API Testing Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

API Testing
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 30 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +33
Contract jobs citing API Testing 8 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.33% 0.56% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 0.62% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £310 £450
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% -31.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £500 - £475
90th Percentile £535 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £448 £310 £450
% change year-on-year +44.35% -31.11% +9.09%

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 210 162 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 87.50% 91.01% 87.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 67 95
10th Percentile £205 £312 £350
25th Percentile £403 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £600
90th Percentile £642 £678 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.22% -8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 19 7
10th Percentile £13.90 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -5.13% +22.95%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £48.40 £70.00 £32.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +4.05% -5.13% +30.61%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing API Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing API Testing

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in Newcastle upon Tyne

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Cucumber
2 5 (62.50%) REST Assured
3 4 (50.00%) Selenium
4 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 2 (25.00%) JMeter
4 2 (25.00%) Postman
4 2 (25.00%) TestRail
5 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
5 1 (12.50%) Gatling
General
1 7 (87.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) REST
2 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (50.00%) WireMock
3 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
3 1 (12.50%) Playwright
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) BDD
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Performance Testing
4 5 (62.50%) TDD
5 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (50.00%) Microservices
5 4 (50.00%) Security Testing
6 3 (37.50%) Functional Testing
6 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
6 3 (37.50%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (37.50%) QA Automation
6 3 (37.50%) Scrum
7 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
7 2 (25.00%) Test Management
8 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
8 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (12.50%) Issue Tracking
8 1 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
2 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker