API Testing Contracts in the Midlands

API Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 95 130 152
Rank change year-on-year +35 +22 +17
Contract jobs citing API Testing 16 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.84% 0.11% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.13% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 4
10th Percentile £202 £251 £303
25th Percentile £416 £349 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £423
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +24.26% +5.63%
75th Percentile £478 £538 £453
90th Percentile £523 - £481
England median daily rate £425 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -8.11% -2.63% +5.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the Midlands

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the Midlands

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the Midlands

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
West Midlands +19 8 £438 -16.67% 7
East Midlands - 8 £450 - 9
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) BrowserStack
1 2 (12.50%) GitHub
1 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Postman
2 8 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 8 (50.00%) Selenium
3 6 (37.50%) Jenkins
4 5 (31.25%) JMeter
4 5 (31.25%) REST Assured
5 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
5 3 (18.75%) Git
5 3 (18.75%) GitLab
5 3 (18.75%) JIRA
5 3 (18.75%) SoapUI
5 3 (18.75%) TestNG
5 3 (18.75%) Travis CI
6 1 (6.25%) JBehave
6 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) QA Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) QA Test Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Tester
5 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (12.50%) Lead
5 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (12.50%) Senior QA Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Test Leader
6 1 (6.25%) Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Performance Test Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) QA Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) QA Test Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
1 2 (12.50%) Playwright
1 2 (12.50%) REST
1 2 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (68.75%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Microservices
4 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 6 (37.50%) Manual Testing
5 5 (31.25%) Performance Testing
5 5 (31.25%) Security Testing
5 5 (31.25%) Test Scripting
6 4 (25.00%) Test Strategy
7 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
7 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
7 3 (18.75%) Functional Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Regression Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (18.75%) Scrum
7 3 (18.75%) SIEM
7 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
1 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CEH
1 3 (18.75%) CISSP
1 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kibana
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Nintex
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk