API Integration Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

API Integration
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring API Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Integration 18 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.92% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
Scotland median daily rate £436 £392 -
% change year-on-year +11.37% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £64.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 551 597 789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.45% 94.16% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 333 478
10th Percentile £188 £195 £232
25th Percentile £406 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £477
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -4.61% +0.42%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 26 27
10th Percentile £17.36 £20.65 £13.27
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.34 £16.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.95% -32.60% +63.06%
75th Percentile £69.00 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £28.38 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +10.05%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Integration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

API Integration job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

API Integration
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing API Integration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing API Integration

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Integration in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in Edinburgh

API Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 7 (38.89%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (33.33%) Apache
3 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (27.78%) Serverless
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) Dagster
5 1 (5.56%) Google Ads
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Big Data
1 3 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 3 (16.67%) Metadata
1 3 (16.67%) MySQL
1 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) MLflow
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
1 8 (44.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 8 (44.44%) Python Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Python Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.11%) ETL Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) AWS CDK
1 5 (27.78%) FastAPI
1 5 (27.78%) Hugging Face
1 5 (27.78%) NumPy
1 5 (27.78%) OpenCV
1 5 (27.78%) Pandas
1 5 (27.78%) PyTorch
1 5 (27.78%) REST
1 5 (27.78%) SQLAlchemy
2 4 (22.22%) boto
2 4 (22.22%) JWT
2 4 (22.22%) OAuth
3 3 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Algorithms
1 4 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Agile
2 8 (44.44%) AI
2 8 (44.44%) Front End Development
2 8 (44.44%) Machine Learning
3 7 (38.89%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (33.33%) ETL
4 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (33.33%) Pair Programming
5 5 (27.78%) Async-Await
5 5 (27.78%) LLM
5 5 (27.78%) OOP
5 5 (27.78%) TDD
6 4 (22.22%) A/B Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Code Quality
6 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 4 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (22.22%) OCR
6 4 (22.22%) OO
6 4 (22.22%) Scrum
6 4 (22.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) TypeScript
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Grafana
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) vRealize
2 1 (5.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Informatica
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
1 3 (16.67%) Talend
2 2 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) VMware