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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 334 398
Rank change year-on-year +59 +64 +52
Contract jobs citing API Integration 87 55 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.27% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.33% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 42 28
10th Percentile £354 £338 £370
25th Percentile £410 £369 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £535 £634 £600
90th Percentile £632 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £506 £575
% change year-on-year -1.23% -11.96% +6.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.72 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +68.67% - -

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 13,272 16,878 20,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.25% 82.90% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,026 10,042 13,836
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £367 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,223 1,950 1,258
10th Percentile £13.82 £12.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.99 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £38.20 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.16% -4.51% +86.05%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.96 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £75.99
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
% change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.81%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +16 31 £430 -14.85% 55
North West +19 21 £446 +11.56% 27
South East +43 19 £475 -26.92% 55
Midlands +10 19 £463 -7.50% 32
East Midlands +14 15 £463 +10.12% 13
Yorkshire -6 8 £425 -32.00% 21
Scotland +3 7 £500 +53.85% 14
East of England +10 6 £675 +80.00% 29
South West +37 5 £563 +45.16% 23
West Midlands +5 4 £478 -4.50% 17
North East -2 2 £459 -12.62% 7
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 4 (4.60%) Confluence
2 3 (3.45%) CMS
3 2 (2.30%) Camunda
3 2 (2.30%) CICS
4 1 (1.15%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.15%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.15%) JBoss
4 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.15%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.15%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.15%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 25 (28.74%) Azure
2 16 (18.39%) AWS
3 8 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (9.20%) GCP
4 6 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.75%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (5.75%) SaaS
5 5 (5.75%) Serverless
6 4 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.45%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.45%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (2.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) HTTPS
2 3 (3.45%) Firewall
3 2 (2.30%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.30%) WAN
4 1 (1.15%) HTTP
4 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) MongoDB
2 7 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.90%) Power BI
3 6 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.60%) MySQL
5 2 (2.30%) Easytrieve
5 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.15%) DataStage
6 1 (1.15%) DB2
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.15%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.15%) Power Query
6 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (16.09%) Git
2 4 (4.60%) Bitbucket
2 4 (4.60%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.60%) JIRA
3 3 (3.45%) GitLab
4 2 (2.30%) Android Studio
4 2 (2.30%) JUnit
4 2 (2.30%) Postman
4 2 (2.30%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.15%) Appium
5 1 (1.15%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.15%) Grunt
5 1 (1.15%) gulp
5 1 (1.15%) Maven
5 1 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.15%) Storybook
5 1 (1.15%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.09%) Finance
2 14 (16.09%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.05%) Banking
5 4 (4.60%) Marketing
5 4 (4.60%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.45%) Retail
7 2 (2.30%) Billing
7 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 35 (40.23%) Developer
2 15 (17.24%) Architect
3 11 (12.64%) Lead
4 8 (9.20%) Android Developer
4 8 (9.20%) Consultant
4 8 (9.20%) Senior
5 7 (8.05%) Analyst
5 7 (8.05%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.90%) Project Engineer
6 6 (6.90%) Project Leader
6 6 (6.90%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.60%) AWS Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.60%) Integration Consultant
7 4 (4.60%) Python Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Salesforce Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) BSS Architect
8 3 (3.45%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Senior Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.69%) RESTful
2 12 (13.79%) REST
3 11 (12.64%) SOAP
4 10 (11.49%) Kafka
5 8 (9.20%) Android Jetpack
5 8 (9.20%) Jetpack Compose
6 7 (8.05%) .NET
6 7 (8.05%) HTML
6 7 (8.05%) React
6 7 (8.05%) Spring Boot
7 6 (6.90%) CSS
7 6 (6.90%) GraphQL
7 6 (6.90%) OAuth
7 6 (6.90%) Spring
7 6 (6.90%) Web Services
8 5 (5.75%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (4.60%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.60%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (4.60%) Node.js
9 4 (4.60%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Mobile App
2 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.45%) PKI
2 3 (3.45%) Taxonomies
3 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.30%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.30%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.30%) TM Forum
3 2 (2.30%) VSAM
3 2 (2.30%) Wiki
4 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.15%) NHS
4 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.20%) Android
2 4 (4.60%) Linux
3 3 (3.45%) Unix
4 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.30%) zOS
5 1 (1.15%) AIX
5 1 (1.15%) Solaris
5 1 (1.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.18%) Agile
2 25 (28.74%) CI/CD
2 25 (28.74%) DevOps
3 15 (17.24%) Analytics
4 14 (16.09%) Microservices
4 14 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (14.94%) Scrum
6 12 (13.79%) Integration Testing
7 11 (12.64%) Mentoring
8 10 (11.49%) CRM
9 9 (10.34%) API Development
9 9 (10.34%) Code Quality
9 9 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (9.20%) Android Development
10 8 (9.20%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (9.20%) TDD
10 8 (9.20%) Test Automation
10 8 (9.20%) Unit Testing
11 7 (8.05%) Data Management
11 7 (8.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.39%) SQL
2 14 (16.09%) Java
3 13 (14.94%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.20%) Kotlin
4 8 (9.20%) Python
5 7 (8.05%) C#
6 5 (5.75%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.30%) COBOL
7 2 (2.30%) JCL
7 2 (2.30%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.15%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.15%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.15%) Perl
8 1 (1.15%) PHP
8 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.15%) R
8 1 (1.15%) Scala
8 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.75%) Degree
4 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.15%) MCP
5 1 (1.15%) OCP
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.15%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) Def Stans
2 5 (5.75%) QA
3 4 (4.60%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.45%) GDPR
5 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (1.15%) GRC
5 1 (1.15%) NCSC
5 1 (1.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (8.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.60%) Docker
3 1 (1.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.30%) Kibana
4 1 (1.15%) Ansible
4 1 (1.15%) CloudHub
4 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.34%) Salesforce
3 7 (8.05%) VMware
4 6 (6.90%) SAP
5 5 (5.75%) Google
6 4 (4.60%) MuleSoft
6 4 (4.60%) Oracle
7 3 (3.45%) ForgeRock
7 3 (3.45%) Ping Identity
7 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.30%) IBM
8 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (2.30%) Splunk
8 2 (2.30%) Workday
9 1 (1.15%) Adobe
9 1 (1.15%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.15%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (1.15%) Perforce
9 1 (1.15%) Sitecore