API Testing Contracts in Cheshire

API Testing
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring API Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 56 61
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing API Testing 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.45% 0.40% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.47% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £313 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £325 £500
Median % change year-on-year +37.54% -35.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile - £338 £510
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £447 £385 £425
% change year-on-year +16.10% -9.41% -10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in Cheshire

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in Cheshire

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford - 2 £447 -
API Testing
North West

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (100.00%) CICS
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SOAtest
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) General Ledger
1 2 (100.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Test Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (100.00%) Informatica
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Parasoft