API Testing Contract Job Trends in Central London

API Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring API Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 112 130
Rank change year-on-year -20 +18 +49
Contract jobs citing API Testing 2 16 14
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.10% 0.66% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.72% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 13
10th Percentile £579 £273 £290
25th Percentile £584 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £565 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +18.95% -17.39%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £675
90th Percentile £624 £675 £715
London median daily rate £454 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.42% -5.00% -4.76%

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 1,838 2,215 2,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.64% 91.64% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 1,377 1,805
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £423 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £668 £688 £694
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
London median daily rate £527 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.14% -3.08% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 28 18
10th Percentile £19.33 £19.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £30.19 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +30.84% -48.06%
75th Percentile £41.89 £65.63 £62.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £119.65 £70.25
London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.44
% change year-on-year -21.33% +5.81% -10.28%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Central London

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing API Testing

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 27 November 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 -10 2 £606 +7.06%
API Testing
London

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Hamcrest
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Assurance
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk