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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 274 368
Rank change year-on-year -64 +94 +37
Contract jobs citing API Development 315 244 175
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.89% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.99% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 175 124
10th Percentile £366 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -6.82% -11.35%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £641 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -10.51%
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 38,320 24,760 31,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.73% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,128 15,919 20,389
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,284 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.33 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.08 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -82 119 £540 +5.37% 54
North of England 0 117 £470 +10.59% 21
Yorkshire +9 75 £471 -5.90% 7
North West -45 31 £500 +24.38% 11
South East -72 25 £465 +3.33% 13
South West -25 17 £413 -21.43% 20
Midlands -62 12 £531 +22.13% 4
North East - 12 £450 - 3
West Midlands -68 10 £575 +29.21% 2
East of England -23 5 £500 -8.26% 4
East Midlands -24 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 (8.89%) Confluence
2 6 (1.90%) Anypoint
2 6 (1.90%) Mule
3 4 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.27%) Appian
3 4 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) CICS
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Luigi
5 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (1.59%) CPLEX
2 4 (1.27%) Navisworks
2 4 (1.27%) Revit
3 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Odoo
3 1 (0.32%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 118 (37.46%) Azure
2 83 (26.35%) AWS
3 58 (18.41%) GCP
4 46 (14.60%) GitHub
5 41 (13.02%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (7.94%) Serverless
8 12 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (3.81%) Power Platform
9 10 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (3.17%) Firebase
10 9 (2.86%) Azure AI
10 9 (2.86%) Azure AKS
11 8 (2.54%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.54%) Apigee
11 8 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.22%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.22%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.63%) CTI
1 2 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.32%) BGP
2 1 (0.32%) Firewall
2 1 (0.32%) NaaS
2 1 (0.32%) Network Security
2 1 (0.32%) SSH
2 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (10.48%) MongoDB
3 23 (7.30%) Relational Database
4 19 (6.03%) NoSQL
5 18 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.17%) Power BI
7 9 (2.86%) MySQL
8 7 (2.22%) BigQuery
8 7 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.22%) Geospatial Data
9 6 (1.90%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.90%) Metadata
10 5 (1.59%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.27%) Redis
12 3 (0.95%) Big Data
12 3 (0.95%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.63%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 58 (18.41%) Git
2 51 (16.19%) JIRA
3 42 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.40%) GitLab
5 13 (4.13%) Gradle
6 12 (3.81%) Mockito
7 11 (3.49%) JUnit
8 10 (3.17%) fastlane
9 9 (2.86%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.90%) MSI
11 5 (1.59%) Android Studio
11 5 (1.59%) Crashlytics
11 5 (1.59%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.59%) Xcode
12 4 (1.27%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.27%) Maven
12 4 (1.27%) MLflow
13 3 (0.95%) Postman
13 3 (0.95%) Selenium
14 2 (0.63%) Vite
General
1 73 (23.17%) Finance
2 59 (18.73%) Social Skills
3 50 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (15.87%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.03%) Banking
5 15 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.27%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.27%) Retail
7 3 (0.95%) Aerospace
7 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
7 3 (0.95%) Law
7 3 (0.95%) Manufacturing
7 3 (0.95%) Publishing
7 3 (0.95%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.63%) Billing
8 2 (0.63%) Front Office
8 2 (0.63%) Police
9 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 181 (57.46%) Developer
2 58 (18.41%) Python Developer
3 57 (18.10%) Senior
4 43 (13.65%) Java Developer
5 30 (9.52%) Senior Developer
6 27 (8.57%) Lead
7 24 (7.62%) Software Engineer
8 23 (7.30%) Architect
9 19 (6.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 13 (4.13%) .NET Developer
12 11 (3.49%) Backend Developer
12 11 (3.49%) Senior Python Developer
13 9 (2.86%) Java Engineer
13 9 (2.86%) Software Developer
14 8 (2.54%) Data Engineer
14 8 (2.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.54%) Integration Architect
15 7 (2.22%) Security Engineer
15 7 (2.22%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (28.25%) RESTful
2 87 (27.62%) REST
3 52 (16.51%) .NET
4 51 (16.19%) React
5 48 (15.24%) Spring
6 47 (14.92%) Node.js
6 47 (14.92%) Spring Boot
7 45 (14.29%) FastAPI
8 32 (10.16%) OAuth
9 31 (9.84%) AngularJS
10 30 (9.52%) Kafka
11 25 (7.94%) OAuth2
12 23 (7.30%) HTML
13 22 (6.98%) Django
13 22 (6.98%) Swagger
14 21 (6.67%) Flask
14 21 (6.67%) JWT
14 21 (6.67%) OpenAPI
14 21 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
15 19 (6.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 63 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 35 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 28 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.17%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.86%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.54%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.22%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.22%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.27%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.27%) NHS
11 4 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.95%) Derivative
12 3 (0.95%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.95%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.13%) Linux
2 8 (2.54%) Unix
2 8 (2.54%) Windows
3 5 (1.59%) Android
3 5 (1.59%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.63%) AIX
4 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.63%) VMS
5 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (56.51%) CI/CD
2 137 (43.49%) Agile
3 111 (35.24%) Microservices
4 109 (34.60%) DevOps
5 90 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 79 (25.08%) Test Automation
7 70 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
9 55 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 54 (17.14%) Software Engineering
11 52 (16.51%) Event-Driven
12 51 (16.19%) API Design
13 50 (15.87%) AI
14 48 (15.24%) Observability
15 42 (13.33%) API Integration
16 38 (12.06%) Analytics
16 38 (12.06%) Deployment Automation
16 38 (12.06%) Scrum
16 38 (12.06%) TDD
17 36 (11.43%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 144 (45.71%) Python
2 108 (34.29%) Java
3 73 (23.17%) SQL
4 51 (16.19%) JavaScript
5 43 (13.65%) C#
6 42 (13.33%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.71%) Kotlin
8 14 (4.44%) Go
9 9 (2.86%) Bicep
9 9 (2.86%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.54%) Rust
11 5 (1.59%) Swift
12 4 (1.27%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.27%) Scala
13 3 (0.95%) Bash
14 2 (0.63%) Groovy
14 2 (0.63%) PromQL
15 1 (0.32%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.32%) R
15 1 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 69 (21.90%) Security Cleared
2 59 (18.73%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.35%) Degree
4 15 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.95%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.63%) CISSP
9 2 (0.63%) GIAC
10 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 20 (6.35%) WCAG
3 16 (5.08%) QA
4 10 (3.17%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.22%) GDPR
6 6 (1.90%) NCSC
7 4 (1.27%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.27%) ISO 19650
8 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.63%) PSD2
8 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.32%) NIST
9 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 97 (30.79%) Docker
2 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) IAG
3 1 (0.32%) KVM
Systems Management
1 101 (32.06%) Kubernetes
2 52 (16.51%) Terraform
3 28 (8.89%) Prometheus
4 27 (8.57%) Grafana
5 18 (5.71%) Control-M
5 18 (5.71%) IBM Guardium
5 18 (5.71%) Nessus
6 12 (3.81%) Ansible
7 2 (0.63%) Consul
7 2 (0.63%) Istio
7 2 (0.63%) Kibana
7 2 (0.63%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 41 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.52%) Google
3 18 (5.71%) Tenable
4 15 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.17%) MuleSoft
5 10 (3.17%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.86%) Foundry
6 9 (2.86%) Oracle
7 8 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.22%) Okta
9 6 (1.90%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.90%) Databricks
10 5 (1.59%) Apple
11 4 (1.27%) Autodesk
11 4 (1.27%) Automation Anywhere
11 4 (1.27%) Ping Identity
11 4 (1.27%) UiPath
11 4 (1.27%) webMethods
12 3 (0.95%) Veracode