API Design Contracts in Scotland

API Design
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for API Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Design over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 159 158
Rank change year-on-year +31 -1 -23
Contract jobs citing API Design 3 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 0.47% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.51% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 5
10th Percentile - £453 £390
25th Percentile £456 £483 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +20.00% +10.06%
75th Percentile £487 £686 £550
90th Percentile £499 £738 £556
UK median daily rate £550 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -12.70% +5.00% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £35.00 £65.76
% change year-on-year +87.14% -46.78% +64.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

API Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,922 2,555 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.29% 92.54% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 1,831 2,264
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% +10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £550
90th Percentile £655 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 57 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.30 £19.45
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.50 £38.71
Median % change year-on-year +17.18% -57.38% -3.23%
75th Percentile £46.24 £47.73 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £65.63 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in Scotland

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for API Design in Scotland

API Design
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Edinburgh +27 1 £506 -1.12% 1
API Design
UK

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Security
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Human-Centred Design
1 3 (100.00%) Inclusive Design
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Code Coverage
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana