API Design Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

API Design
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 85 115
Rank change year-on-year -16 +30 +6
Contract jobs citing API Design 6 18 9
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.41% 1.32% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 1.44% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 7
10th Percentile £474 £382 -
25th Percentile £491 £405 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £409 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% -31.83% -
75th Percentile £564 - £631
90th Percentile £613 - £638
South East median daily rate £513 £409 £600
% change year-on-year +25.31% -31.83% +26.32%

All Process & 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 1,258 1,249 1,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.64% 91.50% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 684 946
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £517
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.40% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 35 71
10th Percentile £15.10 £26.85 £24.34
25th Percentile £19.41 £41.88 £46.81
Median hourly rate £58.00 £59.00 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -3.28% +10.91%
75th Percentile £84.00 £64.73 £67.38
90th Percentile £99.00 £71.72 £76.10
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -44.53% -22.73% +24.29%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

API Design job vacancy trend in Berkshire

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing API Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing API Design

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in Berkshire

API Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing API Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing API Design

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 12 January 2026. 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
Bracknell - 2 £513 -
Windsor - 2 £475 -
Reading -9 1 £645 +57.68% 1
Wokingham - 1 - - 1
API Design
South East

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Drupal
1 1 (16.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure API Management
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (16.67%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Billing
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) VoIP Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 3 (50.00%) Node.js
3 2 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) Swagger
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 1 (16.67%) Express.js
4 1 (16.67%) FreeSWITCH
4 1 (16.67%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
4 1 (16.67%) React
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) Spring
4 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (16.67%) Vue
4 1 (16.67%) WSDL
4 1 (16.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) TM Forum
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) CentOS
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) SFIA
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Review
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce