API Testing Contract Job Trends in Manchester

API Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring API Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 76 97
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 +16
Contract jobs citing API Testing 12 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.06% 0.61% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.69% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile £358 £404 -
25th Percentile £385 £466 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £563 £375
Median % change year-on-year -28.89% +50.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £481 £641 -
90th Percentile £628 £646 £411
North West median daily rate £374 £563 £375
% change year-on-year -33.51% +50.00% -11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,015 1,014 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.66% 88.71% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 684 597 1,026
10th Percentile £300 £294 £285
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 48
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.00 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £22.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +64.56% -43.57%
75th Percentile £31.40 £45.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £74.28
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Manchester

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in Manchester

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Postman
2 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (8.33%) Gatling
4 1 (8.33%) Robot Framework
4 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 6 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Help Desk Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Automation Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) Puppeteer
2 1 (8.33%) pytest
2 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 6 (50.00%) ITIL
3 6 (50.00%) ITSM
3 6 (50.00%) Process Improvement
3 6 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 6 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (25.00%) BDD
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
6 2 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
6 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Scala
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) VMware