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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 1.34% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £463 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -7.22%

All Process & 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 121 84 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 81.21% 92.31% 75.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 57 50
10th Percentile £305 £300 £143
25th Percentile £353 £350 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +17.65% -19.05%
75th Percentile £546 £588 £547
90th Percentile £725 £638 £615
Wiltshire median daily rate £538 £558 £538
% change year-on-year -3.72% +3.76% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £21.20 - -
25th Percentile £30.36 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £16.50
75th Percentile £49.13 - £30.25
90th Percentile £49.75 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £24.49 £25.15 £15.52
% change year-on-year -2.63% +62.05% -76.31%

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Conga
1 1 (50.00%) GoCardless
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce