API Design Contracts in England

API Design
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 378 421 472
Rank change year-on-year +43 +51 -42
Contract jobs citing API Design 107 121 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.33% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.38% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 88 124
10th Percentile £400 £425 £433
25th Percentile £439 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -11.54% +6.56%
75th Percentile £636 £628 £763
90th Percentile £741 £755 £939
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £629
% change year-on-year - -12.56% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £64.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +87.14% -46.78%
75th Percentile £72.50 £66.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +87.14% -46.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in England

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for API Design in England

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for API Design in England

API Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Design in England.

Hourly rate trend for API Design in England

API Design
Contract Job Locations in 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 England 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
London +28 68 £580 +0.87% 89
North of England +23 17 £488 +9.55% 24
South East +44 13 £432 -28.00% 38
North West +17 8 £463 -7.04% 17
Yorkshire +11 8 £765 +91.25% 7
Midlands +21 7 £503 +4.69% 17
South West +48 4 £700 - 9
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 9
East Midlands +5 3 £465 -3.13% 6
North East - 1 £430 -
East of England - 1 £675 - 8
API Design
UK

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (22.43%) Confluence
2 4 (3.74%) Anypoint
3 3 (2.80%) Mule
3 3 (2.80%) Mule ESB
4 2 (1.87%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.93%) Apache
5 1 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.93%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle Retail
1 1 (0.93%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.93%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (35.51%) AWS
2 29 (27.10%) Azure
3 17 (15.89%) Slack
4 16 (14.95%) Serverless
5 15 (14.02%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (10.28%) GCP
7 6 (5.61%) Azure Functions
7 6 (5.61%) GitHub
8 5 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.74%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.74%) iPaaS
9 4 (3.74%) SaaS
10 3 (2.80%) Apigee
10 3 (2.80%) Azure API Management
10 3 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.87%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.21%) HTTP
2 1 (0.93%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (27.10%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (21.50%) MongoDB
3 20 (18.69%) MySQL
4 17 (15.89%) Apache Cassandra
5 7 (6.54%) Redis
6 4 (3.74%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.80%) CockroachDB
7 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.87%) ObjectStore
9 1 (0.93%) Apache Ignite
9 1 (0.93%) Big Data
9 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.93%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (31.78%) Git
2 25 (23.36%) JIRA
3 20 (18.69%) JUnit
4 19 (17.76%) Cucumber
5 17 (15.89%) Jasmine
6 8 (7.48%) Jenkins
7 5 (4.67%) Maven
8 4 (3.74%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.80%) Eclipse
9 3 (2.80%) GitLab
9 3 (2.80%) Gradle
9 3 (2.80%) IntelliJ
9 3 (2.80%) Mockito
9 3 (2.80%) TestNG
10 2 (1.87%) MLflow
10 2 (1.87%) Postman
11 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 23 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.95%) Public Sector
3 15 (14.02%) Finance
4 11 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.61%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.74%) Retail
7 3 (2.80%) Banking
7 3 (2.80%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.93%) Law
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (56.07%) Developer
2 28 (26.17%) Senior
3 26 (24.30%) Java Developer
4 21 (19.63%) Senior Developer
5 20 (18.69%) Architect
6 16 (14.95%) Senior Java Developer
7 12 (11.21%) Lead
8 10 (9.35%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (8.41%) Lead Developer
10 7 (6.54%) Lead Java Developer
10 7 (6.54%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.61%) Software Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) AWS Developer
12 5 (4.67%) Python Developer
12 5 (4.67%) Web Developer
13 4 (3.74%) Applications Developer
13 4 (3.74%) Java Engineer
13 4 (3.74%) MuleSoft Developer
13 4 (3.74%) Technical Analyst
13 4 (3.74%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (50.47%) RESTful
2 29 (27.10%) Spring
3 28 (26.17%) Spring Boot
4 25 (23.36%) Swagger
5 21 (19.63%) OpenAPI
6 18 (16.82%) Spring Security
7 15 (14.02%) Spring Batch
8 14 (13.08%) REST
9 12 (11.21%) React
10 11 (10.28%) Node.js
11 9 (8.41%) AngularJS
11 9 (8.41%) OAuth
12 7 (6.54%) FastAPI
12 7 (6.54%) HTML
12 7 (6.54%) JSON
12 7 (6.54%) SOAP
13 6 (5.61%) .NET
13 6 (5.61%) CSS
13 6 (5.61%) GraphQL
13 6 (5.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 7 (6.54%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) IoT
6 1 (0.93%) Mobile Wallet
6 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.56%) Linux
2 17 (15.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.93%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (42.06%) CI/CD
2 42 (39.25%) Microservices
3 33 (30.84%) Agile
4 30 (28.04%) Containerisation
5 29 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (27.10%) Test Automation
6 28 (26.17%) API Development
6 28 (26.17%) DevOps
7 25 (23.36%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (20.56%) TDD
9 18 (16.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (16.82%) OWASP
10 17 (15.89%) BDD
10 17 (15.89%) Continuous Delivery
10 17 (15.89%) Software Engineering
11 16 (14.95%) Kernel Tuning
12 15 (14.02%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (12.15%) API Management
13 13 (12.15%) Integration Testing
14 12 (11.21%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (43.93%) Java
2 33 (30.84%) SQL
3 23 (21.50%) Python
4 17 (15.89%) Bash
5 14 (13.08%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.35%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.61%) Kotlin
8 5 (4.67%) C#
9 4 (3.74%) Go
10 3 (2.80%) Apex Code
10 3 (2.80%) DataWeave
11 2 (1.87%) Ruby
11 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.93%) Bicep
12 1 (0.93%) Clojure
12 1 (0.93%) Elixir
12 1 (0.93%) Haskell
12 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.93%) Rust
12 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (27.10%) Security Cleared
2 25 (23.36%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.35%) Degree
4 4 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.87%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.74%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.93%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (31.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (32.71%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.15%) Terraform
3 4 (3.74%) Ansible
3 4 (3.74%) CloudHub
4 3 (2.80%) Grafana
4 3 (2.80%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (8.41%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.54%) MuleSoft
3 6 (5.61%) Google
3 6 (5.61%) Oracle
3 6 (5.61%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.80%) IBM
4 3 (2.80%) SAP
5 2 (1.87%) Foundry
6 1 (0.93%) Adobe
6 1 (0.93%) Apple
6 1 (0.93%) Databricks
6 1 (0.93%) Jitterbit
6 1 (0.93%) Okta
6 1 (0.93%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.93%) Pardot
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.93%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.93%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.93%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) Workday