API Integration Contracts in the Thames Valley

API Integration
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 137 134
Rank change year-on-year +46 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing API Integration 11 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.75% 0.15% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.18% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 10
10th Percentile £345 - £370
25th Percentile £350 - £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.46% +30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 - £600
90th Percentile £600 - £628
South East median daily rate £475 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,370 2,269 2,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.88% 86.14% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 1,241 1,752
10th Percentile £300 £213 £319
25th Percentile £408 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year - -0.99% +3.59%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £505
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 167 70
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.17 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.51 £19.25 £24.86
Median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £53.53
Median % change year-on-year -43.94% -15.93% +207.29%
75th Percentile £62.44 £63.85 £72.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.30
% change year-on-year -41.31% -9.18% +138.27%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in the Thames Valley

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for API Integration in the Thames Valley

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Integration in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in the Thames Valley

API Integration
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 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
Berkshire +33 9 £465 -28.46% 5
Buckinghamshire - 2 £500 -
API Integration
South East

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (18.18%) Camunda
2 1 (9.09%) CMS
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) Headless CMS
2 1 (9.09%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon Cognito
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Postman
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 2 (18.18%) Billing
2 2 (18.18%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Developer
2 2 (18.18%) BSS Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Python Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Implementation Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) React Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Node.js
1 4 (36.36%) RESTful
2 3 (27.27%) React
2 3 (27.27%) SOAP
3 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) GraphQL
3 2 (18.18%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (18.18%) OAuth
3 2 (18.18%) Parceljs
3 2 (18.18%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (18.18%) TM Forum
2 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) CRM
1 4 (36.36%) Order Management
2 3 (27.27%) API Management
2 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (27.27%) User Experience
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Conversational UI
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) ERP
3 2 (18.18%) eTOM
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) UX Design
3 2 (18.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Apex Code
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace