API Integration Contracts in England

API Integration
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 499 596
Rank change year-on-year +61 +97 -165
Contract jobs citing API Integration 110 157 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.31% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.35% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 115 146
10th Percentile £363 £378 £369
25th Percentile £411 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 £531
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +12.94% +12.43%
75th Percentile £600 £709 £650
90th Percentile £650 £800 £719
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £530
% change year-on-year -16.67% +13.21% +14.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £32.15
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £48.50
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,103 45,050 64,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,075 31,613 45,917
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,592 1,754
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.42
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in England

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for API Integration in England

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in England

API Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for API Integration in England

API Integration
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 Integration within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 +61 64 £514 -14.33% 44
North of England +37 17 £468 -10.95% 21
North West +29 9 £400 -23.81% 13
Yorkshire +28 8 £625 - 7
South East +20 7 £600 +33.33% 8
East of England +13 7 £375 -21.05% 2
South West +20 4 £350 -36.36% 7
Midlands +30 3 £500 - 16
East Midlands +20 2 £525 +5.00% 8
West Midlands +18 1 £450 +4.35% 8
API Integration
UK

API Integration
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 8 (7.27%) Confluence
2 3 (2.73%) CMS
2 3 (2.73%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.91%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (2.73%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.91%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.91%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.91%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.91%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.55%) Azure
2 20 (18.18%) AWS
3 14 (12.73%) GCP
4 8 (7.27%) Kong
5 7 (6.36%) Apigee
5 7 (6.36%) GitHub
5 7 (6.36%) Power Automate
5 7 (6.36%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.36%) PowerApps
6 4 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.64%) Google App Engine
6 4 (3.64%) SaaS
7 3 (2.73%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 3 (2.73%) ChatGPT
7 3 (2.73%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.73%) npm
7 3 (2.73%) Serverless
7 3 (2.73%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.09%) HTTP
2 8 (7.27%) Firewall
3 6 (5.45%) DNS
3 6 (5.45%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.45%) VPN
4 2 (1.82%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.36%) Power BI
2 6 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.64%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.64%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.73%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.73%) MySQL
4 3 (2.73%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.91%) Parquet
6 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (11.82%) Git
2 12 (10.91%) JIRA
3 10 (9.09%) GitLab
3 10 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (5.45%) CircleCI
4 6 (5.45%) Travis CI
5 2 (1.82%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.82%) Postman
5 2 (1.82%) VersionOne
5 2 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.91%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.91%) JUnit
6 1 (0.91%) Mocha
6 1 (0.91%) Mockito
6 1 (0.91%) Selenium
6 1 (0.91%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.91%) Xcode
General
1 32 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.45%) Finance
3 15 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.00%) Marketing
5 8 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.36%) Banking
7 4 (3.64%) Electronics
7 4 (3.64%) Front Office
7 4 (3.64%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.64%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Aviation
9 1 (0.91%) Back Office
9 1 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Games
9 1 (0.91%) Publishing
9 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (51.82%) Developer
2 14 (12.73%) Full Stack Developer
3 11 (10.00%) Architect
3 11 (10.00%) Salesforce Developer
4 10 (9.09%) Senior
5 8 (7.27%) Senior Developer
6 7 (6.36%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) Cloud Developer
7 6 (5.45%) Lead
7 6 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) ServiceNow Developer
9 4 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Consultant
9 4 (3.64%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Lead Developer
9 4 (3.64%) Power Platform Developer
9 4 (3.64%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.64%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (29.09%) CSS
2 30 (27.27%) HTML
3 22 (20.00%) REST
4 16 (14.55%) RESTful
5 15 (13.64%) React
6 14 (12.73%) AngularJS
7 12 (10.91%) HTML5
7 12 (10.91%) JSON
8 10 (9.09%) .NET
9 8 (7.27%) Spring
9 8 (7.27%) Spring Boot
10 7 (6.36%) Angular 2
10 7 (6.36%) Java Concurrency
10 7 (6.36%) Node.js
10 7 (6.36%) Spring MVC
10 7 (6.36%) XML
10 7 (6.36%) YAML
11 6 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (4.55%) CSS3
12 5 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.45%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.64%) Mainframe
3 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.73%) Digital Wallet
3 3 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.73%) Mobile Payment
3 3 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.82%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.91%) IoT
5 1 (0.91%) IVR
5 1 (0.91%) PKI
5 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.36%) Linux
2 2 (1.82%) Android
2 2 (1.82%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.82%) Windows
3 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.91%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (26.36%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (24.55%) Agile
3 23 (20.91%) API Development
4 21 (19.09%) DevOps
5 18 (16.36%) CI/CD
6 16 (14.55%) Full Stack Development
6 16 (14.55%) Scrum
7 14 (12.73%) Microservices
8 13 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (10.00%) Project Management
9 11 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 11 (10.00%) User Experience
10 10 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (8.18%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (7.27%) API Design
12 8 (7.27%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (7.27%) Containerisation
12 8 (7.27%) Release Management
12 8 (7.27%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 33 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 24 (21.82%) Python
2 24 (21.82%) SQL
3 17 (15.45%) TypeScript
4 14 (12.73%) Java
4 14 (12.73%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.45%) Bash
5 6 (5.45%) C#
5 6 (5.45%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (4.55%) Apex Code
7 4 (3.64%) Go
8 2 (1.82%) BrightScript
8 2 (1.82%) PHP
8 2 (1.82%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.82%) SOQL
9 1 (0.91%) COBOL
9 1 (0.91%) Rust
9 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (10.91%) SC Cleared
1 12 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.18%) Degree
3 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.73%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.73%) PMP
5 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.82%) CISM
5 2 (1.82%) CISSP
5 2 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.27%) QA
2 3 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (10.00%) Docker
2 3 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.18%) Terraform
3 8 (7.27%) Ansible
4 6 (5.45%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (5.45%) Grafana
4 6 (5.45%) Kibana
4 6 (5.45%) logstash
4 6 (5.45%) Progress Chef
4 6 (5.45%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.45%) Puppet
5 5 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.91%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 15 (13.64%) Salesforce
2 8 (7.27%) Oracle
2 8 (7.27%) ServiceNow
3 7 (6.36%) Splunk
4 6 (5.45%) Google
4 6 (5.45%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 4 (3.64%) CyberArk
5 4 (3.64%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.64%) SAP
6 3 (2.73%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.82%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.82%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (1.82%) IBM
7 2 (1.82%) Roku
7 2 (1.82%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.91%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.91%) Qualys
8 1 (0.91%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.91%) Zuora