API Testing Contracts in the City of London

API Testing
Central London > City of London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 162 149
Rank change year-on-year +49 -13 -4
Contract jobs citing API Testing 14 14 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.64% 0.38% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.42% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 37
10th Percentile £380 £421 £363
25th Percentile £425 £509 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £456 £563 £444
% change year-on-year -18.89% +26.76% +7.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,985 3,341 3,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.56% 91.66% 91.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,404 2,250 2,956
10th Percentile £356 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £809 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 43
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -15.66% +130.88%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £54.00
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the City of London

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the City of London

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the City of London

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) GitHub
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) SpecFlow
2 5 (35.71%) Postman
2 5 (35.71%) Selenium
3 4 (28.57%) Cypress.io
3 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 4 (28.57%) JMeter
4 2 (14.29%) Appium
4 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 2 (14.29%) JUnit
4 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
4 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
5 1 (7.14%) GitLab
5 1 (7.14%) Mocha
5 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
5 1 (7.14%) TestNG
5 1 (7.14%) TestRail
5 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) QA Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) Behat
2 2 (14.29%) Gherkin
2 2 (14.29%) React Native
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.14%) Jest
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) React
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) Performance Testing
4 6 (42.86%) Test Strategy
5 5 (35.71%) ETRM
6 3 (21.43%) DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) Fintech
7 2 (14.29%) Migration
8 1 (7.14%) Agile
8 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (7.14%) CRM
8 1 (7.14%) Data Migration
8 1 (7.14%) Integration Testing
8 1 (7.14%) Load Testing
8 1 (7.14%) Logistics
8 1 (7.14%) Regression Testing
8 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
8 1 (7.14%) Software Testing
8 1 (7.14%) Test Management
8 1 (7.14%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) C#
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) PHP
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (78.57%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Argo
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform