API Design Contract Job Trends in the North East

API Design
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 42 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.01% 0.30% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £430 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -18.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 414 293 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.64% 87.20% 83.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 176 128
10th Percentile £176 £305 £187
25th Percentile £363 £358 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £464 £465
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% -0.16% -15.55%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £582
90th Percentile £595 £650 £641
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 46
10th Percentile £21.19 £12.89 £11.50
25th Percentile £49.56 £14.69 £12.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £16.50 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +263.64% -1.49% -65.82%
75th Percentile £72.50 £26.50 £48.11
90th Percentile - £46.18 £50.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
% change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the North East

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

API Design
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 27 February 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
Tyne and Wear -13 5 £500 +16.28% 2
API Design
England

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Firebird
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Next.js
3 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Functional Programming
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform