API Integration Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

API Integration
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring API Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 47 62
Rank change year-on-year -20 +15 -
Contract jobs citing API Integration 11 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.58% 2.34% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 2.47% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 2
10th Percentile £366 £319 £390
25th Percentile £397 £333 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £356 £398
Median % change year-on-year +25.56% -10.44% -
75th Percentile £652 £428 £411
90th Percentile £712 £471 £415
North West median daily rate £450 £383 £405
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -22.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

API Integration 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 611 405 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 87.66% 94.85% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 258 308
10th Percentile £313 £300 £304
25th Percentile £366 £356 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £579 £564 £551
90th Percentile £692 £638 £614
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 34 35
10th Percentile £14.89 £19.61 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.16 £24.18 £16.67
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.95 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +39.56% +9.43%
75th Percentile £40.75 £83.31 £39.00
90th Percentile £80.58 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.45
% change year-on-year +40.63% +36.46% -37.47%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

API Integration job vacancy trend in Cheshire

API Integration
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Integration in Cheshire over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in Cheshire

API Integration
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 Integration within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -16 11 £447 +34.23% 3
API Integration
North West

API Integration
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
3 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (27.27%) Azure AKS
4 3 (27.27%) GitHub
4 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (27.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (18.18%) Apigee
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (18.18%) Azure API Management
5 2 (18.18%) Kong
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
1 5 (45.45%) Postman
2 3 (27.27%) GitLab
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (63.64%) Banking
2 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) Business Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) Payments Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) Payments Business Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Integration Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Release Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Release Train Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) JSON
1 5 (45.45%) REST
1 5 (45.45%) SOAP
1 5 (45.45%) Swagger
1 5 (45.45%) XML
2 2 (18.18%) JWT
2 2 (18.18%) OAuth
2 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
2 2 (18.18%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Digital Wallet
2 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) API Design
2 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
2 5 (45.45%) DevSecOps
2 5 (45.45%) Integration Patterns
2 5 (45.45%) Requirements Gathering
2 5 (45.45%) System Integration Testing
2 5 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (45.45%) Validation
2 5 (45.45%) Workshop Facilitation
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Secrets Management
4 3 (27.27%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Bash
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
4 2 (18.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (18.18%) CISSP
4 2 (18.18%) GIAC
4 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
5 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
5 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) PCI DSS
1 5 (45.45%) PSD2
2 3 (27.27%) ISO 8583
3 1 (9.09%) GRC
3 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Argo
1 3 (27.27%) Grafana
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Istio
2 2 (18.18%) linkerd
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Splunk
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) MuleSoft