API Testing Contract Job Trends in the North East

API Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 30 35 31
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +36
Contract jobs citing API Testing 9 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 2.95% 0.34% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 0.38% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £310 £450
Median % change year-on-year +44.35% -31.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £488 - £475
90th Percentile £533 - -
England median daily rate £425 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 256 266 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.93% 91.41% 87.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 97 149
10th Percentile £191 £320 £350
25th Percentile £370 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £634 £693 £631
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 11
10th Percentile £13.98 £13.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +19.90%
75th Percentile £20.63 £46.18 £39.97
90th Percentile £46.85 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in the North East

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing API Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing API Testing

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the North East over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the North East

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Tyne and Wear +2 9 £448 +44.35% 3
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 8 (88.89%) Cucumber
2 6 (66.67%) REST Assured
3 5 (55.56%) Selenium
4 2 (22.22%) JIRA
4 2 (22.22%) JMeter
4 2 (22.22%) Postman
4 2 (22.22%) TestRail
5 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
5 1 (11.11%) Gatling
General
1 8 (88.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Test Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Test Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Tester
3 2 (22.22%) Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
4 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) REST
2 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
2 5 (55.56%) WireMock
3 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
3 1 (11.11%) Playwright
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (88.89%) BDD
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) Agile
3 7 (77.78%) Performance Testing
4 6 (66.67%) TDD
5 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
5 5 (55.56%) Microservices
5 5 (55.56%) Security Testing
6 4 (44.44%) Functional Testing
6 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
6 4 (44.44%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (33.33%) QA Automation
7 3 (33.33%) Scrum
8 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
8 2 (22.22%) Test Management
9 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
9 1 (11.11%) Kanban
9 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
9 1 (11.11%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
2 4 (44.44%) Accessibility
3 3 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker