API Testing Contracts in England

API Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 450 505 469
Rank change year-on-year +55 -36 +5
Contract jobs citing API Testing 95 154 314
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.30% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.34% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 107 247
10th Percentile £344 £325 £313
25th Percentile £383 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £525
90th Percentile £600 £625 £597
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £30.50
25th Percentile - £52.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £66.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -1.82% -
75th Percentile - £56.00 £62.87
90th Percentile - - £66.10
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £54.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% +35.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,171 45,739 64,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.26% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,096 32,069 45,706
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 1,617 1,773
10th Percentile £12.89 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.23
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in England

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in England

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in England

API Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for API Testing in England

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
London +105 56 £500 -9.09% 14
North of England +11 19 £380 -13.14% 8
North West +15 13 £385 -9.41% 6
South East +19 8 £438 -7.89% 14
Yorkshire +10 5 £388 -16.22% 2
South West +11 4 £538 +13.16% 3
West Midlands +21 3 £525 +23.53% 2
Midlands +17 3 £525 +24.26% 2
North East +20 1 £310 -
API Testing
UK

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (12.63%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) Apache
2 2 (2.11%) CMS
3 1 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.05%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.11%) AWS
2 13 (13.68%) Azure
3 8 (8.42%) GitHub
4 7 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.21%) BrowserStack
6 3 (3.16%) Serverless
7 2 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.11%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (2.11%) Sentry
8 1 (1.05%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.05%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.05%) Commercetools
8 1 (1.05%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.05%) SaaS
8 1 (1.05%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.21%) HTTP
1 4 (4.21%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.05%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 37 (38.95%) Postman
2 27 (28.42%) JIRA
3 24 (25.26%) Jenkins
3 24 (25.26%) Selenium
4 23 (24.21%) Cucumber
5 16 (16.84%) Git
6 15 (15.79%) Cypress.io
7 14 (14.74%) SoapUI
8 12 (12.63%) JMeter
9 11 (11.58%) SpecFlow
10 10 (10.53%) REST Assured
11 9 (9.47%) Appium
11 9 (9.47%) JUnit
12 6 (6.32%) Bitbucket
13 5 (5.26%) GitLab
14 4 (4.21%) Artifactory
14 4 (4.21%) LoadRunner
14 4 (4.21%) TestRail
14 4 (4.21%) Visual Studio
14 4 (4.21%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.42%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.37%) Finance
4 6 (6.32%) Back Office
5 4 (4.21%) Banking
5 4 (4.21%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Front Office
6 3 (3.16%) Retail
6 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.16%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Marketing
7 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Electronics
8 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.05%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (24.21%) Tester
2 19 (20.00%) Analyst
3 18 (18.95%) Test Engineer
4 17 (17.89%) Senior
5 13 (13.68%) QA Engineer
6 12 (12.63%) Automation Tester
7 10 (10.53%) Technical Analyst
8 8 (8.42%) Business Analyst
8 8 (8.42%) Technical Business Analyst
8 8 (8.42%) Test Analyst
9 7 (7.37%) Senior Test Engineer
10 6 (6.32%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (6.32%) Senior Test Analyst
11 5 (5.26%) QA Tester
12 4 (4.21%) Development Engineer
12 4 (4.21%) QA Automation Engineer
12 4 (4.21%) Software Development Engineer
12 4 (4.21%) Software Engineer
12 4 (4.21%) Test Development Engineer
13 3 (3.16%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.84%) REST
1 16 (16.84%) SOAP
2 12 (12.63%) RESTful
3 10 (10.53%) Gherkin
4 9 (9.47%) Playwright
4 9 (9.47%) XML
5 6 (6.32%) .NET
6 5 (5.26%) JSON
6 5 (5.26%) pytest
6 5 (5.26%) Swagger
7 4 (4.21%) Web Services
8 3 (3.16%) ADO
8 3 (3.16%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (3.16%) Jest
8 3 (3.16%) Node.js
9 2 (2.11%) Behat
9 2 (2.11%) FHIR
9 2 (2.11%) OAuth2
9 2 (2.11%) OpenAPI
9 2 (2.11%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.63%) Mobile App
2 3 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.11%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.05%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.05%) EPoS
4 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.05%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.05%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.05%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.37%) Linux
2 6 (6.32%) Android
2 6 (6.32%) Apple iOS
2 6 (6.32%) Windows
3 4 (4.21%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (3.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (68.42%) Test Automation
2 54 (56.84%) Agile
3 22 (23.16%) Scrum
4 19 (20.00%) BDD
4 19 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 19 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 19 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 18 (18.95%) DevOps
5 18 (18.95%) Test Strategy
6 17 (17.89%) Performance Testing
7 15 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (15.79%) User Stories
8 14 (14.74%) Acceptance Criteria
8 14 (14.74%) Microservices
9 13 (13.68%) TDD
10 12 (12.63%) Functional Testing
10 12 (12.63%) Test Scripting
11 11 (11.58%) Test Planning
12 10 (10.53%) Manual Testing
12 10 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 26 (27.37%) Java
2 20 (21.05%) JavaScript
2 20 (21.05%) Python
3 15 (15.79%) SQL
4 14 (14.74%) C#
5 7 (7.37%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.21%) C++
6 4 (4.21%) Kotlin
6 4 (4.21%) Swift
7 2 (2.11%) PHP
7 2 (2.11%) Scala
8 1 (1.05%) Bash
8 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.05%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (12.63%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.58%) Degree
3 10 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.26%) ISTQB
5 4 (4.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (45.26%) QA
2 12 (12.63%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.21%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.11%) HL7
5 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.32%) Docker
2 4 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.21%) VirtualBox
3 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.05%) Argo
2 1 (1.05%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.05%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (7.37%) Oracle
2 3 (3.16%) HP
3 2 (2.11%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.11%) Perfecto Mobile
3 2 (2.11%) Splunk
4 1 (1.05%) Adobe
4 1 (1.05%) IBM
4 1 (1.05%) SAP
4 1 (1.05%) Xamarin