API Testing Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

API Testing
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 30 26 50
Rank change year-on-year -4 +24 -6
Contract jobs citing API Testing 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.69% 0.48% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 0.56% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £353 - -
25th Percentile £356 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £371 £310 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.74% - -
75th Percentile £400 - -
90th Percentile £415 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £371 £310 -
% change year-on-year +19.74% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 177 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.75% 84.29% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 89 243
10th Percentile £225 £335 £352
25th Percentile £358 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £650
90th Percentile £629 £650 £740
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing API Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in Newcastle upon Tyne

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Testing in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for API Testing in Newcastle upon Tyne

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) boto
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Virgin Media