API Design Contracts in Dorset

API Design
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 22 26 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 2.04% 1.21% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 1.42% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £700 - £630
% change year-on-year - - -3.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 141 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 91.84% 85.45% 82.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 91 103
10th Percentile £203 £175 £160
25th Percentile £363 £175 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -12.82% +2.63%
75th Percentile £563 £630 £610
90th Percentile £675 £825 £638
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 35 36
10th Percentile £14.47 £11.87 £17.50
25th Percentile £14.99 £13.69 £48.86
Median hourly rate £21.63 £15.31 £56.29
Median % change year-on-year +41.25% -72.80% +5.28%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.49 £62.72
90th Percentile - £61.25 £70.77
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in Dorset

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for API Design in Dorset

API Design
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset 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
Bournemouth 0 1 - - 4
API Design
South West

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CockroachDB
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Django Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Python/Django Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle