API Design Contracts in the UK excluding London

API Design
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 360 381
Rank change year-on-year +69 +21 +26
Contract jobs citing API Design 45 39 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.19% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.22% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 30 39
10th Percentile £335 £400 £385
25th Percentile £408 £448 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £568 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £688 £728
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £629
% change year-on-year - -12.56% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +87.14% -46.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the UK excluding London

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Design in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for API Design in the UK excluding London

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in the UK excluding London

API Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Design in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for API Design in the UK excluding London

API Design
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +23 17 £488 +9.55% 90
South East +44 13 £432 -28.00% 107
North West +17 8 £463 -7.04% 47
Yorkshire +11 8 £765 +91.25% 35
Midlands +21 7 £503 +4.69% 77
Scotland +14 5 £210 -54.59% 16
South West +48 4 £700 - 45
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 41
East Midlands +5 3 £465 -3.13% 30
North East - 1 £430 - 8
East of England - 1 £675 - 56
API Design
UK

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (22.22%) Confluence
2 3 (6.67%) Anypoint
2 3 (6.67%) Mule
2 3 (6.67%) Mule ESB
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle Retail
1 1 (2.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.00%) Azure
2 16 (35.56%) AWS
3 9 (20.00%) Slack
4 7 (15.56%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (15.56%) Serverless
5 6 (13.33%) Azure Functions
6 4 (8.89%) Azure AKS
6 4 (8.89%) GCP
6 4 (8.89%) iPaaS
7 3 (6.67%) Apigee
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.44%) GitHub
8 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.22%) Azure API Management
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (37.78%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (24.44%) MongoDB
3 9 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (20.00%) MySQL
4 4 (8.89%) Redis
5 3 (6.67%) CockroachDB
5 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.44%) ObjectStore
6 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (37.78%) Git
2 12 (26.67%) JIRA
3 9 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 9 (20.00%) Jasmine
3 9 (20.00%) JUnit
4 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.67%) GitLab
6 2 (4.44%) Postman
7 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.22%) Maven
General
1 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Banking
3 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Retail
5 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (57.78%) Developer
2 18 (40.00%) Senior
3 16 (35.56%) Senior Developer
4 9 (20.00%) Architect
5 8 (17.78%) Java Developer
6 7 (15.56%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.67%) Backend Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Lead
8 3 (6.67%) Lead Developer
8 3 (6.67%) MuleSoft Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Python Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Python Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Software Developer
9 2 (4.44%) Java Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Technical Manager
9 2 (4.44%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (60.00%) RESTful
2 12 (26.67%) Spring
2 12 (26.67%) Spring Boot
2 12 (26.67%) Swagger
3 10 (22.22%) OpenAPI
3 10 (22.22%) Spring Security
4 9 (20.00%) React
5 8 (17.78%) REST
6 7 (15.56%) AngularJS
6 7 (15.56%) Spring Batch
7 5 (11.11%) Node.js
7 5 (11.11%) SOAP
8 4 (8.89%) Django
8 4 (8.89%) GraphQL
8 4 (8.89%) JSON
8 4 (8.89%) Prisma
8 4 (8.89%) RAML
8 4 (8.89%) XML
9 3 (6.67%) CSS
9 3 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.22%) IoT
3 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (24.44%) Linux
2 9 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (51.11%) CI/CD
2 22 (48.89%) Microservices
3 17 (37.78%) Agile
3 17 (37.78%) Containerisation
4 16 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 14 (31.11%) DevOps
7 13 (28.89%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (26.67%) TDD
9 10 (22.22%) API Development
9 10 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
9 10 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (22.22%) OWASP
10 9 (20.00%) BDD
10 9 (20.00%) Software Engineering
10 9 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (17.78%) Integration Testing
11 8 (17.78%) Kernel Tuning
12 7 (15.56%) API Management
12 7 (15.56%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (46.67%) SQL
2 15 (33.33%) Java
3 9 (20.00%) Bash
4 8 (17.78%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.78%) Python
5 7 (15.56%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.67%) C#
6 3 (6.67%) DataWeave
7 2 (4.44%) Apex Code
7 2 (4.44%) Go
7 2 (4.44%) Ruby
7 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 11 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) Degree
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.22%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (37.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (42.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) CloudHub
2 3 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 4 (8.89%) Oracle
4 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) SAP
5 1 (2.22%) SnapLogic
5 1 (2.22%) Splunk