API Integration Contracts in the West Midlands

API Integration
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 109 129
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 +45
Contract jobs citing API Integration 4 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.25% 0.20% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.24% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £462 £440 £291
25th Percentile £476 £463 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £431
Median % change year-on-year - +15.94% -4.17%
75th Percentile £538 - £517
90th Percentile £560 - £567
England median daily rate £500 £514 £588
% change year-on-year -2.72% -12.51% +8.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,422 1,650 1,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.71% 80.68% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 1,099 1,349
10th Percentile £208 £263 £263
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 108 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.28 £19.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -24.75% +44.29%
75th Percentile £33.35 £37.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.00 £51.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing API Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in the West Midlands

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for API Integration in the West Midlands

API Integration
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 2
Birmingham +4 1 £455 -9.00% 7
Warwickshire - 1 £500 -
API Integration
England

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CodeCommit
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Boomi
2 2 (50.00%) OCI
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Django
1 2 (50.00%) MACH
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) API Development
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) R
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft