API Integration Contract Job Trends in Reading

API Integration
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring API Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 56 89
Rank change year-on-year -37 +33 -2
Contract jobs citing API Integration 1 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.093% 0.36% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.39% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £325 £650
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -50.00% +8.33%
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £465 £650
% change year-on-year +29.03% -28.46% +8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 903 517 1,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 83.77% 92.82% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 321 542
10th Percentile £318 £350 £245
25th Percentile £447 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £502 £520
% change year-on-year -0.40% -3.46% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 12 54
10th Percentile £40.85 - £15.40
25th Percentile £80.75 £14.75 £51.86
Median hourly rate £84.00 £32.89 £60.83
Median % change year-on-year +155.40% -45.93% -7.83%
75th Percentile £88.00 £58.44 £82.55
90th Percentile £107.00 £68.75 £87.52
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.58 £53.50 £59.47
% change year-on-year +56.21% -10.04% +1.23%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Integration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

API Integration job vacancy trend in Reading

API Integration
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing API Integration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing API Integration

API Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared