API Testing Contracts in Leeds

API Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring API Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Testing over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 76 94
Rank change year-on-year +13 +18 -18
Contract jobs citing API Testing 9 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.10% 0.92% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.01% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 11
10th Percentile £386 £408 £325
25th Percentile £497 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £488
90th Percentile - - £518
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +22.22% -2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £54.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £54.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

API Testing 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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 695 1,092 1,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 85.28% 91.00% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 787 1,033
10th Percentile £300 £375 £311
25th Percentile £413 £457 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +8.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £578 £638 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 23
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.00 £11.18
25th Percentile £12.15 £15.75 £19.00
Median hourly rate £12.30 £20.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.50% -10.71% +3.04%
75th Percentile £13.87 £56.00 £27.25
90th Percentile £19.15 £63.75 £28.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.02 £19.00 £18.70
% change year-on-year -31.50% +1.60% -13.98%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing API Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in Leeds

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Testing in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for API Testing in Leeds

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Leeds over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in Leeds

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) JUnit
2 2 (22.22%) Postman
2 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
3 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Manual Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Manual Tester
3 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (11.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (88.89%) Software Testing
2 8 (88.89%) Test Scripting
3 6 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 6 (66.67%) Analytics
3 6 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 6 (66.67%) Kanban
3 6 (66.67%) Scrum
3 6 (66.67%) Software Delivery
3 6 (66.67%) System Testing
3 6 (66.67%) TDD
3 6 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 6 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 6 (66.67%) User Stories
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) QA