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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 118 134
Rank change year-on-year +18 +16 +53
Contract jobs citing API Integration 23 6 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.32% 0.28% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 0.31% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 3 12
10th Percentile £327 £406 £468
25th Percentile £390 £441 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £635
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -13.39% +20.95%
75th Percentile £673 £709 £706
90th Percentile £675 £774 £1,162
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £635
% change year-on-year -4.55% -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 1,634 1,946 2,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.96% 91.66% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,194 1,750
10th Percentile £331 £375 £363
25th Percentile £420 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -30.13%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.40%

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 7 November 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 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Luigi
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Algo Collateral
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
3 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) GitHub
4 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (13.04%) Power Automate
4 3 (13.04%) PowerApps
4 3 (13.04%) Serverless
5 2 (8.70%) Azure AI
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
5 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.70%) SaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.35%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Power BI
2 2 (8.70%) Airbyte
2 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.35%) Metadata
3 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 4 (17.39%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Postman
3 1 (4.35%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (4.35%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Marketing
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 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Integration Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Automation Architect
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Business Engagement Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Engagement Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) OAuth
2 4 (17.39%) OAuth2
3 3 (13.04%) RESTful
4 2 (8.70%) FastAPI
4 2 (8.70%) JSON
4 2 (8.70%) JWT
4 2 (8.70%) Kafka
4 2 (8.70%) Node.js
4 2 (8.70%) SOAP
5 1 (4.35%) boto
5 1 (4.35%) DOM
5 1 (4.35%) Flake8
5 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.35%) HTML
5 1 (4.35%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (4.35%) pytest
5 1 (4.35%) Web Services
5 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%) Derivative
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 13 (56.52%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps
2 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (21.74%) Workflow
4 4 (17.39%) Migration
4 4 (17.39%) Scrum
5 3 (13.04%) AI
5 3 (13.04%) API Design
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.04%) Data Governance
5 3 (13.04%) ETL
5 3 (13.04%) ITSM
5 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (13.04%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (8.70%) Collateral Management
6 2 (8.70%) Requirements Workshops
6 2 (8.70%) Task Automation
6 2 (8.70%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) Apex Code
5 1 (4.35%) Bicep
5 1 (4.35%) Go
5 1 (4.35%) Groovy
5 1 (4.35%) PHP
5 1 (4.35%) R
5 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.35%) CISSP
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) QA
3 1 (4.35%) EU AI Act
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (4.35%) NIST
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 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.70%) Adobe
3 2 (8.70%) Atlassian
3 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
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%) SmartStream
4 1 (4.35%) UiPath