API Design Contracts

API Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring API Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Design over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 434 489 427
Rank change year-on-year +55 -62 -25
Contract jobs citing API Design 151 213 492
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.38% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.43% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 136 344
10th Percentile £424 £419 £454
25th Percentile £481 £458 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £611
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +2.25% +11.14%
75th Percentile £625 £728 £725
90th Percentile £733 £975 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 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% +64.40%
75th Percentile £62.75 - -
90th Percentile £65.15 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £65.76
% change year-on-year - -46.78% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing API Design over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 12 June 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 +50 129 £550 -18.52% 55
London +42 88 £550 -18.52% 24
Work from Home +96 67 £550 +17.02% 31
UK excluding London +1 37 £550 -2.22% 32
North of England +27 17 £445 -15.24% 13
South East +16 11 £600 -7.69% 2
North West +20 10 £550 -12.00% 12
Midlands +15 8 £445 -17.21% 8
Yorkshire +19 7 £400 -5.88%
East Midlands +13 7 £445 - 1
Scotland +36 3 £463 -11.90% 3
West Midlands +10 1 - - 7
South West 0 1 - - 2

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 6 (3.97%) Confluence
2 5 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.31%) IBM Notes
3 3 (1.99%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.32%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (39.74%) Azure
2 40 (26.49%) AWS
3 19 (12.58%) GCP
4 17 (11.26%) Serverless
5 14 (9.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 13 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.30%) SaaS
8 6 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.31%) Apigee
9 5 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.31%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 5 (3.31%) Azure Functions
9 5 (3.31%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (2.65%) Azure App Service
10 4 (2.65%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.65%) GitHub
10 4 (2.65%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.99%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.31%) HTTP
2 3 (1.99%) Internet
3 2 (1.32%) SSL
4 1 (0.66%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.66%) FTP
4 1 (0.66%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.27%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.62%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.64%) DB2
3 7 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.31%) KDB
5 5 (3.31%) Kdb+
5 5 (3.31%) MySQL
5 5 (3.31%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.65%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.65%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.99%) Big Data
7 3 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.32%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.32%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.32%) Power BI
9 1 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (11.26%) Git
2 16 (10.60%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.28%) Maven
4 7 (4.64%) Cypress.io
4 7 (4.64%) JIRA
5 4 (2.65%) Selenium
6 3 (1.99%) GitLab
6 3 (1.99%) Gradle
6 3 (1.99%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.32%) git-flow
7 2 (1.32%) gulp
7 2 (1.32%) JUnit
7 2 (1.32%) Postman
7 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.66%) Storybook
8 1 (0.66%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.66%) webpack
General
1 39 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.91%) Finance
3 16 (10.60%) Banking
4 9 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.31%) Front Office
5 5 (3.31%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.66%) Automotive
8 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.66%) Law
8 1 (0.66%) Marketing
8 1 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (39.07%) Developer
2 37 (24.50%) Architect
3 14 (9.27%) Lead
4 12 (7.95%) Python Developer
4 12 (7.95%) Software Engineer
5 11 (7.28%) Java Developer
5 11 (7.28%) Senior
6 10 (6.62%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (5.30%) Technical Architect
8 7 (4.64%) Designer
8 7 (4.64%) Full Stack Developer
9 6 (3.97%) Analyst
9 6 (3.97%) Applications Developer
10 5 (3.31%) Analytics Developer
10 5 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (3.31%) KDB Developer
10 5 (3.31%) Lead Developer
10 5 (3.31%) Payments Architect
10 5 (3.31%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.31%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (21.85%) RESTful
2 31 (20.53%) Node.js
3 30 (19.87%) REST
4 26 (17.22%) React
5 17 (11.26%) Swagger
6 16 (10.60%) OAuth
7 15 (9.93%) .NET
8 14 (9.27%) CSS
9 12 (7.95%) HTML
9 12 (7.95%) OpenID
9 12 (7.95%) SOAP
10 11 (7.28%) AngularJS
10 11 (7.28%) Spring
10 11 (7.28%) Spring Boot
10 11 (7.28%) XML
11 9 (5.96%) FastAPI
11 9 (5.96%) JSON
11 9 (5.96%) Kafka
11 9 (5.96%) OpenAPI
12 7 (4.64%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.27%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.28%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.30%) Algorithms
4 8 (5.30%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.64%) iPad
5 7 (4.64%) iPhone
5 7 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.64%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.64%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.97%) Mainframe
6 6 (3.97%) Mobile App
7 5 (3.31%) Digital Wallet
7 5 (3.31%) Equities
7 5 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.31%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.65%) IoT
9 3 (1.99%) Mobile Payment
10 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.60%) Apple iOS
2 12 (7.95%) Unix
3 9 (5.96%) Android
4 6 (3.97%) Linux
5 2 (1.32%) Windows
5 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (32.45%) Agile
2 43 (28.48%) Microservices
3 40 (26.49%) DevOps
4 38 (25.17%) CI/CD
4 38 (25.17%) Software Engineering
5 36 (23.84%) API Development
6 33 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (16.56%) Test Automation
8 20 (13.25%) Data Modelling
9 19 (12.58%) Computer Science
10 18 (11.92%) Containerisation
11 17 (11.26%) TDD
12 16 (10.60%) Full Stack Development
13 14 (9.27%) SDLC
13 14 (9.27%) Unit Testing
13 14 (9.27%) User Experience
14 12 (7.95%) Analytics
15 11 (7.28%) API Management
16 9 (5.96%) Code Quality
16 9 (5.96%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 41 (27.15%) Java
1 41 (27.15%) Python
2 26 (17.22%) JavaScript
3 23 (15.23%) SQL
4 14 (9.27%) C#
4 14 (9.27%) TypeScript
5 13 (8.61%) C
6 7 (4.64%) Objective-C
6 7 (4.64%) Swift
7 6 (3.97%) C++
8 3 (1.99%) PHP
9 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.66%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.66%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.66%) Go
10 1 (0.66%) Groovy
10 1 (0.66%) Perl
10 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.66%) Ruby
10 1 (0.66%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 19 (12.58%) Degree
2 14 (9.27%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (7.28%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.99%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.28%) QA
2 5 (3.31%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.32%) GDPR
3 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.32%) PSD2
4 1 (0.66%) GRC
System Software
1 25 (16.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (11.26%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.64%) Ansible
3 6 (3.97%) Terraform
4 4 (2.65%) Kibana
5 3 (1.99%) Grafana
6 1 (0.66%) logstash
Vendors
1 17 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.61%) Google
3 10 (6.62%) Oracle
4 9 (5.96%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.97%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.97%) SAP
5 6 (3.97%) Splunk
6 5 (3.31%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.31%) IBM
6 5 (3.31%) Lotus
6 5 (3.31%) New Relic
7 2 (1.32%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.32%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.32%) PayPal
7 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.66%) Adobe
8 1 (0.66%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.66%) Brio
8 1 (0.66%) Dell
8 1 (0.66%) Sybase