API Design Contracts in South Wales

API Design
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing API Design 2 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.81% - 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% - 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £375 - £570
% change year-on-year - - +8.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 224 268 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 91.06% 75.71% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 174 301
10th Percentile £190 £141 £190
25th Percentile £296 £256 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £488 £553 £588
90th Percentile £625 £625 £650
Wales median daily rate £403 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -16.36% -3.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 25
10th Percentile £12.99 £12.27 £16.52
25th Percentile £14.23 £15.48 £16.98
Median hourly rate £16.00 £20.24 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +3.82% -2.55%
75th Percentile £23.75 £50.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £45.00 £85.80 £49.50
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £20.24 £18.82
% change year-on-year +3.83% +7.55% -5.93%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in South Wales

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for API Design in South Wales

API Design
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 26 June 2025. 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
Cardiff - 2 £375 - 7
API Design
Wales

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (100.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SOA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSD
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) BPEL
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle