API Integration Contracts

API Integration
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 521 596
Rank change year-on-year +76 +75 -154
Contract jobs citing API Integration 135 194 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.34% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.38% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 141 179
10th Percentile £326 £413 £363
25th Percentile £394 £495 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £650
90th Percentile £650 £738 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £32.63
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £39.31
90th Percentile - - £49.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £47.75

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,590 50,902 79,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.76% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,576 35,243 55,751
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.92%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £639
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,484 1,677 1,876
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing API Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in the UK

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for API Integration in the UK

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Integration over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in the UK

API Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Integration.

Hourly rate trend for API Integration in the UK

API Integration
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England +75 106 £514 -14.33% 125
London +48 56 £520 -13.33% 55
Work from Home +85 52 £513 -14.58% 65
UK excluding London +69 44 £485 -5.37% 91
North of England +48 19 £485 -17.45% 30
Yorkshire - 10 £625 - 12
North West +30 9 £400 -31.91% 16
South East +13 9 £650 +30.00% 32
East of England +15 6 £375 -21.05% 4
South West +13 6 £388 -29.55% 6
Midlands +29 3 £500 +15.94% 12
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 7
Scotland +30 1 £325 -36.59% 5
West Midlands +14 1 £450 +4.35% 5
Wales +13 1 - - 4

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.41%) Confluence
2 4 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.22%) CMS
3 3 (2.22%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.48%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.74%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.74%) Mendix
5 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Aladdin
1 6 (4.44%) SimCorp Dimension
2 3 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.74%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.19%) Azure
2 27 (20.00%) AWS
3 19 (14.07%) GCP
4 11 (8.15%) Kong
5 10 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (7.41%) GitHub
5 10 (7.41%) Power Automate
5 10 (7.41%) Power Platform
5 10 (7.41%) PowerApps
6 7 (5.19%) Apigee
7 6 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (4.44%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.44%) Serverless
8 5 (3.70%) Azure Functions
9 4 (2.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.96%) Google App Engine
10 3 (2.22%) PaaS
10 3 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.37%) HTTP
2 12 (8.89%) Firewall
3 10 (7.41%) DNS
3 10 (7.41%) TCP/IP
3 10 (7.41%) VPN
4 4 (2.96%) LAN
5 3 (2.22%) BIG-IP
5 3 (2.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (2.22%) SSL
6 2 (1.48%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.48%) SSH
6 2 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.74%) 5G
7 1 (0.74%) DHCP
7 1 (0.74%) LTE
7 1 (0.74%) Network Security
7 1 (0.74%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (5.93%) MySQL
3 7 (5.19%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.44%) Power BI
5 5 (3.70%) BigQuery
5 5 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.22%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.48%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.74%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.74%) Parquet
8 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (13.33%) Git
2 15 (11.11%) GitLab
2 15 (11.11%) JIRA
3 12 (8.89%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (6.67%) CircleCI
4 9 (6.67%) Travis CI
5 3 (2.22%) Postman
5 3 (2.22%) Selenium
6 2 (1.48%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.48%) VersionOne
6 2 (1.48%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.74%) JUnit
7 1 (0.74%) Mockito
7 1 (0.74%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.78%) Finance
3 15 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.41%) Marketing
5 9 (6.67%) Banking
5 9 (6.67%) Electronics
5 9 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.96%) Front Office
7 4 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.22%) Retail
9 2 (1.48%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.74%) Aviation
10 1 (0.74%) Back Office
10 1 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Games
10 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (49.63%) Developer
2 17 (12.59%) Full Stack Developer
3 15 (11.11%) Architect
4 12 (8.89%) Senior
5 11 (8.15%) .NET Developer
6 9 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 8 (5.93%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.93%) Salesforce Developer
8 7 (5.19%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.44%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Cloud Developer
10 5 (3.70%) Lead
10 5 (3.70%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (3.70%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.70%) ServiceNow Developer
10 5 (3.70%) Support Engineer
11 4 (2.96%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (24.44%) CSS
2 31 (22.96%) HTML
3 24 (17.78%) AngularJS
3 24 (17.78%) React
3 24 (17.78%) RESTful
4 22 (16.30%) REST
5 19 (14.07%) .NET
6 14 (10.37%) JSON
7 11 (8.15%) HTML5
8 10 (7.41%) XML
8 10 (7.41%) YAML
9 9 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (5.93%) Spring Boot
11 7 (5.19%) Angular 2
11 7 (5.19%) Java Concurrency
11 7 (5.19%) JWT
11 7 (5.19%) Node.js
11 7 (5.19%) Spring
11 7 (5.19%) Spring MVC
12 5 (3.70%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.96%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.96%) Mainframe
4 4 (2.96%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.22%) Digital Wallet
5 3 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.22%) Mobile Payment
5 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.48%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.48%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.48%) Web3
7 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.74%) IoT
7 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.89%) Linux
2 2 (1.48%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (28.15%) Agile
2 35 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (22.96%) CI/CD
4 29 (21.48%) API Development
5 26 (19.26%) DevOps
6 25 (18.52%) Scrum
7 24 (17.78%) Full Stack Development
8 20 (14.81%) Microservices
8 20 (14.81%) Project Management
9 18 (13.33%) User Experience
10 15 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (10.37%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (10.37%) Workflow
12 13 (9.63%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (8.89%) Collaborative Working
13 12 (8.89%) Containerisation
14 11 (8.15%) Business Intelligence
14 11 (8.15%) Continuous Deployment
14 11 (8.15%) Use Case
15 10 (7.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.41%) JavaScript
2 29 (21.48%) Python
3 28 (20.74%) SQL
4 23 (17.04%) PowerShell
5 20 (14.81%) Java
6 18 (13.33%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.67%) Bash
8 7 (5.19%) C#
8 7 (5.19%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.96%) Scala
10 3 (2.22%) ActionScript
10 3 (2.22%) Apex Code
10 3 (2.22%) Go
11 2 (1.48%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.48%) SOQL
12 1 (0.74%) COBOL
12 1 (0.74%) PHP
12 1 (0.74%) Rust
12 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (9.63%) SC Cleared
1 13 (9.63%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.41%) Degree
3 8 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.22%) CISM
4 3 (2.22%) CISSP
4 3 (2.22%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.22%) PMP
5 2 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.74%) CCIE
6 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.33%) QA
2 6 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.74%) GDPR
4 1 (0.74%) NIST
4 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (10.37%) Docker
2 6 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 15 (11.11%) Terraform
2 13 (9.63%) Ansible
2 13 (9.63%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (6.67%) Grafana
4 9 (6.67%) Kibana
4 9 (6.67%) logstash
4 9 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 9 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 9 (6.67%) Puppet
5 3 (2.22%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.74%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 15 (11.11%) Oracle
2 13 (9.63%) Google
3 12 (8.89%) Salesforce
4 10 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 10 (7.41%) Splunk
5 9 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.19%) MuleSoft
7 6 (4.44%) SAP
7 6 (4.44%) SimCorp
8 5 (3.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (2.96%) Cisco
9 4 (2.96%) CyberArk
9 4 (2.96%) Okta
9 4 (2.96%) Roku
10 3 (2.22%) CheckPoint
10 3 (2.22%) F5
10 3 (2.22%) Sage
11 2 (1.48%) CODA
11 2 (1.48%) IBM
11 2 (1.48%) Virgin Media