API Testing Contracts in South Yorkshire

API Testing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring API Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Testing over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing API Testing 15 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.36% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £344 - -
25th Percentile £360 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile £575 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £550 £456
% change year-on-year -22.73% +20.55% +4.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 604 400 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.97% 86.39% 92.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 214 268
10th Percentile £294 £330 £363
25th Percentile £368 £425 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £515 £593
Median % change year-on-year -9.61% -13.15% +18.60%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £688
90th Percentile £625 £645 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 6
10th Percentile £15.00 - £14.63
25th Percentile £17.33 £12.55 £18.31
Median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +43.08% -36.64% +25.58%
75th Percentile £18.87 £20.75 £29.13
90th Percentile - £21.80 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +59.63% -30.65% +5.26%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in South Yorkshire

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing API Testing

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in South Yorkshire

API Testing
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield - 13 £392 -
API Testing
Yorkshire

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
1 8 (53.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Postman
2 12 (80.00%) JIRA
3 10 (66.67%) SoapUI
4 3 (20.00%) Git
5 2 (13.33%) IntelliJ
5 2 (13.33%) Maven
5 2 (13.33%) Selenium
6 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
6 1 (6.67%) JUnit
6 1 (6.67%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Analyst
1 10 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Automation Tester
2 2 (13.33%) Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Security Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) JSON
1 1 (6.67%) RAML
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) SOAP
1 1 (6.67%) Web Services
1 1 (6.67%) XML
1 1 (6.67%) XSD
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) CentOS
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.67%) SUSE
1 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 10 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 10 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 9 (60.00%) Agile
3 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (60.00%) Cloud Security
3 9 (60.00%) DevSecOps
3 9 (60.00%) Security Testing
3 9 (60.00%) Test Management
4 8 (53.33%) Kanban
4 8 (53.33%) Scrum
5 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Functional Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
8 1 (6.67%) DevOps
8 1 (6.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) CISM
1 8 (53.33%) CISSP
1 8 (53.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) GDPR
1 6 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (40.00%) NIST
1 6 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 4 (26.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) CyberArk
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (60.00%) BeyondTrust
2 9 (60.00%) Thycotic
3 8 (53.33%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) VMware