API Design Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

API Design
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.29% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £465 £480
% change year-on-year +7.53% -3.13% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 252 120 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 73.90% 87.59% 81.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 71 61
10th Percentile £178 £350 £250
25th Percentile £211 £414 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £551 £530 £575
90th Percentile £650 £588 £688
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £445 £410
% change year-on-year +1.18% +8.48% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 7 15
10th Percentile £12.95 - £12.02
25th Percentile £13.25 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £15.84 £13.81 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -3.22% -28.65%
75th Percentile £16.35 £14.96 £17.32
90th Percentile £16.75 £23.17 £23.10
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.75 £18.87 £17.00
% change year-on-year +9.96% +11.00% -7.43%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing API Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing API Design

API Design
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 4 May 2026. 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
Nottingham - 1 £650 - 3
API Design
East Midlands

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft