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 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 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 2.21% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £613 - -
25th Percentile £667 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £736 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile £769 - -
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -14.29%

All Process & 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 237 184 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.13% 85.19% 89.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 123 174
10th Percentile £409 £330 £188
25th Percentile £463 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £760 £646
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 21
10th Percentile £54.42 £23.10 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £34.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -46.11%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £49.88
90th Percentile £67.70 £81.28 £83.75
London median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

API Design job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for API Design in South London

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 15 February 2026. 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
Croydon - 4 £686 - 1
Bromley - 2 £750 -
API Design
London

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (16.67%) Boomi
3 1 (16.67%) iPaaS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
2 1 (16.67%) OpenID
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Swagger
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
1 4 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 2 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) TOGAF Certification
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft