API Integration Contracts in Scotland

API Integration
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 106 128 159
Rank change year-on-year +22 +31 +9
Contract jobs citing API Integration 10 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.62% 0.045% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.051% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £365 - £448
25th Percentile £383 £313 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £325 £513
Median % change year-on-year +32.31% -36.59% -6.82%
75th Percentile £500 £338 £525
90th Percentile £547 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +13.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in Scotland

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for API Integration in Scotland

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in Scotland

API Integration
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow - 5 £392 -
Edinburgh +7 3 £500 +53.85% 2
API Integration
UK

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) BrowserStack
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) DB2
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) Appium
3 1 (10.00%) Storybook
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Database Developer
3 2 (20.00%) GCP Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) React Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) REST
1 6 (60.00%) SOAP
1 6 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 4 (40.00%) Spring
3 3 (30.00%) Middleware
4 2 (20.00%) .NET
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 5
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (20.00%) Blazor
4 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (20.00%) J2EE
4 2 (20.00%) React
4 2 (20.00%) RESTful
5 1 (10.00%) Jest
5 1 (10.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
1 5 (50.00%) Microservices
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) SDLC
2 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (30.00%) API Development
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) B2C
4 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) MVC
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) SOA
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (30.00%) Google
3 2 (20.00%) DocuSign
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft