API Design Contracts in Leeds

API Design
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 52 60 94
Rank change year-on-year +8 +34 +8
Contract jobs citing API Design 8 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.72% 0.38% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 0.43% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £731 £406 -
25th Percentile £739 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £765 £432 £425
Median % change year-on-year +77.08% +1.65% -37.04%
75th Percentile £779 £514 £450
90th Percentile £780 £562 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £765 £432 £425
% change year-on-year +77.08% +1.65% -37.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in Leeds

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for API Design in Leeds

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (87.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Slack
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 7 (87.50%) MongoDB
1 7 (87.50%) MySQL
1 7 (87.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Cucumber
1 7 (87.50%) Git
1 7 (87.50%) Jasmine
1 7 (87.50%) JIRA
1 7 (87.50%) JUnit
General
1 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Java Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Senior
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) RESTful
1 7 (87.50%) Spring
1 7 (87.50%) Spring Boot
1 7 (87.50%) Swagger
2 6 (75.00%) OpenAPI
2 6 (75.00%) Spring Security
3 5 (62.50%) Spring Batch
4 1 (12.50%) Ajax
4 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) Django
4 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
4 1 (12.50%) Flask
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) React
4 1 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
1 7 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) BDD
1 7 (87.50%) Containerisation
1 7 (87.50%) Continuous Delivery
1 7 (87.50%) Microservices
1 7 (87.50%) OWASP
1 7 (87.50%) TDD
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (75.00%) Kernel Tuning
2 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) Coaching
3 5 (62.50%) High Availability
3 5 (62.50%) Operational Stability
4 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
4 4 (50.00%) Integration Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Bash
1 7 (87.50%) Java
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes