API Integration Contracts in the UK excluding London

API Integration
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 248 360 428
Rank change year-on-year +112 +68 -3
Contract jobs citing API Integration 88 39 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 30 28
10th Percentile £358 £358 £436
25th Percentile £400 £369 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £530 £617 £575
90th Percentile £614 £646 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +13.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
North of England +36 34 £440 -5.88% 45
South East +59 20 £488 -18.75% 68
North West +27 19 £484 +20.88% 28
Midlands +37 18 £463 -7.50% 23
Scotland +22 10 £430 +32.31% 4
North East - 10 £410 - 5
West Midlands +22 9 £425 -5.56% 7
East Midlands +17 9 £463 -11.90% 15
South West +47 5 £519 +48.21% 18
Yorkshire +5 5 £425 -32.00% 12
East of England +27 4 £675 +80.00% 14
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 3 (3.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) Camunda
2 2 (2.27%) CICS
2 2 (2.27%) CMS
3 1 (1.14%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.14%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.14%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (6.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.27%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.27%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.14%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (1.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 27 (30.68%) Azure
2 17 (19.32%) AWS
3 8 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (6.82%) GCP
4 6 (6.82%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.82%) Serverless
5 5 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (5.68%) SaaS
6 4 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (4.55%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.41%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.41%) PaaS
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.27%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.05%) MongoDB
2 6 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.82%) Power BI
3 5 (5.68%) Data Lake
3 5 (5.68%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.41%) MySQL
5 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.27%) DB2
5 2 (2.27%) Easytrieve
5 2 (2.27%) Redis
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.14%) Power Query
6 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (11.36%) Git
2 9 (10.23%) JIRA
3 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.14%) Appium
4 1 (1.14%) GitLab
4 1 (1.14%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.14%) Mocha
4 1 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.14%) Postman
4 1 (1.14%) Storybook
General
1 28 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.50%) Finance
4 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.95%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.82%) Automotive
7 5 (5.68%) Banking
7 5 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.55%) Retail
8 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.41%) Billing
9 3 (3.41%) Marketing
10 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.27%) French Language
11 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (40.91%) Developer
2 13 (14.77%) Architect
3 10 (11.36%) Java Developer
4 9 (10.23%) Lead
5 6 (6.82%) Consultant
5 6 (6.82%) Project Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Project Leader
6 5 (5.68%) Analyst
6 5 (5.68%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Scala Developer
7 4 (4.55%) Android Developer
7 4 (4.55%) AWS Developer
7 4 (4.55%) Integration Consultant
7 4 (4.55%) Python Developer
7 4 (4.55%) Senior
7 4 (4.55%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) .NET Developer
8 3 (3.41%) Lead Developer
8 3 (3.41%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.41%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.59%) RESTful
2 14 (15.91%) REST
3 13 (14.77%) SOAP
4 11 (12.50%) Kafka
5 9 (10.23%) .NET
5 9 (10.23%) Spring Boot
6 7 (7.95%) CSS
6 7 (7.95%) HTML
6 7 (7.95%) React
6 7 (7.95%) Spring
6 7 (7.95%) Web Services
7 6 (6.82%) Node.js
7 6 (6.82%) OAuth
8 5 (5.68%) Akka
8 5 (5.68%) GraphQL
8 5 (5.68%) Play Framework
8 5 (5.68%) PySpark
9 4 (4.55%) Android Jetpack
9 4 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (4.55%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.82%) Industry 4.0
1 6 (6.82%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 5 (5.68%) Mobile App
2 5 (5.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.41%) PKI
4 3 (3.41%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.27%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.27%) TM Forum
5 2 (2.27%) VSAM
5 2 (2.27%) Wiki
6 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Android
2 3 (3.41%) Linux
2 3 (3.41%) Unix
3 2 (2.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (43.18%) Agile
2 24 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (26.14%) CI/CD
4 21 (23.86%) Microservices
5 20 (22.73%) Analytics
6 16 (18.18%) DevOps
6 16 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 15 (17.05%) Data Modelling
7 15 (17.05%) ERP
8 13 (14.77%) API Development
8 13 (14.77%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (13.64%) Decision-Making
10 11 (12.50%) Integration Testing
10 11 (12.50%) Roadmaps
11 10 (11.36%) Code Quality
11 10 (11.36%) Computer Science
11 10 (11.36%) Project Management
11 10 (11.36%) TDD
12 9 (10.23%) SDLC
12 9 (10.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.00%) SQL
2 16 (18.18%) Java
3 14 (15.91%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.09%) C#
5 6 (6.82%) Python
6 5 (5.68%) Scala
7 4 (4.55%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.27%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.27%) COBOL
8 2 (2.27%) JCL
8 2 (2.27%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.27%) R
8 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.27%) VB
8 2 (2.27%) VBA
9 1 (1.14%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.14%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 10 (11.36%) Degree
2 9 (10.23%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (7.95%) Master's Degree
4 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.14%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.14%) OCP
7 1 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.14%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) Def Stans
1 6 (6.82%) QA
2 5 (5.68%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.41%) GDPR
4 2 (2.27%) WCAG
5 1 (1.14%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (1.14%) GRC
5 1 (1.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) MOM
2 5 (5.68%) Kibana
3 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (14.77%) SAP
2 11 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.82%) Rockwell
3 6 (6.82%) Siemens
3 6 (6.82%) VMware
4 5 (5.68%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.68%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.55%) Oracle
6 3 (3.41%) ForgeRock
6 3 (3.41%) Google
6 3 (3.41%) Ping Identity
7 2 (2.27%) Adobe
7 2 (2.27%) DocuSign
7 2 (2.27%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.27%) New Relic
7 2 (2.27%) UiPath
7 2 (2.27%) Workday
8 1 (1.14%) IBM
8 1 (1.14%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.14%) Splunk