API Testing Contracts in Manchester

API Testing
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 105 125
Rank change year-on-year +14 +20 -34
Contract jobs citing API Testing 6 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.42% 0.39% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.43% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 14
10th Percentile £396 - £290
25th Percentile £425 £285 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £290 £410
Median % change year-on-year +63.79% -29.27% -2.38%
75th Percentile £500 £438 £488
90th Percentile £513 £468 £584
North West median daily rate £450 £358 £420
% change year-on-year +25.87% -14.88% -0.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,247 1,618 2,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.36% 90.49% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1,188 1,827
10th Percentile £325 £318 £264
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 55 52
10th Percentile £12.46 £15.73 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.28 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% +17.43%
75th Percentile £61.25 £39.80 £56.25
90th Percentile £73.30 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.34%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in Manchester

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in Manchester

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in Manchester

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) BrowserStack
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (33.33%) Appium
3 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Postman
4 1 (16.67%) TestCafe
General
1 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) pytest
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
1 2 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (16.67%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Conversational AI
4 2 (33.33%) Conversational UI
4 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) QA Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Perfecto Mobile