API Testing Contract Job Trends in Northampton

API Testing
Northamptonshire > Northampton

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Testing 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 2.21% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £307 - -
25th Percentile £311 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £386 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £360 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 215 123 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 95.13% 94.62% 94.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 101 72
10th Percentile £309 £340 £213
25th Percentile £353 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £481
Median % change year-on-year - -16.75% +11.74%
75th Percentile £453 £525 £526
90th Percentile £525 £619 £564
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £403 £485
% change year-on-year -0.12% -17.01% +8.99%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Northampton

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing API Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing API Testing

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Playwright
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Load Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Test Management
4 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (60.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (60.00%) New Relic
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft