API Design Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

API Design
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.92% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile £628 - -
North West median daily rate £575 £402 £453
% change year-on-year +43.03% -11.16% -19.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 129 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 78.46% 81.13% 69.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 81 78
10th Percentile £144 £129 £149
25th Percentile £255 £190 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £410
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +3.66% -18.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £494
90th Percentile £675 £663 £588
North West median daily rate £492 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +6.96% -8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 14
10th Percentile £17.46 - £15.30
25th Percentile £24.89 £12.21 £16.88
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.30 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year +46.71% -24.37% -0.97%
75th Percentile £39.32 £17.44 £36.19
90th Percentile £43.96 - £49.80
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £28.75 £32.00
% change year-on-year +73.91% -10.16% +4.78%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Merseyside

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

API Design
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 30 July 2026. 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
Liverpool - 3 £575 - 1
API Design
North West

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA