API Design Contracts in Berkshire

API Design
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring API Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 113 -
Rank change year-on-year +28 - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 8 11 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.68% 0.55% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.62% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 0
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile - £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.83% - -
75th Percentile £478 £638 -
90th Percentile £500 - -
South East median daily rate £432 £600 £713
% change year-on-year -28.00% -15.79% +23.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

API Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in Berkshire

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for API Design in Berkshire

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in Berkshire

API Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for API Design in Berkshire

API Design
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +25 5 £409 -31.83% 7
Slough - 1 £300 - 4
Windsor - 1 £500 - 1
Wokingham - 1 £500 - 1
API Design
South East

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Serverless
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Functions
3 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (50.00%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Backend Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) RESTful
2 4 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 4 (50.00%) Prisma
3 3 (37.50%) Node.js
4 2 (25.00%) .NET
4 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (12.50%) Middleware
5 1 (12.50%) React
5 1 (12.50%) REST
5 1 (12.50%) SOAP
5 1 (12.50%) TanStack
5 1 (12.50%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 4 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) API Development
3 1 (12.50%) API Integration
3 1 (12.50%) API Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
2 2 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle