API Testing Contracts in Scotland

API Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 131 154
Rank change year-on-year +12 +23 -3
Contract jobs citing API Testing 4 37 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.19% 1.34% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 1.45% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 30 15
10th Percentile - £349 £290
25th Percentile £363 £417 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +11.76% -3.41%
75th Percentile £478 £532 £475
90th Percentile £484 £575 £548
UK median daily rate £466 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -1.84% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £54.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% +35.00% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,904 2,559 3,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.23% 92.55% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,146 1,839 2,293
10th Percentile £220 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £577 £557 £550
90th Percentile £661 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 56 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.04 £19.45
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.86 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -57.86% -0.01%
75th Percentile £46.24 £49.24 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.93 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in Scotland

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in Scotland

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 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
Glasgow +12 2 £375 -14.29% 1
API Testing
UK

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) WinForms
1 2 (50.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) VB
1 2 (50.00%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Infragistics
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle