API Testing Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

API Testing
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring API Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing API Testing 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.53% - 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% - 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £211 - -
25th Percentile £212 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £214 - £425
75th Percentile £412 - £438
90th Percentile £531 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £214 - £425

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 591 162 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 78.70% 94.19% 83.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 118 243
10th Percentile £323 £213 £300
25th Percentile £456 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -2.58% -
75th Percentile £600 £560 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £670
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £475 £469
% change year-on-year +10.53% +1.20% -3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 20
10th Percentile - £14.27 £15.85
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £17.64
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.50 £22.86
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -32.19% +68.44%
75th Percentile - £19.19 £30.00
90th Percentile £18.32 £33.80 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.12 £25.00
% change year-on-year +8.13% -39.52% +84.23%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

API Testing job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing API Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing API Testing

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in Milton Keynes

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (25.00%) MSTest
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Backend Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (50.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
2 2 (50.00%) SOLID
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared