API Integration Contracts in the Midlands

API Integration
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 93 130 163
Rank change year-on-year +37 +33 +31
Contract jobs citing API Integration 18 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.94% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 3
10th Percentile £381 £440 £300
25th Percentile £393 £463 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £563
90th Percentile £623 £560 £585
England median daily rate £513 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +2.50% -16.67% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in the Midlands

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for API Integration in the Midlands

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in the Midlands

API Integration
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +22 9 £425 -5.56% 7
East Midlands +17 9 £463 -11.90% 15
API Integration
England

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.11%) AWS CodeCommit
4 2 (11.11%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.11%) Boomi
4 2 (11.11%) OCI
4 2 (11.11%) PaaS
4 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Android Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Integration Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Python Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) BSS Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) OSS Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) RESTful
2 4 (22.22%) Android Jetpack
2 4 (22.22%) Jetpack Compose
3 3 (16.67%) PySpark
4 2 (11.11%) Django
4 2 (11.11%) MACH
4 2 (11.11%) Spring
4 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.56%) Kafka
5 1 (5.56%) OAuth
5 1 (5.56%) OpenID
5 1 (5.56%) RAML
5 1 (5.56%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) SOAP
5 1 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Agile
1 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Data Modelling
3 5 (27.78%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) Android Development
4 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 4 (22.22%) Microservices
4 4 (22.22%) TDD
4 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
5 3 (16.67%) API Development
5 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) CRM
5 3 (16.67%) Data Transformation
5 3 (16.67%) ERP
5 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 2 (11.11%) Change Management
6 2 (11.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) Kotlin
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) R
3 2 (11.11%) VB
3 2 (11.11%) VBA
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) MuleSoft
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) UiPath
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Workday