API Integration Contracts in England

API Integration
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 497 572
Rank change year-on-year +61 +75 -134
Contract jobs citing API Integration 107 141 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.33% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 104 160
10th Percentile £363 £372 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £702 £666
90th Percentile £650 £768 £725
UK median daily rate £506 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -15.63% +9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £32.15
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £48.50
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

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 May 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 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
London +40 57 £520 -13.33% 45
North of England +39 19 £485 -17.45% 26
Yorkshire - 10 £625 - 13
North West +22 9 £400 -31.91% 11
South East +9 9 £650 +30.00% 14
South West +12 6 £388 -29.55% 6
East of England +11 6 £375 -21.05% 4
Midlands +22 3 £500 +15.94% 11
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 6
West Midlands +14 1 £450 +4.35% 5
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 10 (9.35%) Confluence
2 3 (2.80%) CMS
2 3 (2.80%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.87%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.93%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.93%) Mendix
4 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Aladdin
1 6 (5.61%) SimCorp Dimension
2 3 (2.80%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.87%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.93%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.93%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 31 (28.97%) Azure
2 21 (19.63%) AWS
3 17 (15.89%) GCP
4 11 (10.28%) Kong
5 10 (9.35%) GitHub
6 7 (6.54%) Apigee
7 6 (5.61%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (5.61%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.61%) Power Automate
7 6 (5.61%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.61%) PowerApps
7 6 (5.61%) Serverless
8 5 (4.67%) Azure Functions
9 4 (3.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.74%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (3.74%) Google App Engine
10 3 (2.80%) PaaS
10 3 (2.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.15%) HTTP
2 11 (10.28%) Firewall
3 10 (9.35%) DNS
3 10 (9.35%) TCP/IP
3 10 (9.35%) VPN
4 3 (2.80%) BIG-IP
4 3 (2.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (2.80%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (2.80%) SSL
5 2 (1.87%) SSH
6 1 (0.93%) 5G
6 1 (0.93%) DHCP
6 1 (0.93%) LTE
6 1 (0.93%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.41%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (5.61%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.67%) Power BI
4 4 (3.74%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.80%) MySQL
5 3 (2.80%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.87%) Big Data
6 2 (1.87%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.87%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.93%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.93%) Parquet
7 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (17.76%) Git
2 15 (14.02%) GitLab
2 15 (14.02%) JIRA
3 12 (11.21%) Jenkins
4 9 (8.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (8.41%) CircleCI
4 9 (8.41%) Travis CI
5 4 (3.74%) Selenium
6 3 (2.80%) Postman
7 2 (1.87%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.87%) VersionOne
7 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.93%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.93%) JUnit
8 1 (0.93%) Mocha
8 1 (0.93%) Mockito
8 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.93%) Xcode
General
1 28 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.82%) Finance
3 15 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.48%) Banking
5 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.61%) Marketing
7 4 (3.74%) Front Office
8 3 (2.80%) Electronics
8 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Aviation
10 1 (0.93%) Back Office
10 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Games
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Publishing
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (52.34%) Developer
2 17 (15.89%) Full Stack Developer
3 14 (13.08%) Architect
4 8 (7.48%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (7.48%) Senior
4 8 (7.48%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Senior Developer
6 6 (5.61%) .NET Developer
6 6 (5.61%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Salesforce Developer
7 5 (4.67%) Power Platform Developer
7 5 (4.67%) React Developer
7 5 (4.67%) ServiceNow Developer
8 4 (3.74%) Lead
8 4 (3.74%) Python Developer
9 3 (2.80%) Java Developer
9 3 (2.80%) Security Engineer
9 3 (2.80%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.80%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (23.36%) CSS
2 23 (21.50%) HTML
3 21 (19.63%) REST
4 20 (18.69%) React
5 16 (14.95%) RESTful
6 15 (14.02%) .NET
6 15 (14.02%) AngularJS
7 14 (13.08%) JSON
8 11 (10.28%) HTML5
9 10 (9.35%) XML
9 10 (9.35%) YAML
10 9 (8.41%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (7.48%) Spring Boot
12 7 (6.54%) Angular 2
12 7 (6.54%) Java Concurrency
12 7 (6.54%) Spring
12 7 (6.54%) Spring MVC
13 6 (5.61%) Node.js
14 5 (4.67%) Express.js
15 4 (3.74%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.41%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.74%) Mainframe
3 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.80%) Digital Wallet
3 3 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.80%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.80%) Mobile Payment
3 3 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.93%) PKI
5 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.93%) Replication
5 1 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (0.93%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.21%) Linux
2 2 (1.87%) Windows
3 1 (0.93%) Android
3 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.93%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (27.10%) Agile
2 27 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (24.30%) CI/CD
4 22 (20.56%) DevOps
5 21 (19.63%) Scrum
6 20 (18.69%) API Development
7 19 (17.76%) Full Stack Development
8 16 (14.95%) Microservices
9 14 (13.08%) Project Management
9 14 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (12.15%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (11.21%) Containerisation
12 11 (10.28%) Collaborative Working
12 11 (10.28%) Continuous Deployment
12 11 (10.28%) Use Case
12 11 (10.28%) User Experience
13 10 (9.35%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (9.35%) Task Automation
13 10 (9.35%) Workflow
14 9 (8.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.10%) Python
2 26 (24.30%) JavaScript
3 24 (22.43%) SQL
4 21 (19.63%) PowerShell
5 16 (14.95%) Java
5 16 (14.95%) TypeScript
6 9 (8.41%) Bash
7 6 (5.61%) C#
8 5 (4.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.80%) ActionScript
9 3 (2.80%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.87%) Go
10 2 (1.87%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.87%) SOQL
11 1 (0.93%) COBOL
11 1 (0.93%) PHP
11 1 (0.93%) Rust
11 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (11.21%) SC Cleared
1 12 (11.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.61%) Degree
3 4 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.80%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.80%) PMP
5 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.87%) CISM
5 2 (1.87%) CISSP
5 2 (1.87%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) QA
2 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (13.08%) Docker
2 6 (5.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (12.15%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.28%) Ansible
3 10 (9.35%) Terraform
4 9 (8.41%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (8.41%) Grafana
4 9 (8.41%) Kibana
4 9 (8.41%) logstash
4 9 (8.41%) Progress Chef
4 9 (8.41%) Prometheus
4 9 (8.41%) Puppet
5 5 (4.67%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.93%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 13 (12.15%) Oracle
2 10 (9.35%) Salesforce
2 10 (9.35%) Splunk
3 7 (6.54%) Google
3 7 (6.54%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.61%) SimCorp
5 5 (4.67%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.74%) CyberArk
6 4 (3.74%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.80%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.80%) F5
7 3 (2.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (2.80%) SAP
8 2 (1.87%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (1.87%) IBM
8 2 (1.87%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.93%) CODA
9 1 (0.93%) Sage
9 1 (0.93%) Sitecore