API Testing Contracts in Yorkshire

API Testing
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 93 112
Rank change year-on-year +14 +19 +5
Contract jobs citing API Testing 13 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.28% 0.41% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 0.48% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 9
10th Percentile - £331 £410
25th Percentile £263 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £463
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% +5.41% +2.78%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £550
90th Percentile £575 - -
England median daily rate £425 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -8.11% -2.63% +5.85%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate - £66.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - +22.22% -1.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in Yorkshire

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in Yorkshire

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in Yorkshire

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Yorkshire - 7 £510 - 2
West Yorkshire +14 6 £275 -43.59% 1
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) InfluxDB
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) Selenium
2 11 (84.62%) Postman
3 10 (76.92%) JIRA
4 6 (46.15%) Git
5 5 (38.46%) Cypress.io
5 5 (38.46%) IntelliJ
5 5 (38.46%) Maven
6 4 (30.77%) SoapUI
7 2 (15.38%) JMeter
8 1 (7.69%) JUnit
8 1 (7.69%) REST Assured
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Tester
2 6 (46.15%) QA Tester
3 4 (30.77%) Automation Tester
4 2 (15.38%) Manual Tester
4 2 (15.38%) QA Manual Tester
5 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
1 1 (7.69%) RAML
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) SOAP
1 1 (7.69%) Web Services
1 1 (7.69%) XML
1 1 (7.69%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (61.54%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) Test Strategy
4 6 (46.15%) DevOps
4 6 (46.15%) Manual Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Agile Project Management
5 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (30.77%) OWASP
5 4 (30.77%) Project Management
5 4 (30.77%) Security Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (15.38%) Benchmarking
7 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 2 (15.38%) Data Validation
7 2 (15.38%) Functional Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 2 (15.38%) Validation
7 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (76.92%) QA
2 4 (30.77%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce