API Testing Contracts in the North West

API Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 111 124 139
Rank change year-on-year +13 +15 +24
Contract jobs citing API Testing 9 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.46% 0.47% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.55% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 17
10th Percentile £385 £324 -
25th Percentile £400 £368 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £385 £425
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% -9.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £513
90th Percentile £527 £500 -
England median daily rate £425 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -8.11% -2.63% +5.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the North West

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the North West

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the North West

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +13 7 £400 +3.90% 7
Cheshire 0 2 £447 +37.54%
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (22.22%) CICS
1 2 (22.22%) WebSphere
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
4 1 (11.11%) Cloudflare
4 1 (11.11%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) DB2
1 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) Postman
2 3 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 2 (22.22%) SOAtest
4 1 (11.11%) Appium
4 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (11.11%) Gatling
4 1 (11.11%) JIRA
4 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
4 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) General Ledger
1 2 (22.22%) Retail Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Aviation
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Test Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Tester
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Playwright
2 2 (22.22%) J2EE
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
2 2 (22.22%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (11.11%) Chai
3 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Mainframe
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (22.22%) VSAM
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) Test Planning
5 2 (22.22%) BDD
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (22.22%) ETL
5 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (22.22%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Management
5 2 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (22.22%) User Experience
5 2 (22.22%) User Stories
6 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) COBOL
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) JCL
2 2 (22.22%) REXX
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Ab Initio
1 2 (22.22%) Informatica
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
1 2 (22.22%) Parasoft
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
2 1 (11.11%) Virgin Media