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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 284 365
Rank change year-on-year -46 +81 +32
Contract jobs citing API Development 307 248 159
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.90% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.99% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 178 114
10th Percentile £381 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £403 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -7.75% -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £575
90th Percentile £700 £691 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - £25.60

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 38,782 25,081 28,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 90.77% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,156 16,055 18,761
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,506 1,391 1,691
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.87 £18.21
Median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 August 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 August 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 -77 122 £550 +10.00% 61
North of England -10 102 £470 +10.65% 23
Yorkshire +11 71 £472 -0.58% 4
South East -54 28 £425 -5.56% 18
South West -30 22 £413 +6.45% 18
North West -59 21 £550 +29.41% 16
North East - 11 £450 - 3
Midlands -67 10 £625 +45.35% 4
West Midlands -60 8 £925 +112.64% 2
East of England -20 6 £425 -22.02% 5
East Midlands -17 2 £381 +9.17% 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 28 (9.12%) Confluence
2 4 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.98%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.98%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.98%) Mule
4 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Appian
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Luigi
5 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.63%) CPLEX
2 4 (1.30%) Navisworks
2 4 (1.30%) Revit
3 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.33%) Odoo
3 1 (0.33%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 124 (40.39%) Azure
2 84 (27.36%) AWS
3 59 (19.22%) GCP
4 46 (14.98%) GitHub
5 45 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (8.47%) Serverless
7 12 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.58%) Azure AKS
9 10 (3.26%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (3.26%) Firebase
10 9 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (2.93%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.61%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.61%) Apigee
11 8 (2.61%) Azure Functions
11 8 (2.61%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.28%) Kong
12 7 (2.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.65%) CTI
1 2 (0.65%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.33%) BGP
2 1 (0.33%) Firewall
2 1 (0.33%) NaaS
2 1 (0.33%) Network Security
2 1 (0.33%) SSH
2 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (12.05%) MongoDB
3 18 (5.86%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.54%) Relational Database
5 16 (5.21%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.26%) Geospatial Data
7 8 (2.61%) BigQuery
7 8 (2.61%) Power BI
8 6 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.95%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.63%) Metadata
9 5 (1.63%) MySQL
9 5 (1.63%) Redis
10 3 (0.98%) Big Data
10 3 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.98%) SQLite
11 2 (0.65%) Db2
11 2 (0.65%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (20.85%) Git
2 48 (15.64%) JIRA
3 40 (13.03%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.58%) Bitbucket
4 11 (3.58%) Gradle
5 10 (3.26%) fastlane
5 10 (3.26%) GitLab
6 9 (2.93%) Mockito
6 9 (2.93%) MSI
7 8 (2.61%) JUnit
8 5 (1.63%) Android Studio
8 5 (1.63%) Crashlytics
8 5 (1.63%) Xcode
9 4 (1.30%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.98%) git-flow
10 3 (0.98%) Maven
10 3 (0.98%) Postman
10 3 (0.98%) Selenium
10 3 (0.98%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.65%) GoCD
General
1 65 (21.17%) Finance
2 59 (19.22%) Social Skills
3 50 (16.29%) Public Sector
4 44 (14.33%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.14%) Banking
6 17 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.28%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.30%) Retail
8 4 (1.30%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.98%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.98%) Publishing
10 2 (0.65%) Billing
10 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.65%) Front Office
10 2 (0.65%) Law
11 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Marketing
11 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 176 (57.33%) Developer
2 61 (19.87%) Senior
3 56 (18.24%) Python Developer
4 41 (13.36%) Java Developer
5 34 (11.07%) Senior Developer
6 32 (10.42%) Lead
7 23 (7.49%) Architect
8 22 (7.17%) .NET Developer
8 22 (7.17%) Software Engineer
9 16 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (4.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 13 (4.23%) Senior Python Developer
12 10 (3.26%) Integration Architect
13 9 (2.93%) Backend Developer
14 8 (2.61%) Data Engineer
14 8 (2.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.61%) Software Developer
15 7 (2.28%) C# Developer
15 7 (2.28%) Senior Java Developer
15 7 (2.28%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (29.32%) REST
2 79 (25.73%) RESTful
3 68 (22.15%) .NET
4 51 (16.61%) React
5 41 (13.36%) FastAPI
6 38 (12.38%) Node.js
6 38 (12.38%) Spring
7 36 (11.73%) Spring Boot
8 35 (11.40%) AngularJS
9 29 (9.45%) OAuth
10 28 (9.12%) Kafka
11 27 (8.79%) HTML
11 27 (8.79%) OAuth2
12 25 (8.14%) .NET Core
13 23 (7.49%) .NET Framework
14 21 (6.84%) Django
14 21 (6.84%) Flask
15 19 (6.19%) JSON
16 18 (5.86%) CSS
17 17 (5.54%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 69 (22.48%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.79%) Product Ownership
3 24 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (5.86%) Onboarding
5 17 (5.54%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.26%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.93%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.61%) Data Structures
11 7 (2.28%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.28%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.95%) Derivative
12 6 (1.95%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.95%) NHS
13 4 (1.30%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.30%) Market Risk
14 3 (0.98%) Legacy Code
14 3 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.21%) Linux
2 12 (3.91%) Unix
2 12 (3.91%) Windows
3 5 (1.63%) Android
3 5 (1.63%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.65%) AIX
4 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.65%) VMS
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (56.03%) CI/CD
2 125 (40.72%) Agile
3 111 (36.16%) Microservices
4 109 (35.50%) DevOps
5 86 (28.01%) Containerisation
6 75 (24.43%) Test Automation
7 66 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
8 56 (18.24%) AI
8 56 (18.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 56 (18.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 53 (17.26%) Software Engineering
10 50 (16.29%) API Design
10 50 (16.29%) Event-Driven
11 44 (14.33%) Observability
12 43 (14.01%) Analytics
13 41 (13.36%) TDD
14 39 (12.70%) Code Quality
15 37 (12.05%) Technical Leadership
16 36 (11.73%) Deployment Automation
16 36 (11.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 146 (47.56%) Python
2 90 (29.32%) Java
3 68 (22.15%) SQL
4 55 (17.92%) JavaScript
5 52 (16.94%) C#
6 46 (14.98%) TypeScript
7 20 (6.51%) Kotlin
8 13 (4.23%) Go
9 12 (3.91%) Bicep
10 9 (2.93%) Rust
11 8 (2.61%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.63%) Swift
13 4 (1.30%) Scala
13 4 (1.30%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.98%) C++
15 2 (0.65%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.65%) Bash
15 2 (0.65%) PromQL
16 1 (0.33%) Gremlin
16 1 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 69 (22.48%) Security Cleared
2 57 (18.57%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.19%) Degree
4 14 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.61%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.65%) CISSP
9 2 (0.65%) GIAC
10 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.73%) Accessibility
2 23 (7.49%) WCAG
3 18 (5.86%) QA
4 9 (2.93%) NCSC
5 7 (2.28%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.28%) GDPR
6 4 (1.30%) ISO 19650
7 2 (0.65%) HL7
7 2 (0.65%) IEC 62304
7 2 (0.65%) ISO 13485
7 2 (0.65%) PSD2
7 2 (0.65%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.33%) NIST
8 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 95 (30.94%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) IAG
3 1 (0.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 100 (32.57%) Kubernetes
2 51 (16.61%) Terraform
3 26 (8.47%) Prometheus
4 21 (6.84%) Grafana
5 13 (4.23%) Control-M
5 13 (4.23%) IBM Guardium
5 13 (4.23%) Nessus
6 11 (3.58%) Ansible
7 3 (0.98%) Kibana
8 2 (0.65%) Argo
8 2 (0.65%) Consul
8 2 (0.65%) Istio
8 2 (0.65%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.33%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 49 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.47%) Google
3 16 (5.21%) Dynatrace
4 13 (4.23%) Tenable
5 9 (2.93%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.28%) Databricks
7 7 (2.28%) Oracle
8 6 (1.95%) CyberArk
8 6 (1.95%) Foundry
9 5 (1.63%) Apple
9 5 (1.63%) Okta
9 5 (1.63%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.63%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.63%) webMethods
10 4 (1.30%) Autodesk
10 4 (1.30%) IBM
10 4 (1.30%) SAP
11 2 (0.65%) Brio
11 2 (0.65%) VMware