Hybrid/Remote API Design Contract Job Trends

API Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 271 314
Rank change year-on-year +41 +43 +76
Contract jobs citing API Design 88 47 59
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 0.42% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.47% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 26 48
10th Percentile £350 £308 £443
25th Percentile £365 £409 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -1.69% -14.08%
75th Percentile £599 £665 £552
90th Percentile £663 £800 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £534
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.68% -15.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £81.90 - -
25th Percentile £105.75 - -
Median hourly rate £119.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £114.00 £52.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +117.14% -19.85% -

All Process & 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 9,251 10,040 14,579
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.54% 89.40% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,093 6,291 9,951
10th Percentile £331 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £722 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 201 372
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.27 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.19 £22.00 £26.24
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.03 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.77% -33.28% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £70.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Design and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

API Design job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

API Design
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing API Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing API Design

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing API Design over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

API Design daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

API Design
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing API Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing API Design

API Design
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing API Design over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

API Design hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 9 (10.23%) Confluence
2 4 (4.55%) Oracle Service Bus
2 4 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (4.55%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.27%) Apache
3 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.14%) CMS
4 1 (1.14%) Drupal
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (47.73%) AWS
2 23 (26.14%) Azure
3 17 (19.32%) SaaS
4 16 (18.18%) GitHub
5 14 (15.91%) GCP
6 13 (14.77%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (12.50%) Serverless
8 8 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (7.95%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (5.68%) Apigee
10 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (3.41%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (3.41%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.41%) PaaS
13 2 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.95%) SSL
2 1 (1.14%) HTTP
2 1 (1.14%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 11 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (11.36%) MongoDB
4 7 (7.95%) DocumentDB
5 6 (6.82%) MySQL
5 6 (6.82%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 4 (4.55%) Redis
6 4 (4.55%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.41%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.27%) CockroachDB
8 2 (2.27%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.27%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (1.14%) Pinecone
9 1 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 11 (12.50%) Git
3 10 (11.36%) JIRA
4 4 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.55%) GitLab
4 4 (4.55%) Postman
5 2 (2.27%) git-flow
5 2 (2.27%) Gradle
5 2 (2.27%) Maven
5 2 (2.27%) SonarLint
5 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.14%) JMeter
6 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.23%) Finance
4 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.82%) Banking
6 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Back Office
7 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (38.64%) Developer
2 29 (32.95%) Senior
3 16 (18.18%) Consultant
4 13 (14.77%) Technical Consultant
5 12 (13.64%) Senior Consultant
5 12 (13.64%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 12 (13.64%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 12 (13.64%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 12 (13.64%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 12 (13.64%) Technical Specialist
6 11 (12.50%) Architect
7 9 (10.23%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.82%) Java Developer
8 6 (6.82%) Lead
9 5 (5.68%) Python Developer
9 5 (5.68%) Technical Architect
10 4 (4.55%) Oracle Consultant
10 4 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (4.55%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (35.23%) Node.js
2 25 (28.41%) RESTful
3 20 (22.73%) Spring Boot
4 19 (21.59%) Spring
5 17 (19.32%) REST
6 16 (18.18%) GraphQL
6 16 (18.18%) Kafka
6 16 (18.18%) OAuth
7 13 (14.77%) OAuth2
7 13 (14.77%) Playwright
8 12 (13.64%) Vitest
9 11 (12.50%) HTML
9 11 (12.50%) React
10 10 (11.36%) .NET
11 9 (10.23%) Swagger
12 8 (9.09%) JWT
13 7 (7.95%) Middleware
13 7 (7.95%) OpenAPI
13 7 (7.95%) SOAP
13 7 (7.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.32%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.36%) Product Ownership
3 9 (10.23%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.27%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.14%) Digital Wallet
6 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.68%) Linux
2 4 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (4.55%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.14%) Android
3 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 45 (51.14%) Microservices
3 44 (50.00%) Agile
4 37 (42.05%) Containerisation
5 36 (40.91%) DevOps
6 32 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (36.36%) Test Automation
7 21 (23.86%) Code Quality
7 21 (23.86%) Event-Driven
8 19 (21.59%) Mentoring
9 18 (20.45%) Observability
10 16 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
10 16 (18.18%) TDD
11 14 (15.91%) API Management
11 14 (15.91%) Process Improvement
12 13 (14.77%) API Integration
12 13 (14.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (14.77%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (14.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (26.14%) Java
2 20 (22.73%) SQL
3 19 (21.59%) Python
3 19 (21.59%) TypeScript
4 12 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 9 (10.23%) C#
6 4 (4.55%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.41%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.27%) Bicep
9 1 (1.14%) Go
9 1 (1.14%) Korn
9 1 (1.14%) PHP
9 1 (1.14%) Ruby
9 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.64%) Degree
4 9 (10.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.14%) CBAP
5 1 (1.14%) CSPO
5 1 (1.14%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.68%) QA
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
3 2 (2.27%) WCAG
4 1 (1.14%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.14%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 34 (38.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (44.32%) Kubernetes
2 14 (15.91%) Terraform
3 4 (4.55%) SCOM
4 2 (2.27%) Ansible
4 2 (2.27%) Grafana
5 1 (1.14%) Cilium
5 1 (1.14%) Podman
5 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (7.95%) Oracle
2 4 (4.55%) Axway
2 4 (4.55%) webMethods
3 2 (2.27%) Gigya
3 2 (2.27%) Google
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.14%) Databricks
4 1 (1.14%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.14%) NVIDIA
4 1 (1.14%) OneLogin
4 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.14%) Solace
4 1 (1.14%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.14%) Splunk