API Testing Contracts in the North of England

API Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 177 201
Rank change year-on-year +18 +24 -35
Contract jobs citing API Testing 21 35 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.44% 0.60% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.67% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 29
10th Percentile £313 £285 £323
25th Percentile £360 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -7.89% +13.10%
75th Percentile £500 £513 £488
90th Percentile £575 £545 £504
England median daily rate £456 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -3.95% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £54.00 -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% -1.82% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,053 5,255 6,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.80% 90.70% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,479 3,654 4,660
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 203 262
10th Percentile £11.05 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.77
Median hourly rate £17.72 £28.70 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.26% +54.36% +0.50%
75th Percentile £44.74 £46.03 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £50.70
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the North of England

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Testing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the North of England

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the North of England

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
North West +14 13 £385 -9.41% 4
Yorkshire +12 7 £488 +5.41% 6
North East +18 1 £310 -
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (9.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) BrowserStack
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 2 (9.52%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (4.76%) Azure
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Commercetools
4 1 (4.76%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Cucumber
1 9 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 7 (33.33%) Postman
3 6 (28.57%) Selenium
4 4 (19.05%) JUnit
5 3 (14.29%) Git
5 3 (14.29%) GitLab
5 3 (14.29%) JIRA
6 2 (9.52%) Appium
6 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
6 2 (9.52%) Gatling
6 2 (9.52%) REST Assured
6 2 (9.52%) Zephyr
7 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
7 1 (4.76%) SoapUI
7 1 (4.76%) TestCafe
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Test Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Senior
2 6 (28.57%) Tester
3 4 (19.05%) Automation Tester
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Test Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) QA Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Java Automation Tester
5 2 (9.52%) Manual Tester
5 2 (9.52%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Junior
6 1 (4.76%) Junior Tester
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) RESTful
2 4 (19.05%) Gherkin
3 3 (14.29%) Playwright
4 2 (9.52%) OAuth
4 2 (9.52%) OAuth2
4 2 (9.52%) OpenID
4 2 (9.52%) pytest
4 2 (9.52%) Web Services
4 2 (9.52%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (4.76%) Jest
5 1 (4.76%) JSON
5 1 (4.76%) REST
5 1 (4.76%) Swagger
5 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Android
1 2 (9.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Agile
2 13 (61.90%) Test Automation
3 8 (38.10%) Software Testing
4 6 (28.57%) Test Scripting
5 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (23.81%) Scrum
6 4 (19.05%) E-Commerce
6 4 (19.05%) Manual Testing
6 4 (19.05%) System Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (14.29%) Analytics
7 3 (14.29%) BDD
7 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (14.29%) Kanban
7 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (14.29%) Software Delivery
7 3 (14.29%) TDD
7 3 (14.29%) Test Strategy
7 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
7 3 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Java
2 2 (9.52%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) Scala
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (4.76%) HP