API Design Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

API Design
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 4.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
75th Percentile £591 - -
90th Percentile £610 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £560 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 194 160 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.94% 91.95% 87.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 77 83
10th Percentile £363 £283 £203
25th Percentile £413 £340 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -4.42% -
75th Percentile £625 £560 £555
90th Percentile £676 £638 £608
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £480 £480
% change year-on-year +1.56% +0.10% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 25
10th Percentile £23.00 £17.08 £17.01
25th Percentile £23.16 £19.14 £17.72
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +27.28% -50.00%
75th Percentile £55.85 £62.19 £62.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Cambridge

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 9 (100.00%) GitHub
1 9 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 9 (100.00%) PaaS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 6 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Scientist
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 9 (100.00%) RESTful
1 9 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
1 9 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 8 (88.89%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 9 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) AI
1 9 (100.00%) API Management
1 9 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 9 (100.00%) LLM
1 9 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 9 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 9 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (88.89%) Deep Learning
3 7 (77.78%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) Scrum
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) Prototyping
5 3 (33.33%) Rapid Prototyping
6 2 (22.22%) Data Science
6 2 (22.22%) Validation
7 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) MCP
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) EU AI Act
2 8 (88.89%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Foundry
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft