API Design Contracts in the North of England

API Design
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring API Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 172 210
Rank change year-on-year +23 +38 +6
Contract jobs citing API Design 17 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.52% 0.27% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.32% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 4
10th Percentile £443 £375 £391
25th Percentile £456 £416 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £445 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% -15.24% -12.08%
75th Percentile £711 £573 £653
90th Percentile £778 £888 £681
England median daily rate £563 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -2.17% -11.54% +6.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +87.14% -46.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
North West +17 8 £463 -7.04% 46
Yorkshire +11 8 £765 +91.25% 35
North East - 1 £430 - 8
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (52.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Slack
2 7 (41.18%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Apache Cassandra
1 9 (52.94%) MongoDB
1 9 (52.94%) MySQL
1 9 (52.94%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Git
2 9 (52.94%) Cucumber
2 9 (52.94%) Jasmine
2 9 (52.94%) JIRA
2 9 (52.94%) JUnit
3 2 (11.76%) GitLab
General
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
1 10 (58.82%) Senior
2 9 (52.94%) Senior Developer
3 8 (47.06%) Java Developer
4 7 (41.18%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Java Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Product Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Product Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) RESTful
2 9 (52.94%) Spring
2 9 (52.94%) Spring Boot
2 9 (52.94%) Swagger
3 8 (47.06%) OpenAPI
3 8 (47.06%) Spring Security
4 7 (41.18%) Spring Batch
5 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
5 3 (17.65%) React
6 1 (5.88%) Ajax
6 1 (5.88%) CSS
6 1 (5.88%) Django
6 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
6 1 (5.88%) Flask
6 1 (5.88%) HTML
6 1 (5.88%) REST
6 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) IoT
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
1 9 (52.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Containerisation
1 11 (64.71%) Microservices
2 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) Continuous Delivery
2 10 (58.82%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (58.82%) OWASP
2 10 (58.82%) Test Automation
3 9 (52.94%) BDD
3 9 (52.94%) TDD
4 8 (47.06%) Integration Testing
4 8 (47.06%) Kernel Tuning
5 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
5 7 (41.18%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (35.29%) Agile
6 6 (35.29%) High Availability
6 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
7 5 (29.41%) Coaching
7 5 (29.41%) Operational Stability
8 4 (23.53%) Analytics
8 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) Bash
2 9 (52.94%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (5.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Kubernetes