API Design Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

API Design
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 55 41
Rank change year-on-year -25 -14 +43
Contract jobs citing API Design 3 1 23
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.31% 0.18% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.21% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 22
10th Percentile £322 - £482
25th Percentile £336 £458 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £465 £534
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% -12.92% +7.12%
75th Percentile £443 £473 -
90th Percentile £492 - £567
England median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -15.38%

All Process & 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 808 482 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.78% 86.38% 82.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 289 450
10th Percentile £190 £250 £188
25th Percentile £353 £350 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £445
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -3.37% -1.11%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £613 £612 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 19 63
10th Percentile £14.85 £16.62 £11.32
25th Percentile £16.33 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +28.57% +3.98%
75th Percentile £23.90 £30.88 £31.00
90th Percentile £25.15 £42.74 £51.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing API Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing API Design

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 3 February 2026.

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 3 February 2026. 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 -20 2 £343 -26.34%
Derbyshire - 1 £500 - 1
API Design
England

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics CRM
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) ETL Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Developer
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Payments Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Payments Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) API Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) CRM
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Customer-Centricity
1 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Due Diligence
1 2 (66.67%) Epics
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Kanban
1 2 (66.67%) KYC
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) User Stories
1 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft