API Design Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

API Design
North East > Tyne and Wear

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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 38 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.11% 0.40% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.45% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £430 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £500 £430 -
% change year-on-year +16.28% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 381 222 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 84.48% 88.10% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 141 97
10th Percentile £179 £305 £183
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £588
90th Percentile £591 £638 £650
North East median daily rate £450 £464 £465
% change year-on-year -2.96% -0.16% -15.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 34
10th Percentile £17.88 £12.03 £11.50
25th Percentile £44.50 £13.75 £12.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £16.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +243.75% +6.70% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £18.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £69.66 £19.75 £50.00
North East median hourly rate £60.00 £16.50 £16.75
% change year-on-year +263.64% -1.49% -65.82%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing API Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing API Design

API Design
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 27 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -12 5 £500 +16.28% 1
API Design
North East

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Firebird
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Next.js
3 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Functional Programming
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform