API Testing Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

API Testing
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring API Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing API Testing 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.47% - 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £211 - -
25th Percentile £212 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £214 - £425
75th Percentile £412 - £438
90th Percentile £531 - -
South East median daily rate £398 £475 £438
% change year-on-year -16.32% +8.57% +2.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

API Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 672 218 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 78.32% 94.37% 81.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 140 274
10th Percentile £322 £213 £270
25th Percentile £440 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +1.20% -3.96%
75th Percentile £600 £564 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £645
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.96% +0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 31 29
10th Percentile - - £15.85
25th Percentile £15.05 £14.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.12 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% -39.52% +84.23%
75th Percentile £18.32 £20.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £19.34 £62.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

API Testing job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing API Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing API Testing

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in Buckinghamshire

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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
Milton Keynes - 4 £214 - 2
API Testing
South East

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (25.00%) MSTest
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Backend Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (50.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
2 2 (50.00%) SOLID
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared