API Testing Contracts in the Midlands

API Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 150 161
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 -26
Contract jobs citing API Testing 3 15 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.11% 0.44% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.49% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 38
10th Percentile £251 £303 £313
25th Percentile £349 £372 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £423 £400
Median % change year-on-year +24.26% +5.63% +4.44%
75th Percentile £538 £453 £427
90th Percentile - £481 £451
England median daily rate £456 £475 £449
% change year-on-year -3.95% +5.85% +5.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,243 3,047 4,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.19% 88.47% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,126 3,298
10th Percentile £238 £250 £249
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £567
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 152
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.05
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.32% +9.31%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.03
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £34.20
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the Midlands

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the Midlands

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the Midlands

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
West Midlands +21 3 £525 +23.53% 3
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Test Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) QA Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) e-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Management
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Planning
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA