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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 378 420
Rank change year-on-year -5 +42 -103
Contract jobs citing API Development 224 345 527
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.62% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.69% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 249 379
10th Percentile £375 £418 £425
25th Percentile £450 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £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 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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
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 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 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 9 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 +37 196 £550 -6.14% 103
Work from Home +53 108 £513 -10.48% 61
London +2 98 £556 -7.29% 43
UK excluding London +42 91 £525 -4.55% 70
North of England +55 55 £550 -4.35% 17
Yorkshire +41 34 £550 +4.76% 3
North West +13 21 £563 -2.17% 12
South East +24 20 £450 -25.00% 14
South West +9 8 £450 -18.18% 13
Midlands +9 5 £500 +13.64% 13
Scotland +22 3 £434 -13.25% 11
West Midlands +3 3 £500 -16.67% 8
East Midlands +9 2 £474 +42.48% 5

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 (4.91%) Confluence
2 3 (1.34%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.34%) IIS
3 2 (0.89%) Apache
3 2 (0.89%) GeoServer
3 2 (0.89%) JBoss
4 1 (0.45%) CICS
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.34%) Maximo
2 3 (1.34%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.45%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 77 (34.38%) AWS
2 74 (33.04%) Azure
3 27 (12.05%) GCP
4 21 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (8.04%) Serverless
6 17 (7.59%) Amazon S3
7 13 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (5.36%) GitHub
8 12 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (4.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (4.02%) Amazon ECR
10 9 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.02%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (4.02%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (4.02%) Route 53
11 8 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (3.13%) Datadog
12 7 (3.13%) Kong
12 7 (3.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.46%) HTTP
2 9 (4.02%) DNS
2 9 (4.02%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.13%) Firewall
3 7 (3.13%) Internet
4 6 (2.68%) VPN
5 4 (1.79%) DHCP
6 1 (0.45%) RNC
6 1 (0.45%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.39%) NoSQL
2 15 (6.70%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.91%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.57%) MySQL
5 7 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.79%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.79%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.79%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.34%) GIS
8 3 (1.34%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.34%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.45%) Big Data
10 1 (0.45%) DB2
10 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.45%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 39 (17.41%) Git
2 18 (8.04%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.14%) GitLab
4 15 (6.70%) JIRA
5 9 (4.02%) webpack
6 7 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (3.13%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.68%) Travis CI
8 5 (2.23%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.23%) Selenium
9 3 (1.34%) JUnit
9 3 (1.34%) Subversion
10 2 (0.89%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.89%) Maven
10 2 (0.89%) Mockito
10 2 (0.89%) ScalaTest
10 2 (0.89%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 56 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.84%) Finance
3 29 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.36%) Banking
6 9 (4.02%) Retail
7 7 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.23%) Electronics
8 5 (2.23%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.23%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.23%) Marketing
9 3 (1.34%) Law
9 3 (1.34%) Legal
9 3 (1.34%) Local Government
10 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Advertising
11 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (53.57%) Developer
2 23 (10.27%) Python Developer
3 22 (9.82%) Senior
3 22 (9.82%) Software Developer
4 20 (8.93%) Lead
5 17 (7.59%) Software Engineer
6 16 (7.14%) Architect
7 13 (5.80%) .NET Developer
7 13 (5.80%) Full Stack Developer
7 13 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (5.36%) Java Developer
8 12 (5.36%) Java Engineer
9 11 (4.91%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (4.91%) Senior Java Engineer
10 10 (4.46%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.57%) Azure Developer
12 8 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (3.57%) Consultant
12 8 (3.57%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (26.34%) RESTful
2 40 (17.86%) REST
3 32 (14.29%) React
4 30 (13.39%) Node.js
5 28 (12.50%) FastAPI
5 28 (12.50%) HTML
6 26 (11.61%) .NET
7 25 (11.16%) CSS
8 21 (9.38%) Spring Boot
9 20 (8.93%) AngularJS
10 19 (8.48%) Spring
11 17 (7.59%) JSON
11 17 (7.59%) Web Services
12 15 (6.70%) WebSockets
13 13 (5.80%) Redux
13 13 (5.80%) XML
14 12 (5.36%) OpenAPI
14 12 (5.36%) Swagger
15 11 (4.91%) Express.js
15 11 (4.91%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (3.57%) Blockchain
2 8 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.13%) IoT
4 6 (2.68%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.68%) Mainframe
5 5 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.34%) CBDC
6 3 (1.34%) Housing Association
6 3 (1.34%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.34%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.34%) Web3
7 2 (0.89%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.45%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.45%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.02%) Unix
2 6 (2.68%) Linux
3 2 (0.89%) Android
3 2 (0.89%) Windows
3 2 (0.89%) zOS
4 1 (0.45%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (29.91%) CI/CD
2 61 (27.23%) DevOps
3 57 (25.45%) Agile
4 55 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (20.98%) Containerisation
6 37 (16.52%) Software Engineering
7 36 (16.07%) API Design
7 36 (16.07%) Microservices
8 34 (15.18%) Full Stack Development
9 30 (13.39%) Test Automation
10 27 (12.05%) API Integration
11 26 (11.61%) Scrum
12 25 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (10.27%) End-to-End Testing
13 23 (10.27%) TDD
14 22 (9.82%) Unit Testing
15 21 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
15 21 (9.38%) LLM
16 20 (8.93%) Front End Development
17 18 (8.04%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (37.05%) Python
2 61 (27.23%) Java
3 43 (19.20%) SQL
4 34 (15.18%) JavaScript
5 28 (12.50%) C#
6 19 (8.48%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.80%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.46%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.68%) Bash
10 5 (2.23%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.79%) PHP
11 4 (1.79%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.79%) X++
12 3 (1.34%) Go
12 3 (1.34%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.34%) Ruby
12 3 (1.34%) Scala
13 2 (0.89%) COBOL
13 2 (0.89%) Perl
14 1 (0.45%) C
Qualifications
1 52 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 50 (22.32%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.14%) Degree
4 11 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.34%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.89%) 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 (12.50%) QA
2 9 (4.02%) GDPR
3 7 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.68%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) SEPA
7 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (21.43%) Docker
2 6 (2.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.14%) Ansible
3 14 (6.25%) Terraform
4 13 (5.80%) Puppet
5 12 (5.36%) Grafana
6 11 (4.91%) Kibana
7 7 (3.13%) logstash
8 6 (2.68%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (2.68%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.68%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (8.04%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.59%) OpenAI
3 15 (6.70%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.36%) Google
5 10 (4.46%) Oracle
6 9 (4.02%) SAP
7 7 (3.13%) Splunk
8 5 (2.23%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.23%) IBM
9 4 (1.79%) Informatica
9 4 (1.79%) New Relic
10 3 (1.34%) NEC
10 3 (1.34%) Nintex
10 3 (1.34%) Pega
11 2 (0.89%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.89%) Temenos
11 2 (0.89%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.45%) Brio
12 1 (0.45%) Ericsson
12 1 (0.45%) Zuora