API Testing Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

API Testing
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring API Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 96 107
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +33
Contract jobs citing API Testing 21 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.25% 0.55% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.64% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 12
10th Percentile £325 £418 £330
25th Percentile £360 £499 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £550 £395
Median % change year-on-year -23.18% +39.24% -1.25%
75th Percentile £489 £575 £409
90th Percentile £563 - £422
England median daily rate £425 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -5.26%

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 1,507 1,241 1,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.02% 84.65% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 980 725 1,171
10th Percentile £249 £293 £306
25th Percentile £375 £406 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £652 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 40 29
10th Percentile £17.48 - £14.89
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.04 £18.82 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +33.05% -11.70% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £26.78
90th Percentile £78.38 £49.50 £44.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing API Testing

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 October 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 13 October 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 - 13 £425 -
West Yorkshire -16 8 £423 -23.18% 5
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 8 (38.10%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (90.48%) Postman
2 11 (52.38%) JIRA
3 10 (47.62%) SoapUI
4 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 7 (33.33%) Selenium
5 6 (28.57%) Cucumber
5 6 (28.57%) Cypress.io
5 6 (28.57%) GitLab
5 6 (28.57%) JMeter
5 6 (28.57%) Maven
5 6 (28.57%) REST Assured
5 6 (28.57%) TestNG
6 3 (14.29%) JUnit
7 1 (4.76%) Git
7 1 (4.76%) IntelliJ
7 1 (4.76%) TestRail
7 1 (4.76%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Analyst
1 10 (47.62%) Test Analyst
2 7 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Tester
5 1 (4.76%) Automation Tester
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Manual Tester
5 1 (4.76%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Manual Tester
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Tester
5 1 (4.76%) Service Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) CentOS
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.76%) SUSE
1 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) CI/CD
2 16 (76.19%) Agile
3 12 (57.14%) Test Management
4 11 (52.38%) Privileged Access Management
4 11 (52.38%) Software Testing
5 10 (47.62%) Identity Access Management
6 9 (42.86%) Cloud Security
6 9 (42.86%) DevSecOps
6 9 (42.86%) Scrum
6 9 (42.86%) Security Testing
6 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
7 8 (38.10%) Kanban
7 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (28.57%) TDD
9 4 (19.05%) BDD
9 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (14.29%) Defect Management
10 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (14.29%) Test Planning
10 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Java
2 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) CISM
1 8 (38.10%) CISSP
1 8 (38.10%) ISTQB
2 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 6 (28.57%) GDPR
2 6 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (28.57%) NIST
2 6 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 6 (28.57%) QA
2 6 (28.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) CyberArk
2 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
3 9 (42.86%) BeyondTrust
3 9 (42.86%) Thycotic
4 8 (38.10%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) VMware