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 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 107 114 164
Rank change year-on-year +7 +50 -17
Contract jobs citing API Testing 12 13 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.68% 0.59% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.65% 0.42%
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% +25.00%
75th Percentile £438 £625 £625
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £425 £463 £563
% change year-on-year -8.11% -17.78% +26.76%

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 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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 (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