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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 444 512
Rank change year-on-year +88 +68 -17
Contract jobs citing API Testing 122 97 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.26% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.30% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 87 107
10th Percentile £300 £350 £325
25th Percentile £341 £380 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -5.26% +7.04%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £550
90th Percentile £538 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -11.11% -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 22,249 31,929 45,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.59% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,571 20,948 31,615
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 £763
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 935 2,243 1,590
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.99
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.80 £36.33 £36.40
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% -0.18% +49.47%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

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 6 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 6 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 +48 68 £405 -19.00% 35
North of England +24 28 £400 +3.90% 21
Midlands +31 14 £450 -14.29% 16
Yorkshire +25 13 £400 -17.95% 4
North West +7 9 £447 +16.10% 11
West Midlands +21 8 £438 -16.67% 9
South East +34 6 £475 +8.57% 16
North East +3 6 £371 +19.74% 6
East Midlands - 6 £450 - 7
East of England - 3 £325 - 6
South West +33 2 £463 -2.63% 2
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 12 (9.84%) Confluence
2 2 (1.64%) CICS
2 2 (1.64%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.82%) Appian
3 1 (0.82%) CMS
3 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.82%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.82%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (25.41%) AWS
2 24 (19.67%) Azure
3 18 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (9.84%) BrowserStack
5 8 (6.56%) GitHub
6 5 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.28%) SaaS
7 4 (3.28%) Serverless
8 3 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.64%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.82%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.82%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (0.82%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.82%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.82%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.82%) Sauce Labs
10 1 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.28%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.46%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.64%) DB2
4 2 (1.64%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.64%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.64%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.82%) Big Data
5 1 (0.82%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.82%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 75 (61.48%) Postman
2 57 (46.72%) Selenium
3 44 (36.07%) JIRA
4 41 (33.61%) Jenkins
5 37 (30.33%) REST Assured
6 33 (27.05%) Git
7 30 (24.59%) Cypress.io
8 22 (18.03%) SoapUI
9 19 (15.57%) Cucumber
9 19 (15.57%) JMeter
10 14 (11.48%) Appium
11 10 (8.20%) GitLab
12 5 (4.10%) IntelliJ
12 5 (4.10%) JUnit
12 5 (4.10%) Maven
12 5 (4.10%) SpecFlow
12 5 (4.10%) WebDriver
13 4 (3.28%) Gatling
13 4 (3.28%) LoadRunner
14 3 (2.46%) Travis CI
General
1 40 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 15 (12.30%) Finance
5 14 (11.48%) Banking
6 6 (4.92%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.46%) Electronics
7 3 (2.46%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.46%) Marketing
7 3 (2.46%) Private Banking
8 2 (1.64%) French Language
8 2 (1.64%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Retail
8 2 (1.64%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.82%) Aviation
9 1 (0.82%) Billing
Job Titles
1 37 (30.33%) Test Engineer
2 29 (23.77%) Tester
3 20 (16.39%) Senior
4 16 (13.11%) Test Automation Engineer
5 15 (12.30%) Senior Test Engineer
6 12 (9.84%) Lead
6 12 (9.84%) QA Engineer
6 12 (9.84%) Test Leader
7 9 (7.38%) Python Engineer
7 9 (7.38%) QA Tester
8 8 (6.56%) Automation Tester
9 7 (5.74%) Analyst
9 7 (5.74%) Automation Test Lead
10 6 (4.92%) Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Test Manager
11 4 (3.28%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Consultant
11 4 (3.28%) Quality Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Senior Tester
11 4 (3.28%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.67%) REST
2 16 (13.11%) Playwright
3 11 (9.02%) pytest
4 9 (7.38%) Kafka
5 7 (5.74%) RESTful
6 6 (4.92%) SOAP
6 6 (4.92%) Web Services
7 5 (4.10%) .NET
8 4 (3.28%) JSON
8 4 (3.28%) XML
9 3 (2.46%) Node.js
9 3 (2.46%) PySpark
10 2 (1.64%) ADO
10 2 (1.64%) CSS
10 2 (1.64%) Gherkin
10 2 (1.64%) HTML
10 2 (1.64%) J2EE
10 2 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.64%) RAML
10 2 (1.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.10%) Mobile App
1 5 (4.10%) Onboarding
1 5 (4.10%) Online Banking
1 5 (4.10%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.28%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.64%) Housing Association
3 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.64%) Mainframe
3 2 (1.64%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (1.64%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (1.64%) Replication
3 2 (1.64%) VSAM
4 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.10%) Windows
2 4 (3.28%) Android
3 3 (2.46%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.46%) Linux
4 2 (1.64%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (89.34%) Test Automation
2 68 (55.74%) Agile
3 57 (46.72%) CI/CD
4 41 (33.61%) Test Strategy
5 39 (31.97%) DevOps
6 38 (31.15%) Test Scripting
7 33 (27.05%) Performance Testing
8 30 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (20.49%) Manual Testing
10 24 (19.67%) BDD
11 22 (18.03%) Scrum
12 17 (13.93%) Validation
13 15 (12.30%) Regression Testing
13 15 (12.30%) Software Testing
14 14 (11.48%) Non-Functional Testing
14 14 (11.48%) Security Testing
15 12 (9.84%) Integration Testing
16 11 (9.02%) Microservices
17 10 (8.20%) Functional Testing
17 10 (8.20%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 41 (33.61%) Java
2 27 (22.13%) JavaScript
3 25 (20.49%) Python
4 18 (14.75%) SQL
5 9 (7.38%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.92%) C#
6 6 (4.92%) Groovy
7 4 (3.28%) Bash
8 3 (2.46%) Go
9 2 (1.64%) C++
9 2 (1.64%) COBOL
9 2 (1.64%) JCL
9 2 (1.64%) REXX
9 2 (1.64%) RPG
9 2 (1.64%) Scala
9 2 (1.64%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.64%) SOQL
10 1 (0.82%) ABAP
10 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.38%) ISTQB
4 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.92%) Degree
5 3 (2.46%) CEH
5 3 (2.46%) CISSP
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.82%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (44.26%) QA
2 11 (9.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.64%) GDPR
3 2 (1.64%) WCAG
4 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.82%) NIST
4 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.82%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (6.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.74%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.28%) Grafana
2 4 (3.28%) Kibana
3 3 (2.46%) Terraform
4 1 (0.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (9.02%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.74%) Salesforce
3 6 (4.92%) Oracle
4 4 (3.28%) SAP
4 4 (3.28%) Virgin Media
5 3 (2.46%) StreamSets
6 2 (1.64%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.64%) HP
6 2 (1.64%) Informatica
6 2 (1.64%) NEC
6 2 (1.64%) Nintex
6 2 (1.64%) Parasoft
7 1 (0.82%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.82%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.82%) Databricks
7 1 (0.82%) Facebook
7 1 (0.82%) Instagram
7 1 (0.82%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.82%) Okta
7 1 (0.82%) Splunk