API Design Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

API Design
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank - - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 0 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire - - 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £450
North West median daily rate £575 £520 £448
% change year-on-year +10.58% +16.20% -17.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 324 147 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 81.00% 87.50% 68.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 82 57
10th Percentile £255 £363 £259
25th Percentile £363 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £493
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -1.12% -10.36%
75th Percentile £632 £586 £600
90th Percentile £672 £671 £647
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.72% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 18 26
10th Percentile £13.70 £18.87 £25.78
25th Percentile £21.14 £23.32 £35.36
Median hourly rate £47.97 £51.16 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +26.87% -12.68%
75th Percentile £71.45 £63.40 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.91 £74.32 £51.44
North West median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +88.90% -40.84% +21.43%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Lancashire

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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