API Design Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

API Design
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £331 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 - -
75th Percentile £344 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £306 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -52.88% - +7.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57 79 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 82.61% 71.82% 85.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 35 100
10th Percentile £140 £265 £325
25th Percentile £200 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.56% -10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £453 £531 £575
90th Percentile £583 £594 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 7
10th Percentile - £16.60 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £16.94 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.12 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.90% -16.87% +2.63%
75th Percentile £31.00 £23.93 £25.88
90th Percentile £37.13 £39.13 £28.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £21.80 £24.60
% change year-on-year -8.24% -11.40% +38.98%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

API Design
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £338 - 3
API Design
West Midlands

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DocumentDB
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SignalR
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes