API Design Contract Job Trends in Leeds

API Design
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 47 67
Rank change year-on-year -31 +20 +27
Contract jobs citing API Design 4 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.51% 1.83% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.98% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £346 £731 £406
25th Percentile £397 £739 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £765 £432
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +77.08% +1.65%
75th Percentile £500 £779 £514
90th Percentile £545 £780 £562
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £765 £432
% change year-on-year -41.18% +77.08% +1.65%

All Process & 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 697 405 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.01% 92.47% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 264 442
10th Percentile £313 £263 £276
25th Percentile £413 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £630 £638 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £455 £490
% change year-on-year +9.89% -7.14% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 19
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.62
25th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.50 £41.00 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year -64.63% +233.33% -80.32%
75th Percentile £28.75 £97.60 £13.88
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £16.59
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.38 £27.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year -44.09% +103.70% -69.68%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Leeds

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in Leeds over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in Leeds

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (75.00%) Apigee
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Spinnaker
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) API Management
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Community of Practice
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) Istio
4 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) Google