API Integration Contracts in the South East

API Integration
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 206 237
Rank change year-on-year +19 +31 -36
Contract jobs citing API Integration 8 10 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.15% 0.18% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.20% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 11
10th Percentile £538 £370 £403
25th Percentile £581 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +15.79% -4.04%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £538
90th Percentile £750 £630 £625
England median daily rate £514 £600 £531
% change year-on-year -14.33% +12.94% +11.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,612 5,017 6,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.31% 89.18% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,686 3,488 4,679
10th Percentile £250 £248 £226
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 220 281
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +127.90% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in the South East

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Integration in the South East.

Daily rate trend for API Integration in the South East

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Integration in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in the South East

API Integration
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Thames Valley +2 3 £650 +18.18% 4
Berkshire -8 3 £650 +8.33%
Hampshire -4 2 £600 - 3
West Sussex - 2 £500 -
Surrey - 1 £800 - 1
API Integration
England

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
1 3 (37.50%) Serverless
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Google App Engine
3 1 (12.50%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) VersionOne
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (12.50%) Aviation
1 1 (12.50%) Publishing
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Full Stack Python Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Product Lead
4 1 (12.50%) React Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) React
2 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (37.50%) REST
3 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (25.00%) Node.js
3 2 (25.00%) Redux
3 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) CSS3
4 1 (12.50%) DOM
4 1 (12.50%) EDI
4 1 (12.50%) Express.js
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) JWT
4 1 (12.50%) OAuth
4 1 (12.50%) OpenID
4 1 (12.50%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) API Development
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Statistics
4 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google