API Testing Contracts in Central London

API Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring API Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited API Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 120 158
Rank change year-on-year +3 +38 -9
Contract jobs citing API Testing 12 13 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.60% 0.53% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.59% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 12
10th Percentile - - £421
25th Percentile £413 £425 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -17.78% +26.76%
75th Percentile £438 £625 £625
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £405 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -19.00% -9.09% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in Central London

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in Central London

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +7 12 £425 -8.11%
API Testing
London

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP CRM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Selenium
2 10 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (83.33%) JIRA
2 10 (83.33%) Postman
3 9 (75.00%) REST Assured
4 7 (58.33%) Git
5 2 (16.67%) JMeter
5 2 (16.67%) LoadRunner
6 1 (8.33%) Appium
6 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (8.33%) Gatling
6 1 (8.33%) GitLab
6 1 (8.33%) Hamcrest
6 1 (8.33%) JUnit
6 1 (8.33%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Billing
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Python Engineer
1 7 (58.33%) Test Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 6 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) CRM Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) SAP CRM Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) pytest
1 7 (58.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 12 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
3 9 (75.00%) Test Scripting
4 8 (66.67%) BDD
5 7 (58.33%) Open Source
6 4 (33.33%) Agile
6 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (33.33%) Scrum
7 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
7 3 (25.00%) DevOps
7 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
7 3 (25.00%) Regression Testing
8 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (16.67%) QA Automation
8 2 (16.67%) Validation
9 1 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
9 1 (8.33%) SDLC
9 1 (8.33%) Software Delivery
9 1 (8.33%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk