API Testing Contracts in England

API Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 489 482
Rank change year-on-year +58 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing API Testing 106 142 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.30% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.33% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 101 262
10th Percentile £358 £310 £313
25th Percentile £408 £410 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £618 £625 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £450
% change year-on-year +1.33% +4.17% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £30.50
25th Percentile - £52.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £66.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -1.82% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £56.00 £62.87
90th Percentile - - £66.10
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £54.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% +35.00% -19.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,369 43,074 63,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.13% 90.02% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,561 30,212 45,513
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,271 1,523 1,744
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £16.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%
75th Percentile £60.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in England

API Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for API Testing in England

API Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Testing in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Testing in England

API Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for API Testing in England

API Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 23 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
London +95 66 £498 -9.55% 11
North of England +23 19 £475 +5.56% 11
Yorkshire +14 10 £550 +20.55% 6
North West +22 8 £450 +5.88% 5
South East +17 8 £438 +2.94% 14
South West -2 5 £475 +2.70% 2
Midlands +26 3 £525 +37.25% 1
West Midlands +11 3 £525 +5.00% 1
North East +12 1 £310 -
API Testing
UK

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (13.21%) Confluence
2 2 (1.89%) Apache
2 2 (1.89%) CMS
2 2 (1.89%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.98%) AWS
2 13 (12.26%) Azure
3 7 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.60%) GitHub
4 6 (5.66%) BrowserStack
5 5 (4.72%) Serverless
6 4 (3.77%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.89%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (1.89%) Firebase
7 2 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.89%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.89%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (1.89%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (1.89%) Sentry
8 1 (0.94%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.94%) Commercetools
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) HTTP
1 4 (3.77%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.83%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.89%) Power BI
4 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 46 (43.40%) Postman
2 29 (27.36%) JIRA
3 25 (23.58%) Selenium
4 19 (17.92%) Jenkins
5 16 (15.09%) Cucumber
5 16 (15.09%) Cypress.io
5 16 (15.09%) Git
6 14 (13.21%) JMeter
7 13 (12.26%) JUnit
7 13 (12.26%) SoapUI
8 11 (10.38%) REST Assured
8 11 (10.38%) SpecFlow
9 10 (9.43%) Appium
10 7 (6.60%) GitLab
11 6 (5.66%) Bitbucket
12 5 (4.72%) Visual Studio
12 5 (4.72%) WebDriver
13 4 (3.77%) Artifactory
13 4 (3.77%) LoadRunner
13 4 (3.77%) TestRail
General
1 24 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.32%) Finance
3 11 (10.38%) Back Office
4 9 (8.49%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.66%) Banking
6 5 (4.72%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.83%) Front Office
8 3 (2.83%) Retail
8 3 (2.83%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (1.89%) Marketing
9 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.94%) Electronics
10 1 (0.94%) Local Government
10 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (26.42%) Analyst
2 23 (21.70%) Senior
3 22 (20.75%) Tester
4 19 (17.92%) Test Engineer
5 13 (12.26%) Senior Analyst
5 13 (12.26%) Test Analyst
6 12 (11.32%) Automation Tester
7 11 (10.38%) QA Engineer
8 10 (9.43%) Senior Test Analyst
8 10 (9.43%) Technical Analyst
9 8 (7.55%) Business Analyst
9 8 (7.55%) Technical Business Analyst
10 7 (6.60%) Developer
11 6 (5.66%) QA Tester
11 6 (5.66%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (4.72%) Test Automation Engineer
13 4 (3.77%) Development Engineer
13 4 (3.77%) QA Automation Engineer
13 4 (3.77%) Software Development Engineer
13 4 (3.77%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.09%) SOAP
2 15 (14.15%) REST
3 14 (13.21%) Gherkin
4 9 (8.49%) XML
5 6 (5.66%) Playwright
5 6 (5.66%) RESTful
6 5 (4.72%) .NET
6 5 (4.72%) JSON
6 5 (4.72%) pytest
7 4 (3.77%) Swagger
7 4 (3.77%) WebdriverIO
8 3 (2.83%) ADO
8 3 (2.83%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (2.83%) Jest
9 2 (1.89%) FHIR
9 2 (1.89%) Middleware
9 2 (1.89%) Node.js
9 2 (1.89%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.89%) Web Services
10 1 (0.94%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.26%) Mobile App
2 11 (10.38%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.94%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.94%) EPoS
5 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.94%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.94%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.60%) Linux
2 6 (5.66%) Android
2 6 (5.66%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.66%) Windows
3 4 (3.77%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (2.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (70.75%) Test Automation
2 62 (58.49%) Agile
3 29 (27.36%) Scrum
3 29 (27.36%) Software Testing
4 24 (22.64%) Test Strategy
5 22 (20.75%) DevOps
5 22 (20.75%) Performance Testing
6 21 (19.81%) CI/CD
7 20 (18.87%) Acceptance Criteria
7 20 (18.87%) User Stories
8 19 (17.92%) BDD
8 19 (17.92%) Continuous Integration
8 19 (17.92%) E-Commerce
9 17 (16.04%) TDD
9 17 (16.04%) Test Scripting
10 15 (14.15%) Functional Testing
10 15 (14.15%) Manual Testing
10 15 (14.15%) Microservices
11 14 (13.21%) Software Engineering
12 13 (12.26%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 27 (25.47%) Java
2 23 (21.70%) Python
3 20 (18.87%) JavaScript
4 17 (16.04%) C#
5 16 (15.09%) SQL
6 8 (7.55%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.77%) C++
7 4 (3.77%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.77%) Swift
8 1 (0.94%) Bicep
8 1 (0.94%) PHP
8 1 (0.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (10.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.43%) Degree
3 9 (8.49%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.72%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (46.23%) QA
2 10 (9.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.72%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.77%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.89%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (8.49%) Docker
2 4 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.77%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 5 (4.72%) Terraform
2 4 (3.77%) Podman
3 3 (2.83%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.94%) Argo
4 1 (0.94%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.94%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (7.55%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.60%) Oracle
3 3 (2.83%) HP
4 2 (1.89%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.89%) Perfecto Mobile
4 2 (1.89%) Splunk
4 2 (1.89%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.94%) Adobe
5 1 (0.94%) IBM
5 1 (0.94%) SAP