API Design Contracts in the City of London

API Design
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for API Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Design over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 156 160
Rank change year-on-year +37 +4 -40
Contract jobs citing API Design 5 16 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.45% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.49% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 20
10th Percentile £537 £510 £513
25th Percentile £545 £618 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +0.97%
75th Percentile £754 £775 £659
90th Percentile £762 £786 £789
Central London median daily rate £625 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

API Design 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 City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,978 3,244 3,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.48% 91.59% 91.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 2,188 2,904
10th Percentile £354 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £726 £680
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £21.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the City of London

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Design in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for API Design in the City of London

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in the City of London

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) KDB
1 1 (20.00%) Kdb+
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) KDB Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) D3.js
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) Nuxt
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) Svelte
1 1 (20.00%) SvelteKit
1 1 (20.00%) Vue
1 1 (20.00%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Equities
1 1 (20.00%) Genomics
1 1 (20.00%) Life Science
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Proteomics
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft