API Testing Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

API Testing
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring API Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Testing 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.72% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £338 - -
25th Percentile £359 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £503 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £400 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 671 329 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.99% 92.16% 95.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 182 216
10th Percentile £316 £230 £381
25th Percentile £401 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £597 £650
90th Percentile £623 £664 £728
South Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -7.04% -6.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.14 £19.10
25th Percentile - £15.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +36.36%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.50 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.11% -40.00% +60.71%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Sheffield

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Sheffield over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in Sheffield

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 8 (66.67%) AWS
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
1 8 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Postman
2 10 (83.33%) SoapUI
3 9 (75.00%) JIRA
4 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Analyst
1 10 (83.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Service Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) CentOS
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (8.33%) SUSE
1 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Privileged Access Management
2 10 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
2 10 (83.33%) Software Testing
3 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (75.00%) Cloud Security
3 9 (75.00%) DevSecOps
3 9 (75.00%) Security Testing
3 9 (75.00%) Test Management
4 8 (66.67%) Agile
4 8 (66.67%) Kanban
4 8 (66.67%) Scrum
5 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 1 (8.33%) API Development
7 1 (8.33%) DevOps
7 1 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) CISM
1 8 (66.67%) CISSP
1 8 (66.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) GDPR
1 6 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (50.00%) NIST
1 6 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) CyberArk
2 9 (75.00%) BeyondTrust
2 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (75.00%) Thycotic
3 8 (66.67%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.33%) VMware