API Testing Contracts in Manchester

API Testing
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for API Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Testing over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 101 132
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 -44
Contract jobs citing API Testing 11 16 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.72% 0.84% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.92% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 7
10th Percentile £368 - £354
25th Percentile £375 £285 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £406 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% -14.47% +13.10%
75th Percentile £488 £513 £488
90th Percentile £500 - £523
North West median daily rate £385 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -9.41% -10.53% +15.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

API Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,337 1,748 2,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.04% 92.00% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 912 1,279 1,802
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.94%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £575
90th Percentile £694 £656 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 63 50
10th Percentile £12.42 £15.09 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.00 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -30.89% +129.51% -4.69%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.27 £23.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.20 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +13.51%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in Manchester

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in Manchester

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in Manchester

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing API Testing within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Salford - 2 £375 -
API Testing
North West

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) BrowserStack
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Jenkins
2 8 (72.73%) Cucumber
3 4 (36.36%) Selenium
4 2 (18.18%) Appium
4 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
4 2 (18.18%) Gatling
4 2 (18.18%) Git
4 2 (18.18%) GitLab
4 2 (18.18%) JIRA
4 2 (18.18%) Postman
5 1 (9.09%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Test Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Automation Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Java Automation Tester
3 2 (18.18%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) QA Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) RESTful
2 3 (27.27%) Playwright
3 2 (18.18%) OAuth
3 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
3 2 (18.18%) OpenID
3 2 (18.18%) pytest
3 2 (18.18%) Web Services
3 2 (18.18%) WebdriverIO
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (27.27%) BDD
5 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Conversational AI
5 2 (18.18%) Conversational UI
5 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
5 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) QA Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Scala
3 1 (9.09%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Perfecto Mobile