API Testing Contract Job Trends in Reading

API Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading 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 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Testing 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.69% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £454 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 532 945 968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.25% 87.18% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 519 652
10th Percentile £330 £348 £263
25th Percentile £450 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +6.80%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 16
10th Percentile - £14.50 £52.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £30.31 £60.47
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £64.31
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% -5.89% +16.93%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.96 £74.20
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.35 £75.13
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £58.49 £61.79
% change year-on-year -36.26% -5.34% +22.36%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Reading

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Playwright
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA