API Integration Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

API Integration
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford 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 43 27 32
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 -
Contract jobs citing API Integration 11 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 3.69% 1.68% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 1.74% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £366 £315 £390
25th Percentile £397 £322 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £333 £398
Median % change year-on-year +34.23% -16.23% -
75th Percentile £652 £345 £411
90th Percentile £712 £351 £415
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £356 £398
% change year-on-year +25.56% -10.44% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 286 115 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 95.97% 96.64% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 103 103
10th Percentile £329 £317 £365
25th Percentile £366 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £381 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.11% -23.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £579 £499 £581
90th Percentile £652 £600 £623
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £32.95 £23.61
% change year-on-year -30.65% +39.56% +9.43%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

API Integration job vacancy trend in Knutsford

API Integration
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

API Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

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

Daily rate histogram for API Integration in Knutsford

API Integration
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 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