API Design Contract Job Trends in the North West

API Design
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 112 137
Rank change year-on-year +1 +25 +34
Contract jobs citing API Design 27 11 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.10% 0.49% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.57% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 3
10th Percentile £347 £359 £415
25th Percentile £358 £444 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £570 £455 £558
90th Percentile £591 £527 £577
England median daily rate £525 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.00% -14.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,171 1,916 2,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.54% 85.27% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,062 1,637
10th Percentile £213 £291 £276
25th Percentile £358 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £568 £575 £600
90th Percentile £664 £656 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 113 152
10th Percentile £15.56 £16.01 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%
75th Percentile £46.71 £51.91 £46.35
90th Percentile £69.35 £69.44 £64.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the North West

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in the North West over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in the North West

API Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

API Design
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Manchester +4 17 £549 -0.23% 17
Cheshire -15 10 £358 -19.37% 5
API Design
England

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 18 (66.67%) AWS
2 14 (51.85%) GCP
3 11 (40.74%) GitHub
4 10 (37.04%) Apigee
5 8 (29.63%) Azure
6 7 (25.93%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (25.93%) Serverless
7 6 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (22.22%) Amazon EventBridge
7 6 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (22.22%) SaaS
8 5 (18.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (18.52%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (18.52%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (18.52%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (18.52%) Datadog
8 5 (18.52%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (18.52%) Loggly
8 5 (18.52%) Route 53
9 4 (14.81%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) HTTP
2 4 (14.81%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (51.85%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (37.04%) MySQL
2 10 (37.04%) Relational Database
3 7 (25.93%) DynamoDB
4 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
5 5 (18.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (18.52%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (18.52%) BigQuery
5 5 (18.52%) RDBMS
5 5 (18.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (59.26%) Git
2 12 (44.44%) Jenkins
3 5 (18.52%) GitLab
3 5 (18.52%) Gradle
3 5 (18.52%) Maven
3 5 (18.52%) SonarLint
3 5 (18.52%) SonarQube
4 4 (14.81%) Postman
5 1 (3.70%) Spinnaker
General
1 8 (29.63%) Public Sector
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Developer
2 10 (37.04%) Java Developer
3 9 (33.33%) Architect
4 7 (25.93%) Java Architect
4 7 (25.93%) Java Technical Architect
4 7 (25.93%) Technical Architect
5 4 (14.81%) Apigee Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Backend Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Mobile Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Java Mobile Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 1 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) JavaScript Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (74.07%) Spring Boot
2 18 (66.67%) RESTful
3 14 (51.85%) Spring
4 10 (37.04%) JWT
4 10 (37.04%) OAuth
4 10 (37.04%) OAuth2
5 9 (33.33%) Hibernate
6 6 (22.22%) Dropwizard
6 6 (22.22%) GraphQL
6 6 (22.22%) J2EE
6 6 (22.22%) Micronaut
7 5 (18.52%) Celery
8 4 (14.81%) JAX-RS
8 4 (14.81%) JSON
8 4 (14.81%) Spring MVC
8 4 (14.81%) Spring Security
8 4 (14.81%) XML
9 3 (11.11%) Node.js
10 1 (3.70%) Express.js
10 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 6 (22.22%) N-Tier
2 5 (18.52%) Mobile App
3 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) Microservices
2 19 (70.37%) CI/CD
3 16 (59.26%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (55.56%) TDD
5 14 (51.85%) Agile
5 14 (51.85%) Containerisation
6 12 (44.44%) Event-Driven
7 11 (40.74%) Design Patterns
7 11 (40.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 11 (40.74%) SDLC
8 10 (37.04%) AI
8 10 (37.04%) BDD
9 9 (33.33%) Computer Science
9 9 (33.33%) MVC
9 9 (33.33%) Test Automation
10 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
10 8 (29.63%) TOGAF
11 7 (25.93%) Clean Code
11 7 (25.93%) OOP
11 7 (25.93%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 21 (77.78%) Java
2 7 (25.93%) Python
3 5 (18.52%) Kotlin
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) Bicep
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (33.33%) Degree
2 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.41%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 19 (70.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (29.63%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Gigya
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 4 (14.81%) Splunk
3 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.70%) Google