API Design Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

API Design
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring API Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 30 35
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 -
Contract jobs citing API Design 22 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 8.70% 0.86% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.05% 0.90% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 1 0
10th Percentile £343 - -
25th Percentile £358 £303 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £387 £305 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.84% - -
75th Percentile £402 £308 -
90th Percentile £431 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £394 £305 £590
% change year-on-year +29.10% -48.31% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

API Design 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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 243 111 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.05% 95.69% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 92 83
10th Percentile £313 £351 £450
25th Percentile £358 £356 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £390 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -29.09% +12.24%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £586
90th Percentile £588 £638 £629
Cheshire median daily rate £444 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -6.63% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £25.79 £31.58
% change year-on-year -11.39% -18.34% +81.03%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

API Design job vacancy trend in Knutsford

API Design
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing API Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing API Design

API Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 7 (31.82%) Confluence
2 3 (13.64%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) GitHub
1 5 (22.73%) GitHub Copilot
2 4 (18.18%) Apigee
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) HTTP
1 4 (18.18%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Relational Database
2 5 (22.73%) MySQL
2 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (63.64%) GitLab
2 9 (40.91%) Git
3 8 (36.36%) Postman
4 7 (31.82%) JIRA
5 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
5 4 (18.18%) SonarQube
6 3 (13.64%) JUnit
6 3 (13.64%) Mockito
General
1 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Developer
2 9 (40.91%) Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Apigee Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Payments Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Payments Business Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Salesforce Developer
5 2 (9.09%) React Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (81.82%) RESTful
2 10 (45.45%) Swagger
3 9 (40.91%) Hibernate
3 9 (40.91%) Spring
3 9 (40.91%) Spring Boot
3 9 (40.91%) YAML
4 8 (36.36%) JSON
4 8 (36.36%) XML
5 6 (27.27%) OpenAPI
5 6 (27.27%) REST
5 6 (27.27%) SOAP
6 4 (18.18%) JAX-RS
6 4 (18.18%) JWT
6 4 (18.18%) OAuth
6 4 (18.18%) OAuth2
6 4 (18.18%) Spring MVC
6 4 (18.18%) Spring Security
7 3 (13.64%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (13.64%) React Native
7 3 (13.64%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Digital Wallet
2 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 15 (68.18%) Agile
3 11 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 11 (50.00%) TDD
4 10 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (40.91%) Microservices
5 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
6 8 (36.36%) Code Quality
6 8 (36.36%) Unit Testing
7 7 (31.82%) Integration Patterns
8 5 (22.73%) API Development
8 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
8 5 (22.73%) MVC
8 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (18.18%) AI
9 4 (18.18%) API Integration
9 4 (18.18%) API Testing
9 4 (18.18%) Scrum
9 4 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) Apex Code
3 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) SOQL
4 1 (4.55%) SOSL
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (50.00%) Degree
2 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) PCI DSS
1 4 (18.18%) PSD2
2 3 (13.64%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Salesforce
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
2 4 (18.18%) Splunk
2 4 (18.18%) Veracode