API Testing Contracts in the South West

API Testing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 141 157
Rank change year-on-year -10 +16 -21
Contract jobs citing API Testing 3 20 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.092% 0.59% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.66% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 8
10th Percentile - £361 £405
25th Percentile £425 £427 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.76% +0.06%
75th Percentile £494 £496 £514
90th Percentile £505 £543 £543
England median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +2.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,675 3,010 3,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.18% 89.42% 88.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 2,181 2,347
10th Percentile £225 £313 £300
25th Percentile £403 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 314 206
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.29 £21.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £59.90 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +23.56% +7.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.71
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.07 £68.73
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.77 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.99% +47.08% +11.11%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the South West

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the South West

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 4 June 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
Wiltshire -4 2 £450 -7.22%
Bristol +4 1 £475 +5.56%
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (66.67%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile Development
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Xamarin