API Testing Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

API Testing
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire 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 44 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - +76
Contract jobs citing API Testing 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.98% - 5.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% - 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £427 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 - -
75th Percentile £477 - -
90th Percentile £483 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £430 £378 £463
% change year-on-year +13.91% -18.38% +20.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 188 74 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 92.16% 82.22% 81.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 61 25
10th Percentile £350 £160 £313
25th Percentile £414 £338 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £435 £480
Median % change year-on-year +17.85% -9.38% -9.43%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £550
90th Percentile £548 £567 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 - -
90th Percentile £38.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.05 £23.05 £27.50
% change year-on-year - -16.18% +55.19%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Shropshire

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Telford - 2 £453 - 1
API Testing
West Midlands

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Kong
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Mockito
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Camel
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (50.00%) Java EE
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) WireMock
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus