API Design Contract Job Trends in the North of England

API Design
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 144 177
Rank change year-on-year -24 +33 +46
Contract jobs citing API Design 42 19 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.89% 0.53% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.61% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 10 3
10th Percentile £354 £435 £415
25th Percentile £361 £471 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% +4.86% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £558
90th Percentile £584 £776 £577
England median daily rate £505 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -12.17% +6.98% -14.68%

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 4,195 3,105 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.54% 86.78% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,787 1,767 2,728
10th Percentile £215 £263 £293
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £665 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 155 189
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.32 £17.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £28.96 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% -8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £51.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £68.90 £66.80 £62.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the North of England

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in the North of England

API Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing API Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing API Design

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 20 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
North West +2 31 £402 -10.67% 17
Yorkshire -53 8 £475 -13.41% 7
North East -5 4 £538 - 3
API Design
England

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (2.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (59.52%) AWS
2 17 (40.48%) GCP
3 14 (33.33%) GitHub
4 12 (28.57%) Apigee
4 12 (28.57%) Azure
5 9 (21.43%) Serverless
6 8 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
8 6 (14.29%) SaaS
9 5 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (11.90%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (11.90%) Datadog
9 5 (11.90%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (11.90%) Loggly
9 5 (11.90%) Route 53
10 4 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) HTTP
2 4 (9.52%) HTTPS
3 3 (7.14%) Firewall
4 1 (2.38%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (26.19%) Relational Database
3 10 (23.81%) MySQL
4 8 (19.05%) DynamoDB
5 7 (16.67%) NoSQL
6 5 (11.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (11.90%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (11.90%) BigQuery
6 5 (11.90%) RDBMS
6 5 (11.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (40.48%) Git
2 13 (30.95%) Jenkins
3 7 (16.67%) GitLab
4 6 (14.29%) Postman
5 5 (11.90%) Gradle
5 5 (11.90%) Maven
5 5 (11.90%) SonarLint
5 5 (11.90%) SonarQube
6 4 (9.52%) Jaeger
7 2 (4.76%) Spinnaker
8 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.19%) Finance
3 9 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Banking
5 3 (7.14%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Developer
2 11 (26.19%) Architect
3 10 (23.81%) Java Developer
4 7 (16.67%) Java Architect
4 7 (16.67%) Java Technical Architect
4 7 (16.67%) Technical Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Apigee Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Backend Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior
6 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Java Mobile Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Payments Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 19 (45.24%) RESTful
3 18 (42.86%) Spring
4 11 (26.19%) JWT
4 11 (26.19%) OAuth
5 10 (23.81%) OAuth2
6 9 (21.43%) Hibernate
7 6 (14.29%) Dropwizard
7 6 (14.29%) GraphQL
7 6 (14.29%) J2EE
7 6 (14.29%) JSON
7 6 (14.29%) Micronaut
7 6 (14.29%) XML
8 5 (11.90%) Celery
8 5 (11.90%) Kafka
8 5 (11.90%) Middleware
8 5 (11.90%) Node.js
8 5 (11.90%) REST
8 5 (11.90%) Swagger
9 4 (9.52%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (14.29%) N-Tier
3 5 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (11.90%) Management Information System
3 5 (11.90%) Mobile App
4 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.76%) Digital Wallet
6 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (83.33%) Microservices
2 30 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 19 (45.24%) Containerisation
3 19 (45.24%) TDD
4 18 (42.86%) Agile
4 18 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (38.10%) Mentoring
6 15 (35.71%) Computer Science
6 15 (35.71%) SDLC
6 15 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (33.33%) Test Automation
8 13 (30.95%) BDD
8 13 (30.95%) Design Patterns
9 12 (28.57%) DevOps
9 12 (28.57%) Event-Driven
10 11 (26.19%) AI
10 11 (26.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 9 (21.43%) Integration Patterns
11 9 (21.43%) MVC
11 9 (21.43%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 31 (73.81%) Java
2 11 (26.19%) Python
3 5 (11.90%) Kotlin
4 4 (9.52%) Rust
4 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.14%) C#
5 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.14%) SQL
6 2 (4.76%) Bash
6 2 (4.76%) Bicep
6 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (35.71%) Degree
2 13 (30.95%) Security Cleared
3 11 (26.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (9.52%) Azure Certification
4 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 3 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) PSD2
2 2 (4.76%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.38%) ISO 8583
3 1 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (69.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 13 (30.95%) Terraform
3 4 (9.52%) Grafana
3 4 (9.52%) Kiali
3 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.76%) Istio
5 1 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Splunk
2 6 (14.29%) Gigya
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.76%) Google