API Development Contract Job Trends in South London

API Development
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring API Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing API Development 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.34% - 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% - 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £480
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 - £599
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.67%
75th Percentile - - £674
90th Percentile - - £718
London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 250 189 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 86.21% 88.32% 91.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 129 172
10th Percentile £413 £345 £191
25th Percentile £463 £446 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% +3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £553 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £753 £638
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 20
10th Percentile £54.42 - £16.64
25th Percentile £54.55 £15.84 £20.25
Median hourly rate £61.22 £34.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.05% +44.68% -46.42%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £58.22
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.32 £83.75
London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -4.11% +21.67% -15.49%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

API Development job vacancy trend in South London

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

API Development
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 Development within the South London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Bromley - 1 £590 - 1
API Development
London

API Development
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Gen AI Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python