API Design Contracts in the East Midlands

API Design
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 53 58 84
Rank change year-on-year +5 +26 +15
Contract jobs citing API Design 3 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.56% 1.03% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.33% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £378 - -
25th Percentile £408 £445 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - -
75th Percentile £529 £644 -
90th Percentile £563 £688 -
England median daily rate £563 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -2.17% -11.54% +6.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the East Midlands

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Design in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for API Design in the East Midlands

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in the East Midlands

API Design
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire -5 2 £412 -7.53% 2
Leicestershire +6 1 £540 -20.00% 2
API Design
England

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Apigee
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Kong
3 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) JWT
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (33.33%) OpenID
2 1 (33.33%) RAML
2 1 (33.33%) SAML
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Apex Code
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) MuleSoft
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk