API Testing Contracts in the South East

API Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 213 237
Rank change year-on-year +21 +24 -33
Contract jobs citing API Testing 8 13 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.22% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.25% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 16
10th Percentile £311 - £319
25th Percentile £367 £410 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £411
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +15.64% -10.22%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £480
90th Percentile - - £531
England median daily rate £456 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -4.95% +6.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% -1.82% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the South East

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the South East

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the South East

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Surrey - 5 £450 - 2
East Sussex +8 2 £275 -42.11% 1
Thames Valley +8 1 - - 9
Berkshire - 1 - - 6
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
2 4 (50.00%) Artifactory
2 4 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) JMeter
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) TestCafe
3 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Test Development Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Software Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
1 4 (50.00%) SOAP
1 4 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) Software Testing
4 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (62.50%) Scrum
4 5 (62.50%) SDET
5 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (50.00%) Manual Testing
5 4 (50.00%) Open Source
5 4 (50.00%) Performance Management
5 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (12.50%) Compatibility Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
6 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
6 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
6 1 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) C++
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (50.00%) VirtualBox
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe