API Design Contract Job Trends in the East of England

API Design
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 89 86 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 11 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.70% 0.082% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.099% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 £725 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% - -
75th Percentile £591 £775 -
90th Percentile £610 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.00% -14.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 1,013 1,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.14% 82.83% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 418 841
10th Percentile £185 £243 £237
25th Percentile £363 £334 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £704
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 407 215 375
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.26 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.62 £14.38
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.67 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% +31.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the East of England

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

API Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing API Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing API Design

API Design
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Cambridgeshire - 9 £560 - 2
Hertfordshire - 2 - - 5
API Design
England

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) Azure AKS
2 9 (81.82%) GitHub
2 9 (81.82%) GitHub Copilot
2 9 (81.82%) PaaS
3 6 (54.55%) Azure Functions
3 6 (54.55%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
General
1 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Law
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) PyTorch
1 9 (81.82%) RESTful
1 9 (81.82%) Semantic Kernel
1 9 (81.82%) TensorFlow
2 8 (72.73%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Algorithms
1 9 (81.82%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
1 9 (81.82%) AI
1 9 (81.82%) API Management
1 9 (81.82%) Data Privacy
1 9 (81.82%) LLM
1 9 (81.82%) Machine Learning
1 9 (81.82%) Prompt Engineering
1 9 (81.82%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 8 (72.73%) Deep Learning
3 7 (63.64%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Scrum
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (27.27%) Prototyping
5 3 (27.27%) Rapid Prototyping
6 2 (18.18%) Data Science
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) MCP
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (81.82%) EU AI Act
2 8 (72.73%) NIST
3 2 (18.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Foundry
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) MuleSoft
2 2 (18.18%) Pega
2 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow