API Integration Contracts with Work from Home Options

API Integration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 378 477
Rank change year-on-year +87 +99 -137
Contract jobs citing API Integration 52 88 152
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.36% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.40% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 70 107
10th Percentile £313 £430 £362
25th Percentile £431 £495 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £568 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +8.10% +16.67%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,003 22,075 40,116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.68% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,632 29,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 503 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.68 £20.43
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +35.21% +61.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

API Integration
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing API Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

API Integration trend for jobs with a WFH option

API Integration
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing API Integration.

API Integration daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing API Integration over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

API Integration daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (5.77%) Confluence
1 3 (5.77%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 1 (1.92%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) Azure
2 10 (19.23%) AWS
2 10 (19.23%) GCP
3 5 (9.62%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (9.62%) Kong
4 4 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.69%) Azure Functions
4 4 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.69%) GitHub
4 4 (7.69%) Serverless
5 3 (5.77%) Apigee
5 3 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (5.77%) Google App Engine
5 3 (5.77%) Power Automate
5 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.77%) PowerApps
5 3 (5.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) HTTP
2 6 (11.54%) Firewall
3 4 (7.69%) DNS
3 4 (7.69%) LAN
3 4 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 4 (7.69%) VPN
4 2 (3.85%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (3.85%) SSH
4 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.92%) 5G
5 1 (1.92%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.92%) DHCP
5 1 (1.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (1.92%) LTE
5 1 (1.92%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.92%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.92%) SSL
5 1 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) MySQL
1 7 (13.46%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.69%) BigQuery
3 3 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.92%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Git
2 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.69%) JIRA
3 3 (5.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (5.77%) CircleCI
3 3 (5.77%) GitLab
3 3 (5.77%) Selenium
3 3 (5.77%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Finance
3 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.62%) Marketing
5 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Electronics
5 4 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.77%) Retail
7 2 (3.85%) Banking
7 2 (3.85%) Front Office
8 1 (1.92%) Back Office
8 1 (1.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Developer
2 10 (19.23%) Architect
3 5 (9.62%) .NET Developer
3 5 (9.62%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Technical Support
4 4 (7.69%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Consultant
5 3 (5.77%) Full Stack Python Developer
5 3 (5.77%) Payments Architect
5 3 (5.77%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.77%) Python Developer
5 3 (5.77%) Salesforce Developer
5 3 (5.77%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (28.85%) RESTful
2 12 (23.08%) AngularJS
3 11 (21.15%) CSS
4 10 (19.23%) HTML
5 9 (17.31%) React
6 6 (11.54%) REST
7 5 (9.62%) .NET
7 5 (9.62%) Vue
8 4 (7.69%) JSON
8 4 (7.69%) Node.js
8 4 (7.69%) SAML
9 3 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (5.77%) OpenID
9 3 (5.77%) XML
9 3 (5.77%) YAML
10 2 (3.85%) CSS3
10 2 (3.85%) Express.js
10 2 (3.85%) HTML5
10 2 (3.85%) RxJS
10 2 (3.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.77%) Data Structures
1 3 (5.77%) Digital Wallet
1 3 (5.77%) Mainframe
1 3 (5.77%) Mobile Payment
1 3 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.92%) PKI
3 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Linux
1 2 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) API Development
2 14 (26.92%) DevOps
2 14 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (26.92%) User Experience
3 12 (23.08%) Agile
4 10 (19.23%) CI/CD
4 10 (19.23%) Full Stack Development
5 9 (17.31%) Microservices
6 7 (13.46%) Project Management
6 7 (13.46%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (13.46%) UX Design
7 6 (11.54%) Code Quality
7 6 (11.54%) Scrum
7 6 (11.54%) Workflow
8 5 (9.62%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (9.62%) Containerisation
8 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (9.62%) Database Optimisation
8 5 (9.62%) Use Case
8 5 (9.62%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.85%) Python
2 13 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (17.31%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.54%) Java
5 5 (9.62%) SQL
5 5 (9.62%) TypeScript
6 4 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (5.77%) Bash
8 2 (3.85%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.92%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.92%) Go
9 1 (1.92%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) QA
2 6 (11.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Docker
2 4 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (11.54%) Ansible
2 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.69%) Terraform
4 3 (5.77%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (5.77%) Grafana
4 3 (5.77%) Kibana
4 3 (5.77%) logstash
4 3 (5.77%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.77%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.77%) Puppet
4 3 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (5.77%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) Google
2 5 (9.62%) SAP
2 5 (9.62%) ServiceNow
3 4 (7.69%) Cisco
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.69%) Oracle
3 4 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.77%) CheckPoint
4 3 (5.77%) CyberArk
4 3 (5.77%) MuleSoft
4 3 (5.77%) Sage
4 3 (5.77%) Splunk
5 2 (3.85%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (3.85%) CODA
6 1 (1.92%) F5
6 1 (1.92%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.92%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud