API Testing Contracts in the Thames Valley

API Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 147 143
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 -10
Contract jobs citing API Testing 1 1 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.038% 0.035% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.038% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £324
25th Percentile - - £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £405
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.82%
75th Percentile - - £502
90th Percentile - - £541
South East median daily rate £438 £453 £413
% change year-on-year -3.31% +9.70% -9.84%
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 - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £68.17
% change year-on-year - - +36.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,300 2,605 3,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.02% 91.66% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,293 1,807 2,067
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.76% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 63 82
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.46
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +200.69% -17.05%
75th Percentile £63.72 £66.21 £24.69
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.49
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -17.31%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the Thames Valley

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Testing in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the Thames Valley

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 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
Berkshire - 1 - - 6
API Testing
South East

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) QA Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Compatibility Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) V-Model
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe