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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 390 492
Rank change year-on-year +111 +102 +76
Contract jobs citing API Integration 244 135 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.88% 0.40% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.47% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 97 99
10th Percentile £350 £350 £369
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +1.85%
75th Percentile £626 £622 £650
90th Percentile £688 £655 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £52.40 - -
25th Percentile £54.92 - -
Median hourly rate £60.72 £36.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.67% - -
75th Percentile £67.42 - -
90th Percentile £70.47 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.72 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +68.67% - -

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 25,027 28,787 40,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.71% 85.92% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,013 18,800 28,287
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £666
90th Percentile £738 £758 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,396 1,684 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.15 £18.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%
75th Percentile £51.10 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.08 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%

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 4 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing API Integration in England over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 4 August 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 +72 143 £525 +0.96% 133
North of England +11 41 £450 -10.89% 43
North West +11 23 £440 +10.00% 21
Midlands +5 20 £463 -7.50% 14
South East +35 17 £465 -28.46% 39
Yorkshire +2 16 £465 -25.60% 14
East Midlands +5 15 £463 +10.12% 10
South West +21 5 £563 +45.16% 9
East of England 0 5 £675 +80.00% 11
West Midlands -2 5 £478 -4.50% 4
North East -1 2 £459 -12.62% 8
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 17 (6.97%) Confluence
2 5 (2.05%) CMS
3 4 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.82%) Camunda
5 2 (0.82%) CICS
5 2 (0.82%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.82%) JBoss
5 2 (0.82%) Luigi
5 2 (0.82%) WordPress
6 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.41%) Drupal
6 1 (0.41%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.23%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.82%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.41%) Endur
4 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.41%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 75 (30.74%) Azure
2 56 (22.95%) AWS
3 24 (9.84%) Serverless
4 23 (9.43%) Power Platform
5 22 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (6.97%) GCP
7 16 (6.56%) GitHub
8 14 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (4.92%) Azure Functions
11 10 (4.10%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.10%) PowerApps
12 9 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.69%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (3.28%) SaaS
13 8 (3.28%) Snowflake
14 6 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (2.46%) Power Automate
15 5 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.69%) HTTPS
2 5 (2.05%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (1.64%) HTTP
4 3 (1.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.82%) DNS
5 2 (0.82%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.82%) VPN
5 2 (0.82%) WAN
6 1 (0.41%) Network Security
6 1 (0.41%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.97%) Power BI
2 17 (6.97%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.33%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.51%) Oracle Database
5 10 (4.10%) MySQL
6 9 (3.69%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.87%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.23%) Airbyte
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.23%) Big Data
9 3 (1.23%) Metadata
9 3 (1.23%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.23%) Tableau
10 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.82%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 40 (16.39%) Git
2 24 (9.84%) JIRA
3 14 (5.74%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.69%) GitLab
5 8 (3.28%) JUnit
6 6 (2.46%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.05%) Selenium
8 4 (1.64%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.64%) Postman
8 4 (1.64%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.23%) TestNG
9 3 (1.23%) TestRail
9 3 (1.23%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.82%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.82%) ScriptRunner
10 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.41%) gulp
11 1 (0.41%) Protractor
11 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 63 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.08%) Finance
3 33 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.61%) Banking
6 17 (6.97%) Marketing
7 10 (4.10%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.46%) Retail
8 6 (2.46%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Billing
10 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.23%) Military
11 2 (0.82%) Back Office
11 2 (0.82%) Front Office
11 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.82%) Local Government
11 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (36.89%) Developer
2 25 (10.25%) Architect
2 25 (10.25%) Senior
3 23 (9.43%) Lead
4 19 (7.79%) Consultant
5 13 (5.33%) Senior Developer
6 12 (4.92%) Analyst
6 12 (4.92%) Java Developer
7 9 (3.69%) Android Developer
8 8 (3.28%) Business Analyst
8 8 (3.28%) SailPoint Developer
9 7 (2.87%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (2.87%) Software Engineer
10 6 (2.46%) AWS Developer
10 6 (2.46%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (2.46%) Integration Consultant
10 6 (2.46%) Project Engineer
10 6 (2.46%) Project Leader
10 6 (2.46%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (20.90%) REST
2 32 (13.11%) RESTful
3 30 (12.30%) OAuth
4 24 (9.84%) SOAP
5 19 (7.79%) HTML
6 17 (6.97%) OAuth2
7 16 (6.56%) CSS
7 16 (6.56%) React
8 15 (6.15%) FastAPI
9 14 (5.74%) Kafka
10 13 (5.33%) Spring
11 12 (4.92%) AngularJS
11 12 (4.92%) OpenID
12 11 (4.51%) .NET
12 11 (4.51%) JSON
12 11 (4.51%) Spring Boot
12 11 (4.51%) Web Services
13 10 (4.10%) LDAP
14 9 (3.69%) Android Jetpack
14 9 (3.69%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.51%) Mobile App
2 8 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.87%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.87%) PKI
3 7 (2.87%) Taxonomies
4 6 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.05%) Grid Computing
5 5 (2.05%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.64%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.23%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.23%) Autonomous Agent
7 3 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.23%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.23%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.82%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.56%) Linux
2 9 (3.69%) Android
3 7 (2.87%) Windows
4 5 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.82%) Solaris
6 2 (0.82%) Unix
6 2 (0.82%) zOS
7 1 (0.41%) AIX
7 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.41%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (32.38%) Agile
2 73 (29.92%) DevOps
3 64 (26.23%) CI/CD
4 55 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (11.89%) Analytics
5 29 (11.89%) Artificial Intelligence
6 26 (10.66%) Migration
7 25 (10.25%) Microservices
7 25 (10.25%) Scrum
8 24 (9.84%) API Development
9 23 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (9.02%) Roadmaps
11 20 (8.20%) Mentoring
11 20 (8.20%) Test Automation
12 19 (7.79%) CRM
13 18 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (7.38%) Code Quality
13 18 (7.38%) Containerisation
14 17 (6.97%) Task Automation
15 16 (6.56%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 78 (31.97%) Python
2 55 (22.54%) Java
3 48 (19.67%) JavaScript
4 47 (19.26%) SQL
5 23 (9.43%) C#
6 16 (6.56%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.33%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.51%) Go
9 10 (4.10%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.69%) Kotlin
11 8 (3.28%) Apex Code
11 8 (3.28%) BeanShell
12 6 (2.46%) C++
13 5 (2.05%) R
14 4 (1.64%) Bash
14 4 (1.64%) PHP
15 3 (1.23%) Groovy
16 2 (0.82%) ActionScript 2.0
16 2 (0.82%) Perl
16 2 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 25 (10.25%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.92%) Degree
4 10 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.23%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.23%) MCP
6 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.82%) CBAP
7 2 (0.82%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.82%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CEH
8 1 (0.41%) CISSP
8 1 (0.41%) IIBA
8 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.41%) OCP
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.41%) PMP
8 1 (0.41%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.25%) QA
2 8 (3.28%) GDPR
3 7 (2.87%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.46%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.41%) NCSC
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (8.61%) Docker
2 17 (6.97%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.69%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.64%) Platform Symphony
5 1 (0.41%) NFS
5 1 (0.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.41%) Veritas File System
5 1 (0.41%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.74%) Ansible
2 14 (5.74%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (3.69%) Data Guard
3 9 (3.69%) yum
4 8 (3.28%) Grafana
5 7 (2.87%) Terraform
6 6 (2.46%) Kibana
7 5 (2.05%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.23%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.82%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.41%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.41%) Kiali
10 1 (0.41%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.41%) Podman
10 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.41%) QRadar
10 1 (0.41%) vRealize
10 1 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.02%) Oracle
3 15 (6.15%) Salesforce
4 12 (4.92%) Google
5 11 (4.51%) ForgeRock
6 9 (3.69%) IBM
6 9 (3.69%) MuleSoft
6 9 (3.69%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.69%) VMware
7 8 (3.28%) Atlassian
7 8 (3.28%) SAP
8 6 (2.46%) Ping Identity
8 6 (2.46%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.64%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.64%) Splunk
10 3 (1.23%) Apple
10 3 (1.23%) Databricks
10 3 (1.23%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.23%) SnapLogic
10 3 (1.23%) Workday