API Testing Contracts in England

API Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for API Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Testing over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 499 472
Rank change year-on-year +69 -27 +18
Contract jobs citing API Testing 103 141 324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.29% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.32% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 102 265
10th Percentile £358 £312 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £625 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £30.50
25th Percentile - £52.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £66.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £56.00 £62.87
90th Percentile - - £66.10
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £54.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% +35.00% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

API Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,438 43,665 64,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.37% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,640 45,549
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,250 1,536 1,740
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.96 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +48.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

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 19 May 2024.

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 19 May 2024. 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 +93 63 £499 -9.32% 13
North of England +24 19 £450 - 15
North West +14 9 £450 +5.88% 6
Yorkshire +13 9 £550 +20.55% 9
South East +21 8 £438 +1.74% 15
South West -3 5 £475 +2.70% 2
West Midlands +18 3 £525 +5.00% 2
Midlands +15 3 £525 +37.25% 2
North East +14 1 £310 -
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 14 (13.59%) Confluence
2 2 (1.94%) Apache
2 2 (1.94%) CMS
2 2 (1.94%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.53%) AWS
2 13 (12.62%) Azure
3 8 (7.77%) GitHub
4 7 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.83%) BrowserStack
6 2 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.94%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (1.94%) Firebase
6 2 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.94%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 2 (1.94%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (1.94%) Sentry
6 2 (1.94%) Serverless
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.88%) HTTP
1 4 (3.88%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.94%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (1.94%) Power BI
3 1 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.97%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 43 (41.75%) Postman
2 29 (28.16%) JIRA
3 25 (24.27%) Selenium
4 22 (21.36%) Jenkins
5 18 (17.48%) Cucumber
6 17 (16.50%) Cypress.io
6 17 (16.50%) Git
7 14 (13.59%) JMeter
8 13 (12.62%) JUnit
9 12 (11.65%) REST Assured
9 12 (11.65%) SoapUI
10 11 (10.68%) Appium
11 10 (9.71%) SpecFlow
12 7 (6.80%) GitLab
13 6 (5.83%) Bitbucket
14 5 (4.85%) Visual Studio
14 5 (4.85%) WebDriver
15 4 (3.88%) Artifactory
15 4 (3.88%) LoadRunner
15 4 (3.88%) TestRail
General
1 23 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.68%) Back Office
2 11 (10.68%) Finance
3 9 (8.74%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.85%) Banking
4 5 (4.85%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.88%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.91%) Front Office
6 3 (2.91%) Retail
6 3 (2.91%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (1.94%) Marketing
7 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Electronics
8 1 (0.97%) Local Government
8 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.97%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (24.27%) Analyst
2 23 (22.33%) Tester
3 22 (21.36%) Senior
4 19 (18.45%) Test Engineer
5 13 (12.62%) QA Engineer
5 13 (12.62%) Test Analyst
6 12 (11.65%) Automation Tester
7 11 (10.68%) Senior Analyst
8 10 (9.71%) Senior Test Analyst
9 9 (8.74%) Technical Analyst
10 7 (6.80%) Business Analyst
10 7 (6.80%) QA Tester
10 7 (6.80%) Senior Test Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Technical Business Analyst
11 4 (3.88%) Developer
11 4 (3.88%) QA Automation Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Software Development Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Test Automation Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.53%) REST
2 15 (14.56%) SOAP
3 13 (12.62%) Gherkin
4 9 (8.74%) XML
5 7 (6.80%) RESTful
6 6 (5.83%) .NET
6 6 (5.83%) Playwright
7 5 (4.85%) JSON
7 5 (4.85%) pytest
8 4 (3.88%) Swagger
8 4 (3.88%) WebdriverIO
9 3 (2.91%) ADO
9 3 (2.91%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (2.91%) Jest
9 3 (2.91%) Node.js
10 2 (1.94%) Behat
10 2 (1.94%) FHIR
10 2 (1.94%) Middleware
10 2 (1.94%) React Native
10 2 (1.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.65%) Mobile App
2 10 (9.71%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.94%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.97%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.97%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.97%) EPoS
5 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.97%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.97%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.80%) Linux
2 6 (5.83%) Android
2 6 (5.83%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.83%) Windows
3 4 (3.88%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (2.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (72.82%) Test Automation
2 58 (56.31%) Agile
3 27 (26.21%) Software Testing
4 24 (23.30%) Scrum
5 23 (22.33%) Test Strategy
6 22 (21.36%) Performance Testing
7 20 (19.42%) CI/CD
7 20 (19.42%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (19.42%) DevOps
8 19 (18.45%) BDD
9 18 (17.48%) Acceptance Criteria
9 18 (17.48%) E-Commerce
9 18 (17.48%) User Stories
10 16 (15.53%) TDD
10 16 (15.53%) Test Scripting
11 14 (13.59%) Functional Testing
11 14 (13.59%) Manual Testing
12 13 (12.62%) Test Planning
13 12 (11.65%) Microservices
13 12 (11.65%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (25.24%) Java
2 22 (21.36%) JavaScript
3 21 (20.39%) Python
4 16 (15.53%) C#
4 16 (15.53%) SQL
5 8 (7.77%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.88%) C++
6 4 (3.88%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.88%) Swift
7 2 (1.94%) PHP
8 1 (0.97%) Bash
8 1 (0.97%) Bicep
8 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.97%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (11.65%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.71%) Degree
2 10 (9.71%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.85%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (49.51%) QA
2 10 (9.71%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.88%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.94%) HL7
System Software
1 7 (6.80%) Docker
2 4 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.88%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 3 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.94%) Terraform
3 1 (0.97%) Argo
3 1 (0.97%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.97%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.97%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (7.77%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.80%) Oracle
3 3 (2.91%) HP
4 2 (1.94%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.94%) Perfecto Mobile
4 2 (1.94%) Splunk
4 2 (1.94%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.97%) Adobe
5 1 (0.97%) IBM
5 1 (0.97%) SAP