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

 6 months to
4 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 280 333
Rank change year-on-year -38 +53 +57
Contract jobs citing API Development 289 208 211
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 0.85% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.94% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 157 166
10th Percentile £354 £363 £394
25th Percentile £413 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £578 £630 £625
90th Percentile £675 £668 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £70.43 - -
25th Percentile £71.07 £43.50 -
Median hourly rate £72.13 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.29% - -
75th Percentile £73.20 £46.50 -
90th Percentile £73.83 - -
UK median hourly rate £72.13 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +60.29% - -

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 33,191 22,141 32,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.96% 90.87% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,296 14,591 21,484
10th Percentile £313 £311 £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 £638 £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 2,024 863 2,161
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.38 £19.00 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.10 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £31.52 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.07% -4.48% -11.53%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -41 146 £501 -12.96% 26
North of England -25 79 £475 +14.73% 20
Yorkshire -26 43 £475 +4.40% 6
North West -25 34 £464 +15.94% 12
South East -49 19 £550 +10.28% 12
Midlands -70 17 £449 +3.16% 11
East of England -21 14 £625 +13.64% 6
West Midlands -55 14 £475 +9.20% 11
South West -26 7 £490 -16.64% 12
East Midlands -31 3 £360 +10.43%
North East -14 2 £439 -20.23% 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 14 (4.84%) Confluence
2 8 (2.77%) Anypoint
2 8 (2.77%) Appian
3 6 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.73%) Mule
4 5 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.04%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
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 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.35%) Navisworks
2 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.04%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.69%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.35%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.35%) Odoo
4 1 (0.35%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 104 (35.99%) Azure
2 97 (33.56%) AWS
3 47 (16.26%) GCP
4 38 (13.15%) GitHub
5 33 (11.42%) Serverless
6 20 (6.92%) Azure AI
6 20 (6.92%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (6.57%) Power Platform
8 17 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (4.50%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (4.50%) Copilot Studio
10 13 (4.50%) Power Automate
11 12 (4.15%) Azure Functions
11 12 (4.15%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (4.15%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.46%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (3.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.04%) VPN
2 2 (0.69%) Firewall
2 2 (0.69%) HTTP
2 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.35%) BGP
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) FTP
3 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.35%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) NaaS
3 1 (0.35%) SSH
3 1 (0.35%) SSL
3 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (15.57%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (13.49%) NoSQL
3 29 (10.03%) Relational Database
4 25 (8.65%) SQL Server
5 23 (7.96%) MongoDB
6 18 (6.23%) MySQL
7 15 (5.19%) Power BI
8 8 (2.77%) Pinecone
9 7 (2.42%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.08%) Big Data
11 5 (1.73%) Metadata
12 4 (1.38%) Redis
13 3 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.04%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.04%) Spark SQL
14 2 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 58 (20.07%) Git
2 36 (12.46%) Jenkins
3 34 (11.76%) JIRA
4 24 (8.30%) GitLab
5 12 (4.15%) JUnit
6 10 (3.46%) Mockito
7 8 (2.77%) Gradle
7 8 (2.77%) MLflow
8 6 (2.08%) Maven
9 4 (1.38%) Mocha
9 4 (1.38%) Selenium
10 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.04%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.04%) fastlane
10 3 (1.04%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.04%) Storybook
11 2 (0.69%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.69%) GoCD
11 2 (0.69%) Postman
General
1 78 (26.99%) Social Skills
2 75 (25.95%) Finance
3 38 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.23%) Banking
6 9 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.73%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.73%) Marketing
7 5 (1.73%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.38%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.38%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.04%) Aviation
9 3 (1.04%) Electronics
9 3 (1.04%) Front Office
9 3 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.04%) Publishing
10 2 (0.69%) Law
10 2 (0.69%) Police
11 1 (0.35%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 159 (55.02%) Developer
2 48 (16.61%) Senior
3 47 (16.26%) Python Developer
4 33 (11.42%) Full-Stack Developer
5 27 (9.34%) Java Developer
6 24 (8.30%) Senior Developer
7 23 (7.96%) Architect
7 23 (7.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 22 (7.61%) Lead
9 14 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.15%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.46%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (3.46%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.46%) Integration Developer
11 10 (3.46%) Software Developer
12 9 (3.11%) C# Developer
13 8 (2.77%) .NET Developer
13 8 (2.77%) Applications Developer
13 8 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (2.77%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (33.91%) RESTful
2 88 (30.45%) REST
3 49 (16.96%) React
4 45 (15.57%) Spring
5 42 (14.53%) Node.js
5 42 (14.53%) Spring Boot
6 41 (14.19%) .NET
7 40 (13.84%) FastAPI
8 31 (10.73%) AngularJS
9 29 (10.03%) OAuth
10 25 (8.65%) JWT
11 22 (7.61%) JSON
11 22 (7.61%) Kafka
11 22 (7.61%) OpenAPI
11 22 (7.61%) Swagger
12 20 (6.92%) Django
12 20 (6.92%) Flask
13 18 (6.23%) scikit-learn
14 17 (5.88%) CSS
14 17 (5.88%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.00%) Cloud Native
1 26 (9.00%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.81%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (3.11%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.77%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.42%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.42%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.08%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.73%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.38%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.38%) CMDB
10 4 (1.38%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.38%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.04%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.04%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.23%) Linux
2 11 (3.81%) Unix
3 6 (2.08%) Windows
4 2 (0.69%) Android
4 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.69%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.69%) VMS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (56.06%) CI/CD
2 111 (38.41%) Agile
3 101 (34.95%) DevOps
4 98 (33.91%) Microservices
5 74 (25.61%) Containerisation
6 68 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (20.76%) Test Automation
8 52 (17.99%) Full-Stack Development
9 48 (16.61%) AI
10 47 (16.26%) API Integration
11 41 (14.19%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (12.46%) API Design
12 36 (12.46%) Code Quality
13 33 (11.42%) Machine Learning
13 33 (11.42%) Observability
14 31 (10.73%) Clean Code
14 31 (10.73%) LLM
14 31 (10.73%) Software Engineering
14 31 (10.73%) TDD
15 30 (10.38%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 132 (45.67%) Python
2 94 (32.53%) SQL
3 81 (28.03%) Java
4 50 (17.30%) JavaScript
5 43 (14.88%) C#
6 41 (14.19%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.42%) Bash
7 7 (2.42%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.38%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.38%) Go
9 4 (1.38%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.38%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.38%) Ruby
9 4 (1.38%) Scala
10 3 (1.04%) C++
10 3 (1.04%) PHP
10 3 (1.04%) R
11 2 (0.69%) Swift
12 1 (0.35%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 57 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 44 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.57%) Degree
4 14 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.73%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.04%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.69%) CISSP
8 2 (0.69%) GIAC
9 1 (0.35%) CBAP
9 1 (0.35%) CSPO
9 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.35%) OCP
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.88%) QA
2 14 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.77%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.38%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.04%) GDPR
5 3 (1.04%) SLA
6 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.69%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) HL7
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) NIST
7 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 99 (34.26%) 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 99 (34.26%) Kubernetes
2 45 (15.57%) Terraform
3 26 (9.00%) Grafana
4 24 (8.30%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.84%) Control-M
5 14 (4.84%) IBM Guardium
5 14 (4.84%) Nessus
6 8 (2.77%) Ansible
7 4 (1.38%) Puppet
8 3 (1.04%) Kibana
9 2 (0.69%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.69%) 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 35 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.30%) Google
3 20 (6.92%) OpenAI
4 14 (4.84%) Foundry
4 14 (4.84%) Tenable
5 13 (4.50%) MuleSoft
5 13 (4.50%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.46%) Oracle
6 10 (3.46%) Ping Identity
7 8 (2.77%) Automation Anywhere
7 8 (2.77%) Databricks
7 8 (2.77%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.77%) UiPath
8 6 (2.08%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.73%) Adobe
10 3 (1.04%) Axway
10 3 (1.04%) Okta
10 3 (1.04%) SAP
10 3 (1.04%) Splunk
10 3 (1.04%) Veracode
82 API Development jobs in England