API Development Contracts in Cheshire

API Development
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring API Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 50 53
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing API Development 7 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.56% 1.59% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.88% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £308 £456 -
25th Percentile £357 £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £487 £586
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -16.89% +13.79%
75th Percentile £402 £553 £599
90th Percentile - £575 £622
North West median daily rate £400 £538 £586
% change year-on-year -25.58% -8.28% +17.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Development in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 1 May 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 -5 5 £402 -16.42% 1
Macclesfield - 1 £400 -
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 3 (42.86%) JBoss
1 3 (42.86%) Tomcat
1 3 (42.86%) WebLogic
1 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
2 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) DB2
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 4 (57.14%) Bitbucket
3 3 (42.86%) JIRA
4 2 (28.57%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Gradle
4 2 (28.57%) HP UFT
4 2 (28.57%) IntelliJ
4 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (28.57%) JUnit
4 2 (28.57%) Maven
4 2 (28.57%) NetBeans
4 2 (28.57%) Selenium
4 2 (28.57%) Subversion
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Scrum Master
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (14.29%) Angular Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) J2EE
1 5 (71.43%) REST
1 5 (71.43%) Spring
1 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
1 5 (71.43%) Web Services
2 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 3 (42.86%) CSS
2 3 (42.86%) EJB
2 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) JSP
2 3 (42.86%) RAML
2 3 (42.86%) Servlets
2 3 (42.86%) SOAP
2 3 (42.86%) WSDL
3 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
3 2 (28.57%) HTML5
3 2 (28.57%) Kafka
3 2 (28.57%) Node.js
3 2 (28.57%) RESTful
3 2 (28.57%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Private Cloud
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Backlog Management
4 3 (42.86%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (42.86%) Budget Control
4 3 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Conflict Resolution
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Data Transformation
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) MVC
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Servant Leadership
5 2 (28.57%) Situational Awareness
5 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 4 (57.14%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
5 1 (14.29%) C#
5 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
1 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft