API Integration Contracts

API Integration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 507 587
Rank change year-on-year +70 +80 -139
Contract jobs citing API Integration 148 191 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.38% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 137 185
10th Percentile £336 £420 £368
25th Percentile £402 £495 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £650
90th Percentile £650 £730 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £32.15
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £40.75
90th Percentile - - £50.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £47.75

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for API Integration in the UK

API Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for API Integration in the UK

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Integration over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in the UK

API Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for API Integration in the UK

API Integration
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +63 117 £520 -13.33% 108
London +38 60 £520 -13.33% 38
Work from Home +90 56 £519 -13.54% 55
UK excluding London +49 51 £500 - 73
North of England +31 20 £505 -14.04% 25
Yorkshire - 10 £625 - 14
North West +18 9 £400 -31.91% 10
South East +13 9 £650 +30.00% 18
South West +8 8 £388 -21.72% 7
East of England +9 7 £375 -21.05% 4
Midlands +20 6 £500 +15.94% 14
West Midlands +19 4 £500 +15.94% 7
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 7
Scotland +46 1 £325 -36.59% 7
Wales +20 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £525 - 1

API Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.76%) Confluence
2 6 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.03%) CMS
4 3 (2.03%) Mendix
4 3 (2.03%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.35%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.68%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (4.05%) Aladdin
1 6 (4.05%) SimCorp Dimension
2 3 (2.03%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.68%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.68%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (25.00%) Azure
2 28 (18.92%) AWS
3 19 (12.84%) GCP
4 13 (8.78%) Power Platform
5 12 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (8.11%) Power Automate
5 12 (8.11%) PowerApps
6 11 (7.43%) Kong
7 10 (6.76%) GitHub
8 8 (5.41%) Serverless
9 7 (4.73%) Apigee
9 7 (4.73%) Azure Functions
10 6 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (4.05%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.38%) Azure AI
11 5 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (2.70%) Google App Engine
13 3 (2.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.46%) HTTP
2 12 (8.11%) Firewall
3 10 (6.76%) DNS
3 10 (6.76%) TCP/IP
3 10 (6.76%) VPN
4 4 (2.70%) LAN
5 3 (2.03%) BIG-IP
5 3 (2.03%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (2.03%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (2.03%) SSL
6 2 (1.35%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.35%) SSH
6 2 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.68%) 5G
7 1 (0.68%) DHCP
7 1 (0.68%) LTE
7 1 (0.68%) Network Security
7 1 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.08%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (5.41%) MySQL
2 8 (5.41%) Power BI
3 7 (4.73%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.05%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.38%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.70%) Big Data
6 4 (2.70%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.03%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.03%) Tableau
8 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.68%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (12.84%) Git
2 15 (10.14%) GitLab
2 15 (10.14%) JIRA
3 12 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (6.08%) CircleCI
4 9 (6.08%) Travis CI
5 5 (3.38%) Postman
6 4 (2.70%) Selenium
7 2 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.35%) VersionOne
7 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.68%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.68%) JUnit
8 1 (0.68%) Mocha
8 1 (0.68%) Mockito
8 1 (0.68%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.57%) Finance
3 16 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.08%) Electronics
4 9 (6.08%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.41%) Banking
6 6 (4.05%) Marketing
7 5 (3.38%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.38%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.70%) Front Office
8 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.03%) Retail
10 2 (1.35%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Arabic Language
11 1 (0.68%) Automotive
11 1 (0.68%) Aviation
11 1 (0.68%) Back Office
11 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Games
11 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (48.65%) Developer
2 20 (13.51%) Architect
3 17 (11.49%) Full Stack Developer
4 16 (10.81%) Senior
5 11 (7.43%) .NET Developer
6 10 (6.76%) Senior Developer
6 10 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.08%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (4.05%) DevOps Automation Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Lead
10 6 (4.05%) React Developer
11 5 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.38%) Salesforce Developer
11 5 (3.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (3.38%) ServiceNow Developer
11 5 (3.38%) Support Engineer
12 4 (2.70%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (21.62%) CSS
2 30 (20.27%) HTML
3 28 (18.92%) React
4 26 (17.57%) AngularJS
5 25 (16.89%) RESTful
6 23 (15.54%) REST
7 22 (14.86%) .NET
8 14 (9.46%) HTML5
8 14 (9.46%) JSON
9 10 (6.76%) XML
9 10 (6.76%) YAML
10 9 (6.08%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (5.41%) Spring Boot
11 8 (5.41%) Vue
12 7 (4.73%) Angular 2
12 7 (4.73%) Java Concurrency
12 7 (4.73%) JWT
12 7 (4.73%) Node.js
12 7 (4.73%) Spring
12 7 (4.73%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.08%) Data Structures
2 7 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.73%) Mobile App
3 6 (4.05%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.38%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.70%) Mainframe
5 4 (2.70%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (2.03%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.03%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (2.03%) Mobile Payment
6 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.35%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.35%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.35%) Web3
8 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) IoT
8 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.11%) Linux
2 3 (2.03%) Android
3 2 (1.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (27.70%) Agile
2 35 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (20.95%) CI/CD
4 27 (18.24%) API Development
4 27 (18.24%) Scrum
5 25 (16.89%) DevOps
6 24 (16.22%) Full Stack Development
7 22 (14.86%) User Experience
8 20 (13.51%) Microservices
8 20 (13.51%) Project Management
9 15 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (10.14%) Workflow
10 14 (9.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (8.78%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (8.11%) Collaborative Working
12 12 (8.11%) Containerisation
12 12 (8.11%) Software Engineering
13 11 (7.43%) Continuous Deployment
13 11 (7.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 37 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 34 (22.97%) Python
3 27 (18.24%) SQL
4 26 (17.57%) Java
5 24 (16.22%) PowerShell
6 21 (14.19%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.08%) Bash
8 8 (5.41%) C#
9 7 (4.73%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (3.38%) Scala
11 4 (2.70%) Apex Code
12 3 (2.03%) ActionScript
13 2 (1.35%) C
13 2 (1.35%) Go
13 2 (1.35%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.35%) SOQL
13 2 (1.35%) VBA
14 1 (0.68%) Rust
14 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (10.14%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.78%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.11%) Degree
4 9 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.03%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.03%) CISM
5 3 (2.03%) CISSP
5 3 (2.03%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.03%) PMP
6 2 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.68%) CCIE
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.51%) QA
2 6 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
4 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (9.46%) Docker
2 6 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (9.46%) Terraform
2 13 (8.78%) Ansible
2 13 (8.78%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.76%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (6.08%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (6.08%) Grafana
4 9 (6.08%) Kibana
4 9 (6.08%) logstash
4 9 (6.08%) Progress Chef
4 9 (6.08%) Prometheus
4 9 (6.08%) Puppet
5 3 (2.03%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.68%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 14 (9.46%) Oracle
2 13 (8.78%) Google
3 10 (6.76%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.76%) ServiceNow
3 10 (6.76%) Splunk
4 9 (6.08%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.73%) MuleSoft
6 6 (4.05%) SAP
6 6 (4.05%) SimCorp
7 4 (2.70%) Cisco
7 4 (2.70%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.70%) Okta
7 4 (2.70%) OutSystems
7 4 (2.70%) Roku
8 3 (2.03%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.03%) F5
8 3 (2.03%) IBM
8 3 (2.03%) Sage
9 2 (1.35%) CODA
9 2 (1.35%) Virgin Media