API Design Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

API Design
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 72 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.18% 0.41% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.45% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £297 £402 -
25th Percentile £348 £420 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £498 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% - -
75th Percentile £526 £529 -
90th Percentile £540 £542 -
South East median daily rate £513 £498 £600
% change year-on-year +3.02% -17.08% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,326 663 1,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.55% 89.84% 82.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 857 480 727
10th Percentile £361 £325 £388
25th Percentile £475 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £589
Median % change year-on-year - -6.62% +12.19%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £746
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 39 168
10th Percentile £12.70 £19.68 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.67 £30.63 £25.84
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +0.26% +6.70%
75th Percentile £56.21 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £75.00 £78.25
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.82 £47.50
% change year-on-year +103.35% -45.65% -5.00%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Hampshire

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in Hampshire over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in Hampshire

API Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing API Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing API Design

API Design
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Basingstoke - 2 £501 - 1
API Design
South East

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Kong
1 1 (33.33%) Route 53
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) MariaDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Laravel Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Apollo GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Laravel
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) API Development
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
1 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) RBAC
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Optimisation
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) webMethods