API Testing Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

API Testing
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring API Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing API Testing 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.11% 0.54% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £200 - £315

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 164 165 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.11% 89.67% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 75 111
10th Percentile £357 £287 £213
25th Percentile £438 £340 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £647 £555 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £520 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +15.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 21
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.80 £16.77
25th Percentile £36.28 £24.40 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +196.28% -68.91%
75th Percentile £71.25 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.50 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in Cambridge

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft