API Testing Contracts in the City of London

API Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 111 146
Rank change year-on-year -1 +35 +19
Contract jobs citing API Testing 8 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.46% 0.61% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.67% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 17
10th Percentile - £380 £413
25th Percentile £413 £444 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -1.09% +18.92%
75th Percentile £438 £625 £675
90th Percentile - - £725
Central London median daily rate £425 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -10.57% -13.59% +22.22%

All Process and 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 1,649 1,929 3,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.80% 91.08% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 1,338 2,109
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 25
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.61
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £53.75
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the City of London

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the City of London

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP CRM
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (25.00%) Tricentis Tosca
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Selenium
2 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (75.00%) JIRA
2 6 (75.00%) Postman
3 5 (62.50%) REST Assured
4 3 (37.50%) Git
5 2 (25.00%) JMeter
5 2 (25.00%) LoadRunner
6 1 (12.50%) Appium
6 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
6 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
6 1 (12.50%) Gatling
6 1 (12.50%) GitLab
6 1 (12.50%) Hamcrest
6 1 (12.50%) JUnit
6 1 (12.50%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Billing
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Python Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) CRM Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP CRM Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) pytest
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 8 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Test Scripting
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) BDD
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Scrum
5 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Open Source
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Regression Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (25.00%) QA Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Validation
7 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
7 1 (12.50%) SDLC
7 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
7 1 (12.50%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk