API Design Contracts

API Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 477 436
Rank change year-on-year +34 -41 -36
Contract jobs citing API Design 139 229 476
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.40% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.44% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 148 324
10th Percentile £428 £421 £463
25th Percentile £500 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £630 £605
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +4.13% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £728 £725
90th Percentile £750 £886 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £64.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.50 £35.00 £65.76
Median % change year-on-year +87.14% -46.78% +64.40%
75th Percentile £66.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £65.76
% change year-on-year - -46.78% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the UK

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for API Design in the UK

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in the UK

API Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for API Design in the UK

API Design
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +42 119 £575 -13.21% 55
London +49 80 £575 -14.81% 20
Work from Home +98 66 £538 +13.16% 33
UK excluding London +13 34 £550 -3.51% 29
North of England +37 13 £445 -15.24% 8
South East +22 11 £600 -15.79% 7
Midlands +24 9 £480 -6.34% 7
East Midlands +29 8 £480 -
North West +23 8 £498 -20.40% 6
Yorkshire +22 5 £400 -5.88% 2
Scotland +27 3 £463 -11.90% 2
South West +10 1 - - 1
West Midlands +9 1 - - 7

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.47%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.32%) Confluence
3 5 (3.60%) IBM Notes
4 3 (2.16%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.44%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (2.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (36.69%) Azure
2 34 (24.46%) AWS
3 17 (12.23%) Serverless
4 15 (10.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 13 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (9.35%) GCP
6 7 (5.04%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (5.04%) SaaS
7 6 (4.32%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 6 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (4.32%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (3.60%) Apigee
8 5 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.60%) Azure Functions
9 4 (2.88%) Azure App Service
9 4 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (2.88%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.16%) Azure API Management
10 3 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.16%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.88%) HTTP
2 3 (2.16%) Internet
3 2 (1.44%) SSL
4 1 (0.72%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.79%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.19%) KDB
2 10 (7.19%) Kdb+
3 9 (6.47%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.32%) DB2
4 6 (4.32%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.60%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.60%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.88%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.16%) Big Data
7 3 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.16%) MySQL
8 2 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.44%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.44%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.44%) Power BI
8 2 (1.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (10.07%) Git
2 13 (9.35%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.76%) Maven
4 7 (5.04%) Cypress.io
5 6 (4.32%) JIRA
6 4 (2.88%) Selenium
7 3 (2.16%) GitLab
7 3 (2.16%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.44%) git-flow
8 2 (1.44%) gulp
9 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.72%) Gradle
9 1 (0.72%) Storybook
9 1 (0.72%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 29 (20.86%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.83%) Finance
3 16 (11.51%) Banking
4 10 (7.19%) Front Office
5 8 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.32%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.44%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.44%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.72%) Marketing
9 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (39.57%) Developer
2 33 (23.74%) Architect
3 15 (10.79%) Lead
4 10 (7.19%) KDB Developer
4 10 (7.19%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (6.47%) Software Engineer
6 8 (5.76%) Java Developer
6 8 (5.76%) Senior
6 8 (5.76%) Technical Architect
7 7 (5.04%) Analyst
7 7 (5.04%) Analytics Developer
7 7 (5.04%) Designer
7 7 (5.04%) Full Stack Developer
7 7 (5.04%) Python Developer
8 6 (4.32%) Applications Developer
9 5 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) Lead Designer
9 5 (3.60%) Lead Developer
9 5 (3.60%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.60%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (21.58%) Node.js
2 27 (19.42%) RESTful
3 25 (17.99%) REST
4 24 (17.27%) React
5 17 (12.23%) OAuth
6 15 (10.79%) Swagger
7 14 (10.07%) .NET
7 14 (10.07%) OpenID
8 12 (8.63%) CSS
9 10 (7.19%) HTML
10 9 (6.47%) AngularJS
10 9 (6.47%) OpenAPI
10 9 (6.47%) SOAP
10 9 (6.47%) XML
11 8 (5.76%) FastAPI
11 8 (5.76%) JSON
11 8 (5.76%) SAML
11 8 (5.76%) Spring
12 7 (5.04%) Spring Boot
13 6 (4.32%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.35%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (7.19%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.47%) Equities
4 8 (5.76%) Algorithms
4 8 (5.76%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.76%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.04%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.32%) iPad
6 6 (4.32%) iPhone
6 6 (4.32%) Mainframe
6 6 (4.32%) Mobile App
7 5 (3.60%) Digital Wallet
7 5 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.60%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.88%) IoT
8 4 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.16%) Mobile Payment
10 2 (1.44%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.51%) Unix
2 15 (10.79%) Apple iOS
3 9 (6.47%) Android
4 5 (3.60%) Linux
5 2 (1.44%) Windows
5 2 (1.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (31.65%) Agile
2 38 (27.34%) Microservices
3 37 (26.62%) DevOps
4 34 (24.46%) Software Engineering
5 33 (23.74%) API Development
6 32 (23.02%) CI/CD
7 29 (20.86%) Test Automation
8 26 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (17.27%) Data Modelling
10 20 (14.39%) Computer Science
11 16 (11.51%) Analytics
11 16 (11.51%) Full Stack Development
12 14 (10.07%) SDLC
12 14 (10.07%) TDD
13 13 (9.35%) Containerisation
13 13 (9.35%) User Experience
14 11 (7.91%) API Management
14 11 (7.91%) Identity Access Management
14 11 (7.91%) Unit Testing
15 9 (6.47%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 43 (30.94%) Java
2 39 (28.06%) Python
3 28 (20.14%) SQL
4 23 (16.55%) JavaScript
5 18 (12.95%) C#
6 12 (8.63%) C
6 12 (8.63%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.32%) Objective-C
7 6 (4.32%) Swift
8 5 (3.60%) C++
9 3 (2.16%) PHP
10 2 (1.44%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.72%) Go
11 1 (0.72%) Perl
11 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.72%) Ruby
11 1 (0.72%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 20 (14.39%) Degree
2 13 (9.35%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.47%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.16%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.44%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.47%) Data Quality
1 9 (6.47%) QA
2 5 (3.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.44%) GDPR
3 2 (1.44%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.44%) PSD2
4 1 (0.72%) GRC
System Software
1 18 (12.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (10.07%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.32%) Ansible
2 6 (4.32%) Terraform
3 5 (3.60%) Kibana
4 4 (2.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.72%) Istio
5 1 (0.72%) logstash
5 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (12.23%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.91%) Google
3 10 (7.19%) Oracle
4 7 (5.04%) MuleSoft
5 6 (4.32%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.60%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.60%) IBM
6 5 (3.60%) Lotus
6 5 (3.60%) New Relic
6 5 (3.60%) SAP
6 5 (3.60%) Splunk
7 2 (1.44%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.44%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.44%) PayPal
7 2 (1.44%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.72%) Adobe
8 1 (0.72%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.72%) Dell
8 1 (0.72%) Intel
8 1 (0.72%) NCR