API Management Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

API Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring API Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - 58
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing API Management 9 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.30% - 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% - 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 7
10th Percentile - - £457
25th Percentile £350 - £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - £489
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.76%
75th Percentile £402 - £541
90th Percentile £722 - £575
North West median daily rate £390 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -13.33% -14.29% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

API Management 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 613 400 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.33% 95.24% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 258 309
10th Percentile £313 £300 £305
25th Percentile £367 £358 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £560
90th Percentile £653 £638 £616
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 34 34
10th Percentile £14.49 £19.61 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.36 £24.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.95 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +50.87% -4.13%
75th Percentile £37.08 £83.31 £38.00
90th Percentile £60.63 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.88 £23.53
% change year-on-year +41.15% +35.49% -36.92%

API Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

API Management job vacancy trend in Cheshire

API Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

API Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Management in Cheshire over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Management in Cheshire

API Management
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 Management within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 18 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 - 8 £358 - 1
API Management
North West

API Management
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 8 (88.89%) Apigee
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
1 8 (88.89%) Kong
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure API Management
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 6 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Business Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) JWT
1 8 (88.89%) OAuth
2 6 (66.67%) JSON
2 6 (66.67%) OpenAPI
2 6 (66.67%) REST
2 6 (66.67%) SOAP
2 6 (66.67%) Swagger
2 6 (66.67%) XML
3 2 (22.22%) OAuth2
3 2 (22.22%) OpenID
4 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) Spring
4 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Microservices
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
3 6 (66.67%) API Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Business Analysis
3 6 (66.67%) Business Process Analysis
3 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
3 6 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
3 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 6 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 6 (66.67%) Use Case
3 6 (66.67%) Validation
3 6 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
4 5 (55.56%) Monetization
5 2 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (22.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (22.22%) CISSP
3 2 (22.22%) GIAC
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) MuleSoft
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle