API Design Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

API Design
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 - -
Scotland median daily rate £635 £210 £463
% change year-on-year +202.38% -54.59% -24.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 582 714 856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.96% 91.89% 92.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 428 560
10th Percentile £303 £313 £340
25th Percentile £400 £363 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +4.28%
75th Percentile £568 £550 £603
90th Percentile £640 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 25
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £15.42
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.17 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +51.03% +50.52%
75th Percentile £52.50 £36.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.74 £62.75 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +10.05%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Glasgow

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) boto
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) OCR
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes