API Testing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

API Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring API Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 123 112
Rank change year-on-year -9 -11 +26
Contract jobs citing API Testing 10 4 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.45% 0.23% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.24% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 13
10th Percentile £510 £579 £273
25th Percentile £525 £584 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £606 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +24.23% +2.74%
75th Percentile £638 £622 £675
90th Percentile £645 £624 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £444
% change year-on-year -8.33% +35.21% -6.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 1,643 1,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.33% 94.21% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 1,101 1,216
10th Percentile £368 £325 £371
25th Percentile £456 £423 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £773 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £50.59 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.30% -18.57% +30.84%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing API Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing API Testing

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (40.00%) GitLab
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) JUnit
2 3 (30.00%) Mockito
2 3 (30.00%) Postman
3 2 (20.00%) Gatling
3 2 (20.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) JMeter
4 1 (10.00%) Appium
4 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (10.00%) eggPlant
4 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
4 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
4 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
4 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (50.00%) Banking
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Credit Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer in Test
2 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) KYC Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Process Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Product Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Test Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
1 4 (40.00%) SOAP
2 3 (30.00%) Gherkin
2 3 (30.00%) Playwright
2 3 (30.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) WireMock
3 2 (20.00%) Spring
3 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (20.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) YAML
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) AssertJ
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) Middleware
4 1 (10.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services
4 1 (10.00%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (60.00%) BDD
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (20.00%) AI
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
4 2 (20.00%) OOP
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Refactoring
4 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Validation
4 2 (20.00%) Webhook
5 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) Korn
3 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) ISEB
1 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Control-M
2 1 (10.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Guidewire
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) SAP