API Design Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

API Design
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 52 56
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 -
Contract jobs citing API Design 10 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.49% 0.63% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 0.71% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 1
10th Percentile £333 £331 -
25th Percentile £353 £373 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £444 £590
Median % change year-on-year -19.37% -24.75% -
75th Percentile £393 £450 -
90th Percentile £437 £453 -
North West median daily rate £402 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -10.67% -10.00% +3.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 598 420 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.99% 88.61% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 249 224
10th Percentile £268 £325 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% -0.77% +11.11%
75th Percentile £537 £569 £550
90th Percentile £688 £638 £592
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 25 23
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £16.66
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.00 £17.38
Median hourly rate £23.18 £24.18 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +2.41% +54.82%
75th Percentile £40.00 £35.00 £35.38
90th Percentile £70.55 £82.60 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Cheshire

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing API Design

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in Cheshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 13 December 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
Knutsford -16 9 £358 -19.37%
Chester - 1 £750 - 2
API Design
North West

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) GCP
1 5 (50.00%) GitHub
1 5 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 4 (40.00%) Apigee
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) HTTP
1 4 (40.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MySQL
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Git
2 5 (50.00%) GitLab
3 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (40.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
1 8 (80.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Apigee Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) Hibernate
1 9 (90.00%) RESTful
1 9 (90.00%) Spring
1 9 (90.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (40.00%) JAX-RS
2 4 (40.00%) JSON
2 4 (40.00%) JWT
2 4 (40.00%) OAuth
2 4 (40.00%) OAuth2
2 4 (40.00%) Spring MVC
2 4 (40.00%) Spring Security
2 4 (40.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Microservices
2 9 (90.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (50.00%) Code Quality
4 5 (50.00%) MVC
4 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (50.00%) TDD
4 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (40.00%) AI
5 4 (40.00%) API Testing
6 2 (20.00%) API Development
7 1 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (10.00%) DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) SDLC
7 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
7 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (90.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
1 4 (40.00%) Splunk