API Design Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

API Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 262 274 382
Rank change year-on-year +12 +108 +14
Contract jobs citing API Design 42 71 95
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.46% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.53% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 54 65
10th Percentile £352 £427 £401
25th Percentile £417 £481 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £499
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +10.33% -16.92%
75th Percentile £609 £588 £630
90th Percentile £758 £634 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £629
% change year-on-year - -12.56% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

API Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

API Design trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

API Design
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing API Design.

API Design daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing API Design over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

API Design daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

API Design
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing API Design.

API Design hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.38%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.95%) Azure
2 12 (28.57%) GCP
3 11 (26.19%) AWS
4 6 (14.29%) Slack
5 5 (11.90%) Serverless
6 4 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Functions
7 3 (7.14%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.38%) Azure API Management
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.38%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (2.38%) Cloud Run
9 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.38%) GitHub
9 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.95%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (28.57%) MySQL
3 10 (23.81%) MongoDB
4 6 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (11.90%) Redis
6 3 (7.14%) Metadata
6 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.76%) CockroachDB
7 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (30.95%) Git
2 9 (21.43%) JUnit
3 7 (16.67%) JIRA
4 6 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 6 (14.29%) Jasmine
5 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
6 4 (9.52%) GitLab
7 3 (7.14%) Eclipse
7 3 (7.14%) Gradle
7 3 (7.14%) IntelliJ
7 3 (7.14%) Maven
7 3 (7.14%) Mockito
7 3 (7.14%) TestNG
8 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.38%) MLflow
8 1 (2.38%) Postman
8 1 (2.38%) webpack
General
1 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.52%) Finance
4 2 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Law
5 1 (2.38%) Legal
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (47.62%) Developer
2 9 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 8 (19.05%) Senior
4 6 (14.29%) Lead
5 5 (11.90%) Architect
5 5 (11.90%) Java Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Senior Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Lead Java Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Python Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Digital Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Python Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Analyst
8 2 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (45.24%) RESTful
2 14 (33.33%) Spring
2 14 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 10 (23.81%) OAuth
3 10 (23.81%) React
3 10 (23.81%) REST
4 9 (21.43%) JWT
4 9 (21.43%) OpenAPI
4 9 (21.43%) Swagger
5 8 (19.05%) Spring Security
6 7 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 7 (16.67%) HTML
7 6 (14.29%) CSS
8 5 (11.90%) Spring Batch
9 4 (9.52%) Django
9 4 (9.52%) FastAPI
9 4 (9.52%) GraphQL
9 4 (9.52%) Node.js
10 3 (7.14%) GWT
10 3 (7.14%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
1 6 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) Microservices
2 19 (45.24%) CI/CD
3 15 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 13 (30.95%) Agile
4 13 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (28.57%) DevOps
6 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
6 10 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (21.43%) OWASP
7 9 (21.43%) TDD
8 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
8 8 (19.05%) Test Automation
9 7 (16.67%) High Availability
10 6 (14.29%) API Development
10 6 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (14.29%) Front End Development
10 6 (14.29%) Kernel Tuning
10 6 (14.29%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) Java
2 13 (30.95%) SQL
3 10 (23.81%) Python
4 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 6 (14.29%) Bash
6 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.76%) C#
8 1 (2.38%) Bicep
8 1 (2.38%) Clojure
8 1 (2.38%) Elixir
8 1 (2.38%) Go
8 1 (2.38%) Haskell
8 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.38%) Rust
8 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.52%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 16 (38.10%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.14%) Grafana
2 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
2 3 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.76%) Ansible
3 2 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Google
2 7 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (2.38%) Axway
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.38%) Okta
4 1 (2.38%) SAP