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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 504 479
Rank change year-on-year +33 -25 +43
Contract jobs citing API Testing 119 197 414
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.34% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.38% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 146 333
10th Percentile £338 £325 £313
25th Percentile £383 £411 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £541 £550 £543
90th Percentile £596 £625 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £421
% change year-on-year - +6.95% -1.00%
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 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
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 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +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 11 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 11 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 +65 101 £463 -3.65% 50
London +96 60 £500 -9.09% 11
Work from Home +78 50 £466 -1.84% 23
UK excluding London -17 43 £450 - 43
North of England +26 20 £425 -5.56% 16
North West +16 11 £385 -9.41% 8
South East +16 8 £438 -3.31% 14
Yorkshire +11 8 £550 +20.55% 8
Scotland +11 6 £450 -5.26% 3
South West +2 5 £475 -1.04% 2
Midlands +17 3 £525 +24.26% 4
West Midlands +6 3 £525 +23.53% 3
North East +15 1 £310 -
Wales - 1 £490 - 2

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 17 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (1.68%) Apache
2 2 (1.68%) CMS
2 2 (1.68%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.17%) Azure
2 21 (17.65%) AWS
3 13 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (10.08%) GitHub
5 6 (5.04%) BrowserStack
6 3 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.52%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (1.68%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.68%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.68%) Sentry
7 2 (1.68%) Serverless
7 2 (1.68%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.84%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.84%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.84%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (0.84%) Commercetools
8 1 (0.84%) Firebase
8 1 (0.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) HTTP
1 4 (3.36%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.20%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.68%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.68%) Power BI
4 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 49 (41.18%) Postman
2 32 (26.89%) JIRA
3 30 (25.21%) Selenium
4 25 (21.01%) Cucumber
5 24 (20.17%) Jenkins
6 22 (18.49%) Git
7 18 (15.13%) Cypress.io
8 15 (12.61%) REST Assured
9 14 (11.76%) JMeter
10 13 (10.92%) Appium
10 13 (10.92%) SoapUI
11 12 (10.08%) JUnit
12 11 (9.24%) Visual Studio
13 10 (8.40%) SpecFlow
14 8 (6.72%) WebDriver
15 7 (5.88%) Bitbucket
15 7 (5.88%) GitLab
16 5 (4.20%) LoadRunner
16 5 (4.20%) Maven
17 4 (3.36%) Artifactory
General
1 33 (27.73%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.24%) Back Office
2 11 (9.24%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.40%) Finance
4 5 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.36%) Banking
5 4 (3.36%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.52%) Front Office
6 3 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.52%) Retail
6 3 (2.52%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.52%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (1.68%) Marketing
8 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.84%) Electronics
8 1 (0.84%) Local Government
8 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.84%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 30 (25.21%) Analyst
2 25 (21.01%) Senior
2 25 (21.01%) Tester
3 24 (20.17%) Test Engineer
4 16 (13.45%) Test Analyst
5 14 (11.76%) Automation Tester
5 14 (11.76%) QA Engineer
6 13 (10.92%) Technical Analyst
7 11 (9.24%) Senior Analyst
7 11 (9.24%) Senior Test Analyst
8 9 (7.56%) Test Automation Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Business Analyst
9 8 (6.72%) Technical Business Analyst
10 7 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
11 6 (5.04%) QA Tester
12 5 (4.20%) QA Automation Engineer
13 4 (3.36%) Automation Engineer
13 4 (3.36%) Development Engineer
13 4 (3.36%) Software Development Engineer
13 4 (3.36%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (22.69%) REST
2 21 (17.65%) SOAP
3 14 (11.76%) Playwright
4 13 (10.92%) .NET
4 13 (10.92%) Gherkin
5 10 (8.40%) RESTful
6 9 (7.56%) XML
7 7 (5.88%) JSON
7 7 (5.88%) Swagger
8 6 (5.04%) pytest
9 5 (4.20%) OpenAPI
9 5 (4.20%) WebdriverIO
9 5 (4.20%) WinForms
9 5 (4.20%) WPF
10 3 (2.52%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.52%) ADO
10 3 (2.52%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (2.52%) Jest
10 3 (2.52%) Node.js
10 3 (2.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.92%) Mobile App
2 10 (8.40%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.68%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.84%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.84%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.84%) EPoS
6 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.84%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.84%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.24%) Windows
2 7 (5.88%) Linux
3 6 (5.04%) Android
3 6 (5.04%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.36%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (2.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (75.63%) Test Automation
2 72 (60.50%) Agile
3 30 (25.21%) DevOps
4 27 (22.69%) Software Testing
5 26 (21.85%) BDD
5 26 (21.85%) Continuous Integration
6 25 (21.01%) Scrum
7 24 (20.17%) Test Strategy
8 22 (18.49%) Acceptance Criteria
8 22 (18.49%) Performance Testing
9 21 (17.65%) Test Scripting
9 21 (17.65%) User Stories
10 20 (16.81%) CI/CD
11 19 (15.97%) E-Commerce
11 19 (15.97%) TDD
12 16 (13.45%) Manual Testing
13 15 (12.61%) Functional Testing
14 13 (10.92%) Microservices
14 13 (10.92%) Software Engineering
15 12 (10.08%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (22.69%) Java
2 23 (19.33%) C#
3 21 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 21 (17.65%) Python
3 21 (17.65%) SQL
4 8 (6.72%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.20%) VB
5 5 (4.20%) VB6
6 4 (3.36%) C++
6 4 (3.36%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.36%) Swift
7 2 (1.68%) PHP
8 1 (0.84%) ABAP
8 1 (0.84%) Bash
8 1 (0.84%) Bicep
8 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.84%) Ruby
8 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (10.08%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.24%) Degree
3 10 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.20%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (50.42%) QA
2 14 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.36%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.68%) HL7
5 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (5.04%) Docker
2 4 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.36%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 3 (2.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.84%) Argo
2 1 (0.84%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.84%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (10.92%) Oracle
2 7 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.20%) Atlassian
3 5 (4.20%) Infragistics
4 4 (3.36%) HP
5 3 (2.52%) Perfecto Mobile
5 3 (2.52%) SAP
6 2 (1.68%) IBM
6 2 (1.68%) Splunk
6 2 (1.68%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.84%) Adobe
7 1 (0.84%) Salesforce