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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 2.82% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £598 - -
25th Percentile £631 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £686 - -
75th Percentile £743 - -
90th Percentile £770 - -
South London median daily rate £736 - -

All Process & 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 126 101 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 88.73% 92.66% 92.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 75 105
10th Percentile £456 £380 £231
25th Percentile £500 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -5.91%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £634 £629 £668
South London median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £16.64
25th Percentile - - £17.06
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
% change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -46.11%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in Croydon over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in Croydon

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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) Boomi
3 1 (25.00%) iPaaS
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (25.00%) OpenID
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (25.00%) API Management
4 1 (25.00%) Application Security
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) SOA
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft