API Integration Contracts in the UK excluding London

API Integration
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 408 419
Rank change year-on-year +60 +11 -50
Contract jobs citing API Integration 43 36 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.16% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.18% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 30 60
10th Percentile £363 £370 £350
25th Percentile £390 £453 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £630
90th Percentile £650 £628 £703
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £547
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.79% +15.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £41.48
25th Percentile - - £43.31
Median hourly rate - - £47.75
75th Percentile - - £53.31
90th Percentile - - £55.83
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,047 20,460 27,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.14% 89.36% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,194 14,069 18,950
10th Percentile £250 £260 £237
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year - +3.73% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,072 1,252 1,360
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.29 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing API Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in the UK excluding London

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Integration in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for API Integration in the UK excluding London

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Integration in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in the UK excluding London

API Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Integration in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for API Integration in the UK excluding London

API Integration
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
North of England +46 19 £485 -7.62% 28
Yorkshire - 10 £625 - 10
North West +22 9 £400 -23.81% 16
South East +12 9 £650 +30.00% 11
East of England +13 6 £375 -21.05% 2
South West +12 5 £400 -27.27% 7
Midlands +25 3 £500 +15.94% 12
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 6
Scotland +37 1 £325 -36.59% 5
Wales +21 1 - - 4
West Midlands +21 1 £450 +4.35% 6
API Integration
UK

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (23.26%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (37.21%) Azure
2 13 (30.23%) GCP
3 10 (23.26%) AWS
4 9 (20.93%) GitHub
4 9 (20.93%) Kong
5 6 (13.95%) Apigee
6 4 (9.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (9.30%) Azure Functions
6 4 (9.30%) Serverless
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (6.98%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.98%) Power Automate
7 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.98%) PowerApps
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.65%) Google App Engine
8 2 (4.65%) Stripe
9 1 (2.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (27.91%) HTTP
2 10 (23.26%) DNS
2 10 (23.26%) TCP/IP
2 10 (23.26%) VPN
3 9 (20.93%) Firewall
4 3 (6.98%) BIG-IP
4 3 (6.98%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (6.98%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (6.98%) SSL
5 1 (2.33%) 5G
5 1 (2.33%) DHCP
5 1 (2.33%) LTE
5 1 (2.33%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (6.98%) BigQuery
2 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.98%) Power BI
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.33%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 15 (34.88%) Git
2 14 (32.56%) JIRA
3 11 (25.58%) GitLab
4 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
5 9 (20.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (20.93%) CircleCI
5 9 (20.93%) Travis CI
6 3 (6.98%) Selenium
7 2 (4.65%) VersionOne
8 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.33%) Postman
8 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Finance
3 3 (6.98%) Front Office
4 1 (2.33%) Aviation
4 1 (2.33%) Banking
4 1 (2.33%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (2.33%) Games
4 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.33%) Publishing
4 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) Developer
2 12 (27.91%) Full Stack Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Full Stack Python Developer
4 3 (6.98%) Power Platform Developer
4 3 (6.98%) Python Developer
4 3 (6.98%) Security Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.65%) React Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Scrum Master
5 2 (4.65%) Senior
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Umbraco Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.23%) CSS
1 13 (30.23%) HTML
2 12 (27.91%) React
3 11 (25.58%) AngularJS
4 10 (23.26%) JSON
4 10 (23.26%) REST
4 10 (23.26%) YAML
5 9 (20.93%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (20.93%) XML
6 7 (16.28%) HTML5
7 6 (13.95%) Angular 2
7 6 (13.95%) Java Concurrency
7 6 (13.95%) Spring
7 6 (13.95%) Spring Boot
7 6 (13.95%) Spring MVC
8 3 (6.98%) Node.js
8 3 (6.98%) RESTful
9 2 (4.65%) .NET
9 2 (4.65%) GraphQL
9 2 (4.65%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Agile
1 17 (39.53%) CI/CD
2 15 (34.88%) Scrum
3 14 (32.56%) Project Management
4 13 (30.23%) DevOps
4 13 (30.23%) Full Stack Development
4 13 (30.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (25.58%) Containerisation
6 11 (25.58%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (23.26%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (23.26%) Continuous Deployment
7 10 (23.26%) Workflow
8 9 (20.93%) API Development
8 9 (20.93%) DevSecOps
8 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (20.93%) Secure Coding
8 9 (20.93%) Task Automation
8 9 (20.93%) Use Case
9 6 (13.95%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) Python
2 12 (27.91%) JavaScript
3 10 (23.26%) TypeScript
4 9 (20.93%) Bash
4 9 (20.93%) Java
4 9 (20.93%) PowerShell
5 4 (9.30%) SQL
6 3 (6.98%) ActionScript
7 2 (4.65%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (2.33%) Go
8 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) PMI Certification
2 3 (6.98%) PMP
3 2 (4.65%) CISM
3 2 (4.65%) CISSP
3 2 (4.65%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.93%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (25.58%) Kubernetes
2 10 (23.26%) Ansible
3 9 (20.93%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (20.93%) Grafana
3 9 (20.93%) Kibana
3 9 (20.93%) logstash
3 9 (20.93%) Progress Chef
3 9 (20.93%) Prometheus
3 9 (20.93%) Puppet
3 9 (20.93%) Terraform
4 1 (2.33%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Splunk
2 4 (9.30%) Google
2 4 (9.30%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.98%) F5
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle
5 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.33%) CODA
5 1 (2.33%) IBM
5 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.33%) Sage
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) Zuora