API Integration Contracts in the North West

API Integration
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 124 150
Rank change year-on-year +12 +26 +17
Contract jobs citing API Integration 16 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.82% 0.33% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.39% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 2
10th Percentile £403 £354 £486
25th Percentile £409 £390 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £400 £588
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% -31.91% +6.82%
75th Percentile £525 £446 £647
90th Percentile £671 £475 £679
England median daily rate £513 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -1.44% -13.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,753 2,295 2,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.08% 85.19% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,145 1,449 1,936
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £561 £588 £588
90th Percentile £662 £676 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 261 139
10th Percentile £13.88 £11.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.72 £14.00 £22.27
Median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +52.17%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £48.38
90th Percentile £84.80 £66.61 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in the North West

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for API Integration in the North West

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Integration in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in the North West

API Integration
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Manchester +24 6 £500 +17.65% 87
Cheshire +1 6 £475 +21.79% 58
Lancashire - 3 £671 - 33
API Integration
England

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (12.50%) CICS
2 1 (6.25%) CMS
2 1 (6.25%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (6.25%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Easytrieve
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Jasmine
1 1 (6.25%) Mocha
General
1 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Analyst
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
1 3 (18.75%) ForgeRock Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Lead
1 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Designer
2 2 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (12.50%) Mainframe Designer
2 2 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) JDBC
1 3 (18.75%) OAuth
1 3 (18.75%) OAuth2
1 3 (18.75%) OpenID
1 3 (18.75%) REST
1 3 (18.75%) SOAP
2 2 (12.50%) CSS
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
2 2 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.25%) ADO
3 1 (6.25%) Jest
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) Nunjucks
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) Sass
3 1 (6.25%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) PKI
1 3 (18.75%) Taxonomies
2 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) VSAM
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Coaching
3 3 (18.75%) Data Management
3 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps
3 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (18.75%) Identity Management
3 3 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
3 3 (18.75%) Open Source
3 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (18.75%) Scrum
3 3 (18.75%) SDLC
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) COBOL
3 2 (12.50%) JCL
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) GRC
2 1 (6.25%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) ForgeRock
1 3 (18.75%) Ping Identity
2 2 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Sitecore