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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 494 475
Rank change year-on-year +58 -19 -5
Contract jobs citing API Testing 101 143 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.30% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.33% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 102 253
10th Percentile £358 £312 £313
25th Percentile £408 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £438
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +7.14% +2.94%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £625 £625 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £463 £440
% change year-on-year +2.70% +5.11% +3.53%
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% +12.24%
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% -18.37%

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 31,578 42,765 64,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.86% 89.99% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,635 30,003 45,576
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £449 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,303 1,521 1,733
10th Percentile £12.84 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.81 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%

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 29 May 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 29 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
London +83 64 £500 -9.09% 10
North of England +26 19 £475 +8.57% 10
Yorkshire +10 10 £550 +20.55% 4
North West +23 8 £450 +25.87% 6
South East +6 8 £438 +2.94% 14
Midlands +12 3 £525 +37.25% 1
West Midlands +9 3 £525 +5.00% 1
South West -10 3 £450 -2.70% 3
North East +10 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 14 (13.86%) Confluence
2 2 (1.98%) Apache
2 2 (1.98%) CMS
2 2 (1.98%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.85%) AWS
2 12 (11.88%) Azure
3 7 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.93%) GitHub
4 6 (5.94%) BrowserStack
5 5 (4.95%) Serverless
6 4 (3.96%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.98%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (1.98%) Firebase
7 2 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.98%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.98%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (1.98%) Sentry
8 1 (0.99%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.99%) Commercetools
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) HTTP
1 4 (3.96%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.97%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.97%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.98%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.98%) Power BI
4 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 47 (46.53%) Postman
2 26 (25.74%) JIRA
3 23 (22.77%) Selenium
4 18 (17.82%) Jenkins
5 15 (14.85%) Git
6 14 (13.86%) Cucumber
6 14 (13.86%) SoapUI
7 12 (11.88%) Cypress.io
7 12 (11.88%) JMeter
7 12 (11.88%) SpecFlow
8 11 (10.89%) JUnit
9 10 (9.90%) Appium
9 10 (9.90%) REST Assured
10 6 (5.94%) Bitbucket
11 5 (4.95%) GitLab
11 5 (4.95%) Visual Studio
11 5 (4.95%) WebDriver
12 4 (3.96%) Artifactory
12 4 (3.96%) LoadRunner
12 4 (3.96%) TestRail
General
1 23 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.89%) Back Office
3 10 (9.90%) Finance
4 8 (7.92%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.93%) Banking
6 6 (5.94%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.97%) Front Office
8 3 (2.97%) Retail
8 3 (2.97%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.97%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Local Government
10 1 (0.99%) Marketing
10 1 (0.99%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (28.71%) Analyst
2 21 (20.79%) Senior
3 20 (19.80%) Tester
4 17 (16.83%) Test Engineer
5 13 (12.87%) Senior Analyst
5 13 (12.87%) Test Analyst
6 11 (10.89%) Automation Tester
6 11 (10.89%) Technical Analyst
7 10 (9.90%) QA Engineer
7 10 (9.90%) Senior Test Analyst
8 9 (8.91%) Business Analyst
8 9 (8.91%) Technical Business Analyst
9 7 (6.93%) Developer
10 6 (5.94%) QA Tester
11 5 (4.95%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Test Automation Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) Development Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) QA Automation Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) Software Development Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.83%) SOAP
2 13 (12.87%) REST
3 12 (11.88%) Gherkin
4 9 (8.91%) XML
5 6 (5.94%) RESTful
6 5 (4.95%) .NET
6 5 (4.95%) JSON
6 5 (4.95%) pytest
7 4 (3.96%) Playwright
7 4 (3.96%) Swagger
7 4 (3.96%) WebdriverIO
8 3 (2.97%) ADO
8 3 (2.97%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (1.98%) FHIR
9 2 (1.98%) Middleware
9 2 (1.98%) Node.js
9 2 (1.98%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.98%) Web Services
10 1 (0.99%) Jest
10 1 (0.99%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.86%) Mobile App
2 11 (10.89%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.98%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.99%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.99%) EPoS
5 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.99%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.99%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.93%) Linux
2 6 (5.94%) Android
2 6 (5.94%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.94%) Windows
3 4 (3.96%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (2.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (71.29%) Test Automation
2 63 (62.38%) Agile
3 30 (29.70%) Scrum
4 28 (27.72%) Software Testing
5 23 (22.77%) DevOps
5 23 (22.77%) Test Strategy
6 21 (20.79%) Acceptance Criteria
6 21 (20.79%) CI/CD
6 21 (20.79%) User Stories
7 20 (19.80%) E-Commerce
8 19 (18.81%) BDD
8 19 (18.81%) Performance Testing
9 18 (17.82%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (16.83%) TDD
11 16 (15.84%) Test Scripting
12 15 (14.85%) Manual Testing
12 15 (14.85%) Microservices
13 13 (12.87%) Functional Testing
13 13 (12.87%) Software Engineering
14 12 (11.88%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 22 (21.78%) Java
2 20 (19.80%) Python
3 17 (16.83%) C#
3 17 (16.83%) JavaScript
4 16 (15.84%) SQL
5 7 (6.93%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.96%) C++
6 4 (3.96%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.96%) Swift
7 1 (0.99%) Bicep
7 1 (0.99%) PHP
7 1 (0.99%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (9.90%) Degree
2 6 (5.94%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) ISTQB
3 5 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.98%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (44.55%) QA
2 8 (7.92%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.95%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.96%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.98%) HL7
System Software
1 7 (6.93%) Docker
2 4 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.96%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 5 (4.95%) Terraform
2 4 (3.96%) Podman
3 3 (2.97%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.99%) Argo
4 1 (0.99%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.99%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (7.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.93%) Oracle
3 3 (2.97%) HP
4 2 (1.98%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.98%) Perfecto Mobile
4 2 (1.98%) Splunk
4 2 (1.98%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.99%) Adobe
5 1 (0.99%) IBM