API Testing Contracts

API Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 507 491
Rank change year-on-year +32 -16 +3
Contract jobs citing API Testing 111 214 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.35% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.39% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 158 328
10th Percentile £333 £339 £320
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £625 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £463 £421
% change year-on-year -8.11% +9.92% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £19.58
25th Percentile - £52.00 £23.06
Median hourly rate £66.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +35.00% -
75th Percentile - £56.00 £60.19
90th Percentile - - £65.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -1.82% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,706 54,523 81,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 89.87% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,375 37,727 57,191
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 1,789 1,947
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -
75th Percentile £58.70 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year -2.78% +80.41% -7.83%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the UK

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the UK

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the UK

API Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Testing.

Hourly rate trend for API Testing in the UK

API Testing
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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
England +56 98 £463 -5.85% 52
London +99 55 £500 -9.09% 15
Work from Home +69 50 £470 -1.05% 24
UK excluding London -16 39 £425 -8.11% 39
North of England +23 19 £380 -15.56% 12
North West +18 13 £385 -9.41% 7
South East +6 8 £438 -7.89% 11
Yorkshire +12 5 £388 -20.51% 4
South West +13 4 £538 +13.16% 2
Scotland +5 4 £375 -20.00% 3
Midlands +24 3 £525 +24.26% 5
West Midlands +17 3 £525 +23.53% 3
North East +22 1 £310 - 1
Wales - 1 £490 - 2

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (17.12%) Confluence
2 2 (1.80%) Apache
2 2 (1.80%) CMS
3 1 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.32%) AWS
2 20 (18.02%) Azure
3 15 (13.51%) GitHub
4 6 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.50%) BrowserStack
6 3 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.70%) Sauce Labs
6 3 (2.70%) Serverless
7 2 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.80%) Sentry
7 2 (1.80%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.90%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.90%) Commercetools
8 1 (0.90%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) HTTP
1 4 (3.60%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 40 (36.04%) Postman
2 38 (34.23%) JIRA
3 29 (26.13%) Cucumber
4 28 (25.23%) Jenkins
5 27 (24.32%) Selenium
6 20 (18.02%) Git
7 17 (15.32%) Cypress.io
8 13 (11.71%) SoapUI
9 12 (10.81%) JMeter
9 12 (10.81%) REST Assured
10 11 (9.91%) SpecFlow
11 10 (9.01%) Appium
12 9 (8.11%) JUnit
13 7 (6.31%) Bitbucket
14 6 (5.41%) GitLab
14 6 (5.41%) WebDriver
14 6 (5.41%) Zephyr
15 5 (4.50%) Maven
16 4 (3.60%) Artifactory
16 4 (3.60%) LoadRunner
General
1 26 (23.42%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.01%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.11%) Finance
4 6 (5.41%) Back Office
5 5 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.60%) Banking
6 4 (3.60%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.70%) Front Office
7 3 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.70%) Retail
7 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.70%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (1.80%) Marketing
9 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Electronics
9 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (23.42%) Analyst
2 24 (21.62%) Tester
3 20 (18.02%) Test Engineer
4 19 (17.12%) Senior
5 15 (13.51%) Technical Analyst
6 14 (12.61%) QA Engineer
7 13 (11.71%) Automation Tester
8 10 (9.01%) Test Analyst
9 7 (6.31%) Business Analyst
9 7 (6.31%) Senior Test Engineer
9 7 (6.31%) Technical Business Analyst
10 6 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (5.41%) Senior Test Analyst
11 5 (4.50%) QA Automation Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) QA Tester
11 5 (4.50%) Test Specialist
12 4 (3.60%) Development Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) Software Development Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) Test Automation Specialist
12 4 (3.60%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (20.72%) REST
2 15 (13.51%) SOAP
3 13 (11.71%) Playwright
4 12 (10.81%) RESTful
5 11 (9.91%) Swagger
6 10 (9.01%) Gherkin
7 9 (8.11%) XML
8 8 (7.21%) OpenAPI
9 7 (6.31%) .NET
9 7 (6.31%) JSON
10 6 (5.41%) pytest
10 6 (5.41%) WebdriverIO
11 4 (3.60%) .NET Framework
11 4 (3.60%) Web Services
12 3 (2.70%) ADO
12 3 (2.70%) FIX Protocol
12 3 (2.70%) Jest
12 3 (2.70%) Node.js
13 2 (1.80%) FHIR
13 2 (1.80%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.91%) Mobile App
2 8 (7.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.80%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.90%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.90%) EPoS
6 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.90%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.90%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.31%) Linux
2 6 (5.41%) Android
2 6 (5.41%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.41%) Windows
3 4 (3.60%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (73.87%) Test Automation
2 63 (56.76%) Agile
3 28 (25.23%) BDD
4 24 (21.62%) DevOps
5 22 (19.82%) Scrum
6 20 (18.02%) CI/CD
6 20 (18.02%) Software Testing
6 20 (18.02%) User Stories
7 19 (17.12%) Acceptance Criteria
7 19 (17.12%) TDD
7 19 (17.12%) Test Strategy
8 18 (16.22%) E-Commerce
8 18 (16.22%) Performance Testing
9 17 (15.32%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (13.51%) Scenario Testing
10 15 (13.51%) Software Engineering
11 14 (12.61%) Functional Testing
11 14 (12.61%) Microservices
11 14 (12.61%) Test Scripting
12 13 (11.71%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.42%) Java
2 23 (20.72%) JavaScript
3 21 (18.92%) Python
4 15 (13.51%) C#
5 14 (12.61%) SQL
6 11 (9.91%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.60%) C++
7 4 (3.60%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.60%) Swift
8 2 (1.80%) PHP
8 2 (1.80%) Scala
9 1 (0.90%) ABAP
9 1 (0.90%) Bash
9 1 (0.90%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.90%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.91%) Degree
3 10 (9.01%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.50%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (47.75%) QA
2 15 (13.51%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.60%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.80%) HL7
5 1 (0.90%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.41%) Docker
2 4 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.60%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.90%) Argo
2 1 (0.90%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.90%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (8.11%) Oracle
2 8 (7.21%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.70%) HP
3 3 (2.70%) Perfecto Mobile
3 3 (2.70%) SAP
4 2 (1.80%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.80%) Splunk
5 1 (0.90%) Adobe
5 1 (0.90%) IBM
5 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.90%) Workday