API Development Contracts

API Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring API Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Development over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 384 410
Rank change year-on-year +16 +26 -87
Contract jobs citing API Development 223 346 520
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.62% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.70% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 251 375
10th Percentile £375 £419 £425
25th Percentile £450 £483 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £688
90th Percentile £694 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £52.84
25th Percentile - - £56.42
Median hourly rate - - £61.45
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £65.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +32 195 £550 -6.46% 100
Work from Home +53 106 £507 -11.44% 63
London +2 98 £550 -8.33% 41
UK excluding London +27 91 £525 -4.55% 68
North of England +47 55 £550 -4.35% 18
Yorkshire +44 34 £550 +4.76% 5
North West +15 21 £563 -2.17% 11
South East +24 20 £450 -25.00% 13
South West -1 8 £450 -18.18% 9
Midlands +4 5 £500 +13.64% 15
Scotland +31 3 £434 -13.25% 11
West Midlands +8 3 £500 -16.67% 8
East Midlands +4 2 £474 +42.48% 7

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 11 (4.93%) Confluence
2 4 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.35%) Apache
3 3 (1.35%) IIS
4 2 (0.90%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.90%) JBoss
5 1 (0.45%) CICS
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.14%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.35%) Maximo
2 3 (1.35%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.45%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 78 (34.98%) AWS
2 73 (32.74%) Azure
3 27 (12.11%) GCP
4 21 (9.42%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (8.07%) Serverless
6 17 (7.62%) Amazon S3
7 13 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (5.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 12 (5.38%) GitHub
8 12 (5.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (4.04%) Amazon ECR
9 9 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (4.04%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (4.04%) Route 53
10 8 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.59%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.14%) Kong
11 7 (3.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.48%) HTTP
2 9 (4.04%) DNS
2 9 (4.04%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.14%) Firewall
3 7 (3.14%) Internet
4 6 (2.69%) VPN
5 4 (1.79%) DHCP
6 1 (0.45%) RNC
6 1 (0.45%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.45%) NoSQL
2 16 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.73%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (5.38%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.04%) MySQL
6 7 (3.14%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.24%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.79%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.79%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.79%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.35%) GIS
9 3 (1.35%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.90%) Big Data
10 2 (0.90%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.45%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 40 (17.94%) Git
2 18 (8.07%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.17%) GitLab
4 15 (6.73%) JIRA
5 9 (4.04%) webpack
6 7 (3.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (3.14%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.69%) Travis CI
8 5 (2.24%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.24%) Selenium
9 4 (1.79%) Subversion
10 3 (1.35%) JUnit
11 2 (0.90%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.90%) Maven
11 2 (0.90%) Mockito
11 2 (0.90%) ScalaTest
11 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.45%) git-flow
General
1 57 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.90%) Finance
3 29 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.28%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.38%) Banking
6 8 (3.59%) Retail
7 7 (3.14%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.24%) Electronics
8 5 (2.24%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.24%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.24%) Marketing
9 3 (1.35%) Law
9 3 (1.35%) Legal
9 3 (1.35%) Local Government
10 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 119 (53.36%) Developer
2 23 (10.31%) Python Developer
3 22 (9.87%) Senior
3 22 (9.87%) Software Developer
4 20 (8.97%) Lead
5 17 (7.62%) Software Engineer
6 16 (7.17%) Architect
7 13 (5.83%) .NET Developer
7 13 (5.83%) Full Stack Developer
7 13 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (5.38%) Java Engineer
9 11 (4.93%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (4.93%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.93%) Senior Java Engineer
10 10 (4.48%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) Azure Developer
12 8 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) Consultant
12 8 (3.59%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (26.91%) RESTful
2 40 (17.94%) REST
3 32 (14.35%) React
4 30 (13.45%) Node.js
5 28 (12.56%) FastAPI
5 28 (12.56%) HTML
6 26 (11.66%) .NET
7 25 (11.21%) CSS
8 20 (8.97%) AngularJS
8 20 (8.97%) Spring Boot
9 18 (8.07%) Spring
10 17 (7.62%) JSON
10 17 (7.62%) Web Services
11 15 (6.73%) WebSockets
12 13 (5.83%) Redux
12 13 (5.83%) XML
13 12 (5.38%) OpenAPI
13 12 (5.38%) Swagger
14 11 (4.93%) Express.js
14 11 (4.93%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.04%) Product Ownership
1 9 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (3.59%) Blockchain
3 7 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.14%) IoT
4 6 (2.69%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.69%) Mainframe
5 5 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.35%) CBDC
6 3 (1.35%) Housing Association
6 3 (1.35%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.35%) Web3
7 2 (0.90%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.45%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.04%) Unix
2 6 (2.69%) Linux
3 2 (0.90%) Android
3 2 (0.90%) Windows
3 2 (0.90%) zOS
4 1 (0.45%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (30.04%) CI/CD
2 61 (27.35%) DevOps
3 58 (26.01%) Agile
4 55 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (21.08%) Containerisation
6 37 (16.59%) Software Engineering
7 36 (16.14%) API Design
7 36 (16.14%) Microservices
8 34 (15.25%) Full Stack Development
9 30 (13.45%) Test Automation
10 27 (12.11%) API Integration
10 27 (12.11%) Scrum
11 25 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (10.31%) End-to-End Testing
12 23 (10.31%) TDD
13 22 (9.87%) Unit Testing
14 21 (9.42%) Continuous Integration
14 21 (9.42%) LLM
15 20 (8.97%) Front End Development
16 19 (8.52%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 84 (37.67%) Python
2 60 (26.91%) Java
3 44 (19.73%) SQL
4 35 (15.70%) JavaScript
5 28 (12.56%) C#
6 19 (8.52%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.83%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.48%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.69%) Bash
10 5 (2.24%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.79%) PHP
11 4 (1.79%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.79%) X++
12 3 (1.35%) Go
12 3 (1.35%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.35%) Ruby
12 3 (1.35%) Scala
13 2 (0.90%) COBOL
13 2 (0.90%) Perl
14 1 (0.45%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 52 (23.32%) Security Cleared
2 50 (22.42%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.62%) Degree
4 11 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.90%) 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 28 (12.56%) QA
2 9 (4.04%) GDPR
3 7 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.69%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) SEPA
7 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (21.08%) Docker
2 6 (2.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (18.39%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.17%) Ansible
3 14 (6.28%) Terraform
4 13 (5.83%) Puppet
5 12 (5.38%) Grafana
6 11 (4.93%) Kibana
7 7 (3.14%) logstash
8 6 (2.69%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (2.69%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.69%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (8.52%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.62%) OpenAI
3 15 (6.73%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.38%) Google
5 10 (4.48%) SAP
6 9 (4.04%) Oracle
7 7 (3.14%) Splunk
8 5 (2.24%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.24%) IBM
9 4 (1.79%) Informatica
9 4 (1.79%) New Relic
10 3 (1.35%) NEC
10 3 (1.35%) Nintex
10 3 (1.35%) Pega
11 2 (0.90%) Databricks
11 2 (0.90%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.90%) Temenos
11 2 (0.90%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.45%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.45%) Workday