Hybrid/Remote API Integration Contract Job Trends

API Integration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring API Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 261 319
Rank change year-on-year +75 +58 +74
Contract jobs citing API Integration 124 64 54
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 0.54% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.61% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 43 46
10th Percentile £381 £326 £216
25th Percentile £424 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £548 £575
90th Percentile £670 £598 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
Median hourly rate £119.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +83.08% - -
UK median hourly rate £119.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year +83.08% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,254 10,475 15,370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.04% 88.94% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,117 6,583 10,495
10th Percentile £330 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 216 369
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.43 £22.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.14 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -29.92% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.07
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Integration and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

API Integration job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

API Integration
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing API Integration.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing API Integration

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing API Integration over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

API Integration daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

API Integration
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing API Integration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing API Integration

API Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.65%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (5.65%) SugarCRM
2 6 (4.84%) Apache
2 6 (4.84%) CMS
2 6 (4.84%) Confluence
3 4 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.61%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.61%) WordPress
5 1 (0.81%) Drupal
5 1 (0.81%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.81%) Mendix
5 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.81%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.42%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 49 (39.52%) Azure
2 43 (34.68%) AWS
3 13 (10.48%) GitHub
3 13 (10.48%) Power Platform
4 12 (9.68%) Serverless
5 11 (8.87%) GCP
6 10 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (7.26%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (5.65%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.84%) SaaS
9 6 (4.84%) Snowflake
10 5 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (4.03%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.42%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.42%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.42%) HTTP
2 2 (1.61%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.61%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.81%) MQTT
3 1 (0.81%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.90%) MySQL
2 12 (9.68%) Power BI
3 8 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.65%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.03%) Oracle Database
7 4 (3.23%) Big Data
7 4 (3.23%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.23%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.42%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.42%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.61%) DB2
9 2 (1.61%) Metadata
9 2 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.81%) Airbyte
10 1 (0.81%) Hasura
10 1 (0.81%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.81%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 31 (25.00%) Git
2 16 (12.90%) JIRA
3 6 (4.84%) GitLab
4 3 (2.42%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.42%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.61%) JUnit
5 2 (1.61%) Maven
5 2 (1.61%) SoapUI
5 2 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.81%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.81%) ERwin
6 1 (0.81%) MLflow
6 1 (0.81%) Postman
General
1 35 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.35%) Finance
3 19 (15.32%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.06%) Marketing
5 9 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.23%) Banking
7 2 (1.61%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.61%) Legal
7 2 (1.61%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.81%) Advertising
8 1 (0.81%) Back Office
8 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.81%) Front Office
8 1 (0.81%) Local Government
8 1 (0.81%) Military
8 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (42.74%) Developer
2 11 (8.87%) Architect
2 11 (8.87%) Senior
3 8 (6.45%) Data Engineer
3 8 (6.45%) Python Engineer
4 7 (5.65%) Consultant
4 7 (5.65%) Lead
4 7 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (4.84%) Senior Developer
6 5 (4.03%) C# Developer
7 4 (3.23%) Analyst
7 4 (3.23%) Business Consultant
7 4 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (3.23%) Lead Developer
7 4 (3.23%) PHP Developer
7 4 (3.23%) Software Engineer
7 4 (3.23%) System Design Authority
7 4 (3.23%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (27.42%) REST
2 23 (18.55%) HTML
3 21 (16.94%) CSS
4 18 (14.52%) SOAP
5 17 (13.71%) RESTful
6 16 (12.90%) React
7 12 (9.68%) OAuth
8 11 (8.87%) .NET
9 10 (8.06%) JSON
10 9 (7.26%) Middleware
11 8 (6.45%) GraphQL
11 8 (6.45%) Kafka
11 8 (6.45%) Vue
12 7 (5.65%) AngularJS
13 6 (4.84%) HTML5
13 6 (4.84%) OAuth2
13 6 (4.84%) OpenID
14 5 (4.03%) CSS3
14 5 (4.03%) Next.js
14 5 (4.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.26%) Onboarding
1 9 (7.26%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.65%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.03%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.42%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.42%) Blockchain
4 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.42%) IVR
4 3 (2.42%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.42%) Web3
5 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.61%) EPoS
5 2 (1.61%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.61%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.61%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.68%) Linux
2 4 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.23%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.42%) Android
3 3 (2.42%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.42%) Unix
4 2 (1.61%) AIX
4 2 (1.61%) Windows
5 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (37.10%) Agile
2 40 (32.26%) CI/CD
3 22 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (15.32%) DevOps
5 18 (14.52%) Containerisation
6 17 (13.71%) User Experience
7 13 (10.48%) API Design
7 13 (10.48%) Microservices
8 12 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (9.68%) Data Modelling
9 11 (8.87%) AI
9 11 (8.87%) Analytics
9 11 (8.87%) API Development
9 11 (8.87%) DevSecOps
9 11 (8.87%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (8.87%) MVC
10 10 (8.06%) Data Integration
10 10 (8.06%) Migration
10 10 (8.06%) Roadmaps
10 10 (8.06%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 29 (23.39%) JavaScript
2 27 (21.77%) SQL
3 23 (18.55%) Python
4 16 (12.90%) Java
4 16 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 14 (11.29%) PHP
6 12 (9.68%) C#
7 7 (5.65%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.03%) Apex Code
8 5 (4.03%) Go
9 4 (3.23%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.42%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.61%) Korn
11 2 (1.61%) Perl
11 2 (1.61%) Ruby
12 1 (0.81%) Bash
12 1 (0.81%) LotusScript
12 1 (0.81%) VB
12 1 (0.81%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.03%) Degree
4 4 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.42%) CISM
5 3 (2.42%) CISSP
6 2 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.61%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.61%) PMP
6 2 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.81%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.48%) QA
2 10 (8.06%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.65%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.84%) GDPR
5 5 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (3.23%) WCAG
7 3 (2.42%) NCSC
8 2 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (1.61%) Def Stans
8 2 (1.61%) SEPA
9 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.81%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (12.10%) Docker
2 10 (8.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 21 (16.94%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.65%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (3.23%) Grafana
3 4 (3.23%) SCOM
4 3 (2.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (2.42%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.61%) Terraform
6 1 (0.81%) Ansible
6 1 (0.81%) Cilium
6 1 (0.81%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.81%) Istio
6 1 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.81%) Podman
6 1 (0.81%) vRealize
6 1 (0.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (0.81%) yum
Vendors
1 20 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.26%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.65%) Google
3 7 (5.65%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.84%) Oracle
5 5 (4.03%) Databricks
6 4 (3.23%) Okta
6 4 (3.23%) VMware
7 3 (2.42%) Apple
7 3 (2.42%) Axway
7 3 (2.42%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.42%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.42%) webMethods
8 2 (1.61%) Adobe
8 2 (1.61%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.61%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.61%) Informatica
8 2 (1.61%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.61%) Tealium
8 2 (1.61%) UiPath