API Testing Contracts in Scotland

API Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 115 126 125
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 +28
Contract jobs citing API Testing 1 3 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% 0.14% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.15% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 31
10th Percentile - £358 £350
25th Percentile £243 £360 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year -34.67% -21.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £248 £388 £538
90th Percentile - - £575
UK median daily rate £405 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.26% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in Scotland

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in Scotland

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA