API Design Contracts in England

API Design
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 474 419
Rank change year-on-year +67 -55 -27
Contract jobs citing API Design 124 172 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.35% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.39% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 118 273
10th Percentile £425 £425 £463
25th Percentile £500 £458 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £725
90th Percentile £754 £965 £863
UK median daily rate £550 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -12.70% +5.00% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £49.85 - -
25th Percentile £52.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £65.76
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -46.78% +19.56%
75th Percentile £62.75 - -
90th Percentile £65.15 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £65.76
% change year-on-year +64.29% -46.78% +64.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in England

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Design in England.

Daily rate trend for API Design in England

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in England

API Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Design in England.

Hourly rate trend for API Design in England

API Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing API Design in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for API Design in England

API Design
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +58 83 £575 -14.81% 26
North of England +36 14 £445 -15.24% 12
South East +23 12 £600 -7.69% 10
North West +19 9 £550 -12.00% 8
Midlands +16 9 £480 -6.34% 8
East Midlands +24 8 £480 - 1
Yorkshire +22 5 £400 -5.88% 2
West Midlands +12 1 - - 7
South West +3 1 - -
API Design
UK

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (7.26%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.42%) Confluence
3 2 (1.61%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.61%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.81%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (2.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (37.90%) Azure
2 28 (22.58%) AWS
3 14 (11.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 14 (11.29%) GCP
3 14 (11.29%) Serverless
4 10 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.45%) SaaS
6 6 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (4.03%) Apigee
7 5 (4.03%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 5 (4.03%) Azure Functions
7 5 (4.03%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (3.23%) Azure App Service
8 4 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (2.42%) Azure API Management
9 3 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.42%) GitHub
10 2 (1.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.23%) HTTP
2 3 (2.42%) Internet
3 2 (1.61%) SSL
4 1 (0.81%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.48%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.06%) KDB
2 10 (8.06%) Kdb+
3 9 (7.26%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.84%) DB2
5 4 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.42%) Big Data
6 3 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.42%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.42%) MySQL
6 3 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.61%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.61%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.61%) Power BI
7 2 (1.61%) Redis
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 14 (11.29%) Git
2 10 (8.06%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.45%) Maven
4 6 (4.84%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.23%) Selenium
6 3 (2.42%) GitLab
6 3 (2.42%) JIRA
6 3 (2.42%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.61%) git-flow
7 2 (1.61%) gulp
8 1 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.81%) Gradle
8 1 (0.81%) Storybook
8 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 29 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.94%) Finance
3 13 (10.48%) Banking
4 10 (8.06%) Front Office
5 5 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.03%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.61%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.81%) Automotive
8 1 (0.81%) Marketing
8 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (35.48%) Developer
2 32 (25.81%) Architect
3 14 (11.29%) Lead
4 10 (8.06%) KDB Developer
4 10 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (7.26%) Software Engineer
6 8 (6.45%) Python Developer
6 8 (6.45%) Technical Architect
7 7 (5.65%) Analytics Developer
7 7 (5.65%) Designer
7 7 (5.65%) Senior
8 5 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Lead Designer
9 4 (3.23%) Analyst
9 4 (3.23%) Azure Architect
9 4 (3.23%) Lead Developer
9 4 (3.23%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.23%) Unix Developer
10 3 (2.42%) Azure Developer
10 3 (2.42%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (21.77%) Node.js
2 21 (16.94%) REST
2 21 (16.94%) RESTful
3 18 (14.52%) React
4 13 (10.48%) .NET
5 12 (9.68%) Swagger
6 11 (8.87%) OAuth
6 11 (8.87%) OpenID
7 10 (8.06%) CSS
8 9 (7.26%) SOAP
8 9 (7.26%) XML
9 8 (6.45%) AngularJS
9 8 (6.45%) FastAPI
9 8 (6.45%) HTML
9 8 (6.45%) JSON
10 7 (5.65%) iOS SDK
10 7 (5.65%) Kafka
11 6 (4.84%) OpenAPI
12 5 (4.03%) RAML
12 5 (4.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.26%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (7.26%) Equities
2 8 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.65%) iPad
3 7 (5.65%) iPhone
3 7 (5.65%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.65%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.84%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.84%) Mainframe
4 6 (4.84%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.23%) IoT
6 3 (2.42%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.42%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.42%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.61%) Genomics
7 2 (1.61%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.90%) Apple iOS
1 16 (12.90%) Unix
2 9 (7.26%) Android
3 5 (4.03%) Linux
4 2 (1.61%) Windows
4 2 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (26.61%) Agile
2 30 (24.19%) Microservices
3 28 (22.58%) API Development
3 28 (22.58%) CI/CD
3 28 (22.58%) DevOps
3 28 (22.58%) Software Engineering
4 26 (20.97%) Test Automation
5 24 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (16.94%) Data Modelling
7 18 (14.52%) Computer Science
8 14 (11.29%) Containerisation
8 14 (11.29%) SDLC
9 13 (10.48%) Analytics
10 12 (9.68%) Full Stack Development
11 11 (8.87%) API Management
11 11 (8.87%) Unit Testing
12 9 (7.26%) Architectural Design
12 9 (7.26%) Migration
12 9 (7.26%) OO
12 9 (7.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 38 (30.65%) Java
1 38 (30.65%) Python
2 28 (22.58%) SQL
3 18 (14.52%) JavaScript
4 17 (13.71%) C#
5 12 (9.68%) C
6 9 (7.26%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.65%) Objective-C
7 7 (5.65%) Swift
8 6 (4.84%) C++
9 3 (2.42%) PHP
10 2 (1.61%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.81%) Go
11 1 (0.81%) Perl
11 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.81%) Ruby
11 1 (0.81%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 18 (14.52%) Degree
2 11 (8.87%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.42%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.81%) PMP
6 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.26%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.65%) QA
3 3 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) GRC
System Software
1 16 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (11.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.84%) Ansible
2 6 (4.84%) Terraform
3 2 (1.61%) Kibana
4 1 (0.81%) Grafana
4 1 (0.81%) Istio
4 1 (0.81%) logstash
4 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.87%) Google
3 10 (8.06%) Oracle
4 7 (5.65%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.03%) IBM
5 5 (4.03%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.23%) SAP
7 2 (1.61%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.81%) Adobe
8 1 (0.81%) Brio
8 1 (0.81%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.81%) Databricks
8 1 (0.81%) Dell
8 1 (0.81%) Intel
8 1 (0.81%) Lotus
8 1 (0.81%) New Relic
8 1 (0.81%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.81%) Splunk
8 1 (0.81%) Sybase