API Testing Contracts in West Yorkshire

API Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 63 89
Rank change year-on-year +10 +26 +21
Contract jobs citing API Testing 11 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.95% 1.03% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.19% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 7
10th Percentile - £335 £408
25th Percentile £263 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -46.36% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £438 £575 £550
90th Percentile £495 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £423 £550 £456
% change year-on-year -23.18% +20.55% +1.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £54.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 523 839 1,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 92.73% 86.41% 91.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 497 951
10th Percentile £284 £300 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £544 £578 £625
90th Percentile £611 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 36 20
10th Percentile - £11.95 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +76.70% -41.04% +13.64%
75th Percentile £30.10 £15.24 £63.75
90th Percentile £34.43 £53.75 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -43.16%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in West Yorkshire

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in West Yorkshire

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in West Yorkshire

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +7 10 £285 -48.18% 10
API Testing
Yorkshire

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 11 (100.00%) Postman
1 11 (100.00%) Selenium
2 10 (90.91%) Cypress.io
3 6 (54.55%) Cucumber
3 6 (54.55%) GitLab
3 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
3 6 (54.55%) JMeter
3 6 (54.55%) Maven
3 6 (54.55%) REST Assured
3 6 (54.55%) TestNG
4 5 (45.45%) JIRA
5 4 (36.36%) SoapUI
6 3 (27.27%) JUnit
7 1 (9.09%) Git
7 1 (9.09%) IntelliJ
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Test Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Tester
3 4 (36.36%) QA Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Automation Tester
5 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (90.91%) Agile
3 7 (63.64%) Non-Functional Testing
3 7 (63.64%) Test Scripting
4 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 6 (54.55%) TDD
4 6 (54.55%) Test Strategy
5 5 (45.45%) Manual Testing
6 4 (36.36%) Agile Project Management
6 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (36.36%) DevOps
6 4 (36.36%) OWASP
6 4 (36.36%) Project Management
6 4 (36.36%) Security Testing
7 3 (27.27%) BDD
7 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (27.27%) Test Planning
8 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
8 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) SC Cleared
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (90.91%) Accessibility
2 7 (63.64%) QA
3 6 (54.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft