API Integration Contracts in the City of London

API Integration
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for API Integration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Integration over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 156 185
Rank change year-on-year +32 +29 -47
Contract jobs citing API Integration 7 20 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.32% 0.54% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.59% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 7
10th Percentile £434 £481 £470
25th Percentile £446 £563 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £700 £543
Median % change year-on-year -30.71% +28.91% -9.50%
75th Percentile £516 £775 £573
90th Percentile £525 £888 £584
Central London median daily rate £485 £625 £534
% change year-on-year -22.40% +17.04% -11.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

API Integration 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,003 3,388 3,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.18% 91.69% 91.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,265 2,992
10th Percentile £354 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £808 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 27 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £19.36 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +78.26%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing API Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in the City of London

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Integration in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for API Integration in the City of London

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure API Management
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (14.29%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) IT Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) IT Security Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Security Management Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Sitecore Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (14.29%) MACH
1 1 (14.29%) Next.js
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Mainframe
1 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) API Development
1 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) Architectural Design
2 3 (42.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (42.86%) Digital Transformation Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) API Management
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Apex Code
1 1 (14.29%) Go
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SOQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Qualys
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
1 1 (14.29%) Sitecore