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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 329 432
Rank change year-on-year +41 +103 -7
Contract jobs citing API Testing 66 61 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.35% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.39% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 52 50
10th Percentile £309 £364 £371
25th Percentile £341 £425 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.75% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £481 £556 £622
90th Percentile £549 £625 £744
England median daily rate £423 £475 £486
% change year-on-year -11.05% -2.31% +8.36%
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 11,535 15,477 23,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.65% 90.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,808 11,095 16,979
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £807 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 307 269
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.77 £18.40
25th Percentile £22.83 £20.00 £22.49
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -25.44% -0.43%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.30
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.23% +1.39% +44.00%

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 17 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 17 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 +7 13 £425 -8.11% 4
West London +14 5 £341 -9.07% 1
South London - 3 £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 8 (12.12%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.52%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (30.30%) AWS
2 15 (22.73%) Azure
3 10 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (15.15%) BrowserStack
4 5 (7.58%) GitHub
5 4 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.03%) GCP
6 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.03%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.52%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.52%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.52%) SaaS
7 1 (1.52%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.52%) Big Data
2 1 (1.52%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 44 (66.67%) Postman
2 30 (45.45%) Selenium
3 28 (42.42%) JIRA
4 27 (40.91%) Jenkins
5 25 (37.88%) REST Assured
6 19 (28.79%) Cypress.io
7 16 (24.24%) Git
8 13 (19.70%) Appium
8 13 (19.70%) SoapUI
9 11 (16.67%) JMeter
10 9 (13.64%) Cucumber
11 8 (12.12%) GitLab
12 5 (7.58%) JUnit
13 4 (6.06%) LoadRunner
14 3 (4.55%) Gatling
15 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket
15 2 (3.03%) Locust
15 2 (3.03%) Robot Framework
15 2 (3.03%) SonarQube
15 2 (3.03%) TestCafe
General
1 24 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (15.15%) Banking
3 6 (9.09%) Finance
3 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.55%) Private Banking
4 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Billing
6 1 (1.52%) French Language
6 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (34.85%) Test Engineer
2 17 (25.76%) Senior
3 14 (21.21%) Tester
4 11 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) Python Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) Test Automation Engineer
6 8 (12.12%) Lead
6 8 (12.12%) Test Leader
7 6 (9.09%) QA Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Senior Tester
8 5 (7.58%) Test Manager
9 4 (6.06%) Automation Test Lead
9 4 (6.06%) Automation Tester
10 3 (4.55%) Analyst
10 3 (4.55%) Quality Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) Integration Manager
11 2 (3.03%) Integration Project Manager
11 2 (3.03%) QA Test Analyst
11 2 (3.03%) Technical Leader
11 2 (3.03%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.24%) REST
2 11 (16.67%) pytest
3 7 (10.61%) Playwright
4 6 (9.09%) Kafka
5 3 (4.55%) RESTful
5 3 (4.55%) SOAP
6 2 (3.03%) ADO
6 2 (3.03%) PySpark
6 2 (3.03%) Web Services
7 1 (1.52%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.52%) JSON
7 1 (1.52%) Node.js
7 1 (1.52%) RAML
7 1 (1.52%) React
7 1 (1.52%) SailPoint
7 1 (1.52%) Spring
7 1 (1.52%) Swagger
7 1 (1.52%) WireMock
7 1 (1.52%) XML
7 1 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Online Banking
2 4 (6.06%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.03%) Housing Association
4 2 (3.03%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.06%) Android
2 3 (4.55%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.55%) Windows
3 1 (1.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (86.36%) Test Automation
2 40 (60.61%) CI/CD
3 36 (54.55%) Agile
4 24 (36.36%) Test Scripting
5 22 (33.33%) DevOps
5 22 (33.33%) Test Strategy
6 21 (31.82%) Performance Testing
7 17 (25.76%) BDD
8 16 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (22.73%) Scrum
10 12 (18.18%) Validation
11 11 (16.67%) Manual Testing
11 11 (16.67%) Regression Testing
12 10 (15.15%) Software Testing
13 8 (12.12%) SDET
13 8 (12.12%) Test Management
14 7 (10.61%) Integration Testing
14 7 (10.61%) Open Source
14 7 (10.61%) User Acceptance Testing
14 7 (10.61%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 21 (31.82%) Python
2 20 (30.30%) Java
3 19 (28.79%) JavaScript
4 9 (13.64%) SQL
5 4 (6.06%) C#
5 4 (6.06%) Groovy
6 3 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.03%) RPG
7 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.03%) SOQL
8 1 (1.52%) ABAP
8 1 (1.52%) Bash
8 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.55%) Degree
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (40.91%) QA
2 5 (7.58%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.03%) WCAG
4 1 (1.52%) GDPR
4 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.52%) NIST
4 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.03%) Terraform
3 1 (1.52%) Ansible
3 1 (1.52%) Grafana
3 1 (1.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.58%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.03%) NEC
3 2 (3.03%) StreamSets
4 1 (1.52%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.52%) Databricks
4 1 (1.52%) Facebook
4 1 (1.52%) Google
4 1 (1.52%) Instagram
4 1 (1.52%) Okta
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle
4 1 (1.52%) SAP
4 1 (1.52%) Splunk