API Testing Contract Job Trends in Swindon

API Testing
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring API Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing API Testing 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 1.02% - 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% - 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £473
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.55%
75th Percentile £388 - £484
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £375 - £473
% change year-on-year - - +14.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82 83 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 83.67% 84.69% 84.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 51 97
10th Percentile £198 £213 £361
25th Percentile £391 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £625
90th Percentile £715 £700 £688
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £551 £550
% change year-on-year +4.36% +0.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £14.36
Median % change year-on-year - - -77.21%
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £22.27 £12.79 £50.00
% change year-on-year +74.08% -74.42% -22.18%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Swindon

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce