API Testing Contracts in England

API Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 358 444 494
Rank change year-on-year +86 +50 -14
Contract jobs citing API Testing 127 98 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.30% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 87 112
10th Percentile £300 £350 £325
25th Percentile £342 £386 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -2.63% +5.85%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £550
90th Percentile £538 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £405 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -1.82%
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - +22.22% +35.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in England

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in England

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in England

API Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for API Testing in England

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London +52 70 £405 -19.00% 39
North of England +26 28 £400 +3.90% 68
Midlands +35 16 £450 -14.29% 62
Yorkshire +14 13 £400 -17.95% 27
North West +13 9 £447 +16.10% 29
West Midlands +19 8 £438 -16.67% 32
East Midlands - 8 £450 - 27
South East +44 6 £475 +8.57% 62
North East +5 6 £371 +19.74% 12
East of England - 4 £325 - 44
South West +43 2 £463 -2.63% 31
API Testing
UK

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (10.24%) Confluence
2 2 (1.57%) CICS
2 2 (1.57%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) Appian
3 1 (0.79%) CMS
3 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.79%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (25.20%) AWS
2 24 (18.90%) Azure
3 18 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (9.45%) BrowserStack
5 8 (6.30%) GitHub
6 5 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.15%) SaaS
7 4 (3.15%) Serverless
8 3 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.57%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.79%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.79%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (0.79%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.79%) Sauce Labs
10 1 (0.79%) Slack
10 1 (0.79%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.15%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.36%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.36%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.57%) DB2
4 2 (1.57%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.57%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.57%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.79%) Big Data
5 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 78 (61.42%) Postman
2 57 (44.88%) Selenium
3 47 (37.01%) JIRA
4 42 (33.07%) Jenkins
5 37 (29.13%) REST Assured
6 34 (26.77%) Git
7 33 (25.98%) Cypress.io
8 22 (17.32%) SoapUI
9 21 (16.54%) JMeter
10 19 (14.96%) Cucumber
11 14 (11.02%) Appium
12 10 (7.87%) GitLab
13 5 (3.94%) IntelliJ
13 5 (3.94%) JUnit
13 5 (3.94%) Maven
13 5 (3.94%) SpecFlow
13 5 (3.94%) WebDriver
14 4 (3.15%) Gatling
14 4 (3.15%) LoadRunner
15 3 (2.36%) Travis CI
General
1 41 (32.28%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (14.96%) Finance
4 16 (12.60%) Public Sector
5 15 (11.81%) Banking
6 6 (4.72%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.36%) Electronics
7 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.36%) Marketing
7 3 (2.36%) Private Banking
8 2 (1.57%) French Language
8 2 (1.57%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.57%) Retail
8 2 (1.57%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Aviation
9 1 (0.79%) Billing
Job Titles
1 39 (30.71%) Test Engineer
2 31 (24.41%) Tester
3 20 (15.75%) Senior
4 16 (12.60%) Test Automation Engineer
5 15 (11.81%) Senior Test Engineer
6 14 (11.02%) QA Engineer
7 12 (9.45%) Lead
7 12 (9.45%) Test Leader
8 10 (7.87%) QA Tester
9 9 (7.09%) Automation Tester
9 9 (7.09%) Python Engineer
10 8 (6.30%) Analyst
11 7 (5.51%) Automation Test Lead
12 6 (4.72%) Developer
12 6 (4.72%) QA Test Engineer
12 6 (4.72%) Test Manager
13 5 (3.94%) Test Analyst
14 4 (3.15%) Consultant
14 4 (3.15%) Quality Engineer
14 4 (3.15%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.90%) REST
2 16 (12.60%) Playwright
3 11 (8.66%) pytest
4 9 (7.09%) Kafka
5 7 (5.51%) RESTful
6 6 (4.72%) .NET
6 6 (4.72%) SOAP
6 6 (4.72%) Web Services
7 4 (3.15%) JSON
7 4 (3.15%) XML
8 3 (2.36%) Node.js
8 3 (2.36%) PySpark
9 2 (1.57%) ADO
9 2 (1.57%) CSS
9 2 (1.57%) Gherkin
9 2 (1.57%) HTML
9 2 (1.57%) J2EE
9 2 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.57%) RAML
9 2 (1.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.51%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.94%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.94%) Onboarding
2 5 (3.94%) Online Banking
3 4 (3.15%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.57%) Housing Association
4 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.57%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.57%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (1.57%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (1.57%) Replication
4 2 (1.57%) VSAM
5 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.94%) Windows
2 4 (3.15%) Android
3 3 (2.36%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.36%) Linux
4 2 (1.57%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (89.76%) Test Automation
2 71 (55.91%) Agile
3 58 (45.67%) CI/CD
4 41 (32.28%) Test Strategy
5 39 (30.71%) DevOps
6 38 (29.92%) Test Scripting
7 33 (25.98%) Performance Testing
8 30 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (22.05%) Manual Testing
10 24 (18.90%) BDD
11 23 (18.11%) Scrum
12 17 (13.39%) Validation
13 16 (12.60%) Regression Testing
13 16 (12.60%) Software Testing
14 14 (11.02%) Non-Functional Testing
14 14 (11.02%) Security Testing
15 13 (10.24%) Microservices
16 12 (9.45%) Integration Testing
17 11 (8.66%) Functional Testing
17 11 (8.66%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 42 (33.07%) Java
2 29 (22.83%) JavaScript
3 25 (19.69%) Python
4 19 (14.96%) SQL
5 9 (7.09%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.72%) C#
6 6 (4.72%) Groovy
7 4 (3.15%) Bash
8 3 (2.36%) Go
9 2 (1.57%) C++
9 2 (1.57%) COBOL
9 2 (1.57%) JCL
9 2 (1.57%) REXX
9 2 (1.57%) RPG
9 2 (1.57%) Scala
9 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.57%) SOQL
10 1 (0.79%) ABAP
10 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (15.75%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.09%) ISTQB
4 6 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.72%) Degree
5 3 (2.36%) CEH
5 3 (2.36%) CISSP
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (44.88%) QA
2 11 (8.66%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.57%) GDPR
3 2 (1.57%) WCAG
4 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
4 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (6.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.51%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.15%) Grafana
2 4 (3.15%) Kibana
3 3 (2.36%) Terraform
4 1 (0.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (8.66%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.51%) Oracle
2 7 (5.51%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.15%) SAP
3 4 (3.15%) Virgin Media
4 3 (2.36%) Splunk
4 3 (2.36%) StreamSets
5 2 (1.57%) Ab Initio
5 2 (1.57%) HP
5 2 (1.57%) Informatica
5 2 (1.57%) NEC
5 2 (1.57%) Nintex
5 2 (1.57%) Parasoft
6 1 (0.79%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.79%) Databricks
6 1 (0.79%) Facebook
6 1 (0.79%) Ingenico
6 1 (0.79%) Instagram
6 1 (0.79%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.79%) Okta