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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 353 399
Rank change year-on-year +55 +46 -4
Contract jobs citing API Development 262 170 179
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 0.55% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.63% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 120 141
10th Percentile £381 £374 £388
25th Percentile £414 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £685 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £41.48 -
25th Percentile - £41.81 £36.25
Median hourly rate £74.26 £43.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.70% +15.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile - £45.31 £38.75
90th Percentile - £46.03 -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £33.55 £37.50
% change year-on-year +121.34% -10.53% -31.82%

All Process and 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 26,934 26,984 35,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.48% 86.62% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,108 16,470 24,373
10th Percentile £298 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,747 976 1,492
10th Percentile £14.69 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.74 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.08% +25.12%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 +63 144 £510 -11.30% 184
North of England -7 58 £500 - 91
North West +1 26 £469 +22.77% 70
Yorkshire -32 25 £500 - 15
South East +13 20 £475 -9.52% 146
Midlands -24 15 £400 -27.27% 23
East of England -7 11 £545 +81.67% 11
East Midlands - 10 £372 - 5
North East -3 7 £575 +4.55% 6
South West -9 6 £375 -16.67% 19
West Midlands -35 5 £450 -18.18% 18
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 20 (7.63%) Confluence
2 4 (1.53%) Anypoint
2 4 (1.53%) nginx
3 3 (1.15%) Mule
3 3 (1.15%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.76%) CMS
4 2 (0.76%) JBoss
4 2 (0.76%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.76%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) CICS
5 1 (0.38%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Traefik
5 1 (0.38%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.38%) Cerner Millennium
1 1 (0.38%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.38%) Maximo
1 1 (0.38%) SAP MRS
1 1 (0.38%) SAP PM
1 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.38%) Shopify
1 1 (0.38%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 99 (37.79%) AWS
2 64 (24.43%) Azure
3 42 (16.03%) GitHub
4 27 (10.31%) GCP
5 25 (9.54%) Serverless
6 17 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (4.20%) SaaS
9 10 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (3.44%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.67%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.29%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.91%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.53%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.53%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.44%) HTTPS
2 8 (3.05%) SSL
3 7 (2.67%) Firewall
4 6 (2.29%) HTTP
5 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.76%) VPN
5 2 (0.76%) X.509
6 1 (0.38%) FTP
6 1 (0.38%) Internet
6 1 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.60%) NoSQL
2 25 (9.54%) SQL Server
3 24 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (8.02%) Relational Database
5 13 (4.96%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.67%) MySQL
6 7 (2.67%) Power BI
7 6 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.15%) Big Data
10 3 (1.15%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.15%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.15%) DB2
10 3 (1.15%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.76%) Metadata
11 2 (0.76%) Redis
11 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (16.79%) JIRA
2 34 (12.98%) Git
3 21 (8.02%) Jenkins
4 18 (6.87%) GitLab
5 14 (5.34%) JUnit
6 11 (4.20%) SpecFlow
7 8 (3.05%) Postman
8 5 (1.91%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.91%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.53%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.53%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.53%) Gradle
9 4 (1.53%) Mockito
9 4 (1.53%) Storybook
10 3 (1.15%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.15%) Maven
11 2 (0.76%) Mocha
11 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.38%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 98 (37.40%) Social Skills
2 70 (26.72%) Finance
3 29 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (11.07%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.54%) Banking
5 9 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.29%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.53%) Digital Healthcare
8 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.53%) Military
9 3 (1.15%) Electronics
9 3 (1.15%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.15%) Marketing
9 3 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Retail
11 1 (0.38%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.38%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 135 (51.53%) Developer
2 70 (26.72%) Senior
3 38 (14.50%) Senior Developer
4 31 (11.83%) Java Developer
5 30 (11.45%) Architect
6 24 (9.16%) Full-Stack Developer
6 24 (9.16%) Python Developer
7 17 (6.49%) Software Engineer
8 15 (5.73%) Senior Java Developer
9 13 (4.96%) Angular Developer
10 12 (4.58%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 11 (4.20%) C# Developer
12 10 (3.82%) Java Engineer
12 10 (3.82%) Lead
12 10 (3.82%) Python Engineer
12 10 (3.82%) React Developer
12 10 (3.82%) Technical Architect
13 9 (3.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 7 (2.67%) Backend Developer
14 7 (2.67%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (38.17%) RESTful
2 68 (25.95%) REST
3 53 (20.23%) React
4 46 (17.56%) AngularJS
5 42 (16.03%) .NET
5 42 (16.03%) Spring
6 37 (14.12%) Spring Boot
7 30 (11.45%) Node.js
8 29 (11.07%) SOAP
9 27 (10.31%) OAuth
10 26 (9.92%) FastAPI
11 24 (9.16%) JSON
12 22 (8.40%) HTML
13 21 (8.02%) Kafka
14 18 (6.87%) .NET Framework
15 17 (6.49%) CSS
15 17 (6.49%) OAuth2
16 16 (6.11%) Jest
16 16 (6.11%) XML
17 12 (4.58%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.54%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.67%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.67%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.67%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.53%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.15%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.15%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.76%) CBDC
9 2 (0.76%) Digital Currency
9 2 (0.76%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.76%) PKI
9 2 (0.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.87%) Linux
2 6 (2.29%) Unix
3 5 (1.91%) Windows
4 3 (1.15%) Android
4 3 (1.15%) VMS
5 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.38%) CentOS
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) SUSE
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Embedded Compact
6 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (52.67%) CI/CD
2 133 (50.76%) Agile
3 104 (39.69%) Microservices
4 93 (35.50%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (35.11%) DevOps
6 59 (22.52%) Containerisation
7 43 (16.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 39 (14.89%) Code Quality
9 38 (14.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 36 (13.74%) Test Automation
11 35 (13.36%) Scrum
11 35 (13.36%) TDD
12 34 (12.98%) API Design
13 33 (12.60%) Software Engineering
14 32 (12.21%) API Integration
15 28 (10.69%) Event-Driven
15 28 (10.69%) Mentoring
16 25 (9.54%) AI
16 25 (9.54%) Deployment Automation
16 25 (9.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 98 (37.40%) Python
2 86 (32.82%) Java
3 69 (26.34%) SQL
4 58 (22.14%) TypeScript
5 41 (15.65%) JavaScript
6 39 (14.89%) C#
7 9 (3.44%) Bash
7 9 (3.44%) Go
7 9 (3.44%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.29%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.29%) Ruby
9 5 (1.91%) C
9 5 (1.91%) PHP
10 4 (1.53%) C++
11 3 (1.15%) Bicep
12 2 (0.76%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.76%) Scala
12 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 48 (18.32%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.78%) Degree
4 11 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.91%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (0.76%) CEH
6 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.76%) CISSP
6 2 (0.76%) OCP
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.76%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.16%) QA
2 6 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.91%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.91%) GDPR
4 3 (1.15%) NIST
5 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.38%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.38%) HL7
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.38%) MiFID
6 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 87 (33.21%) Docker
2 6 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 85 (32.44%) Kubernetes
2 35 (13.36%) Terraform
3 18 (6.87%) Grafana
4 17 (6.49%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.20%) Ansible
6 9 (3.44%) Control-M
6 9 (3.44%) IBM Guardium
6 9 (3.44%) Nessus
7 4 (1.53%) CloudHub
7 4 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.15%) Puppet
9 2 (0.76%) Kibana
9 2 (0.76%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.76%) Rsyslog
9 2 (0.76%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.76%) Salt
9 2 (0.76%) SCOM
10 1 (0.38%) Argo
10 1 (0.38%) Cilium
10 1 (0.38%) Istio
Vendors
1 30 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.49%) Google
3 12 (4.58%) Oracle
4 11 (4.20%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.82%) MuleSoft
6 9 (3.44%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.44%) Tenable
7 8 (3.05%) Axway
8 7 (2.67%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.91%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.91%) SAP
10 4 (1.53%) Blue Prism
10 4 (1.53%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.53%) Foundry
10 4 (1.53%) Pega
10 4 (1.53%) Ping Identity
10 4 (1.53%) VMware
11 3 (1.15%) Adobe
11 3 (1.15%) Workday
12 2 (0.76%) Red Hat