API Testing Contracts in the East of England

API Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 78 - 117
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing API Testing 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.43% - 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £305
25th Percentile £313 - £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.15%
75th Percentile £438 - £500
90th Percentile £498 - £519
England median daily rate £425 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -8.11% -2.63% +5.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the East of England

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the East of England

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the East of England

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 £325 - 1
Essex - 1 - - 2
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Electronics
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) C++ Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer in Test
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Office Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) Groovy
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Ingenico