API Integration Contracts in the UK excluding London

API Integration
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for API Integration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Integration over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 412 422
Rank change year-on-year +63 +10 -54
Contract jobs citing API Integration 39 35 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.15% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.16% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 29 63
10th Percentile £358 £414 £350
25th Percentile £369 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £617 £575 £600
90th Percentile £646 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £530
% change year-on-year -16.67% +13.21% +14.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

API Integration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing API Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in the UK excluding London

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Integration in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for API Integration in the UK excluding London

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Integration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in the UK excluding London

API Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Integration in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for API Integration in the UK excluding London

API Integration
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
North of England +37 17 £468 -10.95% 21
North West +29 9 £400 -23.81% 13
Yorkshire +28 8 £625 - 7
South East +20 7 £600 +33.33% 9
East of England +13 7 £375 -21.05% 2
South West +20 4 £350 -36.36% 8
Midlands +30 3 £500 - 16
East Midlands +20 2 £525 +5.00% 8
Scotland +36 1 £325 -36.59%
West Midlands +18 1 £450 +4.35% 8
Wales +15 1 - - 3
API Integration
UK

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (17.95%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.56%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.64%) Azure
2 9 (23.08%) GCP
3 6 (15.38%) Apigee
3 6 (15.38%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) GitHub
3 6 (15.38%) Kong
4 3 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.69%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Functions
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.13%) Google App Engine
5 2 (5.13%) Serverless
5 2 (5.13%) Stripe
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.56%) npm
6 1 (2.56%) PaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.08%) HTTP
2 6 (15.38%) DNS
2 6 (15.38%) Firewall
2 6 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 6 (15.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.69%) BigQuery
2 3 (7.69%) Power BI
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) JIRA
2 9 (23.08%) Git
3 8 (20.51%) GitLab
4 7 (17.95%) Jenkins
5 6 (15.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (15.38%) CircleCI
5 6 (15.38%) Travis CI
6 2 (5.13%) VersionOne
7 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.56%) Postman
7 1 (2.56%) Selenium
7 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Finance
4 3 (7.69%) Front Office
5 1 (2.56%) Aviation
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Games
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Publishing
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Developer
2 10 (25.64%) Full Stack Developer
3 4 (10.26%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Power Platform Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.13%) React Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Scrum Master
5 2 (5.13%) Senior
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Umbraco Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Project Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) CSS
1 13 (33.33%) HTML
2 10 (25.64%) AngularJS
2 10 (25.64%) REST
3 9 (23.08%) React
4 7 (17.95%) HTML5
4 7 (17.95%) JSON
4 7 (17.95%) YAML
5 6 (15.38%) Angular 2
5 6 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (15.38%) Java Concurrency
5 6 (15.38%) Spring
5 6 (15.38%) Spring Boot
5 6 (15.38%) Spring MVC
5 6 (15.38%) XML
6 3 (7.69%) Node.js
6 3 (7.69%) RESTful
7 2 (5.13%) .NET
7 2 (5.13%) GraphQL
7 2 (5.13%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Agile
2 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
2 11 (28.21%) Project Management
2 11 (28.21%) Scrum
3 10 (25.64%) Full Stack Development
3 10 (25.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (23.08%) API Development
5 8 (20.51%) DevOps
5 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.95%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
6 7 (17.95%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (17.95%) Workflow
7 6 (15.38%) Continuous Deployment
7 6 (15.38%) DevSecOps
7 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (15.38%) MVC
7 6 (15.38%) Post-Production
7 6 (15.38%) Secure Coding
7 6 (15.38%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 10 (25.64%) TypeScript
3 8 (20.51%) Python
4 7 (17.95%) Java
5 6 (15.38%) Bash
5 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
6 4 (10.26%) SQL
7 2 (5.13%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.56%) BrightScript
8 1 (2.56%) Go
8 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) PMI Certification
2 3 (7.69%) PMP
3 2 (5.13%) CISM
3 2 (5.13%) CISSP
3 2 (5.13%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) Ansible
1 7 (17.95%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.38%) Docker Swarm
2 6 (15.38%) Grafana
2 6 (15.38%) Kibana
2 6 (15.38%) logstash
2 6 (15.38%) Progress Chef
2 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
2 6 (15.38%) Puppet
2 6 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (2.56%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Splunk
2 5 (12.82%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.69%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle
5 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.56%) CODA
5 1 (2.56%) IBM
5 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.56%) Roku
5 1 (2.56%) Sage
5 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) Zuora