API Testing Contract Job Trends in Leeds

API Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring API Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 59 63
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +50
Contract jobs citing API Testing 2 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.28% 1.13% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 1.30% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 10
10th Percentile - £263 £325
25th Percentile - £306 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £375 £395
Median % change year-on-year - -5.06% -7.06%
75th Percentile - £404 £408
90th Percentile - £482 £416
West Yorkshire median daily rate - £375 £390
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -13.33%

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 634 537 822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.18% 86.89% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 339 558
10th Percentile £301 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -
75th Percentile £573 £573 £613
90th Percentile £648 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 6
10th Percentile - £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile - £17.43 £18.74
Median hourly rate £14.25 £35.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -59.29% +66.61% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.75 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.40 £98.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -31.88% +71.05% -11.63%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Leeds

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) TestRail
1 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manual Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) FHIR
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA