API Design Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

API Design
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - 58
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.11% - 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £506 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £625 £513 -
% change year-on-year +21.95% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 740 501 572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.87% 87.59% 81.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 330 399
10th Percentile £313 £165 £224
25th Percentile £400 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £638
90th Percentile £675 £638 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 49 17
10th Percentile £13.45 - £13.70
25th Percentile £23.46 £12.62 £20.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -52.83% +58.42%
75th Percentile £55.00 £22.08 £52.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £27.27 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.73 £24.34 £21.75
% change year-on-year +26.25% +11.91% -19.44%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Birmingham

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Asynchronous Programming
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management