API Integration Contracts in the South East

API Integration
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 139 198 215
Rank change year-on-year +59 +17 +19
Contract jobs citing API Integration 20 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.66% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 6
10th Percentile £350 £530 £410
25th Percentile £433 £575 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £650 £613
90th Percentile £600 £770 £638
England median daily rate £513 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +2.50% -16.67% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in the South East

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for API Integration in the South East

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in the South East

API Integration
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +53 12 £483 -22.80% 4
Berkshire +39 10 £483 -22.80% 3
Hampshire +27 3 £513 -14.58% 6
Surrey +18 2 - - 4
Kent - 2 £475 - 4
Buckinghamshire - 2 £500 - 1
West Sussex +11 1 £600 +20.00% 2
API Integration
England

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (10.00%) Camunda
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Headless CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (5.00%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (5.00%) Postman
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Billing
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Consultant
3 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Project Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Project Leader
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 2 (10.00%) BSS Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Integration Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) RESTful
2 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 4 (20.00%) Node.js
2 4 (20.00%) React
2 4 (20.00%) REST
3 3 (15.00%) CSS
3 3 (15.00%) HTML
3 3 (15.00%) Kafka
3 3 (15.00%) SOAP
3 3 (15.00%) Web Services
4 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (10.00%) CSS3
4 2 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (10.00%) HTML5
4 2 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (10.00%) OAuth
4 2 (10.00%) Parceljs
4 2 (10.00%) WCF
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (10.00%) TM Forum
1 2 (10.00%) Wiki
2 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Analytics
2 4 (20.00%) CRM
2 4 (20.00%) Integration Testing
2 4 (20.00%) Order Management
2 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) Agile
3 3 (15.00%) API Management
3 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (15.00%) Data Analytics
3 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (15.00%) Project Management
3 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) Apex Code
4 2 (10.00%) Python
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) OCP
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Def Stans
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) SAP
2 3 (15.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe
4 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle