API Testing Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

API Testing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring API Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 109 121
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing API Testing 6 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.42% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £407 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £300 £550
Median % change year-on-year +51.25% -45.45% -
75th Percentile £490 - £558
90th Percentile £503 - £562
South East median daily rate £388 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -13.89% -5.26% -9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,274 1,438 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.53% 89.88% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 793 977
10th Percentile £305 £313 £213
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £689
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 45 70
10th Percentile £14.75 £26.10 £24.33
25th Percentile £18.87 £42.50 £48.40
Median hourly rate £37.28 £59.00 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -36.81% -3.98% +21.68%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.19 £76.47
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Berkshire

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing API Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing API Testing

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
Wokingham -19 3 £508 - 1
Reading - 2 £400 - 1
Windsor - 1 - - 1
API Testing
South East

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Storage
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Postman
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (33.33%) NUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
3 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) SOAP
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (33.33%) Playwright
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) Swagger
3 2 (33.33%) WSDL
3 2 (33.33%) XSLT
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) API Design
3 1 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (16.67%) OOP
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) System Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA