API Development Contract Job Trends in Croydon

API Development
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 29 31
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing API Development 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.10% 0.98% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.06% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £459 - -
25th Percentile £462 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 - £748
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.24%
75th Percentile £478 - -
90th Percentile £480 - -
South London median daily rate £481 - £748
% change year-on-year - - +15.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

API Development 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 163 94 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 89.56% 92.16% 96.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 72 79
10th Percentile £456 £427 £362
25th Percentile £492 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £645 £673 £630
South London median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -7.41%
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 £15.84 £23.50
% change year-on-year +286.47% -32.60% +0.17%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Croydon

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

API Development
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Next.js
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes