API Integration Contracts in England

API Integration
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring API Integration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Integration over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 434 497
Rank change year-on-year +173 +63 +89
Contract jobs citing API Integration 237 108 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.97% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.34% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 67 110
10th Percentile £358 £363 £381
25th Percentile £425 £403 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £722
90th Percentile £700 £650 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +13.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £71.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing API Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in England

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Integration in England.

Daily rate trend for API Integration in England

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Integration in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in England

API Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Integration in England.

Hourly rate trend for API Integration in England

API Integration
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing API Integration within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +121 146 £550 +7.16% 171
North of England +36 34 £440 -5.88% 43
South East +59 20 £488 -18.75% 67
North West +27 19 £484 +20.88% 28
Midlands +37 18 £463 -7.50% 23
North East - 10 £410 - 5
West Midlands +22 9 £425 -5.56% 7
East Midlands +17 9 £463 -11.90% 15
South West +47 5 £519 +48.21% 17
Yorkshire +5 5 £425 -32.00% 10
East of England +27 4 £675 +80.00% 14
API Integration
UK

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (5.91%) Confluence
2 8 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.53%) CMS
4 3 (1.27%) CICS
4 3 (1.27%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.84%) Camunda
5 2 (0.84%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.42%) Drupal
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) Luigi
6 1 (0.42%) Magnolia
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.84%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.84%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.42%) BASE24
3 1 (0.42%) Endur
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.42%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.42%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 84 (35.44%) Azure
2 43 (18.14%) AWS
3 28 (11.81%) GitHub
4 21 (8.86%) Power Platform
5 16 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (6.33%) Serverless
7 14 (5.91%) GCP
8 12 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (5.06%) PowerApps
9 10 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (4.22%) SaaS
10 8 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.95%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (2.53%) Boomi
12 6 (2.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.80%) DNS
1 9 (3.80%) HTTPS
2 8 (3.38%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.69%) Firewall
3 4 (1.69%) HTTP
4 3 (1.27%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.84%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.84%) Network Security
5 2 (0.84%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.84%) VPN
5 2 (0.84%) WAN
6 1 (0.42%) ATM
6 1 (0.42%) Internet
6 1 (0.42%) SMS
6 1 (0.42%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.17%) MongoDB
1 17 (7.17%) Power BI
2 13 (5.49%) Data Lake
2 13 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.80%) MySQL
3 9 (3.80%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.53%) Geospatial Data
5 5 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.11%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.69%) Tableau
7 3 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.84%) Big Data
8 2 (0.84%) DB2
8 2 (0.84%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.84%) Easytrieve
8 2 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (9.28%) Git
2 18 (7.59%) JIRA
3 9 (3.80%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.38%) Subversion
4 8 (3.38%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.69%) Postman
6 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.27%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.84%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.84%) GitLab
7 2 (0.84%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.42%) Maven
8 1 (0.42%) MLflow
8 1 (0.42%) Mocha
8 1 (0.42%) MSI
8 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.42%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.42%) Selenium
8 1 (0.42%) Xcode
General
1 65 (27.43%) Social Skills
2 43 (18.14%) Finance
3 30 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.59%) Banking
6 13 (5.49%) Marketing
7 12 (5.06%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.95%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.53%) Automotive
10 6 (2.53%) Retail
11 5 (2.11%) Billing
11 5 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.11%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.69%) Publishing
13 2 (0.84%) Back Office
13 2 (0.84%) French Language
13 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.84%) Local Government
13 2 (0.84%) Military
Job Titles
1 92 (38.82%) Developer
2 27 (11.39%) Architect
3 20 (8.44%) Senior
4 18 (7.59%) Data Engineer
5 17 (7.17%) Lead
6 14 (5.91%) Consultant
7 13 (5.49%) Java Developer
8 12 (5.06%) Senior Developer
9 10 (4.22%) Analyst
10 9 (3.80%) Administrator
11 8 (3.38%) Linux Administrator
12 7 (2.95%) ServiceNow Developer
12 7 (2.95%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.53%) Business Analyst
13 6 (2.53%) Integration Consultant
13 6 (2.53%) Project Engineer
13 6 (2.53%) Project Leader
13 6 (2.53%) SailPoint Developer
14 5 (2.11%) ForgeRock Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (16.88%) REST
2 28 (11.81%) RESTful
3 20 (8.44%) OAuth
3 20 (8.44%) SOAP
4 15 (6.33%) CSS
4 15 (6.33%) HTML
4 15 (6.33%) React
5 14 (5.91%) .NET
6 12 (5.06%) Kafka
6 12 (5.06%) Node.js
6 12 (5.06%) PySpark
7 11 (4.64%) Spring
7 11 (4.64%) Web Services
8 10 (4.22%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.22%) JSON
9 9 (3.80%) OAuth2
9 9 (3.80%) OpenID
10 8 (3.38%) Lightning Web Components
10 8 (3.38%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.95%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.38%) Clustering
1 8 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (2.53%) Industry 4.0
2 6 (2.53%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 6 (2.53%) PKI
2 6 (2.53%) Replication
2 6 (2.53%) Taxonomies
3 5 (2.11%) Grid Computing
3 5 (2.11%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 5 (2.11%) Virtual Team
4 4 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.27%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.27%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.84%) NHS
6 2 (0.84%) VSAM
6 2 (0.84%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.17%) Linux
2 8 (3.38%) Solaris
3 6 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.11%) Windows
4 5 (2.11%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.69%) Android
5 4 (1.69%) Unix
6 3 (1.27%) zOS
7 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (33.76%) Agile
2 63 (26.58%) CI/CD
3 54 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (21.52%) DevOps
5 33 (13.92%) Analytics
6 28 (11.81%) API Development
6 28 (11.81%) Microservices
7 27 (11.39%) Data Modelling
8 25 (10.55%) Code Quality
9 24 (10.13%) ERP
9 24 (10.13%) Mentoring
10 22 (9.28%) Containerisation
10 22 (9.28%) Data Transformation
11 21 (8.86%) Scrum
11 21 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (8.02%) Artificial Intelligence
12 19 (8.02%) Decision-Making
12 19 (8.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (7.59%) Roadmaps
13 18 (7.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 64 (27.00%) Python
2 55 (23.21%) SQL
3 50 (21.10%) Java
4 41 (17.30%) JavaScript
5 25 (10.55%) C#
6 17 (7.17%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.80%) Bash
8 8 (3.38%) Apex Code
8 8 (3.38%) Perl
8 8 (3.38%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.95%) Go
10 6 (2.53%) BeanShell
10 6 (2.53%) C++
10 6 (2.53%) Scala
11 5 (2.11%) R
12 4 (1.69%) Bicep
12 4 (1.69%) COBOL
12 4 (1.69%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.84%) PHP
13 2 (0.84%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (10.97%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.28%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.59%) Degree
4 11 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.95%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.27%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.84%) CAPM
8 2 (0.84%) CBAP
8 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.84%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.84%) OCP
8 2 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.84%) Sun Certification
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.59%) QA
2 12 (5.06%) GDPR
3 9 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.53%) Def Stans
4 6 (2.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.69%) GRC
6 3 (1.27%) WCAG
7 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.42%) NCSC
8 1 (0.42%) NIST
8 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (9.28%) Docker
2 11 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.38%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.69%) NFS
4 4 (1.69%) Platform Symphony
4 4 (1.69%) Veritas File System
4 4 (1.69%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (9.28%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.17%) Terraform
3 12 (5.06%) Ansible
3 12 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (4.22%) Kibana
5 8 (3.38%) MOM
5 8 (3.38%) QRadar
5 8 (3.38%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (2.95%) Grafana
7 6 (2.53%) Tivoli
8 5 (2.11%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (1.69%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (1.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 2 (0.84%) Control-M
10 2 (0.84%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.84%) Netcool
10 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.42%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.42%) Podman
11 1 (0.42%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.28%) Salesforce
3 17 (7.17%) ServiceNow
4 16 (6.75%) SAP
5 15 (6.33%) Oracle
5 15 (6.33%) VMware
6 13 (5.49%) IBM
6 13 (5.49%) Red Hat
7 11 (4.64%) Splunk
8 9 (3.80%) CyberArk
8 9 (3.80%) MuleSoft
9 8 (3.38%) Qualys
9 8 (3.38%) SaltStack
10 7 (2.95%) ForgeRock
11 6 (2.53%) Ping Identity
11 6 (2.53%) Rockwell
11 6 (2.53%) Siemens
11 6 (2.53%) TIBCO
12 5 (2.11%) EMC
13 4 (1.69%) Cisco