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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 118 111
Rank change year-on-year -11 -7 +23
Contract jobs citing API Testing 12 3 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.56% 0.17% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.18% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 13
10th Percentile £490 £579 £273
25th Percentile £508 £584 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £606 £568
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +6.83% +19.47%
75th Percentile £606 £622 £675
90th Percentile £643 £624 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £457
% change year-on-year -8.33% +31.43% -3.89%

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 1,944 1,626 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.46% 94.43% 92.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,347 1,103 1,217
10th Percentile £367 £325 £366
25th Percentile £456 £421 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £685 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £765 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 20
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

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 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 4 (33.33%) GitLab
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 4 (33.33%) Postman
2 3 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) JUnit
2 3 (25.00%) Mockito
3 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 2 (16.67%) Gatling
3 2 (16.67%) JMeter
3 2 (16.67%) Selenium
4 1 (8.33%) Appium
4 1 (8.33%) eggPlant
4 1 (8.33%) LoadRunner
4 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
4 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
4 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
4 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (41.67%) Banking
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Credit Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Credit Risk Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Process Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Product Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
3 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Test Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Playwright
2 4 (33.33%) Kafka
2 4 (33.33%) SOAP
3 3 (25.00%) Gherkin
3 3 (25.00%) REST
3 3 (25.00%) WireMock
4 2 (16.67%) JSON
4 2 (16.67%) Spring
4 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 2 (16.67%) XML
4 2 (16.67%) YAML
5 1 (8.33%) .NET
5 1 (8.33%) AssertJ
5 1 (8.33%) HTML
5 1 (8.33%) Middleware
5 1 (8.33%) React
5 1 (8.33%) RESTful
5 1 (8.33%) Web Services
5 1 (8.33%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Credit Risk
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Low-Code
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) BDD
4 5 (41.67%) Agile
4 5 (41.67%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Validation
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
6 2 (16.67%) OOP
6 2 (16.67%) QA Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Refactoring
6 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) TDD
6 2 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (8.33%) Groovy
4 1 (8.33%) Korn
4 1 (8.33%) Kotlin
4 1 (8.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ISEB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Control-M
2 1 (8.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) IBM
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Guidewire
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) SAP