API Testing Contract Job Trends in East London

API Testing
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring API Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Testing 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in East London 0.93% - 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% - 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £374
25th Percentile - - £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £440
75th Percentile - - £460
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £413 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -11.18% -7.00% +4.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 98 111 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 90.74% 94.87% 96.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 90 127
10th Percentile £186 £190 £300
25th Percentile £400 £316 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% +1.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £585 £598
90th Percentile £785 £700 £684
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile £14.85 £23.33 £21.11
25th Percentile £16.25 £24.24 £21.13
Median hourly rate £17.00 £32.00 £21.80
Median % change year-on-year -46.88% +46.82% +29.35%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £23.09
90th Percentile £18.50 £80.36 £23.48
London median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

API Testing job vacancy trend in East London

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing API Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing API Testing

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing API Testing within the East London region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tower Hamlets - 1 £400 -
API Testing
London

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP