API Design Contracts in London

API Design
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 285 313 366
Rank change year-on-year +28 +53 -31
Contract jobs citing API Design 68 78 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.54% 0.44% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.49% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 54 95
10th Percentile £409 £436 £458
25th Percentile £508 £517 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% -14.81% -
75th Percentile £641 £713 £794
90th Percentile £756 £782 £1,000
England median daily rate £563 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -2.17% -11.54% +6.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +87.14% -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +87.14% -46.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in London

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for API Design in London

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in London

API Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Design in London.

Hourly rate trend for API Design in London

API Design
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Central London +9 10 £600 -4.00% 2
West London - 2 £409 - 8
API Design
England

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 14 (20.59%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.47%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.47%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (35.29%) AWS
2 13 (19.12%) Azure
3 11 (16.18%) Serverless
4 8 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (11.76%) Slack
5 7 (10.29%) GCP
6 5 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.88%) GitHub
8 3 (4.41%) SaaS
9 2 (2.94%) Apigee
9 2 (2.94%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.94%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.47%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.47%) BigCommerce
10 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.29%) HTTP
2 1 (1.47%) Firewall
2 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (20.59%) MongoDB
3 11 (16.18%) MySQL
4 8 (11.76%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (7.35%) Redis
6 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.94%) CockroachDB
7 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.47%) Apache Ignite
8 1 (1.47%) Big Data
8 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.47%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (27.94%) Git
2 13 (19.12%) JIRA
3 11 (16.18%) JUnit
4 10 (14.71%) Cucumber
5 8 (11.76%) Jasmine
6 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
6 4 (5.88%) Maven
7 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.41%) Eclipse
7 3 (4.41%) Gradle
7 3 (4.41%) IntelliJ
7 3 (4.41%) Mockito
7 3 (4.41%) TestNG
8 2 (2.94%) MLflow
9 1 (1.47%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.47%) webpack
General
1 14 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.18%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.71%) Finance
4 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.41%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.47%) Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.47%) Law
7 1 (1.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (58.82%) Developer
2 18 (26.47%) Java Developer
3 14 (20.59%) Senior
4 11 (16.18%) Architect
4 11 (16.18%) Lead
5 9 (13.24%) Senior Developer
5 9 (13.24%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (11.76%) Lead Developer
7 6 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (8.82%) Lead Java Developer
8 5 (7.35%) AWS Developer
8 5 (7.35%) Web Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Applications Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Web Applications Developer
10 3 (4.41%) Digital Developer
10 3 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.94%) AWS Architect
11 2 (2.94%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (45.59%) RESTful
2 19 (27.94%) Spring
3 18 (26.47%) Spring Boot
4 15 (22.06%) Swagger
5 13 (19.12%) OpenAPI
6 10 (14.71%) Spring Security
7 8 (11.76%) REST
7 8 (11.76%) Spring Batch
8 7 (10.29%) OAuth
9 6 (8.82%) FastAPI
9 6 (8.82%) Node.js
10 5 (7.35%) Kafka
10 5 (7.35%) React
11 4 (5.88%) AngularJS
11 4 (5.88%) GraphQL
11 4 (5.88%) HTML
11 4 (5.88%) JWT
11 4 (5.88%) XACML
12 3 (4.41%) .NET
12 3 (4.41%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (7.35%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.47%) Mobile Wallet
5 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.18%) Linux
2 8 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.47%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.24%) CI/CD
2 24 (35.29%) Microservices
3 20 (29.41%) Agile
4 18 (26.47%) API Development
5 17 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 16 (23.53%) Test Automation
7 15 (22.06%) DevOps
7 15 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (17.65%) TDD
10 10 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (11.76%) BDD
11 8 (11.76%) Kernel Tuning
11 8 (11.76%) OWASP
11 8 (11.76%) Software Engineering
12 7 (10.29%) API Management
12 7 (10.29%) Artificial Intelligence
12 7 (10.29%) Continuous Delivery
12 7 (10.29%) Event-Driven
12 7 (10.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (47.06%) Java
2 17 (25.00%) Python
3 14 (20.59%) SQL
4 8 (11.76%) Bash
5 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.82%) Kotlin
6 5 (7.35%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.94%) C#
7 2 (2.94%) Go
8 1 (1.47%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.47%) Bicep
8 1 (1.47%) Clojure
8 1 (1.47%) Elixir
8 1 (1.47%) Haskell
8 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.47%) Rust
8 1 (1.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) Degree
4 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 21 (30.88%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.71%) Terraform
3 4 (5.88%) Ansible
4 3 (4.41%) Grafana
4 3 (4.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.47%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 5 (7.35%) Google
2 4 (5.88%) Oracle
2 4 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.41%) IBM
3 3 (4.41%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.94%) Foundry
4 2 (2.94%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.94%) SAP
5 1 (1.47%) Adobe
5 1 (1.47%) Apple
5 1 (1.47%) Databricks
5 1 (1.47%) Jitterbit
5 1 (1.47%) Okta
5 1 (1.47%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.47%) Pardot
5 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.47%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.47%) Workday