API Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

API Testing
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 334 376
Rank change year-on-year -23 +42 -16
Contract jobs citing API Testing 41 121 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.51% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.56% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 87 119
10th Percentile £313 £303 £313
25th Percentile £363 £410 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £420
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +10.12% -1.18%
75th Percentile £500 £513 £478
90th Percentile £575 £550 £514
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £24.30
25th Percentile - £52.00 £34.88
Median hourly rate - £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -1.82% +10.00%
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% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,539 21,424 27,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.73% 89.49% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,477 14,871 19,220
10th Percentile £250 £255 £232
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,058 1,303 1,363
10th Percentile £12.33 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing API Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the UK excluding London

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the UK excluding London

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the UK excluding London

API Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for API Testing in the UK excluding London

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +18 21 £385 -12.00% 12
North West +14 13 £385 -9.41% 5
South East +22 8 £438 -7.89% 17
Yorkshire +12 7 £488 +5.41% 7
South West +16 5 £475 - 4
Midlands +15 3 £525 +24.26% 4
West Midlands +10 3 £525 +23.53% 4
Scotland +3 3 £375 -21.05% 3
North East +18 1 £310 -
Wales - 1 £490 - 4
API Testing
UK

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (14.63%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.51%) AWS
2 6 (14.63%) Azure
3 5 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.76%) BrowserStack
5 3 (7.32%) GitHub
6 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.88%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (2.44%) Commercetools
7 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.44%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (4.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (34.15%) Jenkins
1 14 (34.15%) Postman
2 13 (31.71%) JIRA
3 9 (21.95%) Cucumber
4 7 (17.07%) Git
5 6 (14.63%) Bitbucket
5 6 (14.63%) Selenium
6 5 (12.20%) Cypress.io
7 4 (9.76%) Artifactory
7 4 (9.76%) JUnit
8 3 (7.32%) GitLab
8 3 (7.32%) Visual Studio
9 2 (4.88%) Appium
9 2 (4.88%) Gatling
9 2 (4.88%) REST Assured
9 2 (4.88%) TestCafe
9 2 (4.88%) Zephyr
10 1 (2.44%) JMeter
10 1 (2.44%) SoapUI
General
1 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.88%) Retail
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Marketing
4 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Test Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Senior
3 8 (19.51%) Analyst
4 7 (17.07%) Test Analyst
4 7 (17.07%) Tester
5 5 (12.20%) QA Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Automation Tester
6 4 (9.76%) Development Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) QA Automation Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Software Development Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Test Development Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (4.88%) C++ Software Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Manual Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) RESTful
2 5 (12.20%) Gherkin
2 5 (12.20%) Playwright
2 5 (12.20%) XML
3 4 (9.76%) .NET
3 4 (9.76%) SOAP
4 3 (7.32%) JSON
5 2 (4.88%) OAuth
5 2 (4.88%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.88%) OpenID
5 2 (4.88%) pytest
5 2 (4.88%) Web Services
5 2 (4.88%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (2.44%) HTML
6 1 (2.44%) Jest
6 1 (2.44%) Node.js
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (2.44%) REST
6 1 (2.44%) Swagger
6 1 (2.44%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.44%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) Embedded Linux
1 4 (9.76%) Linux
1 4 (9.76%) Windows
2 2 (4.88%) Android
2 2 (4.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (73.17%) Agile
2 26 (63.41%) Test Automation
3 14 (34.15%) Software Testing
4 11 (26.83%) Scrum
4 11 (26.83%) Test Scripting
5 10 (24.39%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (21.95%) Manual Testing
7 6 (14.63%) DevOps
7 6 (14.63%) E-Commerce
7 6 (14.63%) Scenario Testing
8 5 (12.20%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (12.20%) Functional Testing
8 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (12.20%) SDET
9 4 (9.76%) Integration Testing
9 4 (9.76%) Performance Management
9 4 (9.76%) Performance Testing
9 4 (9.76%) System Testing
9 4 (9.76%) Test Strategy
9 4 (9.76%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) Java
2 8 (19.51%) JavaScript
2 8 (19.51%) Python
3 7 (17.07%) SQL
4 4 (9.76%) C#
4 4 (9.76%) C++
5 2 (4.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Degree
2 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (34.15%) QA
2 3 (7.32%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (9.76%) VirtualBox
2 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Oracle
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.88%) Perfecto Mobile
2 2 (4.88%) Xamarin
3 1 (2.44%) Adobe
3 1 (2.44%) HP
3 1 (2.44%) Workday