API Testing
Cheshire > Chester
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 28 Aug 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 20 | - | - |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| DemandTrendContract jobs citing API Testing | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester | 1.27% | - | - |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category | 1.54% | - | - |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £663 | - | - |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £675 | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £688 | - | - |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| Cheshire median daily rate | £447 | - | - |
All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester
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 Chester.
| DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills | 65 | 50 | 75 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester | 82.28% | 80.65% | 81.52% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 30 | 15 | 39 |
| 10th Percentile | £312 | £453 | £362 |
| 25th Percentile | £350 | £552 | £419 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £588 | £625 | £550 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -6.00% | +13.64% | +27.17% |
| 75th Percentile | £675 | £738 | £600 |
| 90th Percentile | £768 | - | £688 |
| Cheshire median daily rate | £437 | £478 | £525 |
| % change year-on-year | -8.53% | -8.95% | +16.67% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 5 | 11 | 16 |
| 10th Percentile | £12.61 | £16.00 | £17.38 |
| 25th Percentile | £12.75 | £25.50 | £30.06 |
| Median hourly rate | £25.15 | £35.00 | £31.88 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -28.14% | +9.80% | +46.36% |
| 75th Percentile | £33.40 | £41.25 | £35.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £43.36 | £47.50 | £37.52 |
| Cheshire median hourly rate | £18.87 | £35.00 | £30.54 |
| % change year-on-year | -46.09% | +14.60% | +45.43% |
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Job Vacancy Trend in Chester
Job postings citing API Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Chester.
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Daily Rate Trend in Chester
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing API Testing.
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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: