API Testing Contracts in the North of England

API Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 169 187
Rank change year-on-year +31 +18 +24
Contract jobs citing API Testing 33 18 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.95% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.44% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 17 12
10th Percentile £317 £313 -
25th Percentile £361 £413 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +17.65% +1.19%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £484
90th Percentile £575 - £546
England median daily rate £425 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -10.53% - +8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £66.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - +22.22% +27.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,136 4,079 4,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.93% 83.47% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,032 2,424 3,352
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £379 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -0.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £665 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 398 208
10th Percentile £12.79 £11.10 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.81 £12.55 £15.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.06 £22.84
Median % change year-on-year +14.03% -3.44% +19.64%
75th Percentile £52.38 £46.18 £43.28
90th Percentile £78.13 £63.75 £55.90
England median hourly rate £26.45 £37.75 £35.03
% change year-on-year -29.93% +7.76% +36.41%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the North of England

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Testing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the North of England

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the North of England

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Yorkshire +11 18 £425 -22.73% 17
North West +5 9 £400 -11.11% 34
North East +7 6 £400 +29.03% 2
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (6.06%) CICS
1 2 (6.06%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.03%) CMS
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) AWS
2 4 (12.12%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) Serverless
3 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.03%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
5 1 (3.03%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
1 1 (3.03%) HTTP
1 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.06%) DB2
2 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
2 2 (6.06%) InfluxDB
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.03%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (60.61%) Postman
2 19 (57.58%) Selenium
3 11 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 11 (33.33%) JIRA
3 11 (33.33%) REST Assured
4 10 (30.30%) Maven
5 8 (24.24%) Cucumber
5 8 (24.24%) Cypress.io
5 8 (24.24%) JMeter
6 6 (18.18%) Git
6 6 (18.18%) GitLab
6 6 (18.18%) TestNG
7 5 (15.15%) IntelliJ
8 4 (12.12%) JUnit
9 2 (6.06%) SoapUI
9 2 (6.06%) SOAtest
9 2 (6.06%) SpecFlow
10 1 (3.03%) Gatling
10 1 (3.03%) TestRail
10 1 (3.03%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) General Ledger
4 2 (6.06%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Aviation
5 1 (3.03%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Test Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Tester
3 4 (12.12%) Automation Tester
3 4 (12.12%) QA Tester
3 4 (12.12%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) QA Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Test Architect
6 1 (3.03%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Development Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Mainframe Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Manual Tester
6 1 (3.03%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Software Tester
6 1 (3.03%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (27.27%) Playwright
2 4 (12.12%) JSON
3 3 (9.09%) REST
3 3 (9.09%) Web Services
3 3 (9.09%) XML
4 2 (6.06%) J2EE
4 2 (6.06%) Node.js
5 1 (3.03%) .NET
5 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (3.03%) boto
5 1 (3.03%) Chai
5 1 (3.03%) Gherkin
5 1 (3.03%) Kafka
5 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.03%) RAML
5 1 (3.03%) RESTful
5 1 (3.03%) SOAP
5 1 (3.03%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.06%) Mainframe
2 2 (6.06%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (6.06%) Replication
2 2 (6.06%) VSAM
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Unix
2 1 (3.03%) CentOS
2 1 (3.03%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.03%) SUSE
2 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (93.94%) Test Automation
2 21 (63.64%) Agile
3 14 (42.42%) CI/CD
4 10 (30.30%) Test Strategy
5 7 (21.21%) DevOps
5 7 (21.21%) Non-Functional Testing
5 7 (21.21%) TDD
5 7 (21.21%) Test Planning
6 6 (18.18%) BDD
6 6 (18.18%) Manual Testing
6 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (15.15%) Test Scripting
8 4 (12.12%) Migration
8 4 (12.12%) Performance Testing
9 3 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (9.09%) Scrum
9 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (9.09%) User Stories
9 3 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Java
2 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.09%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) COBOL
4 2 (6.06%) Go
4 2 (6.06%) JCL
4 2 (6.06%) REXX
5 1 (3.03%) Bash
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) Python
5 1 (3.03%) Scala
5 1 (3.03%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (48.48%) QA
2 8 (24.24%) Accessibility
3 6 (18.18%) WCAG
4 1 (3.03%) GDPR
4 1 (3.03%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Grafana
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) Puppet
2 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
1 5 (15.15%) Oracle
2 3 (9.09%) Virgin Media
3 2 (6.06%) Ab Initio
3 2 (6.06%) Informatica
3 2 (6.06%) MuleSoft
3 2 (6.06%) Parasoft
4 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.03%) VMware