API Testing Contracts in Leeds

API Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 55 56 85
Rank change year-on-year +1 +29 +3
Contract jobs citing API Testing 5 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.08% 0.88% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.01% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile - £331 £408
25th Percentile £263 £356 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -43.59% +8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £288 £575 £550
90th Percentile £325 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £275 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -43.59% - +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £54.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

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
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 4 (80.00%) Postman
2 4 (80.00%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) QA Tester
1 5 (100.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Manual Tester
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Manual Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 4 (80.00%) Agile Project Management
2 4 (80.00%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 4 (80.00%) OWASP
2 4 (80.00%) Project Management
2 4 (80.00%) Security Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Black-Box Testing
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (80.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce