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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 108 111
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 +46
Contract jobs citing API Testing 10 12 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.43% 0.69% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.74% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 12
10th Percentile £418 - £380
25th Percentile £510 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £456
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -6.85% -20.65%
75th Percentile £709 £438 £625
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £535 £425 £456
% change year-on-year +25.88% -6.85% -20.65%

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 1,957 1,631 1,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.98% 93.41% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,329 1,030 1,393
10th Percentile £363 £350 £351
25th Percentile £450 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £823
Central London median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the City of London

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) GitHub
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (30.00%) Serverless
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (60.00%) JIRA
2 6 (60.00%) Postman
3 5 (50.00%) Git
3 5 (50.00%) GitLab
4 4 (40.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (30.00%) JUnit
5 3 (30.00%) Mockito
5 3 (30.00%) Selenium
6 2 (20.00%) REST Assured
7 1 (10.00%) Gatling
7 1 (10.00%) JMeter
7 1 (10.00%) Robot Framework
7 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
7 1 (10.00%) TestRail
7 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer in Test
2 2 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Credit Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) KYC Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Product Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Gherkin
1 4 (40.00%) Playwright
2 3 (30.00%) Kafka
2 3 (30.00%) SOAP
2 3 (30.00%) Spring
2 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (30.00%) WireMock
2 3 (30.00%) YAML
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) WPF
4 1 (10.00%) ADO
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (10.00%) pytest
4 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) BDD
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) ETL
3 3 (30.00%) Issue Tracking
3 3 (30.00%) OOP
3 3 (30.00%) SDET
3 3 (30.00%) Validation
3 3 (30.00%) Webhook
4 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (20.00%) Data Validation
4 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Python
4 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Workday