API Testing Contracts in Leeds

API Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for API Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Testing over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 80 87
Rank change year-on-year +21 +7 -20
Contract jobs citing API Testing 8 11 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.01% 0.85% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 0.93% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 12
10th Percentile £333 £408 £403
25th Percentile £375 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £488
90th Percentile - - £515
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £54.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £54.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

API Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 685 1,181 1,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 86.71% 91.20% 91.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 849 1,050
10th Percentile £300 £363 £313
25th Percentile £425 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile £669 £700 £668
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +10.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 20
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.00 £17.98
25th Percentile £12.15 £16.13 £20.59
Median hourly rate £12.30 £22.50 £22.52
Median % change year-on-year -45.33% -0.10% +5.39%
75th Percentile £12.53 £66.88 £27.63
90th Percentile £14.82 £70.00 £28.80
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.53 £20.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year -37.35% +9.59% -20.65%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in Leeds

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in Leeds

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Leeds over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in Leeds

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (12.50%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JUnit
2 3 (37.50%) Postman
3 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Test Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Manual Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Manual Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Tester
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) Swagger
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Test Scripting
3 5 (62.50%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (50.00%) Analytics
4 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (50.00%) Kanban
4 4 (50.00%) Scrum
4 4 (50.00%) Software Delivery
4 4 (50.00%) System Testing
4 4 (50.00%) TDD
4 4 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 4 (50.00%) User Stories
5 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) QA