API Integration Contracts in London

API Integration
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 234 306 382
Rank change year-on-year +72 +76 +92
Contract jobs citing API Integration 143 70 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.05% 0.43% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.48% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 49 74
10th Percentile £346 £374 £366
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £670 £600 £701
90th Percentile £738 £679 £734
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.72 - -
Median hourly rate £51.44 - -
75th Percentile £52.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.72 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +68.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,568 14,469 21,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.18% 88.87% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,414 10,214 15,860
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 195 231
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.15 £18.63
25th Percentile £24.50 £22.00 £24.75
Median hourly rate £29.50 £35.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.90% -12.35% +12.50%
75th Percentile £49.63 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £71.88 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in London

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for API Integration in London

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Integration in London over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in London

API Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for API Integration in London

API Integration
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +19 28 £625 +21.95% 13
South London - 1 £644 - 3
API Integration
England

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 13 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.40%) CMS
3 2 (1.40%) Luigi
4 1 (0.70%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) DataSynapse
4 1 (0.70%) Drupal
4 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.70%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.70%) JBoss
4 1 (0.70%) Mendix
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.70%) Endur
2 1 (0.70%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (34.97%) Azure
2 40 (27.97%) AWS
3 15 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (9.79%) GitHub
4 14 (9.79%) Serverless
5 13 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 12 (8.39%) GCP
7 8 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (4.20%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.20%) Azure Functions
9 6 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (4.20%) Snowflake
10 5 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.50%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.80%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.80%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.50%) HTTPS
1 5 (3.50%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (1.40%) DNS
2 2 (1.40%) HTTP
3 1 (0.70%) Network Security
3 1 (0.70%) SWIFTNet
3 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.69%) Power BI
2 8 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.90%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.50%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.80%) MySQL
7 3 (2.10%) Metadata
7 3 (2.10%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.10%) Tableau
8 2 (1.40%) Airbyte
8 2 (1.40%) Big Data
8 2 (1.40%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.40%) DB2
8 2 (1.40%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.40%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.40%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.70%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.70%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 20 (13.99%) Git
1 20 (13.99%) JIRA
2 10 (6.99%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.20%) JUnit
4 5 (3.50%) GitLab
4 5 (3.50%) Selenium
5 4 (2.80%) Zephyr
6 3 (2.10%) Postman
6 3 (2.10%) TestNG
6 3 (2.10%) TestRail
6 3 (2.10%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.40%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.40%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.40%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.70%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.70%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.70%) Mocha
8 1 (0.70%) Mockito
8 1 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 38 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 34 (23.78%) Finance
3 26 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.09%) Banking
4 13 (9.09%) Marketing
5 10 (6.99%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.20%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.10%) Retail
8 2 (1.40%) Back Office
8 2 (1.40%) Front Office
8 2 (1.40%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.40%) Local Government
8 2 (1.40%) Publishing
8 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.70%) Automotive
9 1 (0.70%) Billing
9 1 (0.70%) Military
9 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (37.76%) Developer
2 12 (8.39%) Architect
2 12 (8.39%) Senior
3 10 (6.99%) Lead
4 9 (6.29%) Java Developer
5 8 (5.59%) Consultant
5 8 (5.59%) SailPoint Developer
6 6 (4.20%) Analyst
7 5 (3.50%) Angular Developer
7 5 (3.50%) Business Analyst
7 5 (3.50%) Python Engineer
7 5 (3.50%) Tester
8 4 (2.80%) Automation Tester
8 4 (2.80%) Backend Developer
8 4 (2.80%) Data Engineer
8 4 (2.80%) DevOps Specialist
8 4 (2.80%) Grid Engineer
8 4 (2.80%) Product Owner
8 4 (2.80%) Senior Developer
8 4 (2.80%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (27.97%) REST
2 18 (12.59%) OAuth
3 17 (11.89%) SOAP
4 16 (11.19%) RESTful
5 11 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 11 (7.69%) HTML
5 11 (7.69%) OAuth2
5 11 (7.69%) React
5 11 (7.69%) Spring
6 10 (6.99%) LDAP
7 9 (6.29%) CSS
8 8 (5.59%) .NET
8 8 (5.59%) OpenID
8 8 (5.59%) SailPoint
8 8 (5.59%) Spring Boot
8 8 (5.59%) Web Services
9 6 (4.20%) boto
9 6 (4.20%) JSON
9 6 (4.20%) pytest
10 5 (3.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.59%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.50%) Grid Computing
4 4 (2.80%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.80%) Taxonomies
5 3 (2.10%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.10%) PKI
5 3 (2.10%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.40%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.40%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.40%) Mobile Wallet
6 2 (1.40%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.40%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.50%) Windows
1 5 (3.50%) Windows Server
1 5 (3.50%) Windows Server 2019
2 3 (2.10%) Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Android
3 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (30.07%) Agile
2 42 (29.37%) CI/CD
3 41 (28.67%) DevOps
4 32 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (14.69%) Artificial Intelligence
6 18 (12.59%) API Development
7 16 (11.19%) Analytics
7 16 (11.19%) Microservices
7 16 (11.19%) Roadmaps
8 15 (10.49%) Containerisation
8 15 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (9.79%) Migration
10 13 (9.09%) Scrum
11 12 (8.39%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (8.39%) Code Quality
11 12 (8.39%) Software Engineering
11 12 (8.39%) Test Automation
11 12 (8.39%) Workflow
12 11 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (39.16%) Python
2 43 (30.07%) Java
3 35 (24.48%) JavaScript
4 29 (20.28%) SQL
5 16 (11.19%) C#
6 14 (9.79%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.99%) Go
8 9 (6.29%) PowerShell
9 8 (5.59%) BeanShell
10 5 (3.50%) C++
11 4 (2.80%) Apex Code
12 3 (2.10%) Bash
12 3 (2.10%) Groovy
12 3 (2.10%) R
13 2 (1.40%) Ruby
13 2 (1.40%) Scala
14 1 (0.70%) ActionScript 2.0
14 1 (0.70%) Formula Language
14 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.70%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 14 (9.79%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.29%) Degree
4 8 (5.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.10%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.40%) CBAP
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CEH
7 1 (0.70%) CISSP
7 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.70%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.70%) IIBA
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.70%) OCP
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.70%) PMP
7 1 (0.70%) Sun Certification
7 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.29%) QA
2 6 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.50%) GDPR
4 3 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.70%) NIST
6 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (11.89%) Docker
2 14 (9.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.80%) Platform Symphony
4 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.70%) NFS
5 1 (0.70%) Veritas File System
5 1 (0.70%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (13.99%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (4.90%) Grafana
4 5 (3.50%) ITRS Geneos
4 5 (3.50%) Kibana
4 5 (3.50%) Terraform
5 4 (2.80%) Ansible
6 2 (1.40%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.70%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.70%) Podman
7 1 (0.70%) QRadar
7 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.70%) SCCM
7 1 (0.70%) vRealize
7 1 (0.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.29%) Oracle
3 8 (5.59%) ForgeRock
4 7 (4.90%) Atlassian
4 7 (4.90%) Google
4 7 (4.90%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.90%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.20%) IBM
5 6 (4.20%) TIBCO
6 4 (2.80%) Guidewire
6 4 (2.80%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.10%) Databricks
7 3 (2.10%) Duck Creek
7 3 (2.10%) Ping Identity
7 3 (2.10%) SnapLogic
8 2 (1.40%) Apple
8 2 (1.40%) Jitterbit
8 2 (1.40%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.40%) Splunk
8 2 (1.40%) VMware