API Design Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

API Design
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.85% 0.44% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.52% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £430 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.56% - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £548 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £463 £430 -
% change year-on-year +7.56% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 394 194 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 83.65% 85.46% 84.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 141 89
10th Percentile £325 £225 £335
25th Percentile £400 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -11.50%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £600
90th Percentile £625 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £460 £500
% change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 3 18
10th Percentile £17.00 £21.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £51.25 £30.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.38 £50.00
90th Percentile - £51.35 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +293.94% -5.71% -

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing API Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing API Design

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Bitrise
2 1 (25.00%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Firebird
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) Next.js
3 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
3 2 (50.00%) React
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (50.00%) Swagger
4 1 (25.00%) Akka
4 1 (25.00%) JWT
4 1 (25.00%) OAuth
4 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (25.00%) OpenID
4 1 (25.00%) Play Framework
4 1 (25.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) Functional Programming
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Document Management
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) MVVM
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Push Notifications
4 1 (25.00%) Release Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes