API Integration Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

API Integration
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring API Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 63 66
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing API Integration 6 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.73% 0.63% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.70% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £454 - £407
25th Percentile £493 £393 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £395 £425
Median % change year-on-year +28.16% -7.06% -46.88%
75th Percentile £561 £398 £438
90th Percentile £575 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £395 £425
% change year-on-year +21.52% -7.06% -30.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

API Integration 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 in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 712 568 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.62% 89.59% 83.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 386 387
10th Percentile £263 £200 £250
25th Percentile £400 £398 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -3.65%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £575
90th Percentile £641 £701 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 15 42
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £13.34
25th Percentile £16.15 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +5.26% +112.09%
75th Percentile £23.58 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.45 £68.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.98 £21.59 £23.00
% change year-on-year -2.83% -6.13% +29.94%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Integration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

API Integration job vacancy trend in Birmingham

API Integration
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing API Integration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing API Integration

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Integration in Birmingham over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in Birmingham

API Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) MariaDB
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 2 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior IT Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior IT Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Build Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Integration Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Change Management
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) API Management
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) IT Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Key Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) CRUD
3 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Northgate