API Design Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

API Design
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -47 - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 15 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.85% 0.86% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 0.90% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £454 £559 -
25th Percentile £459 £574 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £599 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% - -
75th Percentile £684 £625 -
90th Percentile - £640 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £574 £599 -
% change year-on-year -4.26% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 766 221 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.68% 95.26% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 135 224
10th Percentile £350 £220 £366
25th Percentile £413 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.60% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile £14.44 £12.10 -
25th Percentile £15.34 £12.62 £10.90
Median hourly rate £19.34 £14.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.28% -34.02% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile - £16.97 £25.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.01 £14.85 £13.23
% change year-on-year +21.29% +12.21% +24.46%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Sheffield

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in Sheffield over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in Sheffield

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Run
1 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (13.33%) GCP
1 2 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Jaeger
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (66.67%) Finance
3 8 (53.33%) Financial Institution
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 6 (40.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Designer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Designer
3 2 (13.33%) Security Designer
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) Middleware
2 9 (60.00%) Kafka
2 9 (60.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 9 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (13.33%) A2A Protocol
3 2 (13.33%) CrewAI
3 2 (13.33%) JWT
3 2 (13.33%) LangChain
3 2 (13.33%) LangGraph
3 2 (13.33%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (13.33%) Node.js
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth2
3 2 (13.33%) OpenID
3 2 (13.33%) RESTful
3 2 (13.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (53.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (13.33%) AI Agents
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (13.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Computer Science
2 11 (73.33%) Application Security
2 11 (73.33%) Microservices
2 11 (73.33%) Observability
3 10 (66.67%) DevOps
4 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (60.00%) Data Modelling
4 9 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (60.00%) GAP Analysis
4 9 (60.00%) JVM Tuning
4 9 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 8 (53.33%) Coaching
5 8 (53.33%) Conflict Resolution
5 8 (53.33%) Critical Thinking
5 8 (53.33%) Identity Access Management
5 8 (53.33%) IT Strategy
5 8 (53.33%) Mentoring
5 8 (53.33%) Software Delivery
5 8 (53.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Java
2 9 (60.00%) Rust
3 8 (53.33%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) C++
4 2 (13.33%) Go
4 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) CISM
3 2 (13.33%) CISSP
3 2 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) HIPAA
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
1 2 (13.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (60.00%) Grafana
2 9 (60.00%) Kiali
2 9 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) BiZZdesign
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) NVIDIA
2 2 (13.33%) Okta
2 2 (13.33%) OpenAI
2 2 (13.33%) Ping Identity
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow