API Design Contract Job Trends in Coventry

API Design
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 0.75% 2.22% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 2.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £260 - -
25th Percentile £261 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.94% - -
75th Percentile £286 £419 -
90th Percentile £287 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £650 -
% change year-on-year -34.62% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 236 76 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 88.06% 84.44% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 55 126
10th Percentile £286 £208 £369
25th Percentile £338 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.20% +5.13%
75th Percentile £538 £506 £600
90th Percentile £636 £600 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £14.00 - -
25th Percentile £14.44 - £76.59
Median hourly rate £21.61 - £78.19
Median % change year-on-year - - +525.48%
75th Percentile £27.21 - £79.78
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £18.13 £23.00
% change year-on-year +24.10% -21.17% +29.80%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Coventry

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes