API Integration Contracts in Merseyside

API Integration
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 23 26 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing API Integration 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.88% 0.51% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 0.73% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £331 - -
25th Percentile £359 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £439 - -
90th Percentile £452 - -
North West median daily rate £440 £400 £698
% change year-on-year +10.00% -42.65% +7.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.00 -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +94.44% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 137 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 81.25% 70.26% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 72 173
10th Percentile £129 £155 £278
25th Percentile £160 £213 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £423 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -15.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £525 £495 £540
90th Percentile £663 £588 £642
North West median daily rate £460 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 9
10th Percentile - £16.65 £16.05
25th Percentile £12.21 £18.08 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £27.69 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year -37.52% +1.79% +55.43%
75th Percentile £17.44 £37.19 £30.00
90th Percentile - £52.60 £52.60
North West median hourly rate £27.90 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -14.15% -1.52% +45.05%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in Merseyside

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for API Integration in Merseyside

API Integration
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool +1 3 £413 - 1
API Integration
North West

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 3 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Pinecone
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) CrewAI
1 3 (100.00%) LangChain
2 1 (33.33%) Faiss
2 1 (33.33%) Gradio
2 1 (33.33%) LangGraph
2 1 (33.33%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 3 (100.00%) Autonomous Agent
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 3 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 3 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) MCP
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google