API Testing Contracts in London

API Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 430 422
Rank change year-on-year +97 -8 -13
Contract jobs citing API Testing 62 64 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.25% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.27% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 51 148
10th Percentile £365 £375 £319
25th Percentile £425 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £565
90th Percentile £625 £738 £625
England median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £66.00 - £25.00
England median hourly rate £66.00 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% -1.82% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,492 23,515 35,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.89% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,111 16,974 26,028
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 266 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.25 £17.18
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.43 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.17 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% +0.46% +13.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.38 £67.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

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 18 May 2024.

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 18 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
Central London +54 15 £463 -21.28%
West London +21 2 £375 -14.77%
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 5 (8.06%) Confluence
2 2 (3.23%) Apache
2 2 (3.23%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.90%) AWS
2 6 (9.68%) GitHub
3 5 (8.06%) Azure
4 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.23%) Sentry
4 2 (3.23%) Serverless
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.61%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.61%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (1.61%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.61%) Firebase
5 1 (1.61%) SaaS
5 1 (1.61%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) HTTP
2 3 (4.84%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 30 (48.39%) Postman
2 19 (30.65%) Selenium
3 13 (20.97%) Cucumber
3 13 (20.97%) JIRA
4 12 (19.35%) JMeter
5 11 (17.74%) Jenkins
6 10 (16.13%) Cypress.io
6 10 (16.13%) Git
6 10 (16.13%) SoapUI
6 10 (16.13%) SpecFlow
7 9 (14.52%) REST Assured
8 8 (12.90%) Appium
9 7 (11.29%) JUnit
10 5 (8.06%) WebDriver
11 4 (6.45%) LoadRunner
11 4 (6.45%) TestRail
12 3 (4.84%) FitNesse
12 3 (4.84%) GitLab
12 3 (4.84%) Maven
13 2 (3.23%) TestNG
General
1 15 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Back Office
3 6 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.06%) Banking
4 5 (8.06%) Finance
4 5 (8.06%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.84%) Front Office
5 3 (4.84%) Wholesale Banking
6 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.61%) Local Government
7 1 (1.61%) Retail
7 1 (1.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (25.81%) Analyst
1 16 (25.81%) Tester
2 10 (16.13%) Senior
3 9 (14.52%) Automation Tester
3 9 (14.52%) QA Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Business Analyst
4 7 (11.29%) Senior Analyst
4 7 (11.29%) Technical Analyst
4 7 (11.29%) Technical Business Analyst
4 7 (11.29%) Test Analyst
5 6 (9.68%) Senior Test Analyst
5 6 (9.68%) Test Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) QA Tester
7 3 (4.84%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Test Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Test Specialist
8 2 (3.23%) Senior QA Tester
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Tester
8 2 (3.23%) Test Automation Specialist
8 2 (3.23%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.97%) REST
2 10 (16.13%) SOAP
3 6 (9.68%) Gherkin
4 4 (6.45%) JSON
4 4 (6.45%) Playwright
4 4 (6.45%) XML
5 3 (4.84%) ADO
5 3 (4.84%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (4.84%) pytest
6 2 (3.23%) .NET
6 2 (3.23%) Behat
6 2 (3.23%) FHIR
6 2 (3.23%) Jest
6 2 (3.23%) Node.js
6 2 (3.23%) React Native
6 2 (3.23%) Web Services
7 1 (1.61%) Chai
7 1 (1.61%) Swagger
7 1 (1.61%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.61%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.61%) EPoS
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.61%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Android
1 4 (6.45%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.84%) Linux
2 3 (4.84%) Unix
3 2 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (75.81%) Test Automation
2 28 (45.16%) Agile
3 19 (30.65%) CI/CD
4 18 (29.03%) Test Strategy
5 17 (27.42%) Performance Testing
6 14 (22.58%) BDD
7 13 (20.97%) Scrum
8 12 (19.35%) DevOps
8 12 (19.35%) E-Commerce
9 11 (17.74%) Microservices
10 10 (16.13%) Acceptance Criteria
10 10 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (16.13%) User Stories
11 9 (14.52%) Software Testing
11 9 (14.52%) TDD
11 9 (14.52%) Test Planning
12 8 (12.90%) Functional Testing
12 8 (12.90%) Test Management
13 7 (11.29%) Non-Functional Testing
13 7 (11.29%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.58%) Java
2 12 (19.35%) JavaScript
2 12 (19.35%) Python
3 11 (17.74%) C#
4 9 (14.52%) SQL
5 7 (11.29%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.45%) Kotlin
6 4 (6.45%) Swift
7 2 (3.23%) PHP
8 1 (1.61%) Bash
8 1 (1.61%) Bicep
8 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
1 8 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.68%) Degree
3 4 (6.45%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (53.23%) QA
2 7 (11.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) HL7
3 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.23%) Terraform
3 1 (1.61%) Argo
3 1 (1.61%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.61%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle
3 2 (3.23%) HP
3 2 (3.23%) Splunk
4 1 (1.61%) IBM