API Development Contracts in the North of England

API Development
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 181 197
Rank change year-on-year +58 +16 -32
Contract jobs citing API Development 55 26 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.16% 0.47% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 0.52% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 15 43
10th Percentile £381 £410 £375
25th Percentile £475 £513 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +19.79% +11.95%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £515
90th Percentile £694 £618 £625
England median daily rate £550 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate - - £61.45

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,018 4,995 6,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.66% 90.08% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 3,429 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +3.09% +10.23%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 206 255
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.73 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.74 £26.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +41.32% +6.92%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing API Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for API Development in the North of England

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Development in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for API Development in the North of England

API Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Development in the North of England

API Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Development in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for API Development in the North of England

API Development
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Yorkshire +49 33 £550 +10.00% 4
North West +17 22 £550 -4.35% 11
API Development
England

API Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (10.91%) Confluence
2 3 (5.45%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (5.45%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 19 (34.55%) AWS
2 16 (29.09%) Azure
3 11 (20.00%) GCP
4 8 (14.55%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (14.55%) Amazon ECR
4 8 (14.55%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (14.55%) Amazon S3
4 8 (14.55%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (14.55%) Route 53
4 8 (14.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (10.91%) Apigee
5 6 (10.91%) GitHub
5 6 (10.91%) Kong
6 3 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (5.45%) OCI
6 3 (5.45%) Power Automate
6 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.45%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) DNS
1 6 (10.91%) Firewall
1 6 (10.91%) HTTP
1 6 (10.91%) TCP/IP
1 6 (10.91%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.45%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (27.27%) Git
2 14 (25.45%) GitLab
3 10 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 8 (14.55%) webpack
5 7 (12.73%) JIRA
6 6 (10.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (10.91%) CircleCI
6 6 (10.91%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.45%) Law
3 3 (5.45%) Legal
4 2 (3.64%) Banking
4 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.82%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (41.82%) Developer
2 8 (14.55%) Consultant
2 8 (14.55%) ServiceNow Consultant
3 7 (12.73%) Automation Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Lead
3 7 (12.73%) ServiceNow Developer
4 5 (9.09%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Technical Leader
5 4 (7.27%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Technical Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Pega Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Systems Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Power Platform Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Senior
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (27.27%) Web Services
2 10 (18.18%) JSON
2 10 (18.18%) RESTful
3 8 (14.55%) .NET
3 8 (14.55%) Express.js
3 8 (14.55%) Node.js
3 8 (14.55%) React
3 8 (14.55%) Redux
4 7 (12.73%) YAML
5 6 (10.91%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (10.91%) Swagger
5 6 (10.91%) XML
6 5 (9.09%) CSS
6 5 (9.09%) GraphQL
6 5 (9.09%) gRPC
6 5 (9.09%) HTML
6 5 (9.09%) JWT
6 5 (9.09%) OAuth
6 5 (9.09%) OpenAPI
6 5 (9.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.45%) Low-Code
2 3 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) CI/CD
1 23 (41.82%) Containerisation
2 18 (32.73%) Asset Management
2 18 (32.73%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (29.09%) DevOps
4 15 (27.27%) Customer Service
4 15 (27.27%) IT Asset Management
4 15 (27.27%) ITSM
4 15 (27.27%) Operations Management
4 15 (27.27%) Service Delivery
4 15 (27.27%) Service Management
5 13 (23.64%) Agile
6 12 (21.82%) Test Automation
7 11 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (18.18%) Scrum
9 9 (16.36%) ITIL
9 9 (16.36%) Workflow
10 8 (14.55%) Customer Engagement
10 8 (14.55%) ETL
10 8 (14.55%) OO
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) Python
2 17 (30.91%) Java
3 10 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 7 (12.73%) C#
5 6 (10.91%) Bash
6 4 (7.27%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.64%) Perl
8 2 (3.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 25 (45.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (30.91%) QA
2 8 (14.55%) GDPR
3 5 (9.09%) HIPAA
4 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (32.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (41.82%) Kubernetes
2 10 (18.18%) Ansible
2 10 (18.18%) Puppet
3 6 (10.91%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (10.91%) Grafana
3 6 (10.91%) Kibana
3 6 (10.91%) logstash
3 6 (10.91%) Progress Chef
3 6 (10.91%) Prometheus
3 6 (10.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (27.27%) ServiceNow
2 6 (10.91%) Splunk
3 5 (9.09%) Google
4 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.45%) IBM
5 3 (5.45%) Nintex
5 3 (5.45%) Oracle
5 3 (5.45%) Pega
5 3 (5.45%) SAP
6 1 (1.82%) Brio