API Testing Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

API Testing
South East > Hampshire

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Testing 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.30% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £372 - -
25th Percentile £385 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 - -
75th Percentile £442 - -
90th Percentile £522 - -
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% -7.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,333 670 1,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.83% 89.69% 83.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 862 485 722
10th Percentile £363 £325 £388
25th Percentile £475 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.42% +11.95%
75th Percentile £650 £620 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £743
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.05% -1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 42 163
10th Percentile £12.70 £19.98 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.72 £28.13 £26.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +0.26% +9.24%
75th Percentile £52.58 £71.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £67.53 £75.00 £77.37
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% -41.05% -3.06%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Hampshire

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Hampshire over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in Hampshire

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Southampton - 1 - - 1
API Testing
South East

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 2 (40.00%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Gatling
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Gradle
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (20.00%) TestNG
2 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leader
2 2 (40.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) FMCG
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 2 (40.00%) Data Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Defect Management
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) ATDD
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Code Coverage
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle