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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 272 375
Rank change year-on-year -50 +103 +25
Contract jobs citing API Development 315 236 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.92% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.01% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 167 132
10th Percentile £364 £354 £375
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 - -

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 37,409 23,372 31,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.17% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,567 15,052 20,589
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,348 1,165 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.97 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%

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 1 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 1 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 -81 125 £525 +5.00% 39
North of England +6 117 £470 +16.92% 21
Yorkshire +15 75 £471 +10.71% 8
North West -31 31 £500 +24.38% 11
South East -62 24 £439 -2.50% 11
Midlands -70 13 £550 +26.44% 6
South West -28 12 £413 -21.43% 12
North East - 12 £450 - 2
West Midlands -54 11 £600 +34.83% 3
East of England -22 6 £575 +5.50% 4
East Midlands -22 2 £381 +9.17% 3
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 25 (7.94%) Confluence
2 7 (2.22%) Anypoint
2 7 (2.22%) Mule
3 6 (1.90%) Appian
4 5 (1.59%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.27%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.32%) CICS
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) Luigi
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 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%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Distributed Ledger
1 3 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.32%) Odoo
3 1 (0.32%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 119 (37.78%) Azure
2 82 (26.03%) AWS
3 59 (18.73%) GCP
4 44 (13.97%) GitHub
5 39 (12.38%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (7.94%) Serverless
7 14 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (4.44%) Power Platform
8 12 (3.81%) Azure AI
9 11 (3.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.17%) Firebase
11 9 (2.86%) Azure AKS
11 9 (2.86%) Azure Functions
11 9 (2.86%) Power Automate
12 8 (2.54%) Apigee
13 7 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.22%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
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 32 (10.16%) MongoDB
3 23 (7.30%) NoSQL
4 22 (6.98%) Relational Database
5 19 (6.03%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.81%) Power BI
7 10 (3.17%) MySQL
8 7 (2.22%) BigQuery
8 7 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.22%) Pinecone
9 6 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.90%) Geospatial Data
9 6 (1.90%) Metadata
10 4 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.27%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.27%) Redis
11 3 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.95%) Big Data
11 3 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 56 (17.78%) Git
2 49 (15.56%) JIRA
3 42 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.40%) GitLab
5 12 (3.81%) Gradle
6 11 (3.49%) Mockito
7 10 (3.17%) fastlane
7 10 (3.17%) JUnit
8 7 (2.22%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.90%) MLflow
10 5 (1.59%) Android Studio
10 5 (1.59%) Crashlytics
10 5 (1.59%) MSI
10 5 (1.59%) Xcode
11 4 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.27%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.95%) GoCD
12 3 (0.95%) Maven
12 3 (0.95%) Postman
12 3 (0.95%) Selenium
General
1 76 (24.13%) Finance
2 59 (18.73%) Social Skills
3 48 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (15.24%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.35%) Banking
5 14 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.27%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.27%) Retail
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%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.63%) Billing
8 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.63%) Front Office
8 2 (0.63%) Police
9 1 (0.32%) Aviation
9 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 179 (56.83%) Developer
2 59 (18.73%) Python Developer
3 54 (17.14%) Senior
4 42 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 29 (9.21%) Senior Developer
6 24 (7.62%) Architect
7 23 (7.30%) Lead
7 23 (7.30%) Software Engineer
8 21 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (6.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 12 (3.81%) .NET Developer
11 11 (3.49%) Backend Developer
12 10 (3.17%) 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%) Automation Engineer
15 7 (2.22%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (28.25%) RESTful
2 85 (26.98%) REST
3 51 (16.19%) .NET
3 51 (16.19%) React
4 47 (14.92%) Node.js
4 47 (14.92%) Spring
5 46 (14.60%) FastAPI
5 46 (14.60%) Spring Boot
6 34 (10.79%) OAuth
7 31 (9.84%) AngularJS
8 27 (8.57%) Kafka
9 25 (7.94%) JWT
9 25 (7.94%) OAuth2
9 25 (7.94%) Swagger
10 24 (7.62%) OpenAPI
11 22 (6.98%) Django
12 21 (6.67%) Flask
12 21 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
13 20 (6.35%) HTML
14 19 (6.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 60 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 37 (11.75%) Product Ownership
3 27 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.81%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.17%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.17%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.86%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.54%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.22%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.90%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.59%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.27%) NHS
14 3 (0.95%) Legacy Code
15 2 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
15 2 (0.63%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.13%) Linux
2 8 (2.54%) Unix
3 7 (2.22%) Windows
4 5 (1.59%) Android
4 5 (1.59%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.63%) AIX
5 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.63%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (56.83%) CI/CD
2 127 (40.32%) Agile
3 109 (34.60%) Microservices
4 106 (33.65%) DevOps
5 92 (29.21%) Containerisation
6 80 (25.40%) Test Automation
7 66 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (19.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 54 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 53 (16.83%) Software Engineering
11 51 (16.19%) AI
11 51 (16.19%) Event-Driven
12 50 (15.87%) Observability
13 48 (15.24%) API Design
14 45 (14.29%) API Integration
15 38 (12.06%) Clean Code
16 37 (11.75%) Deployment Automation
16 37 (11.75%) Scrum
16 37 (11.75%) TDD
17 36 (11.43%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 142 (45.08%) Python
2 104 (33.02%) Java
3 77 (24.44%) SQL
4 47 (14.92%) JavaScript
5 44 (13.97%) C#
6 43 (13.65%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.08%) Kotlin
8 14 (4.44%) Go
9 9 (2.86%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.54%) Bicep
10 8 (2.54%) Rust
11 5 (1.59%) Swift
12 4 (1.27%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.95%) Bash
13 3 (0.95%) Scala
14 2 (0.63%) Groovy
14 2 (0.63%) PromQL
15 1 (0.32%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.32%) Ruby
15 1 (0.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 65 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 55 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.67%) Degree
4 16 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.63%) CISSP
10 2 (0.63%) GIAC
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.89%) Accessibility
2 19 (6.03%) WCAG
3 15 (4.76%) QA
4 12 (3.81%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.22%) GDPR
6 5 (1.59%) 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%) SLA
8 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.32%) NIST
9 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 100 (31.75%) 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
1 102 (32.38%) 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%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.32%) Kibana
8 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 41 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.84%) Google
3 18 (5.71%) Tenable
4 15 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 13 (4.13%) OpenAI
6 11 (3.49%) MuleSoft
7 10 (3.17%) Foundry
8 9 (2.86%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.54%) Oracle
9 8 (2.54%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.22%) Okta
11 6 (1.90%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (1.90%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.90%) Databricks
11 6 (1.90%) UiPath
12 5 (1.59%) Apple
13 4 (1.27%) Autodesk
13 4 (1.27%) Ping Identity
13 4 (1.27%) webMethods
14 3 (0.95%) Veracode