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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 122 135
Rank change year-on-year +29 +13 +57
Contract jobs citing API Integration 23 4 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.36% 0.19% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.21% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 12
10th Percentile £327 £421 £468
25th Percentile £383 £480 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £589 £635
Median % change year-on-year +5.35% -7.32% +20.95%
75th Percentile £675 £709 £706
90th Percentile £700 £774 £1,162
Central London median daily rate £573 £550 £635
% change year-on-year +4.09% -13.39% +20.95%

All Process and 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 1,603 1,936 2,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.52% 91.88% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,194 1,786
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% +3.91%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £786 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +54.55% -36.05%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.06%

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 21 October 2025.

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 3 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.70%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) Luigi
3 1 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
4 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) GCP
5 3 (13.04%) GitHub
5 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (13.04%) Power Automate
5 3 (13.04%) PowerApps
5 3 (13.04%) Serverless
6 2 (8.70%) Azure AI
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
6 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.35%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (4.35%) dbt
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Power BI
2 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Airbyte
3 2 (8.70%) Big Data
3 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Metadata
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Postman
2 1 (4.35%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (4.35%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (43.48%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Marketing
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Back Office
5 1 (4.35%) Front Office
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 2 (8.70%) Analyst
2 2 (8.70%) Architect
2 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
2 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Integration Developer
2 2 (8.70%) Lead
2 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (4.35%) Automation Architect
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Developer
3 1 (4.35%) Business Engagement Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Engagement Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) JIRA Developer
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Power Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Senior
3 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) REST
2 3 (13.04%) Kafka
2 3 (13.04%) OAuth
2 3 (13.04%) OAuth2
3 2 (8.70%) FastAPI
3 2 (8.70%) JSON
3 2 (8.70%) RESTful
3 2 (8.70%) SOAP
4 1 (4.35%) Ajax
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) DOM
4 1 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) HTML5
4 1 (4.35%) LAMP
4 1 (4.35%) Laravel
4 1 (4.35%) LDAP
4 1 (4.35%) Node.js
4 1 (4.35%) Symfony
4 1 (4.35%) Web Services
4 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) CMDB
1 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (8.70%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.35%) Blockchain
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (4.35%) e-Learning
2 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.35%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps
2 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (26.09%) Workflow
3 4 (17.39%) ETL
3 4 (17.39%) Migration
3 4 (17.39%) Scrum
4 3 (13.04%) AI
4 3 (13.04%) API Design
4 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (13.04%) Data Governance
4 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
4 3 (13.04%) ITSM
4 3 (13.04%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (8.70%) Data Engineering
5 2 (8.70%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (8.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) R
5 2 (8.70%) Scala
6 1 (4.35%) Apex Code
6 1 (4.35%) Bicep
6 1 (4.35%) Go
6 1 (4.35%) Groovy
6 1 (4.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.35%) CISSP
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) EU AI Act
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.70%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.35%) Adobe
4 1 (4.35%) Blue Prism
4 1 (4.35%) Calypso
4 1 (4.35%) Confluent
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Murex
4 1 (4.35%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.35%) UiPath