API Design Contracts in the North of England

API Design
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 209 224
Rank change year-on-year +38 +15 -45
Contract jobs citing API Design 13 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.28% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.17% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 12
10th Percentile £375 £391 £388
25th Percentile £416 £397 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £525 £597
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% -12.08% -5.96%
75th Percentile £573 £653 £691
90th Percentile £888 £681 £700
England median daily rate £575 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -14.81% +8.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.50 £35.00 £65.76
% change year-on-year +87.14% -46.78% +19.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,996 5,147 6,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.49% 90.66% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,432 3,564 4,604
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.84%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 204 263
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.08 £13.44
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +53.42% +4.24%
75th Percentile £45.00 £45.54 £36.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £62.18
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the North of England

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Design in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for API Design in the North of England

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in the North of England

API Design
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 11 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
North West +18 8 £498 -20.40% 6
Yorkshire +20 5 £400 -5.88% 2
API Design
England

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) SaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Apigee
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) DB2
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) gulp
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) Maven
2 1 (7.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Designer
4 2 (15.38%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Mobile Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Apigee Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) Node.js
3 3 (23.08%) React
4 2 (15.38%) OAuth
4 2 (15.38%) OpenID
4 2 (15.38%) React Native
4 2 (15.38%) RESTful
4 2 (15.38%) SAML
5 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
5 1 (7.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (30.77%) Mobile App
2 3 (23.08%) Mainframe
2 3 (23.08%) Public Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.69%) IoT
4 1 (7.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Android
1 7 (53.85%) Apple iOS
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
1 7 (53.85%) Microservices
2 3 (23.08%) API Development
2 3 (23.08%) Architectural Design
2 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
2 3 (23.08%) Domain-Driven Design
2 3 (23.08%) Project Management
2 3 (23.08%) SDLC
2 3 (23.08%) Waterfall
3 2 (15.38%) API Management
3 2 (15.38%) Budget Management
3 2 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (15.38%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
3 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Key Management
3 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) C
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Brio
2 1 (7.69%) Cognizant