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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 101 124
Rank change year-on-year -7 +23 +28
Contract jobs citing API Integration 27 26 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.11% 1.39% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.48% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 2
10th Percentile £451 £328 £460
25th Percentile £521 £463 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £625 £623
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% +0.40% -10.27%
75th Percentile £676 £729 £732
90th Percentile £779 £745 £783
Central London median daily rate £594 £625 £513
% change year-on-year -4.96% +21.95% -25.45%

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 2,106 1,762 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.60% 93.97% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 1,140 1,338
10th Percentile £370 £338 £363
25th Percentile £455 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £101.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -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 19 July 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
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Aladdin
2 1 (3.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) Power Platform
3 6 (22.22%) AWS
3 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Copilot
3 6 (22.22%) Power Automate
4 5 (18.52%) PowerApps
5 4 (14.81%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 3 (11.11%) GitHub
6 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Stack
7 2 (7.41%) Serverless
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.70%) GCP
8 1 (3.70%) Kong
8 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
8 1 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JUnit
2 1 (3.70%) Vite
General
1 12 (44.44%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Back Office
5 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Billing
6 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Power Platform Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Implementation Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Power Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 1 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Integration Developer
5 1 (3.70%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Workday Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Workday Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) REST
2 4 (14.81%) JSON
3 3 (11.11%) OAuth
3 3 (11.11%) React
3 3 (11.11%) RESTful
4 2 (7.41%) .NET
4 2 (7.41%) GraphQL
4 2 (7.41%) Middleware
4 2 (7.41%) SAML
4 2 (7.41%) SOAP
4 2 (7.41%) Spring
4 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (3.70%) J2EE
5 1 (3.70%) JDBC
5 1 (3.70%) LDAP
5 1 (3.70%) Web Services
5 1 (3.70%) XML
5 1 (3.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
1 6 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
2 5 (18.52%) Agile
2 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (18.52%) Data Mapping
2 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (14.81%) AI
3 4 (14.81%) Analytics
3 4 (14.81%) Asset Management
3 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
3 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven
3 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (11.11%) API Development
4 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
4 3 (11.11%) Data Transformation
4 3 (11.11%) DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (11.11%) Migration
4 3 (11.11%) SDLC
4 3 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Java
2 5 (18.52%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.70%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) Go
6 1 (3.70%) Groovy
6 1 (3.70%) Korn
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (7.41%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) CISM
3 1 (3.70%) CISSP
3 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) EU AI Act
2 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) SAP
2 3 (11.11%) Workday
3 2 (7.41%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) Kronos
4 1 (3.70%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow