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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 114 139
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 +35
Contract jobs citing API Testing 3 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.63% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.68% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 13
10th Percentile - £363 £290
25th Percentile £575 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £568 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +19.47% +5.56%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile - - £725
Central London median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.58% +0.05% +5.56%

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 1,657 1,905 2,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.20% 92.07% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,207 1,901
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £706
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

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
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 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP CRM
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Billing
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) CRM Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SAP CRM Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Test Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) ABAP
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 API Testing jobs in Central London