API Design Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

API Design
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands 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 132 107 115
Rank change year-on-year -25 +8 +47
Contract jobs citing API Design 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £261 - £445
25th Percentile £262 £625 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -52.88% - +7.17%
75th Percentile £380 £675 £813
90th Percentile £444 - £895
England median daily rate £525 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.00% -14.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,944 1,523 1,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.96% 84.24% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,236 956 1,104
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 52 53
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.13 £16.07 £17.72
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.80 £24.60
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% -11.40% +38.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £34.06 £50.00
90th Percentile £40.46 £52.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

API Design job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing API Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing API Design

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in the West Midlands

API Design
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Coventry -15 2 £273 - 2
Shropshire - 1 £475 - 5
Staffordshire - 1 £338 - 2
API Design
England

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Kong
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) DocumentDB
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Mockito
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Camel
3 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) SignalR
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) WireMock
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) API Management
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) OOP
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus