API Design Contracts with Work from Home Options

API Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 377 387
Rank change year-on-year +98 +10 -30
Contract jobs citing API Design 67 95 247
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.37% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.41% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 65 175
10th Percentile £425 £401 £413
25th Percentile £481 £458 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £499 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.33% -16.92% +14.29%
75th Percentile £603 £630 £699
90th Percentile £638 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £629 £600
% change year-on-year -12.56% +4.83% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,424 23,231 40,628
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.86% 89.84% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,419 29,475
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 532 547
10th Percentile £15.12 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.89
Median hourly rate £40.28 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

API Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

API Design trend for jobs with a WFH option

API Design
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing API Design over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 (8.96%) Confluence
2 5 (7.46%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (34.33%) AWS
1 23 (34.33%) Azure
2 11 (16.42%) Serverless
3 9 (13.43%) GCP
4 8 (11.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (7.46%) Apigee
5 5 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 5 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Key Vault
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (5.97%) Azure Functions
6 4 (5.97%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.99%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.99%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.99%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) HTTP
2 3 (4.48%) Internet
3 2 (2.99%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.46%) KDB
2 5 (7.46%) Kdb+
2 5 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.46%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.97%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.48%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.48%) CockroachDB
4 3 (4.48%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.99%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.99%) MySQL
5 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Git
2 6 (8.96%) JIRA
3 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.48%) Cypress.io
4 3 (4.48%) Terragrunt
5 2 (2.99%) git-flow
5 2 (2.99%) GitLab
5 2 (2.99%) gulp
5 2 (2.99%) Maven
6 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
General
1 6 (8.96%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (7.46%) Banking
2 5 (7.46%) Front Office
3 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.99%) Finance
4 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (43.28%) Developer
2 12 (17.91%) Architect
3 8 (11.94%) Senior
4 7 (10.45%) Lead
5 6 (8.96%) Java Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Python Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Senior Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Technical Architect
6 5 (7.46%) Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Designer
6 5 (7.46%) KDB Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Analytics Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Payments Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Lead Designer
8 3 (4.48%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Senior Python Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.87%) Node.js
2 16 (23.88%) REST
3 13 (19.40%) RESTful
4 11 (16.42%) Swagger
5 10 (14.93%) OAuth
5 10 (14.93%) React
6 9 (13.43%) OpenAPI
7 8 (11.94%) AngularJS
7 8 (11.94%) OpenID
8 7 (10.45%) .NET
8 7 (10.45%) CSS
9 6 (8.96%) HTML
10 5 (7.46%) FastAPI
10 5 (7.46%) OAuth2
10 5 (7.46%) SAML
10 5 (7.46%) YAML
11 4 (5.97%) iOS SDK
11 4 (5.97%) JSON
11 4 (5.97%) Kafka
11 4 (5.97%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.46%) Digital Wallet
2 5 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.46%) Equities
2 5 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.97%) IoT
3 4 (5.97%) iPad
3 4 (5.97%) iPhone
4 3 (4.48%) Mobile Payment
4 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.99%) Contactless
5 2 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.99%) Hackathon
5 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.49%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.94%) Apple iOS
1 8 (11.94%) Unix
2 4 (5.97%) Android
3 3 (4.48%) Linux
4 2 (2.99%) Windows
4 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.33%) Agile
2 21 (31.34%) DevOps
3 20 (29.85%) Software Engineering
4 19 (28.36%) Microservices
4 19 (28.36%) Test Automation
5 17 (25.37%) API Development
5 17 (25.37%) CI/CD
6 13 (19.40%) Data Modelling
7 12 (17.91%) TDD
8 10 (14.93%) Unit Testing
9 8 (11.94%) Analytics
9 8 (11.94%) User Experience
10 7 (10.45%) API Management
10 7 (10.45%) Computer Science
10 7 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (10.45%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (8.96%) BDD
11 6 (8.96%) E-Commerce
11 6 (8.96%) Full Stack Development
11 6 (8.96%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (31.34%) Python
2 15 (22.39%) Java
2 15 (22.39%) SQL
3 14 (20.90%) JavaScript
4 9 (13.43%) C#
5 7 (10.45%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.97%) Objective-C
6 4 (5.97%) Swift
7 3 (4.48%) C
7 3 (4.48%) C++
8 2 (2.99%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.99%) PHP
9 1 (1.49%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 8 (11.94%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.96%) Degree
3 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) QA
2 5 (7.46%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.99%) GDPR
4 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.99%) PSD2
System Software
1 11 (16.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.46%) Terraform
3 3 (4.48%) Grafana
3 3 (4.48%) Kibana
4 2 (2.99%) Ansible
5 1 (1.49%) Istio
5 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (14.93%) Google
2 5 (7.46%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.97%) Oracle
4 2 (2.99%) CyberArk
4 2 (2.99%) ForgeRock
4 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.99%) PayPal
5 1 (1.49%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.49%) Salesforce