API Development Contracts with Work from Home Options

API Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 236 289 340
Rank change year-on-year +53 +51 -91
Contract jobs citing API Development 106 171 307
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 0.72% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.80% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 134 239
10th Percentile £375 £413 £450
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £573 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.44% -4.58% +21.21%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £675
90th Percentile £600 £668 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.28
25th Percentile - - £53.56
Median hourly rate - - £57.38
75th Percentile - - £61.19
90th Percentile - - £63.48
UK median hourly rate - - £61.45
% change year-on-year - - +36.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 June 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 (6.60%) Confluence
2 2 (1.89%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.94%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.89%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.94%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.91%) AWS
2 36 (33.96%) Azure
3 11 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (8.49%) GCP
5 7 (6.60%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (6.60%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (4.72%) GitHub
7 4 (3.77%) Azure AI
7 4 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (3.77%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.77%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.83%) Apigee
8 3 (2.83%) Kong
8 3 (2.83%) OCI
8 3 (2.83%) Route 53
8 3 (2.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) Firewall
2 2 (1.89%) DNS
2 2 (1.89%) HTTP
2 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.15%) NoSQL
2 9 (8.49%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.72%) MySQL
5 4 (3.77%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.89%) GIS
6 2 (1.89%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (10.38%) Git
2 8 (7.55%) JIRA
3 6 (5.66%) GitLab
4 5 (4.72%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.83%) webpack
6 2 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.89%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.89%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.94%) git-flow
7 1 (0.94%) JUnit
7 1 (0.94%) Moq
7 1 (0.94%) NUnit
7 1 (0.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.26%) Finance
3 10 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.72%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.77%) Electronics
6 4 (3.77%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.77%) Marketing
7 3 (2.83%) Banking
7 3 (2.83%) Law
7 3 (2.83%) Legal
7 3 (2.83%) Retail
8 2 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.89%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 57 (53.77%) Developer
2 13 (12.26%) Senior
3 12 (11.32%) Software Developer
4 10 (9.43%) Python Developer
5 9 (8.49%) .NET Developer
5 9 (8.49%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) Consultant
6 8 (7.55%) ServiceNow Consultant
7 7 (6.60%) Analyst
7 7 (6.60%) Full Stack Developer
7 7 (6.60%) Java Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Senior Java Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) ServiceNow Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Technical Analyst
9 5 (4.72%) Architect
9 5 (4.72%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.72%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (26.42%) RESTful
2 18 (16.98%) REST
3 16 (15.09%) FastAPI
4 15 (14.15%) .NET
4 15 (14.15%) React
4 15 (14.15%) Web Services
5 13 (12.26%) AngularJS
5 13 (12.26%) HTML
6 12 (11.32%) CSS
7 11 (10.38%) WebSockets
8 10 (9.43%) Node.js
9 9 (8.49%) Spring Boot
10 7 (6.60%) JSON
10 7 (6.60%) OpenAPI
10 7 (6.60%) Swagger
10 7 (6.60%) XML
11 6 (5.66%) Spring
12 5 (4.72%) GraphQL
12 5 (4.72%) Redux
12 5 (4.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.77%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.89%) Blockchain
4 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.89%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.89%) Housing Association
4 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.83%) Unix
2 2 (1.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (26.42%) DevOps
2 25 (23.58%) Agile
3 21 (19.81%) Software Engineering
4 18 (16.98%) Microservices
5 17 (16.04%) CI/CD
5 17 (16.04%) Customer Service
5 17 (16.04%) Full Stack Development
5 17 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (16.04%) Unit Testing
6 16 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (14.15%) API Integration
7 15 (14.15%) Asset Management
7 15 (14.15%) IT Asset Management
7 15 (14.15%) ITSM
7 15 (14.15%) LLM
7 15 (14.15%) Operations Management
7 15 (14.15%) Service Delivery
7 15 (14.15%) Service Management
7 15 (14.15%) TDD
8 14 (13.21%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 35 (33.02%) Python
2 31 (29.25%) SQL
3 20 (18.87%) Java
4 14 (13.21%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.32%) C#
6 8 (7.55%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (3.77%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.77%) X++
8 3 (2.83%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.83%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.89%) Bash
9 2 (1.89%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.94%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 34 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 33 (31.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.77%) Degree
4 3 (2.83%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.04%) QA
2 7 (6.60%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.72%) GDPR
4 4 (3.77%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.89%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.94%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (16.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (13.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.72%) Ansible
2 5 (4.72%) Terraform
3 4 (3.77%) Grafana
3 4 (3.77%) Kibana
3 4 (3.77%) Puppet
4 2 (1.89%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (1.89%) logstash
4 2 (1.89%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (14.15%) ServiceNow
2 13 (12.26%) OpenAI
3 6 (5.66%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.72%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.72%) Oracle
5 4 (3.77%) Google
5 4 (3.77%) Informatica
5 4 (3.77%) SAP
6 2 (1.89%) NEC
6 2 (1.89%) New Relic
6 2 (1.89%) Splunk
7 1 (0.94%) IBM
7 1 (0.94%) Temenos