API Design Contracts in the West Midlands

API Design
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for API Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Design over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 124 167
Rank change year-on-year +14 +43 -44
Contract jobs citing API Design 1 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.053% 0.43% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.49% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - £484 £506
25th Percentile - £488 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -10.87% +26.72%
75th Percentile - £575 £598
90th Percentile - £594 £605
England median daily rate £575 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -14.81% +8.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

API Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,594 2,048 3,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.76% 88.31% 90.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 1,397 2,342
10th Percentile £275 £263 £275
25th Percentile £373 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% +15.29%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 47 65
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +12.93% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.13 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £50.00 £21.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the West Midlands

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Design in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend 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 May 2024. 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
Birmingham +14 1 - - 3
API Design
England

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) OLAP
1 1 (100.00%) OLTP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle