API Testing Contracts in the South West

API Testing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for API Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Testing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 151 164
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 -35
Contract jobs citing API Testing 5 15 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.16% 0.42% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.47% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 9
10th Percentile - £338 £405
25th Percentile £425 £392 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £429
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +11.89% +0.94%
75th Percentile £600 £499 £518
90th Percentile - £591 £554
England median daily rate £463 £480 £439
% change year-on-year -3.65% +9.40% +3.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

API Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,636 3,175 3,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.13% 89.54% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,680 2,331 2,299
10th Percentile £215 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.01%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £590
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 328 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.43 £20.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.08% +12.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the South West

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the South West

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the South West

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Wiltshire +2 2 £450 -7.22%
Devon - 2 £600 -
Bristol +12 1 £475 -
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (40.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Functional Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile Development
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Test Management
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Xamarin