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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 293 342
Rank change year-on-year -23 +49 +44
Contract jobs citing API Development 287 189 216
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.76% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.84% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 141 166
10th Percentile £351 £363 £394
25th Percentile £423 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £586 £630 £625
90th Percentile £680 £670 £694
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £70.43 £41.48 -
25th Percentile £71.07 £41.81 -
Median hourly rate £72.13 £43.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +66.77% - -
75th Percentile £73.20 £45.31 -
90th Percentile £73.83 £46.03 -
UK median hourly rate £72.13 £43.25 -
% change year-on-year +66.77% - -

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 31,916 22,554 32,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.61% 86.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,413 14,598 21,798
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 £639 £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 1,990 810 2,146
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.50 £34.06 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.44% +4.78% -12.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 15 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 15 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 -17 143 £525 -8.70% 34
North of England -2 85 £478 - 16
Yorkshire -23 46 £467 -13.12% 5
North West -4 32 £464 +15.94% 8
Midlands -57 17 £449 -10.70% 14
South East -54 16 £550 +10.55% 21
West Midlands -65 13 £449 -18.41% 13
East of England -18 12 £625 -21.88% 8
North East -8 7 £575 +4.55% 3
South West -36 5 - - 8
East Midlands -29 4 £455 +39.57% 1
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 9 (3.14%) Confluence
2 8 (2.79%) Anypoint
2 8 (2.79%) Appian
3 5 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.74%) Mule
4 4 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.05%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.70%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.70%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.35%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.35%) Odoo
4 1 (0.35%) Shopify
4 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 94 (32.75%) AWS
2 85 (29.62%) Azure
3 44 (15.33%) GCP
4 31 (10.80%) GitHub
4 31 (10.80%) Serverless
5 21 (7.32%) Azure AI
6 20 (6.97%) Power Platform
7 15 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (5.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (4.88%) Copilot Studio
8 14 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (4.53%) Microsoft Copilot
9 13 (4.53%) Power Automate
10 12 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (3.48%) Anthropic Claude
12 10 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (3.48%) Azure Functions
12 10 (3.48%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.39%) HTTPS
1 4 (1.39%) SSL
2 3 (1.05%) VPN
3 2 (0.70%) Firewall
3 2 (0.70%) HTTP
3 2 (0.70%) Internet
3 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.35%) BGP
4 1 (0.35%) DNS
4 1 (0.35%) FTP
4 1 (0.35%) NaaS
4 1 (0.35%) SSH
4 1 (0.35%) VoIP
4 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.77%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (13.94%) NoSQL
3 27 (9.41%) Relational Database
4 22 (7.67%) MongoDB
4 22 (7.67%) SQL Server
5 15 (5.23%) MySQL
5 15 (5.23%) Power BI
6 8 (2.79%) Pinecone
7 7 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (2.09%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.74%) Big Data
10 3 (1.05%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.05%) Metadata
10 3 (1.05%) Redis
10 3 (1.05%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.70%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 54 (18.82%) Git
2 38 (13.24%) JIRA
3 29 (10.10%) Jenkins
4 25 (8.71%) GitLab
5 12 (4.18%) JUnit
6 10 (3.48%) Mockito
7 8 (2.79%) MLflow
8 7 (2.44%) Gradle
9 6 (2.09%) Maven
9 6 (2.09%) Mocha
10 4 (1.39%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.05%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.05%) Storybook
12 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.70%) GoCD
12 2 (0.70%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.70%) Selenium
13 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 81 (28.22%) Social Skills
2 76 (26.48%) Finance
3 42 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.88%) Banking
6 10 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.74%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.74%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.74%) Marketing
7 5 (1.74%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.05%) Aviation
8 3 (1.05%) Electronics
8 3 (1.05%) Front Office
8 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.70%) Law
10 1 (0.35%) Billing
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 156 (54.36%) Developer
2 48 (16.72%) Python Developer
3 40 (13.94%) Senior
4 32 (11.15%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (8.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 22 (7.67%) Architect
7 18 (6.27%) Java Developer
7 18 (6.27%) Lead
8 16 (5.57%) Senior Developer
9 14 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.18%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.48%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (3.48%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.48%) Integration Developer
11 10 (3.48%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.14%) Python Engineer
13 8 (2.79%) Applications Developer
13 8 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (2.79%) Backend Developer
13 8 (2.79%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (31.71%) RESTful
2 84 (29.27%) REST
3 47 (16.38%) FastAPI
4 38 (13.24%) Node.js
4 38 (13.24%) React
4 38 (13.24%) Spring
5 36 (12.54%) Spring Boot
6 29 (10.10%) OAuth
7 28 (9.76%) .NET
8 25 (8.71%) OpenTelemetry
9 23 (8.01%) AngularJS
10 22 (7.67%) JWT
11 21 (7.32%) JSON
11 21 (7.32%) OpenAPI
12 20 (6.97%) Swagger
13 19 (6.62%) Kafka
13 19 (6.62%) scikit-learn
14 18 (6.27%) PyTorch
14 18 (6.27%) TensorFlow
15 17 (5.92%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.67%) Product Ownership
2 21 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.48%) Low-Code
6 9 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (3.14%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.79%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.44%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.74%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.39%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.39%) CMDB
10 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.39%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.39%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.05%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.05%) Market Risk
12 2 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.67%) Linux
2 10 (3.48%) Unix
3 7 (2.44%) Windows
4 2 (0.70%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (56.10%) CI/CD
2 116 (40.42%) Agile
3 96 (33.45%) Microservices
4 93 (32.40%) DevOps
5 80 (27.87%) Containerisation
6 75 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (20.56%) Test Automation
8 46 (16.03%) AI
8 46 (16.03%) API Integration
8 46 (16.03%) Full-Stack Development
9 40 (13.94%) Code Quality
10 38 (13.24%) Observability
11 36 (12.54%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (11.50%) LLM
12 33 (11.50%) Machine Learning
13 32 (11.15%) API Design
13 32 (11.15%) TDD
14 30 (10.45%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 29 (10.10%) Prompt Engineering
16 28 (9.76%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 131 (45.64%) Python
2 92 (32.06%) SQL
3 63 (21.95%) Java
4 46 (16.03%) JavaScript
5 39 (13.59%) TypeScript
6 36 (12.54%) C#
7 7 (2.44%) Bash
7 7 (2.44%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.74%) Go
8 5 (1.74%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.39%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.39%) C++
9 4 (1.39%) PHP
9 4 (1.39%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.39%) Ruby
9 4 (1.39%) Scala
10 3 (1.05%) R
11 2 (0.70%) C
11 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.35%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 59 (20.56%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.92%) Degree
4 12 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.70%) CISSP
7 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.70%) GIAC
8 1 (0.35%) CBAP
8 1 (0.35%) CSPO
8 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.35%) OCP
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.53%) Data Quality
1 13 (4.53%) QA
2 5 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.39%) GDPR
3 4 (1.39%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.05%) SLA
5 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.35%) HL7
6 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 109 (37.98%) 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
1 104 (36.24%) Kubernetes
2 39 (13.59%) Terraform
3 34 (11.85%) Grafana
4 30 (10.45%) Prometheus
5 23 (8.01%) Control-M
5 23 (8.01%) IBM Guardium
5 23 (8.01%) Nessus
6 7 (2.44%) Ansible
7 4 (1.39%) Puppet
8 3 (1.05%) Kibana
9 2 (0.70%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.70%) 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 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.01%) Tenable
3 22 (7.67%) OpenAI
4 21 (7.32%) Google
5 15 (5.23%) MuleSoft
6 14 (4.88%) Foundry
6 14 (4.88%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.48%) Ping Identity
8 8 (2.79%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (2.79%) Oracle
8 8 (2.79%) UiPath
9 6 (2.09%) Axway
10 5 (1.74%) Adobe
10 5 (1.74%) Databricks
10 5 (1.74%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.39%) Blue Prism
11 4 (1.39%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.05%) SAP
12 3 (1.05%) Splunk
12 3 (1.05%) Veracode