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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 93 122
Rank change year-on-year -6 +29 +39
Contract jobs citing API Integration 26 23 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.29% 1.27% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.39% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 17 3
10th Percentile £430 £445 £513
25th Percentile £513 £463 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.43%
75th Percentile £630 £684 £585
90th Percentile £675 £727 £591
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -18.52%

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 1,795 1,655 2,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.77% 91.64% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 1,039 1,497
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

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 9 March 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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.85%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Aladdin
1 2 (7.69%) Algo Collateral
2 1 (3.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) AWS
1 6 (23.08%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
3 4 (15.38%) PowerApps
4 3 (11.54%) Copilot Studio
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (11.54%) Power Automate
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Stack
6 1 (3.85%) CloudFront
6 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.85%) Figma
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.85%) Rubrik
6 1 (3.85%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Power BI
2 2 (7.69%) Text Mining
3 1 (3.85%) CockroachDB
3 1 (3.85%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) Pinecone
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Git
General
1 12 (46.15%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Banking
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Automotive
5 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Front Office
6 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Developer
2 3 (11.54%) Power Platform Developer
2 3 (11.54%) Project Manager
2 3 (11.54%) Senior
3 2 (7.69%) Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Lead
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Technical Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) PHP Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Product Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior PHP Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Systems Tester
4 1 (3.85%) Technical Product Manager
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) REST
2 4 (15.38%) CSS
2 4 (15.38%) HTML
3 3 (11.54%) OAuth
3 3 (11.54%) RESTful
4 2 (7.69%) React
4 2 (7.69%) SOAP
4 2 (7.69%) Web Services
5 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.85%) boto
5 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.85%) HTML5
5 1 (3.85%) JWT
5 1 (3.85%) Laravel
5 1 (3.85%) Node.js
5 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.85%) Redux
5 1 (3.85%) Vue
5 1 (3.85%) WebSockets
5 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Derivative
2 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.85%) Blockchain
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) CMDB
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Unix
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Agile
2 5 (19.23%) AI
2 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (15.38%) Analytics
3 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (15.38%) User Experience
3 4 (15.38%) Validation
4 3 (11.54%) A/B Testing
4 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
4 3 (11.54%) Collateral Management
4 3 (11.54%) CRM
4 3 (11.54%) Data Mapping
4 3 (11.54%) ERP
4 3 (11.54%) Integration Testing
4 3 (11.54%) Migration
4 3 (11.54%) Project Management
4 3 (11.54%) Scrum
4 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
2 5 (19.23%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) Go
5 1 (3.85%) Groovy
5 1 (3.85%) PHP
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) CTC Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) ISTQB
2 2 (7.69%) PMI Certification
2 2 (7.69%) PMP
3 1 (3.85%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.85%) vRealize
2 1 (3.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Qualtrics
2 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 2 (7.69%) SmartStream
2 2 (7.69%) Workday
3 1 (3.85%) Adobe
3 1 (3.85%) Amplitude
3 1 (3.85%) Calypso
3 1 (3.85%) IBM
3 1 (3.85%) Kronos
3 1 (3.85%) Murex
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) VMware