API Design Contracts in Cheshire

API Design
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for API Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Design over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Design 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.61% - 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% - 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £555
25th Percentile - - £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - £612
75th Percentile - - £639
90th Percentile - - £640
North West median daily rate £498 £625 £538
% change year-on-year -20.40% +16.28% -15.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

API Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 413 488 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.77% 91.21% 86.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 330 256
10th Percentile £272 £275 £223
25th Percentile £396 £400 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% +5.56% +1.81%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 25 26
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.29 £10.28
25th Percentile £16.61 £23.15 £15.55
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +34.24% -9.00%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.03 £31.00
90th Percentile £44.13 £40.00 £60.88
North West median hourly rate £22.11 £37.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.72% +77.62% +14.50%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for API Design in Cheshire

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Design in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for API Design in Cheshire

API Design
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Knutsford - 3 £445 -
API Design
North West

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) Java