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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 117 129
Rank change year-on-year +14 +12 +56
Contract jobs citing API Integration 24 11 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.34% 0.51% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 0.56% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 9
10th Percentile £327 £427 £463
25th Percentile £405 £460 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £647 £642 £595
90th Percentile £675 £684 £688
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%

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 1,644 1,961 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.49% 91.81% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,209 1,674
10th Percentile £330 £370 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £754 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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 8 December 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 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Luigi
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Algo Collateral
2 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) AWS
3 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.50%) GitHub
4 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 3 (12.50%) PowerApps
4 3 (12.50%) Serverless
5 2 (8.33%) Azure AI
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Functions
5 2 (8.33%) GCP
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.17%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (4.17%) dbt
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (4.17%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Power BI
2 2 (8.33%) Airbyte
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) Postman
General
1 12 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Banking
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Back Office
4 1 (4.17%) Front Office
4 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Integration Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Automation Architect
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Business Engagement Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Lead
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) REST
2 4 (16.67%) OAuth
2 4 (16.67%) OAuth2
3 3 (12.50%) RESTful
4 2 (8.33%) FastAPI
4 2 (8.33%) JSON
4 2 (8.33%) JWT
4 2 (8.33%) Kafka
4 2 (8.33%) Node.js
4 2 (8.33%) SOAP
5 1 (4.17%) Ajax
5 1 (4.17%) CSS
5 1 (4.17%) DOM
5 1 (4.17%) Flake8
5 1 (4.17%) HTML
5 1 (4.17%) LAMP
5 1 (4.17%) LDAP
5 1 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (4.17%) Web Services
5 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.33%) CMDB
1 2 (8.33%) Derivative
1 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (8.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.17%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.17%) Blockchain
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (4.17%) e-Learning
2 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Agile
2 7 (29.17%) DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Workflow
5 4 (16.67%) AI
5 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.67%) Scrum
5 4 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (12.50%) API Design
6 3 (12.50%) Collateral Management
6 3 (12.50%) Data Governance
6 3 (12.50%) ETL
6 3 (12.50%) Integration Testing
6 3 (12.50%) Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Validation
7 2 (8.33%) Defect Management
7 2 (8.33%) System Integration Testing
7 2 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Python
2 8 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.50%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
5 1 (4.17%) Bicep
5 1 (4.17%) Go
5 1 (4.17%) PHP
5 1 (4.17%) R
5 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMP
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) GDPR
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) EU AI Act
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.33%) Adobe
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.33%) SmartStream
4 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.17%) Blue Prism
4 1 (4.17%) Calypso
4 1 (4.17%) Confluent
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) Murex
4 1 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.17%) UiPath