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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 104 126
Rank change year-on-year -10 +22 +21
Contract jobs citing API Integration 23 26 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.96% 1.38% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.47% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 2
10th Percentile £353 £328 £460
25th Percentile £489 £463 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £625 £623
Median % change year-on-year -10.24% +0.40% -10.27%
75th Percentile £689 £729 £732
90th Percentile £794 £745 £783
Central London median daily rate £572 £625 £513
% change year-on-year -8.48% +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 2,094 1,774 1,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.21% 94.01% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 1,158 1,280
10th Percentile £368 £331 £375
25th Percentile £455 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.43
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -13.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +14.81% -22.86%

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 2 August 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 5 (21.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Aladdin
2 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) Power Platform
3 7 (30.43%) AWS
4 6 (26.09%) Power Automate
5 4 (17.39%) GitHub
5 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (17.39%) PowerApps
5 4 (17.39%) Serverless
6 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (13.04%) Azure Functions
6 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
6 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (8.70%) Azure API Management
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Stack
7 2 (8.70%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
8 1 (4.35%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (4.35%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Power BI
2 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JUnit
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (4.35%) Vite
General
1 13 (56.52%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Back Office
4 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Billing
5 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Architect
2 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Power Platform Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Power Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Implementation Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Configuration Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Integration Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) REST
2 3 (13.04%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) JSON
2 3 (13.04%) React
3 2 (8.70%) GraphQL
3 2 (8.70%) Middleware
3 2 (8.70%) OAuth
3 2 (8.70%) RESTful
3 2 (8.70%) Spring
3 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (4.35%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (4.35%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (4.35%) JDBC
4 1 (4.35%) Next.js
4 1 (4.35%) OpenID
4 1 (4.35%) SAML
4 1 (4.35%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.35%) Smart Meter
3 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Agile
1 7 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
2 6 (26.09%) Data Modelling
2 6 (26.09%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (21.74%) Analytics
3 5 (21.74%) Asset Management
3 5 (21.74%) Data Mapping
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) Scrum
4 4 (17.39%) Data Governance
4 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
4 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
5 3 (13.04%) AI
5 3 (13.04%) Data Transformation
5 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (13.04%) Investment Management
6 2 (8.70%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Java
2 5 (21.74%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.70%) C#
4 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) Go
5 1 (4.35%) Korn
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) CISM
2 1 (4.35%) CISSP
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) EU AI Act
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.35%) Workday