API Design Contract Job Trends in Croydon

API Design
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
South London median daily rate £750 £680 -
% change year-on-year +10.29% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

API Design 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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75 91 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 89.29% 90.10% 84.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 56 92
10th Percentile £412 £380 £231
25th Percentile £485 £453 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £527
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.18% -8.43%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £595
90th Percentile £639 £621 £674
South London median daily rate £509 £508 £520
% change year-on-year +0.25% -2.40% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £49.88
% change year-on-year -7.79% -60.91% +13.08%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

API Design job vacancy trend in Croydon

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing API Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing API Design

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes