API Development Contracts

API Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 359 401
Rank change year-on-year -12 +42 -81
Contract jobs citing API Development 220 369 551
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.65% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.72% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 271 387
10th Percentile £377 £413 £425
25th Percentile £462 £486 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +16.16%
75th Percentile £600 £649 £680
90th Percentile £694 £715 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £49.40
25th Percentile - - £49.75
Median hourly rate - - £53.47
75th Percentile - - £63.36
90th Percentile - - £65.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £49.75

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the UK

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for API Development in the UK

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in the UK

API Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for API Development in the UK

API Development
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +32 194 £550 -8.33% 113
Work from Home +52 109 £525 -8.70% 68
London +17 100 £554 -7.71% 57
UK excluding London +39 82 £550 - 61
North of England +47 49 £550 -4.35% 21
Yorkshire +41 32 £550 +10.00% 4
South East +24 22 £463 -22.92% 14
North West +13 17 £663 +14.13% 16
South West 0 6 £748 +18.72% 3
Midlands +15 4 £450 +2.27% 8
West Midlands +18 2 £450 -25.00% 3
East Midlands +9 2 £474 +43.56% 5
Scotland +15 1 £428 -14.50% 9

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (5.45%) Confluence
2 3 (1.36%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.36%) IIS
3 2 (0.91%) Apache
3 2 (0.91%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.45%) CICS
4 1 (0.45%) JBoss
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.45%) SAS
4 1 (0.45%) Tornado
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.36%) Maximo
3 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.45%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 75 (34.09%) AWS
2 72 (32.73%) Azure
3 23 (10.45%) GCP
4 20 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (7.27%) Amazon S3
5 16 (7.27%) Serverless
6 13 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (5.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 12 (5.45%) GitHub
7 12 (5.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (4.09%) Amazon ECR
8 9 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (4.09%) Apigee
8 9 (4.09%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (4.09%) Route 53
9 8 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (3.18%) Datadog
10 7 (3.18%) Kong
10 7 (3.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.55%) HTTP
2 9 (4.09%) DNS
2 9 (4.09%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.64%) Firewall
4 7 (3.18%) Internet
5 6 (2.73%) VPN
6 4 (1.82%) DHCP
7 2 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.45%) RNC
8 1 (0.45%) SGSN
8 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.64%) NoSQL
2 16 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (4.55%) MySQL
4 10 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.18%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.82%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.82%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.36%) GIS
7 3 (1.36%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.45%) Big Data
9 1 (0.45%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.45%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 37 (16.82%) Git
2 19 (8.64%) Jenkins
3 18 (8.18%) GitLab
4 14 (6.36%) JIRA
5 9 (4.09%) webpack
6 7 (3.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (3.18%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.73%) Travis CI
8 5 (2.27%) Selenium
9 4 (1.82%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.82%) Maven
10 3 (1.36%) JUnit
10 3 (1.36%) Subversion
10 3 (1.36%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.91%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.91%) Mockito
11 2 (0.91%) ScalaTest
11 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.45%) git-flow
General
1 57 (25.91%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.36%) Finance
3 26 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.27%) Banking
5 15 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.09%) Retail
7 8 (3.64%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.18%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.73%) Electronics
9 6 (2.73%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.73%) Marketing
10 3 (1.36%) Law
10 3 (1.36%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Advertising
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (50.45%) Developer
2 23 (10.45%) Software Developer
3 20 (9.09%) Lead
3 20 (9.09%) Python Developer
3 20 (9.09%) Senior
4 19 (8.64%) Software Engineer
5 17 (7.73%) Architect
6 14 (6.36%) Full Stack Developer
6 14 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (5.91%) .NET Developer
8 12 (5.45%) Java Engineer
9 11 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
10 10 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.09%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.64%) Azure Developer
12 8 (3.64%) Consultant
12 8 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (23.64%) RESTful
2 37 (16.82%) REST
3 34 (15.45%) Node.js
4 32 (14.55%) React
5 30 (13.64%) HTML
6 28 (12.73%) FastAPI
7 27 (12.27%) CSS
8 26 (11.82%) .NET
9 21 (9.55%) AngularJS
10 17 (7.73%) JSON
10 17 (7.73%) Web Services
10 17 (7.73%) WebSockets
11 15 (6.82%) Spring Boot
12 14 (6.36%) Spring
13 13 (5.91%) Redux
13 13 (5.91%) XML
14 11 (5.00%) Express.js
14 11 (5.00%) Flask
15 10 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (4.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (3.64%) Blockchain
2 8 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.18%) IoT
4 6 (2.73%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.73%) Mainframe
5 5 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.36%) CBDC
7 3 (1.36%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.36%) Web3
8 2 (0.91%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.45%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.45%) NHS
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.27%) Unix
2 2 (0.91%) Android
2 2 (0.91%) Linux
2 2 (0.91%) Windows
2 2 (0.91%) zOS
3 1 (0.45%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (30.45%) CI/CD
2 62 (28.18%) DevOps
3 58 (26.36%) Agile
4 54 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (18.64%) Containerisation
6 39 (17.73%) Software Engineering
7 38 (17.27%) Microservices
8 35 (15.91%) Full Stack Development
9 34 (15.45%) API Design
10 29 (13.18%) API Integration
10 29 (13.18%) Test Automation
11 27 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (12.27%) Scrum
12 25 (11.36%) End-to-End Testing
13 23 (10.45%) Unit Testing
14 22 (10.00%) LLM
15 21 (9.55%) Front End Development
16 19 (8.64%) Analytics
16 19 (8.64%) TDD
17 18 (8.18%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.82%) Python
2 54 (24.55%) Java
3 43 (19.55%) SQL
4 36 (16.36%) JavaScript
5 28 (12.73%) C#
6 19 (8.64%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.82%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.18%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.73%) Bash
9 6 (2.73%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.27%) Go
10 5 (2.27%) PHP
11 4 (1.82%) Ruby
11 4 (1.82%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.82%) X++
12 3 (1.36%) Perl
12 3 (1.36%) Scala
13 2 (0.91%) COBOL
13 2 (0.91%) Groovy
14 1 (0.45%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (24.55%) Security Cleared
2 52 (23.64%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.18%) Degree
4 12 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.36%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.64%) QA
2 7 (3.18%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.18%) GDPR
3 4 (1.82%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (18.64%) Docker
2 5 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (19.09%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.18%) Terraform
3 17 (7.73%) Ansible
4 12 (5.45%) Grafana
4 12 (5.45%) Puppet
5 11 (5.00%) Kibana
6 7 (3.18%) logstash
7 6 (2.73%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (2.73%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.73%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.73%) OpenAI
3 15 (6.82%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.55%) Google
4 10 (4.55%) SAP
5 7 (3.18%) Oracle
6 6 (2.73%) Splunk
7 5 (2.27%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.82%) IBM
8 4 (1.82%) Informatica
8 4 (1.82%) New Relic
9 3 (1.36%) Nintex
9 3 (1.36%) Pega
10 2 (0.91%) Databricks
10 2 (0.91%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.45%) Confluent
11 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.45%) Terracotta
11 1 (0.45%) Workday
11 1 (0.45%) Zuora