API Design Contracts in Wales

API Design
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing API Design 1 0 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.33% - 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% - 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £412
25th Percentile £363 - £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £570
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.57%
75th Percentile £388 - £590
90th Percentile - - £596
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -2.18% -8.33% -2.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 271 303 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 89.74% 71.29% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 190 359
10th Percentile £190 £143 £180
25th Percentile £287 £294 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% -3.75% -
75th Percentile £488 £552 £586
90th Percentile £625 £626 £639
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 42 28
10th Percentile £13.08 £11.75 £14.68
25th Percentile £14.42 £15.48 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.76 £20.24 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +7.51% +7.55% -5.93%
75th Percentile £25.15 £51.31 £24.06
90th Percentile £41.63 £83.88 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in Wales

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Design in Wales.

Daily rate trend for API Design in Wales

API Design
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
South Wales - 1 £375 - 7
API Design
UK

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) SOA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) BPEL
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle