API Design Contracts in Northampton

API Design
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 23 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 2 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 1.63% 4.72% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 5.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £368 - -
25th Percentile £383 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £412 £445 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% - -
75th Percentile £444 £463 -
90th Percentile £461 £494 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £412 £445 -
% change year-on-year -7.53% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 115 120 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 93.50% 94.49% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 91 89
10th Percentile £262 £325 £163
25th Percentile £356 £356 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £460 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% +22.67% -18.48%
75th Percentile £475 £595 £500
90th Percentile £529 £622 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £445 £375
% change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.58% +7.56%
75th Percentile £15.25 - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in Northampton

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Design in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for API Design in Northampton

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Apigee
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Kong
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) RAML
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) API Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk