API Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

API Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 277 358 342
Rank change year-on-year +81 -16 +25
Contract jobs citing API Testing 59 41 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.20% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.23% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 38 87
10th Percentile £263 £313 £303
25th Percentile £352 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £438 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -5.41% +11.11%
75th Percentile £515 £500 £513
90th Percentile £538 £575 £550
UK median daily rate £405 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - +22.22% +35.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the UK excluding London

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the UK excluding London

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the UK excluding London

API Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for API Testing in the UK excluding London

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
North of England +26 28 £400 +3.90% 68
Midlands +35 16 £450 -14.29% 62
Yorkshire +14 13 £400 -17.95% 27
North West +13 9 £447 +16.10% 29
West Midlands +19 8 £438 -16.67% 32
East Midlands - 8 £450 - 27
South East +44 6 £475 +8.57% 62
North East +5 6 £371 +19.74% 12
East of England - 4 £325 - 44
South West +43 2 £463 -2.63% 31
Wales +2 2 £450 -8.16% 13
Scotland +11 1 £245 -34.67% 15
API Testing
UK

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (6.78%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) CICS
2 2 (3.39%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.69%) Appian
3 1 (1.69%) CMS
3 1 (1.69%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.64%) Azure
2 10 (16.95%) AWS
3 9 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.78%) Serverless
5 3 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.08%) GitHub
5 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.08%) SaaS
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.39%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.69%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.69%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.69%) Sumo Logic
7 1 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
1 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.39%) DB2
2 2 (3.39%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.39%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 32 (54.24%) Postman
2 29 (49.15%) Selenium
3 16 (27.12%) Git
3 16 (27.12%) JIRA
4 14 (23.73%) Cypress.io
5 13 (22.03%) Jenkins
6 11 (18.64%) REST Assured
7 10 (16.95%) Cucumber
7 10 (16.95%) SoapUI
8 8 (13.56%) JMeter
9 5 (8.47%) IntelliJ
9 5 (8.47%) Maven
9 5 (8.47%) SpecFlow
10 3 (5.08%) GitLab
10 3 (5.08%) TestNG
10 3 (5.08%) Travis CI
10 3 (5.08%) WebDriver
11 2 (3.39%) Appium
11 2 (3.39%) NUnit
11 2 (3.39%) SOAtest
General
1 18 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.64%) Finance
3 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.78%) Banking
5 3 (5.08%) Electronics
5 3 (5.08%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.08%) Marketing
5 3 (5.08%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.39%) General Ledger
6 2 (3.39%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Aviation
7 1 (1.69%) French Language
7 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (28.81%) Tester
2 16 (27.12%) Test Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) QA Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) QA Tester
4 7 (11.86%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Analyst
5 5 (8.47%) Automation Tester
6 4 (6.78%) QA Test Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Test Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Lead
7 3 (5.08%) Test Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Test Leader
8 2 (3.39%) Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Consultant
8 2 (3.39%) Manual Tester
8 2 (3.39%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (3.39%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.95%) Playwright
2 7 (11.86%) .NET
3 5 (8.47%) REST
4 4 (6.78%) RESTful
4 4 (6.78%) Web Services
5 3 (5.08%) JSON
5 3 (5.08%) Node.js
5 3 (5.08%) SOAP
5 3 (5.08%) XML
6 2 (3.39%) CSS
6 2 (3.39%) HTML
6 2 (3.39%) J2EE
7 1 (1.69%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.69%) Chai
7 1 (1.69%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.69%) Kafka
7 1 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.69%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.39%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.39%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (3.39%) Replication
3 2 (3.39%) VSAM
4 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Linux
1 2 (3.39%) Mac OS
1 2 (3.39%) Unix
1 2 (3.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (94.92%) Test Automation
2 36 (61.02%) Agile
3 18 (30.51%) DevOps
3 18 (30.51%) Test Strategy
4 17 (28.81%) CI/CD
4 17 (28.81%) Manual Testing
5 15 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (23.73%) Test Scripting
7 11 (18.64%) Non-Functional Testing
8 10 (16.95%) Functional Testing
8 10 (16.95%) Performance Testing
9 9 (15.25%) Microservices
9 9 (15.25%) Scrum
9 9 (15.25%) Security Testing
10 8 (13.56%) BDD
10 8 (13.56%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (10.17%) Migration
11 6 (10.17%) Regression Testing
11 6 (10.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.20%) Java
2 9 (15.25%) JavaScript
2 9 (15.25%) SQL
3 7 (11.86%) TypeScript
4 5 (8.47%) Python
5 4 (6.78%) C#
6 3 (5.08%) Bash
7 2 (3.39%) C++
7 2 (3.39%) COBOL
7 2 (3.39%) Go
7 2 (3.39%) Groovy
7 2 (3.39%) JCL
7 2 (3.39%) REXX
7 2 (3.39%) Scala
8 1 (1.69%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
1 7 (11.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.17%) ISTQB
3 3 (5.08%) CEH
3 3 (5.08%) CISSP
3 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.08%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.69%) ISEB
4 1 (1.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (52.54%) QA
2 6 (10.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.08%) Kibana
1 3 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) Grafana
3 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
1 5 (8.47%) Oracle
2 4 (6.78%) Virgin Media
3 3 (5.08%) SAP
4 2 (3.39%) Ab Initio
4 2 (3.39%) HP
4 2 (3.39%) Informatica
4 2 (3.39%) Nintex
4 2 (3.39%) Parasoft
5 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.69%) Ingenico
5 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.69%) Splunk