API Design Job Trends in South London

API Design
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South London requiring API Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - 85
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing API Design 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 0.81% - 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% - 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £80,000
75th Percentile £67,500 - £82,500
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year -3.13% +8.47% -7.81%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 447 406 816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 71.98% 93.98% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 282 141 328
10th Percentile £29,025 £35,750 £26,636
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +19.82% -1.36%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £83,750
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

API Design job vacancy trend in South London

API Design
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing API Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing API Design

API Design
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the South London region over the 6 months to 7 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Croydon - 2 - -
Bromley - 2 - - 2
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £65,000 -
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Boomi
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
1 2 (40.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (40.00%) Games
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Python Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Camel
2 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) JPA
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) Mustache
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) WireMock
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Low-Code
2 2 (40.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) AIOps
4 2 (40.00%) API Development
4 2 (40.00%) BDD
4 2 (40.00%) Change Management
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Runbook
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kibana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) SAP