API Testing Contracts

API Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 512 483
Rank change year-on-year +44 -29 +37
Contract jobs citing API Testing 110 205 423
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.35% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.39% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 153 341
10th Percentile £335 £328 £313
25th Percentile £375 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £543
90th Percentile £600 £625 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £422
% change year-on-year -2.70% +9.73% -0.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £19.58
25th Percentile - £52.00 £23.06
Median hourly rate £66.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +35.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £56.00 £60.19
90th Percentile - - £65.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -1.82% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the UK

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in the UK

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in the UK

API Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Testing.

Hourly rate trend for API Testing in the UK

API Testing
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 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
England +57 98 £456 -3.95% 63
London +104 57 £500 -9.09% 19
Work from Home +83 48 £450 -5.26% 29
UK excluding London -17 40 £450 -2.70% 50
North of England +19 21 £385 -14.44% 14
North West +26 13 £385 -9.41% 5
South East +18 8 £438 -7.89% 16
Yorkshire +14 7 £488 +6.85% 9
South West +12 5 £475 - 4
Midlands +19 3 £525 +24.26% 3
West Midlands +10 3 £525 +23.53% 3
Scotland +4 2 £375 -21.05% 4
North East +16 1 £310 -
Wales - 1 £490 - 4

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (14.55%) Confluence
2 2 (1.82%) Apache
2 2 (1.82%) CMS
2 2 (1.82%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.82%) AWS
2 19 (17.27%) Azure
3 12 (10.91%) GitHub
4 8 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.55%) BrowserStack
6 3 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.73%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.82%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.82%) Sentry
7 2 (1.82%) Serverless
7 2 (1.82%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.91%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.91%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.91%) Commercetools
8 1 (0.91%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.64%) HTTP
1 4 (3.64%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.73%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.82%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (1.82%) Power BI
3 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 43 (39.09%) Postman
2 31 (28.18%) JIRA
3 28 (25.45%) Selenium
4 27 (24.55%) Cucumber
5 25 (22.73%) Jenkins
6 18 (16.36%) Cypress.io
7 17 (15.45%) Git
8 14 (12.73%) REST Assured
9 13 (11.82%) JMeter
9 13 (11.82%) SoapUI
10 11 (10.00%) JUnit
11 10 (9.09%) Appium
11 10 (9.09%) SpecFlow
12 7 (6.36%) Bitbucket
12 7 (6.36%) WebDriver
13 6 (5.45%) GitLab
14 5 (4.55%) Maven
14 5 (4.55%) Visual Studio
15 4 (3.64%) Artifactory
15 4 (3.64%) LoadRunner
General
1 27 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.18%) Finance
4 6 (5.45%) Back Office
5 4 (3.64%) Banking
5 4 (3.64%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.73%) Front Office
6 3 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.73%) Retail
6 3 (2.73%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.73%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (1.82%) Marketing
8 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Electronics
8 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.91%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (22.73%) Analyst
1 25 (22.73%) Tester
2 21 (19.09%) Senior
3 20 (18.18%) Test Engineer
4 14 (12.73%) Automation Tester
4 14 (12.73%) QA Engineer
5 13 (11.82%) Technical Analyst
6 11 (10.00%) Test Analyst
7 8 (7.27%) Business Analyst
7 8 (7.27%) Technical Business Analyst
8 7 (6.36%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (6.36%) Senior Test Analyst
8 7 (6.36%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) QA Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) QA Tester
10 4 (3.64%) Development Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Senior Tester
10 4 (3.64%) Software Development Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Test Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.00%) REST
2 16 (14.55%) SOAP
3 12 (10.91%) Gherkin
3 12 (10.91%) RESTful
4 10 (9.09%) Playwright
5 9 (8.18%) XML
6 8 (7.27%) .NET
7 7 (6.36%) JSON
7 7 (6.36%) Swagger
8 6 (5.45%) pytest
9 5 (4.55%) OpenAPI
10 4 (3.64%) Web Services
10 4 (3.64%) WebdriverIO
11 3 (2.73%) .NET Framework
11 3 (2.73%) ADO
11 3 (2.73%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (2.73%) Jest
11 3 (2.73%) Node.js
12 2 (1.82%) FHIR
12 2 (1.82%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Mobile App
2 6 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.82%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.91%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.91%) EPoS
6 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.91%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.91%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.36%) Linux
2 6 (5.45%) Android
2 6 (5.45%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.45%) Windows
3 4 (3.64%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (2.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (71.82%) Test Automation
2 64 (58.18%) Agile
3 26 (23.64%) BDD
4 25 (22.73%) DevOps
5 24 (21.82%) Scrum
6 22 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 21 (19.09%) Test Strategy
8 20 (18.18%) User Stories
9 19 (17.27%) Acceptance Criteria
9 19 (17.27%) CI/CD
9 19 (17.27%) E-Commerce
9 19 (17.27%) Performance Testing
10 18 (16.36%) TDD
11 16 (14.55%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (13.64%) Test Scripting
13 14 (12.73%) Functional Testing
14 13 (11.82%) Manual Testing
14 13 (11.82%) Microservices
15 12 (10.91%) Regression Testing
15 12 (10.91%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.45%) Java
2 21 (19.09%) JavaScript
2 21 (19.09%) Python
3 17 (15.45%) C#
3 17 (15.45%) SQL
4 8 (7.27%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.64%) C++
5 4 (3.64%) Kotlin
5 4 (3.64%) Swift
6 2 (1.82%) PHP
6 2 (1.82%) Scala
7 1 (0.91%) ABAP
7 1 (0.91%) Bash
7 1 (0.91%) Bicep
7 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.91%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.09%) Degree
2 10 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.55%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (47.27%) QA
2 14 (12.73%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.64%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.82%) HL7
5 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (5.45%) Docker
2 4 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.64%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.91%) Argo
2 1 (0.91%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.91%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (7.27%) Oracle
2 5 (4.55%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.73%) HP
3 3 (2.73%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.73%) Perfecto Mobile
3 3 (2.73%) SAP
4 2 (1.82%) Splunk
4 2 (1.82%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.91%) Adobe
5 1 (0.91%) IBM
5 1 (0.91%) Salesforce