API Integration Contracts in England

API Integration
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 480 532
Rank change year-on-year +101 +52 -24
Contract jobs citing API Integration 135 109 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.27% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.31% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 96 182
10th Percentile £340 £366 £413
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £650 £725 £761
UK median daily rate £520 £531 £555
% change year-on-year -2.12% -4.28% +7.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 - £37.75

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,975 35,624 61,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 88.74% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,463 24,518 43,144
10th Percentile £313 £313 £339
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 1,490 1,588
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.00 £19.06 £17.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in England

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for API Integration in England

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Integration in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in England

API Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for API Integration in England

API Integration
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
London +51 78 £550 -4.35% 30
North of England +43 18 £500 -13.04% 21
Midlands +8 12 £450 +5.88% 8
South East +44 10 £638 +15.91% 13
North West +33 9 £386 -44.62% 15
East of England +26 8 £360 -20.00% 7
Yorkshire +21 7 £525 -8.70% 3
East Midlands +10 7 £450 -24.37% 3
South West +25 5 £420 -22.76% 1
West Midlands +1 5 £500 +17.65% 5
North East - 2 £538 - 3
API Integration
UK

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 13 (9.63%) Confluence
3 5 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.22%) CMS
5 3 (2.22%) Mendix
6 2 (1.48%) WordPress
7 1 (0.74%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle BPEL
7 1 (0.74%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (7.41%) Aladdin
2 9 (6.67%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (1.48%) Shopify
3 2 (1.48%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.74%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.74%) Quorum
4 1 (0.74%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.74%) TRIRIGA
4 1 (0.74%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 43 (31.85%) Azure
2 22 (16.30%) AWS
3 19 (14.07%) GitHub
4 14 (10.37%) SaaS
5 13 (9.63%) GCP
6 12 (8.89%) Power Platform
6 12 (8.89%) Serverless
7 11 (8.15%) PaaS
8 10 (7.41%) Azure Functions
8 10 (7.41%) IaaS
9 9 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (6.67%) PowerApps
10 7 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.19%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (5.19%) Nutanix
11 6 (4.44%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.44%) Power Automate
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.37%) DNS
2 13 (9.63%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.44%) Kerberos
4 4 (2.96%) SSL
4 4 (2.96%) VPN
5 3 (2.22%) BIG-IP
5 3 (2.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (2.22%) Firewall
5 3 (2.22%) HTTP
5 3 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.48%) Intranet
7 1 (0.74%) 5G
7 1 (0.74%) DHCP
7 1 (0.74%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.74%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.74%) LTE
7 1 (0.74%) Network Security
7 1 (0.74%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.93%) NoSQL
2 7 (5.19%) MongoDB
2 7 (5.19%) MySQL
2 7 (5.19%) Power BI
3 6 (4.44%) Big Data
3 6 (4.44%) Hadoop
3 6 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.96%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.48%) Metadata
6 2 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.74%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (20.74%) Git
2 15 (11.11%) JIRA
3 10 (7.41%) GitLab
3 10 (7.41%) Subversion
3 10 (7.41%) TeamCity
4 6 (4.44%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.70%) Android Studio
6 4 (2.96%) Postman
7 3 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.22%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.22%) JUnit
7 3 (2.22%) Mocha
7 3 (2.22%) Selenium
7 3 (2.22%) Travis CI
7 3 (2.22%) Xcode
8 2 (1.48%) Balsamiq
8 2 (1.48%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.48%) webpack
9 1 (0.74%) Babel
9 1 (0.74%) git-flow
General
1 38 (28.15%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.26%) Finance
3 15 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.93%) Banking
5 7 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.96%) Marketing
8 3 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.48%) Publishing
10 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.74%) Billing
10 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (55.56%) Developer
2 14 (10.37%) Architect
3 13 (9.63%) Senior
4 10 (7.41%) Senior Developer
5 8 (5.93%) .NET Developer
5 8 (5.93%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (4.44%) React Developer
6 6 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.70%) Administrator
7 5 (3.70%) Lead
7 5 (3.70%) Linux Administrator
7 5 (3.70%) PHP Developer
7 5 (3.70%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 5 (3.70%) Power Platform Developer
7 5 (3.70%) Python Developer
7 5 (3.70%) Scala Developer
7 5 (3.70%) Software Engineer
8 4 (2.96%) Android Developer
8 4 (2.96%) Big Data Architect
8 4 (2.96%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (19.26%) REST
2 24 (17.78%) React
3 23 (17.04%) .NET
4 18 (13.33%) RESTful
5 16 (11.85%) CSS
6 15 (11.11%) HTML
7 13 (9.63%) AngularJS
7 13 (9.63%) XML
8 11 (8.15%) JSON
8 11 (8.15%) SOAP
9 8 (5.93%) HTML5
9 8 (5.93%) Web Services
10 6 (4.44%) LDAP
10 6 (4.44%) YAML
11 5 (3.70%) Akka
11 5 (3.70%) Laravel
11 5 (3.70%) OAuth
11 5 (3.70%) Play Framework
11 5 (3.70%) Vue
12 4 (2.96%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.89%) Mobile App
2 11 (8.15%) Clustering
3 10 (7.41%) Replication
4 5 (3.70%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.96%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.48%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.48%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.48%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.48%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (1.48%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.48%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.48%) Web3
7 1 (0.74%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.74%) PMI
7 1 (0.74%) PropTech
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.07%) Linux
2 9 (6.67%) Solaris
3 8 (5.93%) Android
4 5 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.70%) Unix
5 3 (2.22%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.48%) Windows
6 2 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (28.89%) CI/CD
2 32 (23.70%) Agile
3 29 (21.48%) DevOps
4 28 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (15.56%) User Experience
6 18 (13.33%) API Development
7 15 (11.11%) Scrum
8 13 (9.63%) High Availability
8 13 (9.63%) Microservices
9 12 (8.89%) Project Delivery
9 12 (8.89%) Test Automation
10 11 (8.15%) Analytics
10 11 (8.15%) Asset Management
10 11 (8.15%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (8.15%) Data Security
10 11 (8.15%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (8.15%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (7.41%) Security Hardening
11 10 (7.41%) Software Engineering
11 10 (7.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 39 (28.89%) Python
2 28 (20.74%) JavaScript
3 27 (20.00%) Java
4 25 (18.52%) SQL
5 19 (14.07%) PowerShell
6 18 (13.33%) C#
7 12 (8.89%) Bash
8 9 (6.67%) Perl
8 9 (6.67%) TypeScript
9 7 (5.19%) PHP
10 6 (4.44%) Kotlin
10 6 (4.44%) Scala
11 3 (2.22%) ActionScript
11 3 (2.22%) Bicep
11 3 (2.22%) C
12 2 (1.48%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.48%) Ruby
12 2 (1.48%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.48%) VBA
13 1 (0.74%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 9 (6.67%) Degree
2 5 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.11%) QA
2 11 (8.15%) GDPR
3 9 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.96%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.48%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.74%) GRC
7 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.93%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (5.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.19%) Docker
3 7 (5.19%) NFS
3 7 (5.19%) Veritas File System
3 7 (5.19%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 14 (10.37%) Ansible
2 10 (7.41%) QRadar
3 9 (6.67%) Kibana
3 9 (6.67%) Red Hat Satellite
4 7 (5.19%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (5.19%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.19%) Tivoli
4 7 (5.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 6 (4.44%) Control-M
5 6 (4.44%) Netcool
6 4 (2.96%) logstash
6 4 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (2.22%) Grafana
7 3 (2.22%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.22%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.22%) Puppet
7 3 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (16.30%) Oracle
2 15 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.63%) Splunk
4 10 (7.41%) CyberArk
4 10 (7.41%) Qualys
5 9 (6.67%) IBM
5 9 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 9 (6.67%) SimCorp
6 8 (5.93%) VMware
7 7 (5.19%) EMC
7 7 (5.19%) SaltStack
8 6 (4.44%) BMC
9 5 (3.70%) MuleSoft
9 5 (3.70%) SAP
10 4 (2.96%) Google
10 4 (2.96%) OutSystems
11 3 (2.22%) F5
11 3 (2.22%) Salesforce
11 3 (2.22%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.22%) Workday