API Development Contracts in Cheshire

API Development
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for API Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Development over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 55 54
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing API Development 4 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.81% 1.86% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 2.03% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £515
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +13.79% +28.75%
75th Percentile £575 £599 -
90th Percentile - £622 -
North West median daily rate £663 £586 £498
% change year-on-year +13.05% +17.79% +24.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

API Development 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 413 492 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.27% 91.45% 87.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 331 265
10th Percentile £300 £288 £222
25th Percentile £400 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £460
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +4.35% +5.14%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £550
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 29
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.29 £10.51
25th Percentile £16.61 £23.15 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +35.73% -10.00%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.03 £31.00
90th Percentile £44.13 £40.00 £59.60
North West median hourly rate £23.50 £36.00 £23.55
% change year-on-year -34.72% +52.90% +27.82%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for API Development in Cheshire

API Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for API Development in Cheshire

API Development
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 Development within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Warrington +10 2 £550 -12.00% 1
Knutsford - 2 - -
API Development
North West

API Development
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Low-Code
1 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) API Management
1 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) OOD
1 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 2 (50.00%) Sprint Backlog
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Nintex
1 2 (50.00%) Pega
1 2 (50.00%) SAP