API Testing Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

API Testing
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring API Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing API Testing 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.76% 1.06% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £271 - -
25th Percentile £280 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.89% - -
75th Percentile £348 £488 -
90th Percentile £379 - -
South East median daily rate £395 £438 £438
% change year-on-year -9.71% - -7.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 332 159 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 84.26% 84.57% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 107 130
10th Percentile £194 £170 £200
25th Percentile £297 £257 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -2.22% -7.69%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £547
90th Percentile £629 £703 £614
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 27 5
10th Percentile £17.00 - £24.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £18.82 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.06% -32.79% +14.47%
75th Percentile £53.75 £20.69 £29.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.25 £35.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £21.41 £57.35
% change year-on-year +156.89% -62.67% +14.70%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in West Sussex

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing API Testing

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in West Sussex over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in West Sussex

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 14 August 2026. 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
Burgess Hill - 2 £283 - 1
Crawley -8 1 £400 -15.79%
API Testing
South East

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (66.67%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) Newman
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Gen AI Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) pytest
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft