API Design Contract Job Trends in Somerset

API Design
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 2.49% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
South West median daily rate £475 £375 -
% change year-on-year +26.67% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 342 154 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 77.55% 91.67% 71.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 93 88
10th Percentile £350 £225 £209
25th Percentile £413 £370 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £520 £531
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -2.07% +8.92%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £600
90th Percentile £730 £763 £661
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 26 15
10th Percentile £31.20 £16.47 £12.35
25th Percentile £52.50 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -51.82%
75th Percentile £62.31 £62.81 £48.00
90th Percentile £93.79 £63.75 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +128.63% -61.31% -

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Somerset

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in Somerset over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in Somerset

API Design
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Taunton - 11 £413 - 2
API Design
South West

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 9 (81.82%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Git
1 9 (81.82%) JIRA
1 9 (81.82%) MSI
General
1 7 (63.64%) Public Sector
2 5 (45.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Developer
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 11 (100.00%) RESTful
2 9 (81.82%) .NET
2 9 (81.82%) .NET Core
2 9 (81.82%) .NET Framework
2 9 (81.82%) ATL
2 9 (81.82%) COM
2 9 (81.82%) CSS
2 9 (81.82%) CSS3
2 9 (81.82%) HTML
2 9 (81.82%) HTML5
2 9 (81.82%) MFC
2 9 (81.82%) REST
2 9 (81.82%) WPF
3 2 (18.18%) OpenAPI
3 2 (18.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (81.82%) Onboarding
3 7 (63.64%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
5 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
1 11 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 11 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) Containerisation
2 9 (81.82%) Dependency Management
2 9 (81.82%) Deployment Automation
2 9 (81.82%) Design Patterns
2 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 9 (81.82%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (81.82%) Knowledge Transfer
2 9 (81.82%) Microservices
2 9 (81.82%) SOLID
2 9 (81.82%) Static Application Security Testing
2 9 (81.82%) Virtual Environments
3 7 (63.64%) API Development
3 7 (63.64%) Client Onboarding
3 7 (63.64%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Bicep
2 9 (81.82%) C#
2 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 9 (81.82%) Python
2 9 (81.82%) TypeScript
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) NCSC
2 9 (81.82%) Accessibility
2 9 (81.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Terraform
2 9 (81.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft