API Design Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

API Design
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 155 129 111
Rank change year-on-year -26 -18 +66
Contract jobs citing API Design 9 3 23
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.29% 0.12% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.14% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 22
10th Percentile £262 - £480
25th Percentile £270 £625 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £650 £534
Median % change year-on-year -48.08% +21.72% -11.00%
75th Percentile £360 £675 -
90th Percentile £495 - £564
England median daily rate £525 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.00% -14.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,688 2,125 2,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.96% 84.70% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 1,322 1,557
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £373 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 80 104
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.04
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.94 £17.41
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% -6.51% +41.41%
75th Percentile £25.15 £34.06 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the Midlands

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing API Design

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

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 13 December 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
East Midlands - 5 £358 - 8
West Midlands -25 4 £306 -52.88% 15
API Design
England

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Anypoint
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Kong
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) DocumentDB
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) JUnit
1 1 (11.11%) Mockito
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
1 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) ETL Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Payments Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) RESTful
1 5 (55.56%) Spring
1 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
2 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 2 (22.22%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Camel
3 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (11.11%) RAML
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) SignalR
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) Swagger
3 1 (11.11%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Microservices
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (33.33%) Business Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) Epics
4 3 (33.33%) ETL
4 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (33.33%) Kanban
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) User Experience
4 3 (33.33%) User Stories
4 3 (33.33%) Waterfall
5 2 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (22.22%) Due Diligence
5 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
5 2 (22.22%) KYC
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Kotlin
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (11.11%) Checkmarx
3 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft