API Design Contract Job Trends in Taunton

API Design
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton 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 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 10.09% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.70% - -
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 - -
Somerset median daily rate £413 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 94 16 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 86.24% 94.12% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 15 26
10th Percentile £406 £532 £488
25th Percentile £431 £610 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £715 £594
Median % change year-on-year -33.57% +20.42% -12.23%
75th Percentile £650 £886 £605
90th Percentile £730 £960 £656
Somerset median daily rate £523 £520 £531
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.07% +8.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.85 £12.45 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -4.23% -
75th Percentile - - £14.25
90th Percentile - - £15.60
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
% change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -51.82%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Taunton

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

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

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Taunton

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

Daily rate histogram for API Design in Taunton

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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