API Testing Contracts in Wales

API Testing
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - -16
Contract jobs citing API Testing 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.25% - 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £373
25th Percentile £485 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - £425
75th Percentile £495 - £444
90th Percentile - - £448
UK median daily rate £456 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -3.95% +5.56% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 319 549 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 79.16% 86.19% 83.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 423 609
10th Percentile £175 £180 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £574 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 29 31
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.00 £14.31
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.14 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.04% -27.44% +31.58%
75th Percentile £51.75 £25.00 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £49.00 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in Wales

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Testing in Wales.

Daily rate trend for API Testing in Wales

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
South Wales - 1 £490 - 1
API Testing
UK

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA