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 23 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 399 427
Rank change year-on-year +49 +28 -55
Contract jobs citing API Integration 51 31 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.15% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 25 58
10th Percentile £358 £370 £343
25th Percentile £390 £450 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £631 £600 £619
90th Percentile £650 £640 £708
UK median daily rate £506 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -15.63% +9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £41.48
25th Percentile - - £43.31
Median hourly rate - - £47.75
75th Percentile - - £53.31
90th Percentile - - £55.83
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +31 20 £505 -14.04% 12
Yorkshire - 10 £625 - 5
North West +18 9 £400 -31.91% 7
South East +13 9 £650 +30.00% 14
South West +8 8 £388 -21.72% 3
East of England +9 7 £375 -21.05% 3
Midlands +20 6 £500 +15.94% 8
West Midlands +19 4 £500 +15.94% 2
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 6
Scotland +46 1 £325 -36.59% 4
Wales +20 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £525 -
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 10 (19.61%) Confluence
2 3 (5.88%) Mendix
2 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.92%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.96%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 19 (37.25%) Azure
2 13 (25.49%) GCP
3 11 (21.57%) AWS
4 9 (17.65%) GitHub
4 9 (17.65%) Kong
5 7 (13.73%) Azure Functions
5 7 (13.73%) Serverless
6 6 (11.76%) Apigee
6 6 (11.76%) Power Automate
6 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
6 6 (11.76%) PowerApps
7 5 (9.80%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (7.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (3.92%) Google App Engine
10 2 (3.92%) Stripe
11 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.53%) HTTP
2 10 (19.61%) DNS
2 10 (19.61%) TCP/IP
2 10 (19.61%) VPN
3 9 (17.65%) Firewall
4 3 (5.88%) BIG-IP
4 3 (5.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (5.88%) SSL
5 1 (1.96%) 5G
5 1 (1.96%) DHCP
5 1 (1.96%) LTE
5 1 (1.96%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (7.84%) NoSQL
2 4 (7.84%) Power BI
3 3 (5.88%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.96%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (31.37%) Git
2 14 (27.45%) JIRA
3 11 (21.57%) GitLab
4 10 (19.61%) Jenkins
5 9 (17.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (17.65%) CircleCI
5 9 (17.65%) Travis CI
6 4 (7.84%) Postman
6 4 (7.84%) Selenium
7 2 (3.92%) VersionOne
8 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Front Office
5 1 (1.96%) Aviation
5 1 (1.96%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Games
5 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.96%) Publishing
5 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (52.94%) Developer
2 12 (23.53%) Full Stack Developer
3 6 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Power Platform Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Senior
4 5 (9.80%) Senior Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Full Stack Python Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Python Developer
5 3 (5.88%) React Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Security Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Lead
6 2 (3.92%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.92%) Scrum Master
6 2 (3.92%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (31.37%) CSS
1 16 (31.37%) HTML
1 16 (31.37%) React
2 13 (25.49%) AngularJS
3 10 (19.61%) HTML5
3 10 (19.61%) JSON
3 10 (19.61%) REST
3 10 (19.61%) YAML
4 9 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (17.65%) XML
5 6 (11.76%) Angular 2
5 6 (11.76%) Java Concurrency
5 6 (11.76%) Spring
5 6 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 6 (11.76%) Spring MVC
6 4 (7.84%) OAuth
6 4 (7.84%) RESTful
7 3 (5.88%) .NET
7 3 (5.88%) Node.js
7 3 (5.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Data Structures
2 6 (11.76%) Mobile App
3 5 (9.80%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (39.22%) Agile
2 18 (35.29%) Scrum
3 17 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 15 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (27.45%) Project Management
6 13 (25.49%) DevOps
6 13 (25.49%) Full Stack Development
7 12 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (21.57%) Containerisation
8 11 (21.57%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (19.61%) Collaborative Working
9 10 (19.61%) Continuous Deployment
9 10 (19.61%) Workflow
10 9 (17.65%) DevSecOps
10 9 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (17.65%) Secure Coding
10 9 (17.65%) Task Automation
10 9 (17.65%) Use Case
11 8 (15.69%) API Development
11 8 (15.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (31.37%) Python
2 15 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 13 (25.49%) TypeScript
4 10 (19.61%) Java
4 10 (19.61%) PowerShell
5 9 (17.65%) Bash
6 4 (7.84%) SQL
7 3 (5.88%) ActionScript
8 2 (3.92%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.96%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.96%) C#
9 1 (1.96%) Go
9 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.84%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.88%) PMI Certification
2 3 (5.88%) PMP
3 2 (3.92%) CISM
3 2 (3.92%) CISSP
3 2 (3.92%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (3.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.57%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (23.53%) Docker
2 3 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (21.57%) Kubernetes
2 10 (19.61%) Ansible
3 9 (17.65%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (17.65%) Grafana
3 9 (17.65%) Kibana
3 9 (17.65%) logstash
3 9 (17.65%) Progress Chef
3 9 (17.65%) Prometheus
3 9 (17.65%) Puppet
3 9 (17.65%) Terraform
4 1 (1.96%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) Splunk
2 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.80%) Salesforce
4 4 (7.84%) Google
4 4 (7.84%) OutSystems
5 3 (5.88%) F5
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle
7 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.96%) CODA
7 1 (1.96%) IBM
7 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.96%) Sage
7 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.96%) UiPath
7 1 (1.96%) Workday
7 1 (1.96%) Zuora