API Design Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

API Design
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 68 76
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 +39
Contract jobs citing API Design 4 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.68% 0.32% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.35% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £403
25th Percentile £618 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 - £470
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.48%
75th Percentile £653 - £490
90th Percentile - - £519
Scotland median daily rate £543 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -13.12% +38.89% -15.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 537 574 823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.33% 91.84% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 307 493
10th Percentile £224 £229 £205
25th Percentile £406 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £626
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 10
10th Percentile £17.36 £17.32 £13.12
25th Percentile - £21.01 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +33.96% -14.33%
75th Percentile £35.75 £24.18 £31.97
90th Percentile £64.00 £26.28 £54.48
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) Jest
3 1 (25.00%) JMS
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Black-Box Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) OOP
4 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform