API Testing Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

API Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring API Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing API Testing 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.14% - 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.01%
75th Percentile - - £388
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £313 £335 £375
% change year-on-year -6.57% -10.67% -17.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 589 767 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.72% 93.08% 91.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 482 530
10th Percentile £306 £308 £313
25th Percentile £381 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £483
Median % change year-on-year - -6.83% +1.68%
75th Percentile £574 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £613 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 36
10th Percentile £14.79 £16.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.17 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £19.83 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% +10.17% +69.33%
75th Percentile £48.30 £53.75 £40.94
90th Percentile £58.35 £75.24 £68.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +10.05%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Glasgow

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform