API Testing Contracts in London

API Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 283 335 423
Rank change year-on-year +52 +88 +6
Contract jobs citing API Testing 70 56 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.35% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 49 53
10th Percentile £301 £373 £376
25th Percentile £341 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £475 £550 £613
90th Percentile £536 £625 £730
England median daily rate £425 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -8.11% -2.63% +5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
England median hourly rate - £66.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - +22.22% -1.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in London

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in London

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in London

API Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for API Testing in London

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +3 12 £425 -8.11%
West London +15 5 £341 -9.07% 7
South London - 4 £380 -
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (12.86%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.43%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (31.43%) AWS
2 13 (18.57%) Azure
3 10 (14.29%) BrowserStack
4 9 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.14%) GitHub
6 4 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.86%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.43%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.43%) GCP
8 1 (1.43%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.43%) SaaS
8 1 (1.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (1.43%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (1.43%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.29%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.43%) Big Data
3 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 46 (65.71%) Postman
2 31 (44.29%) JIRA
3 30 (42.86%) Selenium
4 29 (41.43%) Jenkins
5 26 (37.14%) REST Assured
6 19 (27.14%) Cypress.io
6 19 (27.14%) Git
7 13 (18.57%) Appium
7 13 (18.57%) JMeter
8 12 (17.14%) SoapUI
9 9 (12.86%) Cucumber
10 7 (10.00%) GitLab
11 4 (5.71%) LoadRunner
12 3 (4.29%) Gatling
12 3 (4.29%) JUnit
12 3 (4.29%) WebDriver
13 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
13 2 (2.86%) Robot Framework
13 2 (2.86%) TeamCity
13 2 (2.86%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.71%) Banking
3 10 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Finance
5 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.29%) Private Banking
6 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Billing
8 1 (1.43%) French Language
8 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (32.86%) Test Engineer
2 16 (22.86%) Senior
3 14 (20.00%) Tester
4 11 (15.71%) Senior Test Engineer
5 10 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
6 9 (12.86%) Lead
6 9 (12.86%) Python Engineer
6 9 (12.86%) Test Leader
7 6 (8.57%) QA Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Test Manager
8 5 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
9 4 (5.71%) Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) Automation Tester
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Tester
10 3 (4.29%) Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Quality Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Test Analyst
11 2 (2.86%) Consultant
11 2 (2.86%) Integration Manager
11 2 (2.86%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (25.71%) REST
2 11 (15.71%) pytest
3 7 (10.00%) Kafka
4 6 (8.57%) Playwright
5 3 (4.29%) PySpark
5 3 (4.29%) RESTful
5 3 (4.29%) SOAP
6 2 (2.86%) ADO
6 2 (2.86%) Web Services
7 1 (1.43%) .NET
7 1 (1.43%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.43%) JSON
7 1 (1.43%) Nightwatchjs
7 1 (1.43%) RAML
7 1 (1.43%) SailPoint
7 1 (1.43%) Spring
7 1 (1.43%) Swagger
7 1 (1.43%) WireMock
7 1 (1.43%) XML
7 1 (1.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Online Banking
2 4 (5.71%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.86%) Housing Association
3 2 (2.86%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) Android
2 3 (4.29%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.29%) Windows
3 1 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 41 (58.57%) CI/CD
3 37 (52.86%) Agile
4 24 (34.29%) Test Scripting
4 24 (34.29%) Test Strategy
5 23 (32.86%) Performance Testing
6 21 (30.00%) DevOps
7 16 (22.86%) BDD
7 16 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (21.43%) Scrum
9 12 (17.14%) Manual Testing
9 12 (17.14%) Software Testing
10 11 (15.71%) Regression Testing
10 11 (15.71%) Validation
11 9 (12.86%) SDET
12 8 (11.43%) Integration Testing
12 8 (11.43%) Open Source
12 8 (11.43%) Test Management
12 8 (11.43%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (11.43%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 22 (31.43%) Java
2 20 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 20 (28.57%) Python
3 10 (14.29%) SQL
4 4 (5.71%) Groovy
5 3 (4.29%) C#
5 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.86%) RPG
6 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.86%) SOQL
7 1 (1.43%) ABAP
7 1 (1.43%) Bash
7 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.29%) Degree
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (40.00%) QA
2 5 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.86%) WCAG
4 1 (1.43%) GDPR
4 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.43%) NIST
4 1 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.86%) Terraform
3 1 (1.43%) Ansible
3 1 (1.43%) Grafana
3 1 (1.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (8.57%) Microsoft
1 6 (8.57%) Salesforce
2 3 (4.29%) StreamSets
3 2 (2.86%) NEC
3 2 (2.86%) Oracle
3 2 (2.86%) Splunk
4 1 (1.43%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.43%) Databricks
4 1 (1.43%) Facebook
4 1 (1.43%) Instagram
4 1 (1.43%) Okta
4 1 (1.43%) SAP