OpenAPI Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

OpenAPI Specification
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring OpenAPI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenAPI 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.93% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £350 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £354 - -
75th Percentile £358 - -
90th Percentile £377 - -
North West median daily rate £358 £475 -
% change year-on-year -24.63% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

OpenAPI falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 150 71 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 23.26% 16.44% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 52 36
10th Percentile £325 £303 £369
25th Percentile £358 £356 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £407 £487
Median % change year-on-year +4.36% -16.42% +8.88%
75th Percentile £500 £578 £540
90th Percentile £688 £640 £575
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £515
% change year-on-year -5.26% -7.77% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £95.75 £82.50 -
Median hourly rate £96.50 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.53% - -
75th Percentile £97.25 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -12.21% +41.84% +2.62%

OpenAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

OpenAPI job vacancy trend in Cheshire

OpenAPI
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing OpenAPI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing OpenAPI

OpenAPI
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 OpenAPI within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 17 January 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 - 5 £350 - 3
OpenAPI
North West

OpenAPI
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 6 (100.00%) Apigee
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Kong
General
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Analyst
1 6 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 6 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
1 6 (100.00%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) JSON
1 6 (100.00%) JWT
1 6 (100.00%) OAuth
1 6 (100.00%) REST
1 6 (100.00%) SOAP
1 6 (100.00%) Swagger
1 6 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) API Management
1 6 (100.00%) API Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 6 (100.00%) Business Process Analysis
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 6 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 6 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 6 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 6 (100.00%) Use Case
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
1 6 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 5 (83.33%) Monetization
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft