API Design Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

API Design
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 83 38 -
Rank change year-on-year -45 - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 15 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.73% 0.75% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 0.79% -
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 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £549 £432
% change year-on-year -11.13% +26.98% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 817 252 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.12% 94.74% 93.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 159 253
10th Percentile £350 £212 £365
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £712
Yorkshire median daily rate £491 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.37% -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 13
10th Percentile £14.55 £12.10 £10.90
25th Percentile £15.27 £12.62 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.01 £14.85 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% +12.21% +24.46%
75th Percentile £23.70 £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.15 £16.97 £29.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £20.57 £15.50
% change year-on-year +22.28% +32.69% +45.81%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

API Design job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing API Design

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for API Design in South Yorkshire

API Design
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 February 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
Sheffield -47 15 £574 -4.26% 2
API Design
Yorkshire

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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