API Design Contracts in England

API Design
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 484 444
Rank change year-on-year +65 -40 -53
Contract jobs citing API Design 123 177 394
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.35% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.39% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 121 263
10th Percentile £425 £425 £478
25th Percentile £500 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £725
90th Percentile £754 £950 £863
UK median daily rate £550 £627 £600
% change year-on-year -12.21% +4.42% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £64.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.50 £35.00 £65.76
Median % change year-on-year +87.14% -46.78% +19.56%
75th Percentile £66.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £35.00 £65.76
% change year-on-year +87.14% -46.78% +64.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,929 45,052 64,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.19% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,948 31,615 45,896
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,590 1,753
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in England

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Design in England.

Daily rate trend for API Design in England

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in England

API Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Design in England.

Hourly rate trend for API Design in England

API Design
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
London +71 80 £575 -14.81% 26
South East +27 15 £600 -15.79% 10
North of England +35 13 £445 -15.24% 12
North West +27 8 £498 -20.40% 7
East Midlands +26 8 £480 -
Midlands +26 8 £480 -6.34% 6
Yorkshire +23 5 £400 -5.88% 4
South West +14 2 - - 3
API Design
UK

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 9 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.44%) Confluence
3 2 (1.63%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.63%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.81%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 3 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (38.21%) Azure
2 26 (21.14%) AWS
3 18 (14.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 15 (12.20%) Serverless
5 12 (9.76%) GCP
6 10 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (8.13%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (7.32%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 9 (7.32%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (5.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (5.69%) SaaS
9 6 (4.88%) Azure Functions
10 5 (4.07%) Apigee
11 4 (3.25%) Azure App Service
11 4 (3.25%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.44%) Azure API Management
12 3 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.44%) GitHub
13 2 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (1.63%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.25%) HTTP
2 3 (2.44%) Internet
3 2 (1.63%) SSL
4 1 (0.81%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.76%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.13%) KDB
2 10 (8.13%) Kdb+
3 8 (6.50%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.07%) DB2
4 5 (4.07%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.44%) CockroachDB
5 3 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.44%) MySQL
5 3 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.63%) Big Data
6 2 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.63%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.63%) Power BI
6 2 (1.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (13.82%) Git
2 10 (8.13%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.50%) Maven
4 6 (4.88%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.25%) Selenium
6 3 (2.44%) GitLab
6 3 (2.44%) JIRA
6 3 (2.44%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.63%) git-flow
7 2 (1.63%) gulp
8 1 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.81%) Gradle
8 1 (0.81%) Storybook
8 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 25 (20.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.89%) Finance
3 14 (11.38%) Banking
4 10 (8.13%) Front Office
5 8 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.07%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.81%) Marketing
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (35.77%) Developer
2 30 (24.39%) Architect
3 18 (14.63%) Lead
4 10 (8.13%) Designer
4 10 (8.13%) KDB Developer
4 10 (8.13%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (7.32%) Software Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) Lead Designer
6 8 (6.50%) Python Developer
6 8 (6.50%) Senior
6 8 (6.50%) Technical Architect
7 7 (5.69%) Analytics Developer
8 5 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.07%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.25%) Analyst
9 4 (3.25%) Azure Architect
9 4 (3.25%) Lead Developer
9 4 (3.25%) Unix Developer
10 3 (2.44%) Azure Developer
10 3 (2.44%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (25.20%) Node.js
2 22 (17.89%) REST
3 18 (14.63%) React
3 18 (14.63%) RESTful
4 14 (11.38%) .NET
5 13 (10.57%) AngularJS
5 13 (10.57%) CSS
6 12 (9.76%) Swagger
7 11 (8.94%) HTML
7 11 (8.94%) OAuth
7 11 (8.94%) OpenID
8 9 (7.32%) XML
9 8 (6.50%) JSON
9 8 (6.50%) SOAP
10 7 (5.69%) FastAPI
10 7 (5.69%) Kafka
10 7 (5.69%) OpenAPI
11 6 (4.88%) iOS SDK
12 5 (4.07%) Spring
12 5 (4.07%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (7.32%) Equities
1 9 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.69%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.88%) iPad
3 6 (4.88%) iPhone
3 6 (4.88%) Mainframe
3 6 (4.88%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.07%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.25%) IoT
6 3 (2.44%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.44%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (2.44%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (1.63%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.63%) Genomics
7 2 (1.63%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.01%) Unix
2 15 (12.20%) Apple iOS
3 9 (7.32%) Android
4 5 (4.07%) Linux
5 2 (1.63%) Windows
5 2 (1.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (30.89%) Agile
2 33 (26.83%) CI/CD
3 32 (26.02%) DevOps
4 31 (25.20%) API Development
4 31 (25.20%) Microservices
5 30 (24.39%) Test Automation
6 29 (23.58%) Software Engineering
7 23 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (17.07%) Data Modelling
9 18 (14.63%) Computer Science
10 14 (11.38%) SDLC
11 13 (10.57%) Full Stack Development
11 13 (10.57%) Unit Testing
12 12 (9.76%) Analytics
12 12 (9.76%) Containerisation
13 10 (8.13%) API Management
14 9 (7.32%) Architectural Design
14 9 (7.32%) Migration
14 9 (7.32%) TDD
15 8 (6.50%) OO
Programming Languages
1 38 (30.89%) Java
2 37 (30.08%) Python
3 28 (22.76%) SQL
4 21 (17.07%) JavaScript
5 18 (14.63%) C#
6 11 (8.94%) C
7 10 (8.13%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.88%) Objective-C
8 6 (4.88%) PHP
8 6 (4.88%) Swift
9 5 (4.07%) C++
10 2 (1.63%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.81%) Go
11 1 (0.81%) Perl
11 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.81%) Ruby
11 1 (0.81%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 18 (14.63%) Degree
2 11 (8.94%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.44%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.63%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.88%) QA
3 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) GRC
System Software
1 14 (11.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (11.38%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.88%) Ansible
2 6 (4.88%) Terraform
3 2 (1.63%) Kibana
4 1 (0.81%) Grafana
4 1 (0.81%) Istio
4 1 (0.81%) logstash
4 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.94%) Google
3 9 (7.32%) Oracle
4 6 (4.88%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.07%) IBM
5 5 (4.07%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.25%) SAP
7 2 (1.63%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.63%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.81%) Adobe
8 1 (0.81%) Brio
8 1 (0.81%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.81%) Dell
8 1 (0.81%) Intel
8 1 (0.81%) Lotus
8 1 (0.81%) NCR
8 1 (0.81%) New Relic
8 1 (0.81%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.81%) Splunk
8 1 (0.81%) Sybase