 10 (3.11%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (2.80%) Applications Developer
15 9 (2.80%) Java Engineer
16 8 (2.48%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (32.30%) RESTful
2 103 (31.99%) REST
3 62 (19.25%) .NET
4 60 (18.63%) React
5 48 (14.91%) Spring
6 47 (14.60%) Spring Boot
7 46 (14.29%) Terraform
8 40 (12.42%) AngularJS
9 38 (11.80%) HTML
10 34 (10.56%) FastAPI
11 33 (10.25%) OAuth
12 31 (9.63%) Node.js
12 31 (9.63%) OAuth2
13 26 (8.07%) Kafka
14 25 (7.76%) CSS
14 25 (7.76%) Django
15 24 (7.45%) OpenID
16 23 (7.14%) .NET Core
17 21 (6.52%) .NET Framework
17 21 (6.52%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 96 (29.81%) Cloud Native
2 33 (10.25%) Product Ownership
3 31 (9.63%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (6.83%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (5.59%) AI Agents
6 15 (4.66%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.80%) NHS
9 8 (2.48%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.48%) Derivative
9 8 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.48%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.17%) Market Risk
11 6 (1.86%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.86%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.86%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.24%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.24%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.90%) Linux
2 14 (4.35%) Unix
3 13 (4.04%) Windows
4 4 (1.24%) Android
4 4 (1.24%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.62%) AIX
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (59.32%) CI/CD
2 149 (46.27%) Agile
3 141 (43.79%) Microservices
4 115 (35.71%) DevOps
5 98 (30.43%) Test Automation
6 87 (27.02%) Containerisation
7 69 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 67 (20.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 66 (20.50%) AI
10 65 (20.19%) Event-Driven
11 64 (19.88%) Software Engineering
12 63 (19.57%) Code Quality
13 53 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
14 51 (15.84%) Observability
14 51 (15.84%) TDD
15 48 (14.91%) Scrum
16 46 (14.29%) API Design
16 46 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
17 45 (13.98%) API Integration
18 44 (13.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 139 (43.17%) Python
2 95 (29.50%) Java
3 73 (22.67%) SQL
4 67 (20.81%) JavaScript
5 60 (18.63%) TypeScript
6 52 (16.15%) C#
7 21 (6.52%) Kotlin
8 20 (6.21%) Go
9 13 (4.04%) Bicep
10 11 (3.42%) Rust
11 10 (3.11%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.80%) PowerShell
12 9 (2.80%) Scala
13 5 (1.55%) Bash
14 4 (1.24%) C++
14 4 (1.24%) Swift
15 3 (0.93%) Ruby
16 2 (0.62%) ABAP
16 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.62%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 69 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 59 (18.32%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.83%) Degree
4 17 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.93%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.35%) Accessibility
2 30 (9.32%) QA
3 24 (7.45%) WCAG
4 9 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.80%) GDPR
4 9 (2.80%) NCSC
5 4 (1.24%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.24%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.93%) HL7
6 3 (0.93%) ISO 19650
7 2 (0.62%) IEC 62304
7 2 (0.62%) ISO 13485
7 2 (0.62%) MISRA
7 2 (0.62%) PSD2
7 2 (0.62%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 101 (31.37%) Docker
2 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 100 (31.06%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.07%) Grafana
3 25 (7.76%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.80%) Ansible
5 8 (2.48%) Control-M
6 7 (2.17%) IBM Guardium
6 7 (2.17%) Nessus
7 6 (1.86%) Kibana
8 3 (0.93%) Argo
9 2 (0.62%) Consul
9 2 (0.62%) Istio
9 2 (0.62%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 55 (17.08%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.07%) Google
3 14 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.73%) Oracle
5 9 (2.80%) Databricks
5 9 (2.80%) Okta
6 8 (2.48%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.48%) Splunk
7 7 (2.17%) CyberArk
7 7 (2.17%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.17%) Tenable
8 6 (1.86%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.86%) SAP
9 5 (1.55%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.55%) webMethods
10 4 (1.24%) Apple
10 4 (1.24%) Foundry
10 4 (1.24%) IBM
10 4 (1.24%) Ping Identity
11 3 (0.93%) OutSystems