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 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 275 369 374
Rank change year-on-year +94 +5 -17
Contract jobs citing API Design 66 86 254
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.35% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.39% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 60 183
10th Percentile £425 £400 £413
25th Percentile £478 £458 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £556 £608 £713
90th Percentile £638 £714 £744
UK median daily rate £550 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -12.70% +5.00% +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 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

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 20 May 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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 5 (7.58%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.88%) AWS
2 22 (33.33%) Azure
3 10 (15.15%) Serverless
4 8 (12.12%) GCP
5 5 (7.58%) Apigee
5 5 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (7.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Functions
6 3 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.55%) SaaS
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.03%) Azure API Management
7 2 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.03%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) HTTP
2 3 (4.55%) Internet
3 2 (3.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.58%) KDB
2 5 (7.58%) Kdb+
2 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.58%) Relational Database
2 5 (7.58%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.55%) DB2
4 3 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.03%) CockroachDB
5 2 (3.03%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.03%) MySQL
6 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Git
1 6 (9.09%) JIRA
2 5 (7.58%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.55%) Cypress.io
3 3 (4.55%) Terragrunt
4 2 (3.03%) git-flow
4 2 (3.03%) GitLab
4 2 (3.03%) gulp
4 2 (3.03%) Maven
5 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
General
1 8 (12.12%) Banking
2 7 (10.61%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.58%) Finance
3 5 (7.58%) Front Office
4 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (43.94%) Developer
2 14 (21.21%) Architect
3 7 (10.61%) Senior
4 6 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 6 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (9.09%) Technical Architect
5 5 (7.58%) Analyst
5 5 (7.58%) KDB Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Lead
5 5 (7.58%) Python Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Senior Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Analytics Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Payments Architect
7 3 (4.55%) Azure Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Designer
7 3 (4.55%) iOS Software Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Node.js Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.73%) Node.js
1 15 (22.73%) REST
2 13 (19.70%) RESTful
3 12 (18.18%) React
4 11 (16.67%) Swagger
5 10 (15.15%) .NET
5 10 (15.15%) OAuth
6 9 (13.64%) OpenAPI
7 8 (12.12%) OpenID
8 5 (7.58%) CSS
8 5 (7.58%) FastAPI
8 5 (7.58%) OAuth2
8 5 (7.58%) SAML
8 5 (7.58%) YAML
9 4 (6.06%) AngularJS
9 4 (6.06%) HTML
9 4 (6.06%) iOS SDK
9 4 (6.06%) JSON
9 4 (6.06%) SOAP
9 4 (6.06%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.58%) Digital Wallet
2 5 (7.58%) Equities
2 5 (7.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.58%) Public Cloud
3 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.06%) IoT
3 4 (6.06%) iPad
3 4 (6.06%) iPhone
3 4 (6.06%) Mainframe
4 3 (4.55%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.03%) Contactless
5 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.03%) Hackathon
5 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 9 (13.64%) Unix
3 7 (10.61%) Android
4 4 (6.06%) Linux
5 2 (3.03%) Windows
5 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.85%) Agile
2 21 (31.82%) Microservices
3 19 (28.79%) Software Engineering
4 18 (27.27%) DevOps
5 16 (24.24%) Test Automation
6 15 (22.73%) CI/CD
7 14 (21.21%) API Development
8 12 (18.18%) Data Modelling
9 11 (16.67%) TDD
10 8 (12.12%) Analytics
10 8 (12.12%) Computer Science
10 8 (12.12%) Containerisation
10 8 (12.12%) Unit Testing
10 8 (12.12%) User Experience
11 7 (10.61%) API Management
11 7 (10.61%) Translating Business Requirements
12 6 (9.09%) BDD
12 6 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (9.09%) E-Commerce
12 6 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) Python
2 19 (28.79%) Java
3 14 (21.21%) SQL
4 12 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 9 (13.64%) C#
6 7 (10.61%) TypeScript
7 6 (9.09%) C
8 4 (6.06%) Objective-C
8 4 (6.06%) Swift
9 3 (4.55%) C++
10 2 (3.03%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.52%) Perl
11 1 (1.52%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 8 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.61%) Degree
3 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) QA
2 5 (7.58%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.03%) GDPR
4 2 (3.03%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.03%) PSD2
System Software
1 11 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.58%) Terraform
3 3 (4.55%) Grafana
3 3 (4.55%) Kibana
4 2 (3.03%) Ansible
5 1 (1.52%) Istio
5 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (13.64%) Google
2 5 (7.58%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.55%) Oracle
4 2 (3.03%) CyberArk
4 2 (3.03%) ForgeRock
4 2 (3.03%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.03%) PayPal
5 1 (1.52%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce