API Development Contracts with Work from Home Options

API Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 294 319
Rank change year-on-year +57 +25 -61
Contract jobs citing API Development 109 179 323
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.74% 0.73% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.82% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 141 246
10th Percentile £389 £406 £425
25th Percentile £460 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +21.21%
75th Percentile £561 £600 £675
90th Percentile £600 £675 £730
UK median daily rate £550 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £49.75
75th Percentile - - £53.56
90th Percentile - - £60.43
UK median hourly rate - - £53.47
% change year-on-year - - +18.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,882 21,904 40,173
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.65% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 15,514 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 507 533
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.58 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.06 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +37.60% +58.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

API Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

API Development trend for jobs with a WFH option

API Development
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing API Development.

API Development daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing API Development over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

API Development daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

API Development
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing API Development.

API Development hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (6.42%) Confluence
2 2 (1.83%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.92%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 40 (36.70%) AWS
2 39 (35.78%) Azure
3 11 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (8.26%) GCP
5 7 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (6.42%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.59%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (4.59%) GitHub
7 4 (3.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (3.67%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.67%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.75%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.75%) Apigee
8 3 (2.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (2.75%) Kong
8 3 (2.75%) OCI
8 3 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) Firewall
2 2 (1.83%) DNS
2 2 (1.83%) HTTP
2 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.68%) NoSQL
2 8 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.42%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.59%) MySQL
5 4 (3.67%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.83%) GIS
6 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.92%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (11.93%) Git
2 8 (7.34%) GitLab
2 8 (7.34%) JIRA
3 5 (4.59%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.75%) webpack
5 2 (1.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.83%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.83%) Travis CI
5 2 (1.83%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.92%) git-flow
6 1 (0.92%) JUnit
6 1 (0.92%) Moq
6 1 (0.92%) NUnit
General
1 18 (16.51%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.76%) Finance
3 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.34%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.59%) Banking
5 5 (4.59%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.67%) Electronics
6 4 (3.67%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.67%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.67%) Marketing
6 4 (3.67%) Retail
7 3 (2.75%) Law
7 3 (2.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 59 (54.13%) Developer
2 12 (11.01%) Software Developer
3 11 (10.09%) Senior
4 10 (9.17%) Full Stack Developer
4 10 (9.17%) Python Developer
4 10 (9.17%) Software Engineer
5 9 (8.26%) .NET Developer
6 8 (7.34%) Consultant
6 8 (7.34%) ServiceNow Consultant
7 7 (6.42%) Analyst
7 7 (6.42%) Java Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Senior Java Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) ServiceNow Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Technical Analyst
9 5 (4.59%) AWS Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (24.77%) RESTful
2 19 (17.43%) REST
3 17 (15.60%) React
4 16 (14.68%) FastAPI
5 15 (13.76%) .NET
5 15 (13.76%) Web Services
6 14 (12.84%) AngularJS
7 13 (11.93%) HTML
8 12 (11.01%) CSS
8 12 (11.01%) Node.js
8 12 (11.01%) WebSockets
9 9 (8.26%) Spring Boot
10 8 (7.34%) JSON
10 8 (7.34%) Swagger
11 7 (6.42%) OpenAPI
11 7 (6.42%) XML
12 6 (5.50%) Spring
13 5 (4.59%) GraphQL
13 5 (4.59%) Redux
13 5 (4.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.67%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.83%) Blockchain
4 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.92%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (25.69%) DevOps
2 26 (23.85%) Agile
3 22 (20.18%) Software Engineering
4 20 (18.35%) CI/CD
4 20 (18.35%) Full Stack Development
4 20 (18.35%) Microservices
5 18 (16.51%) Unit Testing
6 17 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (14.68%) API Integration
7 16 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (13.76%) Asset Management
8 15 (13.76%) Customer Service
8 15 (13.76%) IT Asset Management
8 15 (13.76%) ITSM
8 15 (13.76%) LLM
8 15 (13.76%) Operations Management
8 15 (13.76%) Service Delivery
8 15 (13.76%) Service Management
8 15 (13.76%) TDD
9 14 (12.84%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (32.11%) Python
2 30 (27.52%) SQL
3 20 (18.35%) Java
4 16 (14.68%) JavaScript
5 13 (11.93%) C#
6 8 (7.34%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.59%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.67%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (3.67%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.67%) X++
9 3 (2.75%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.83%) Bash
11 1 (0.92%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 36 (33.03%) Security Cleared
2 35 (32.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.67%) Degree
4 3 (2.75%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.60%) QA
2 7 (6.42%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.59%) GDPR
4 2 (1.83%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.83%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.92%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (15.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (14.68%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.42%) Ansible
2 7 (6.42%) Terraform
3 4 (3.67%) Grafana
3 4 (3.67%) Kibana
3 4 (3.67%) Puppet
4 2 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (1.83%) logstash
4 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (13.76%) ServiceNow
2 13 (11.93%) OpenAI
3 7 (6.42%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.59%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.67%) Google
5 4 (3.67%) Informatica
5 4 (3.67%) Oracle
5 4 (3.67%) SAP
6 2 (1.83%) New Relic
6 2 (1.83%) Splunk
7 1 (0.92%) IBM
7 1 (0.92%) Temenos