API Design Contracts in London

API Design
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 360 345
Rank change year-on-year +46 -15 -39
Contract jobs citing API Design 81 123 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.47% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.51% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 91 183
10th Percentile £444 £458 £490
25th Percentile £515 £500 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% - +14.89%
75th Percentile £688 £803 £775
90th Percentile £778 £1,000 £950
England median daily rate £575 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £64.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +87.14% - -
75th Percentile £66.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.50 £35.00 £65.76
% change year-on-year +87.14% -46.78% +19.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,587 23,906 35,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.68% 90.95% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,195 17,189 26,035
10th Percentile £340 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 270 421
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.45 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.19 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.93 £80.23 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in London

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for API Design in London

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in London

API Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for API Design in London

API Design
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Central London +28 5 £625 -10.71% 2
East London -1 2 £538 - 1
API Design
England

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 9 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.47%) Anypoint
2 2 (2.47%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (30.86%) Azure
2 14 (17.28%) AWS
3 13 (16.05%) Serverless
4 10 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (12.35%) GCP
5 7 (8.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (6.17%) Azure Functions
7 4 (4.94%) Azure App Service
7 4 (4.94%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (3.70%) Azure API Management
8 3 (3.70%) GitHub
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (2.47%) Apigee
9 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.47%) Cloud Run
9 2 (2.47%) SaaS
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) HTTP
2 1 (1.23%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.35%) KDB
1 10 (12.35%) Kdb+
2 8 (9.88%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.70%) MySQL
3 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.47%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.23%) CockroachDB
5 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (16.05%) Git
2 8 (9.88%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.41%) Maven
4 5 (6.17%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.94%) Selenium
6 2 (2.47%) git-flow
6 2 (2.47%) GitLab
6 2 (2.47%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.23%) Gradle
7 1 (1.23%) JIRA
7 1 (1.23%) Storybook
7 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.23%) webpack
General
1 23 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.52%) Finance
3 10 (12.35%) Front Office
4 7 (8.64%) Banking
5 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Marketing
8 1 (1.23%) Retail
8 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (41.98%) Developer
2 18 (22.22%) Architect
3 10 (12.35%) KDB Developer
4 8 (9.88%) Software Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Analytics Developer
5 7 (8.64%) Lead
6 5 (6.17%) Python Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Technical Architect
7 4 (4.94%) Senior
7 4 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.94%) Unix Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Azure Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) C# Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (3.70%) IT Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Lead Developer
9 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Architect
9 2 (2.47%) Integration Engineer
9 2 (2.47%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.75%) Node.js
1 16 (19.75%) REST
2 14 (17.28%) RESTful
3 10 (12.35%) React
4 9 (11.11%) CSS
4 9 (11.11%) XML
5 8 (9.88%) OAuth
5 8 (9.88%) OpenID
5 8 (9.88%) Swagger
6 7 (8.64%) .NET
6 7 (8.64%) FastAPI
6 7 (8.64%) HTML
6 7 (8.64%) JSON
7 6 (7.41%) SOAP
8 5 (6.17%) iOS SDK
9 4 (4.94%) FpML
9 4 (4.94%) RAML
9 4 (4.94%) Web Services
9 4 (4.94%) XML Schema
9 4 (4.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Equities
2 7 (8.64%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.17%) iPad
3 5 (6.17%) iPhone
4 4 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.70%) Digital Wallet
5 3 (3.70%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (2.47%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.47%) Genomics
6 2 (2.47%) Hackathon
6 2 (2.47%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.23%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.52%) Unix
2 5 (6.17%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.63%) CI/CD
2 21 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (24.69%) Test Automation
4 18 (22.22%) API Development
4 18 (22.22%) DevOps
5 17 (20.99%) Computer Science
5 17 (20.99%) Microservices
5 17 (20.99%) Software Engineering
6 16 (19.75%) Agile
7 15 (18.52%) Data Modelling
8 11 (13.58%) Full Stack Development
9 9 (11.11%) Analytics
9 9 (11.11%) Migration
10 8 (9.88%) API Integration
10 8 (9.88%) API Management
10 8 (9.88%) User Experience
11 7 (8.64%) Containerisation
11 7 (8.64%) Electronic Trading
11 7 (8.64%) OO
11 7 (8.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.04%) Python
2 28 (34.57%) Java
3 23 (28.40%) SQL
4 18 (22.22%) C#
5 13 (16.05%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.17%) Objective-C
7 5 (6.17%) Swift
8 4 (4.94%) C
8 4 (4.94%) C++
9 1 (1.23%) Go
9 1 (1.23%) Perl
9 1 (1.23%) PHP
9 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.23%) Ruby
9 1 (1.23%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 17 (20.99%) Degree
2 8 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.64%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.70%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.47%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.23%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.58%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.17%) Terraform
3 4 (4.94%) Ansible
4 1 (1.23%) Kibana
4 1 (1.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.88%) Google
3 6 (7.41%) MuleSoft
4 5 (6.17%) IBM
4 5 (6.17%) Oracle
5 4 (4.94%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.94%) SAP
6 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.23%) Adobe
7 1 (1.23%) Databricks
7 1 (1.23%) Dell
7 1 (1.23%) Intel
7 1 (1.23%) NCR
7 1 (1.23%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.23%) Sybase