API Design Contracts in the Midlands

API Design
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for API Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Design over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 155 182
Rank change year-on-year +33 +27 -46
Contract jobs citing API Design 9 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.33% 0.33% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.37% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile - £484 £480
25th Percentile £445 £488 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% -8.89% +45.16%
75th Percentile £644 £575 £596
90th Percentile £688 £594 £604
England median daily rate £575 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

API Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,231 2,964 4,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.02% 88.40% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 2,073 3,221
10th Percentile £237 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £365 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +15.85%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £567
90th Percentile £700 £687 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 113 142
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.84 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £15.00 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £22.63
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.75 £34.95
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the Midlands

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for API Design in the Midlands

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in the Midlands

API Design
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
East Midlands +31 8 £480 -
West Midlands +13 1 - - 7
API Design
England

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) SaaS
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) DB2
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) Big Data
2 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (22.22%) Power BI
4 1 (11.11%) OLAP
4 1 (11.11%) OLTP
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle OLAP
General
1 6 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Architect
2 5 (55.56%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Data Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) .NET
1 4 (44.44%) React
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 1 (11.11%) gRPC
3 1 (11.11%) JMS
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (11.11%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (44.44%) Mainframe
1 4 (44.44%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Android
1 4 (44.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Architectural Design
3 5 (55.56%) Domain-Driven Design
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Microservices
4 4 (44.44%) Project Management
4 4 (44.44%) SDLC
4 4 (44.44%) Waterfall
5 3 (33.33%) Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
6 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
6 2 (22.22%) DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) ETL
6 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
6 2 (22.22%) Open Source
6 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
6 2 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C
1 4 (44.44%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce