API Design Contracts in Manchester

API Design
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 71 91 111
Rank change year-on-year +20 +20 +24
Contract jobs citing API Design 8 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.86% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.38% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - £613 £621
25th Percentile £456 £706 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £875 £663
Median % change year-on-year -47.14% +32.08% +65.63%
75th Percentile £494 £888 £684
90th Percentile £509 - £694
North West median daily rate £463 £498 £625
% change year-on-year -7.04% -20.40% +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in Manchester

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for API Design in Manchester

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (25.00%) Slack
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) ObjectStore
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Jasmine
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
1 4 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Product Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (25.00%) React
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Batch
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Security
2 2 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Analytics
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) OWASP
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Kernel Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) OO
3 2 (25.00%) OOP
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes