API Testing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

API Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 261 297 375
Rank change year-on-year +36 +78 +27
Contract jobs citing API Testing 43 48 102
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.36% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 44 82
10th Percentile £261 £361 £343
25th Percentile £317 £422 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.71% -3.95% +5.56%
75th Percentile £481 £516 £550
90th Percentile £538 £618 £636
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

API Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing API Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

API Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing API Testing.

API Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing API Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

API Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

API Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing API Testing.

API Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (11.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) CMS
2 1 (2.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.23%) Azure
2 9 (20.93%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (18.60%) BrowserStack
3 8 (18.60%) GitHub
4 7 (16.28%) AWS
5 4 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.98%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.65%) GCP
8 1 (2.33%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.33%) Boomi
8 1 (2.33%) Cloudflare
8 1 (2.33%) Serverless
8 1 (2.33%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.33%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.33%) MS Access
2 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 31 (72.09%) Postman
2 18 (41.86%) Cypress.io
3 16 (37.21%) Jenkins
3 16 (37.21%) REST Assured
4 15 (34.88%) JIRA
5 12 (27.91%) Selenium
6 10 (23.26%) Git
7 8 (18.60%) Appium
8 7 (16.28%) GitLab
8 7 (16.28%) JMeter
8 7 (16.28%) SoapUI
9 4 (9.30%) Cucumber
9 4 (9.30%) Gatling
9 4 (9.30%) JUnit
10 3 (6.98%) TestNG
11 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
11 2 (4.65%) SpecFlow
11 2 (4.65%) TestRail
12 1 (2.33%) Serenity BDD
12 1 (2.33%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Finance
5 2 (4.65%) Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.33%) Electronics
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
6 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) Tester
2 11 (25.58%) Test Engineer
3 10 (23.26%) Automation Tester
4 9 (20.93%) Senior
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Test Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Lead
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Tester
7 3 (6.98%) Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Lead Tester
8 2 (4.65%) Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Integration Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Integration Project Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.65%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Software Tester
8 2 (4.65%) Technical Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Technical Project Manager
9 1 (2.33%) Java Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) Playwright
2 9 (20.93%) REST
3 4 (9.30%) Kafka
4 3 (6.98%) .NET
4 3 (6.98%) RESTful
5 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (2.33%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.33%) JSON
5 1 (2.33%) Node.js
5 1 (2.33%) pytest
5 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.33%) Web Services
5 1 (2.33%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (2.33%) WireMock
5 1 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.65%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.33%) Replication
3 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
1 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (86.05%) Test Automation
2 25 (58.14%) Agile
2 25 (58.14%) CI/CD
3 20 (46.51%) Test Scripting
4 19 (44.19%) DevOps
5 17 (39.53%) Test Strategy
6 14 (32.56%) Performance Testing
6 14 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (18.60%) Scrum
8 7 (16.28%) BDD
8 7 (16.28%) Manual Testing
8 7 (16.28%) Regression Testing
8 7 (16.28%) SDET
8 7 (16.28%) Software Testing
8 7 (16.28%) Sprint Planning
8 7 (16.28%) TDD
8 7 (16.28%) Test Management
9 6 (13.95%) Security Testing
9 6 (13.95%) Validation
10 5 (11.63%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 17 (39.53%) JavaScript
2 12 (27.91%) Java
3 9 (20.93%) TypeScript
4 5 (11.63%) Python
5 4 (9.30%) C#
5 4 (9.30%) SQL
6 2 (4.65%) Go
7 1 (2.33%) Bash
7 1 (2.33%) SOQL
7 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.33%) VB
7 1 (2.33%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.33%) VB6
7 1 (2.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.33%) CEH
4 1 (2.33%) CISSP
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (37.21%) QA
2 9 (20.93%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.65%) WCAG
4 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (18.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Grafana
3 2 (4.65%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle
2 2 (4.65%) Salesforce
2 2 (4.65%) SAP
3 1 (2.33%) Dell
3 1 (2.33%) Facebook
3 1 (2.33%) Instagram
3 1 (2.33%) Kronos
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.33%) Splunk