API Development Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

API Development
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring API Development 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 52 26 31
Rank change year-on-year -26 +5 -
Contract jobs citing API Development 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.22% 0.99% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.03% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £353 - £454
25th Percentile £355 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £310 £481
Median % change year-on-year +15.48% -35.55% -
75th Percentile £380 - £487
90th Percentile £393 - £487
Cheshire median daily rate £380 £310 £487
% change year-on-year +22.58% -36.34% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 240 97 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.56% 96.04% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 81 71
10th Percentile £311 £341 £450
25th Percentile £355 £356 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £390 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -27.10% +16.30%
75th Percentile £480 £538 £583
90th Percentile £551 £638 £638
Cheshire median daily rate £438 £475 £505
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.94% +12.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £24.19 £26.66
% change year-on-year -5.54% -9.26% +65.90%

API Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

API Development job vacancy trend in Knutsford

API Development
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

API Development
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 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Gradle
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Spring MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Security
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle