API Development Contracts in London

API Development
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for API Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Development over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 301 338
Rank change year-on-year +9 +37 -63
Contract jobs citing API Development 98 182 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.72% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.79% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 133 214
10th Percentile £377 £450 £440
25th Percentile £450 £506 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £725
90th Percentile £750 £775 £863
England median daily rate £550 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £57.89
England median hourly rate - - £61.45

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

API Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,450 23,106 35,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 90.87% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,083 16,714 26,163
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 262 405
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in London

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in London.

Daily rate trend for API Development in London

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in London

API Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Development in London.

Hourly rate trend for API Development in London

API Development
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Central London +38 18 £713 +23.91% 10
South London +9 1 £748 +15.24% 1
API Development
England

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.04%) Apache
1 2 (2.04%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.04%) JBoss
2 1 (1.02%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.02%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.59%) AWS
1 29 (29.59%) Azure
2 14 (14.29%) Serverless
3 13 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.20%) GCP
5 8 (8.16%) Amazon S3
6 7 (7.14%) Datadog
7 6 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (6.12%) GitHub
8 5 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.08%) Azure API Management
9 4 (4.08%) Azure App Service
9 4 (4.08%) Azure Functions
9 4 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (4.08%) Miro
9 4 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.06%) Apigee
10 3 (3.06%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) Internet
2 4 (4.08%) DHCP
3 3 (3.06%) DNS
3 3 (3.06%) HTTP
3 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.04%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.02%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.33%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.08%) DynamoDB
4 4 (4.08%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.06%) MySQL
5 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.02%) DB2
7 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.02%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (16.33%) Git
2 9 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.10%) Cypress.io
3 5 (5.10%) Selenium
4 3 (3.06%) Maven
5 2 (2.04%) Android Studio
5 2 (2.04%) JUnit
5 2 (2.04%) Mockito
5 2 (2.04%) ScalaTest
5 2 (2.04%) Subversion
5 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.02%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.02%) git-flow
6 1 (1.02%) GitLab
6 1 (1.02%) Gradle
6 1 (1.02%) HP UFT
6 1 (1.02%) Moq
6 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 30 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.39%) Finance
3 8 (8.16%) Banking
3 8 (8.16%) Retail
4 6 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.08%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.02%) Advertising
8 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (53.06%) Developer
2 15 (15.31%) Software Engineer
3 13 (13.27%) Senior
4 12 (12.24%) Software Developer
5 11 (11.22%) Architect
5 11 (11.22%) Java Engineer
5 11 (11.22%) Python Developer
6 10 (10.20%) Senior Java Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (7.14%) Lead
8 6 (6.12%) .NET Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Azure Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) React Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Full Stack Developer
10 4 (4.08%) C# Developer
11 3 (3.06%) Java Developer
11 3 (3.06%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.47%) RESTful
2 21 (21.43%) REST
3 14 (14.29%) FastAPI
4 12 (12.24%) React
4 12 (12.24%) Spring
5 11 (11.22%) .NET
5 11 (11.22%) Spring Boot
6 10 (10.20%) HTML
6 10 (10.20%) Node.js
7 9 (9.18%) CSS
7 9 (9.18%) WebSockets
8 7 (7.14%) SOAP
9 5 (5.10%) GraphQL
9 5 (5.10%) Java EE
9 5 (5.10%) Kafka
9 5 (5.10%) Redux
10 4 (4.08%) AngularJS
10 4 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (4.08%) Flask
10 4 (4.08%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.16%) Blockchain
2 7 (7.14%) IoT
2 7 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.10%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.10%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.06%) CBDC
4 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.06%) Web3
5 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.06%) Unix
2 2 (2.04%) Android
3 1 (1.02%) AIX
3 1 (1.02%) Linux
3 1 (1.02%) Windows
3 1 (1.02%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.65%) CI/CD
2 25 (25.51%) DevOps
2 25 (25.51%) Microservices
3 23 (23.47%) Software Engineering
4 22 (22.45%) Agile
4 22 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (20.41%) API Design
5 20 (20.41%) Containerisation
6 13 (13.27%) Computer Science
7 12 (12.24%) Analytics
7 12 (12.24%) TDD
8 11 (11.22%) Full Stack Development
8 11 (11.22%) Test Automation
8 11 (11.22%) Unit Testing
9 10 (10.20%) Scrum
10 9 (9.18%) Data Encryption
10 9 (9.18%) End-to-End Testing
10 9 (9.18%) Integration Testing
11 8 (8.16%) API Management
11 8 (8.16%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 34 (34.69%) Python
2 31 (31.63%) Java
3 15 (15.31%) SQL
4 14 (14.29%) C#
4 14 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.06%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.04%) Groovy
7 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.04%) Ruby
7 2 (2.04%) Scala
8 1 (1.02%) COBOL
8 1 (1.02%) Go
8 1 (1.02%) PHP
8 1 (1.02%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 13 (13.27%) Degree
1 13 (13.27%) SC Cleared
1 13 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.06%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.04%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.04%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.02%) QA
2 1 (1.02%) SEPA
2 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (20.41%) Docker
2 6 (6.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (13.27%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.12%) Grafana
2 6 (6.12%) Terraform
3 5 (5.10%) Kibana
4 4 (4.08%) Ansible
5 2 (2.04%) Puppet
5 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.02%) logstash
Vendors
1 11 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.12%) OpenAI
3 5 (5.10%) Google
4 4 (4.08%) New Relic
5 2 (2.04%) IBM
5 2 (2.04%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.04%) Temenos
6 1 (1.02%) Databricks
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle
6 1 (1.02%) Splunk
6 1 (1.02%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.02%) Workday