API Testing Contracts in the North West

API Testing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 140 166
Rank change year-on-year +15 +26 -38
Contract jobs citing API Testing 8 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.30% 0.29% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.32% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 14
10th Percentile £313 - £300
25th Percentile £354 £285 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +13.10%
75th Percentile £500 £510 £497
90th Percentile £508 £513 £584
England median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,277 2,793 3,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.86% 90.24% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,451 1,960 2,613
10th Percentile £308 £313 £240
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 138 169
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.02 £23.06
Median % change year-on-year -30.92% +51.88% +26.48%
75th Percentile £46.18 £48.56 £50.78
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the North West

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the North West

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the North West

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Manchester +16 6 £475 +32.87% 3
Cheshire +1 2 £325 -35.00% 3
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) BrowserStack
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Commercetools
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (50.00%) Postman
1 4 (50.00%) Selenium
2 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) Appium
3 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) GitLab
3 2 (25.00%) Zephyr
4 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
4 1 (12.50%) TestCafe
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
1 4 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) QA Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) pytest
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
1 2 (25.00%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (12.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) BDD
3 3 (37.50%) Manual Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Conversational AI
4 2 (25.00%) Conversational UI
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) QA Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Time Management
5 1 (12.50%) Order Management
5 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (12.50%) System Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (12.50%) HP