API Design Contract Job Trends in Manchester

API Design
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 78 103
Rank change year-on-year +4 +25 +19
Contract jobs citing API Design 17 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.50% 0.44% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 0.49% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £424 - £408
25th Percentile £464 £525 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% +22.22% -7.22%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £494
90th Percentile £591 - £513
North West median daily rate £402 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -10.67% -10.00% +3.09%

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 1,015 1,014 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.66% 88.71% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 597 1,026
10th Percentile £300 £294 £285
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 48
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.00 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £22.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +64.56% -43.57%
75th Percentile £31.40 £45.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £74.28
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Manchester

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in Manchester

API Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing API Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing API Design

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 13 (76.47%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) GCP
3 7 (41.18%) Amazon SQS
3 7 (41.18%) Azure
3 7 (41.18%) Serverless
4 6 (35.29%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (35.29%) Amazon EventBridge
4 6 (35.29%) Apigee
4 6 (35.29%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (35.29%) GitHub
4 6 (35.29%) SaaS
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (29.41%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (29.41%) Datadog
5 5 (29.41%) Loggly
5 5 (29.41%) Route 53
6 4 (23.53%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (23.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (41.18%) DynamoDB
3 6 (35.29%) NoSQL
4 5 (29.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (29.41%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (29.41%) BigQuery
4 5 (29.41%) MySQL
4 5 (29.41%) RDBMS
4 5 (29.41%) Redis
4 5 (29.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 7 (41.18%) Git
3 5 (29.41%) Gradle
3 5 (29.41%) Maven
3 5 (29.41%) SonarLint
3 5 (29.41%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.88%) Spinnaker
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Architect
2 7 (41.18%) Java Architect
2 7 (41.18%) Java Technical Architect
2 7 (41.18%) Technical Architect
3 6 (35.29%) Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Backend Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Java Mobile Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Applications Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) Spring Boot
2 9 (52.94%) RESTful
3 6 (35.29%) Dropwizard
3 6 (35.29%) GraphQL
3 6 (35.29%) J2EE
3 6 (35.29%) JWT
3 6 (35.29%) Micronaut
3 6 (35.29%) OAuth
3 6 (35.29%) OAuth2
4 5 (29.41%) Celery
4 5 (29.41%) Spring
5 3 (17.65%) Node.js
6 1 (5.88%) Express.js
6 1 (5.88%) OpenAPI
6 1 (5.88%) REST
6 1 (5.88%) Swagger
6 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
1 6 (35.29%) N-Tier
2 5 (29.41%) Mobile App
3 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Microservices
2 12 (70.59%) Event-Driven
3 11 (64.71%) Design Patterns
3 11 (64.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 11 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (58.82%) BDD
4 10 (58.82%) SDLC
4 10 (58.82%) TDD
5 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
6 8 (47.06%) Agile
6 8 (47.06%) Containerisation
6 8 (47.06%) Mentoring
7 7 (41.18%) Clean Code
7 7 (41.18%) OOP
7 7 (41.18%) TOGAF
8 6 (35.29%) AI
8 6 (35.29%) Asynchronous Programming
8 6 (35.29%) Integration Patterns
8 6 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (35.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 5 (29.41%) Kotlin
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
1 8 (47.06%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Gigya
2 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.88%) Google