API Integration Contract Job Trends in the City of London

API Integration
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring API Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 101 119
Rank change year-on-year -13 +18 +19
Contract jobs citing API Integration 27 25 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.26% 1.45% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.54% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 2
10th Percentile £313 £327 £421
25th Percentile £419 £403 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £610 £589
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% +3.65% -7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £709
90th Percentile £718 £694 £774
Central London median daily rate £492 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -18.08% +9.09% -7.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,938 1,625 1,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.60% 94.31% 92.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 1,103 1,216
10th Percentile £368 £326 £371
25th Percentile £456 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £765 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 19
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.81
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -28.57% +23.20%
75th Percentile £27.35 £39.88 £102.25
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

API Integration job vacancy trend in the City of London

API Integration
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing API Integration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing API Integration

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Integration in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in the City of London

API Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 11 (40.74%) Power Platform
3 8 (29.63%) AWS
4 7 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (25.93%) Power Automate
5 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Copilot
5 6 (22.22%) Serverless
6 5 (18.52%) Azure Functions
6 5 (18.52%) PowerApps
7 4 (14.81%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (14.81%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (11.11%) Azure API Management
8 3 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (11.11%) GitHub
9 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
9 2 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
9 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) BGP
2 1 (3.70%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) HSRP
2 1 (3.70%) MPLS
2 1 (3.70%) Multicast
2 1 (3.70%) NX-OS
2 1 (3.70%) OSPF
2 1 (3.70%) TACACS
2 1 (3.70%) tcpdump
2 1 (3.70%) VPN
2 1 (3.70%) VXLAN
2 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Power BI
2 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.70%) Metadata
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) JUnit
3 3 (11.11%) JIRA
3 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.41%) Maven
4 2 (7.41%) Mockito
4 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.70%) GitLab
5 1 (3.70%) Vite
General
1 11 (40.74%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Banking
4 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Back Office
5 2 (7.41%) Marketing
5 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Billing
6 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Power Platform Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Lead
3 3 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Configuration Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Lead Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Power Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Automation Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) REST
2 6 (22.22%) .NET
3 5 (18.52%) JSON
4 4 (14.81%) OAuth
4 4 (14.81%) Spring
4 4 (14.81%) Spring Boot
5 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (11.11%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (11.11%) Middleware
5 3 (11.11%) SOAP
6 2 (7.41%) .NET Framework
6 2 (7.41%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
6 2 (7.41%) JPA
6 2 (7.41%) OpenID
6 2 (7.41%) RESTful
6 2 (7.41%) SAML
6 2 (7.41%) Web Services
6 2 (7.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
1 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.11%) Low-Code
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.70%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Agile
1 12 (44.44%) DevOps
2 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 11 (40.74%) Test Automation
3 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (25.93%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (25.93%) Integration Patterns
6 6 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (22.22%) Scrum
6 6 (22.22%) Workflow
7 5 (18.52%) AI
7 5 (18.52%) Analytics
7 5 (18.52%) API Development
7 5 (18.52%) Backlog Refinement
7 5 (18.52%) Data Governance
7 5 (18.52%) User Stories
8 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
8 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) SQL
2 8 (29.63%) Java
2 8 (29.63%) Python
3 6 (22.22%) C#
3 6 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.70%) BeanShell
5 1 (3.70%) Bicep
5 1 (3.70%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) CISM
3 1 (3.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
2 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (7.41%) GDPR
4 1 (3.70%) EU AI Act
4 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (3.70%) NIST
4 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Grafana
1 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Databricks
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 4 (14.81%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco
3 2 (7.41%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Arista
4 1 (3.70%) Foundry
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) Informatica
4 1 (3.70%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) UiPath
4 1 (3.70%) VMware
4 1 (3.70%) Workday