API Design Contract Job Trends in South London

API Design
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring API Design skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 0.56% 0.99% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £680 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% - -
London median daily rate £625 £531 £675
% change year-on-year +17.65% -21.30% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 157 179 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.70% 88.61% 83.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 122 198
10th Percentile £233 £284 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £567 £600
90th Percentile £736 £760 £675
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 17
10th Percentile - - £14.88
25th Percentile - £17.25 £23.46
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.19
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -62.64% +18.32%
75th Percentile £17.45 £71.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £17.98 £73.75 £66.06
London median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year -8.57% -11.67% +7.09%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in South London

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing API Design

API Design
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the South London region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. 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
Bromley -12 1 £750 +15.38% 2
API Design
London

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes