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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 329 362
Rank change year-on-year +44 +33 +30
DemandTrendContract jobs citing API Testing 79 40 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.27% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 31 51
10th Percentile £249 £310 £285
25th Percentile £360 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £481
90th Percentile £575 £575 £488
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,696 15,025 19,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.15% 82.65% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,212 8,942 12,792
10th Percentile £238 £250 £260
25th Percentile £367 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,398 1,427 1,220
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +6.25% +77.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.02 £75.00 £76.99
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £42.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% -3.67% +54.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing API Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing API Testing

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 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the UK excluding London

API Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing API Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing API Testing

API Testing
DemandTrendContract 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 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +11 43 £449 -18.45% 9
Yorkshire +6 25 £450 -18.18% 4
Midlands +12 19 £389 +104.67% 11
North West +4 15 £447 -10.60% 4
East Midlands - 12 £360 - 3
South East +25 10 £400 -8.57% 14
West Midlands -2 7 £438 +130.26% 8
Wales +12 4 £279 -43.11%
North East 0 3 £488 +57.26% 1
East of England +5 2 £300 -4.00% 4
Scotland -10 1 - -
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 5 (6.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.53%) CICS
2 2 (2.53%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.25%) Azure
2 14 (17.72%) AWS
3 8 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (10.13%) GCP
4 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (3.80%) GitHub
4 3 (3.80%) SaaS
4 3 (3.80%) Serverless
5 2 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.53%) BrowserStack
5 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.27%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.27%) OCI
6 1 (1.27%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.27%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.27%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) HTTP
2 1 (1.27%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.53%) DB2
1 2 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (2.53%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.27%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.27%) Power BI
2 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (60.76%) Postman
2 30 (37.97%) Selenium
3 25 (31.65%) JIRA
4 21 (26.58%) Jenkins
5 18 (22.78%) SoapUI
6 17 (21.52%) Cucumber
7 15 (18.99%) Git
8 14 (17.72%) REST Assured
9 13 (16.46%) Cypress.io
9 13 (16.46%) JMeter
10 10 (12.66%) Maven
11 9 (11.39%) TestNG
12 8 (10.13%) GitLab
13 5 (6.33%) IntelliJ
13 5 (6.33%) JUnit
13 5 (6.33%) SpecFlow
14 4 (5.06%) Appium
14 4 (5.06%) LoadRunner
14 4 (5.06%) WebDriver
15 3 (3.80%) NUnit
General
1 20 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.72%) Finance
3 11 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.33%) Banking
6 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.06%) Retail
7 2 (2.53%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.53%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.27%) Automotive
8 1 (1.27%) Aviation
8 1 (1.27%) French Language
8 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (27.85%) Analyst
2 20 (25.32%) Test Engineer
3 19 (24.05%) Tester
4 15 (18.99%) Test Analyst
5 14 (17.72%) Automation Tester
6 9 (11.39%) Test Automation Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) QA Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) Senior
8 6 (7.59%) Help Desk Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Test Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Junior
10 3 (3.80%) Junior Automation Tester
10 3 (3.80%) Junior Tester
10 3 (3.80%) Lead
10 3 (3.80%) Performance Test Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) QA Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) QA Test Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Test Leader
11 2 (2.53%) Automation Test Lead
11 2 (2.53%) Payments Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.72%) Playwright
2 8 (10.13%) REST
2 8 (10.13%) RESTful
3 7 (8.86%) SOAP
4 6 (7.59%) JSON
4 6 (7.59%) XML
5 5 (6.33%) .NET
5 5 (6.33%) Web Services
6 2 (2.53%) CSS
6 2 (2.53%) Gherkin
6 2 (2.53%) HTML
6 2 (2.53%) J2EE
6 2 (2.53%) jQuery
6 2 (2.53%) Node.js
7 1 (1.27%) boto
7 1 (1.27%) Kafka
7 1 (1.27%) pytest
7 1 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.27%) XSD
7 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.06%) Mobile App
1 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.53%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.53%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (2.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (2.53%) VSAM
4 1 (1.27%) Clustering
4 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.27%) EPoS
4 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.53%) Unix
2 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.27%) CentOS
2 1 (1.27%) Linux
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.27%) SUSE
2 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.27%) Windows
2 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (69.62%) Test Automation
2 49 (62.03%) Agile
3 37 (46.84%) CI/CD
4 19 (24.05%) Test Strategy
5 18 (22.78%) Scrum
6 17 (21.52%) DevOps
7 16 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (20.25%) Software Testing
8 14 (17.72%) Security Testing
9 13 (16.46%) BDD
9 13 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (15.19%) Scenario Testing
10 12 (15.19%) Test Management
10 12 (15.19%) Test Scripting
11 11 (13.92%) Performance Testing
11 11 (13.92%) Privileged Access Management
12 10 (12.66%) End-to-End Testing
12 10 (12.66%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (12.66%) Validation
13 9 (11.39%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 28 (35.44%) Java
2 16 (20.25%) SQL
3 14 (17.72%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.13%) C#
5 6 (7.59%) Python
6 4 (5.06%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.80%) Bash
8 2 (2.53%) COBOL
8 2 (2.53%) JCL
8 2 (2.53%) REXX
8 2 (2.53%) Scala
9 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (17.72%) ISTQB
2 10 (12.66%) CISSP
3 9 (11.39%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.39%) Security Cleared
4 8 (10.13%) CISM
5 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.06%) Degree
6 3 (3.80%) ISEB
7 2 (2.53%) CEH
8 1 (1.27%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (34.18%) QA
2 8 (10.13%) Accessibility
3 6 (7.59%) GDPR
3 6 (7.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (7.59%) NIST
3 6 (7.59%) PCI DSS
3 6 (7.59%) SLA
3 6 (7.59%) WCAG
4 3 (3.80%) SEPA
5 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.27%) HL7
System Software
1 8 (10.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.33%) Kibana
2 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.53%) Ansible
4 1 (1.27%) Puppet
4 1 (1.27%) Terraform
4 1 (1.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.92%) CyberArk
3 9 (11.39%) BeyondTrust
3 9 (11.39%) Thycotic
4 8 (10.13%) Google
5 3 (3.80%) AppDynamics
5 3 (3.80%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.80%) New Relic
5 3 (3.80%) Oracle
5 3 (3.80%) Splunk
6 2 (2.53%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.53%) Informatica
6 2 (2.53%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.53%) Nintex
6 2 (2.53%) Parasoft
6 2 (2.53%) VMware
7 1 (1.27%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.27%) Ingenico
7 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.27%) RedGate