API Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

API Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 294 389 406
Rank change year-on-year +95 +17 +19
Contract jobs citing API Testing 51 81 218
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.33% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.37% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 62 179
10th Percentile £361 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% +2.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £522 £550 £521
90th Percentile £613 £693 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £450
% change year-on-year +1.33% +4.17% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £24.30
25th Percentile - £52.00 £34.88
Median hourly rate - £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -1.82% -
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,882 21,904 40,173
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.65% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 15,514 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 507 533
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.58 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.06 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +37.60% +58.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

API Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing API Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

API Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing API Testing over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 10 (19.61%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.49%) Azure
2 12 (23.53%) AWS
3 6 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.84%) GitHub
5 2 (3.92%) BrowserStack
5 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.96%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (1.96%) Firebase
6 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.96%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (1.96%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.92%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (3.92%) Power BI
2 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (31.37%) JIRA
2 13 (25.49%) Postman
3 11 (21.57%) Git
3 11 (21.57%) Jenkins
3 11 (21.57%) Selenium
4 10 (19.61%) Cypress.io
5 7 (13.73%) SpecFlow
6 6 (11.76%) Cucumber
6 6 (11.76%) JMeter
6 6 (11.76%) Visual Studio
7 5 (9.80%) REST Assured
8 4 (7.84%) Bitbucket
9 3 (5.88%) Artifactory
9 3 (5.88%) GitLab
10 2 (3.92%) FitNesse
10 2 (3.92%) JUnit
10 2 (3.92%) LoadRunner
10 2 (3.92%) SoapUI
10 2 (3.92%) TestRail
10 2 (3.92%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (13.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.80%) Finance
3 4 (7.84%) Back Office
4 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Front Office
6 1 (1.96%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Electronics
6 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.96%) Marketing
6 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (25.49%) Test Engineer
2 12 (23.53%) Tester
3 10 (19.61%) Analyst
4 9 (17.65%) Automation Tester
4 9 (17.65%) Senior
5 5 (9.80%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (9.80%) Test Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) QA Tester
6 4 (7.84%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Development Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Test Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Software Development Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Test Development Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.53%) REST
2 7 (13.73%) Playwright
3 6 (11.76%) SOAP
4 5 (9.80%) OpenAPI
4 5 (9.80%) Swagger
5 4 (7.84%) .NET
5 4 (7.84%) RESTful
6 3 (5.88%) Gherkin
6 3 (5.88%) XML
7 2 (3.92%) WebdriverIO
7 2 (3.92%) WinForms
7 2 (3.92%) WPF
8 1 (1.96%) Chai
8 1 (1.96%) Jest
8 1 (1.96%) JSON
8 1 (1.96%) Middleware
8 1 (1.96%) Node.js
8 1 (1.96%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.96%) EPoS
3 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.96%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.80%) Windows
2 3 (5.88%) Embedded Linux
2 3 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (88.24%) Test Automation
2 28 (54.90%) Agile
3 15 (29.41%) Performance Testing
4 14 (27.45%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (25.49%) DevOps
5 13 (25.49%) Software Testing
6 11 (21.57%) BDD
6 11 (21.57%) CI/CD
6 11 (21.57%) Software Engineering
6 11 (21.57%) Test Strategy
7 10 (19.61%) Scenario Testing
8 9 (17.65%) SDET
9 7 (13.73%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 7 (13.73%) Manual Testing
9 7 (13.73%) Non-Functional Testing
9 7 (13.73%) TDD
9 7 (13.73%) Test Management
9 7 (13.73%) Test Scripting
9 7 (13.73%) User Stories
10 6 (11.76%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (29.41%) JavaScript
1 15 (29.41%) SQL
2 14 (27.45%) C#
3 10 (19.61%) Python
4 8 (15.69%) Java
5 5 (9.80%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.88%) C++
7 2 (3.92%) VB
7 2 (3.92%) VB6
8 1 (1.96%) ABAP
8 1 (1.96%) Bicep
8 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.80%) Degree
2 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (49.02%) QA
2 5 (9.80%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (5.88%) VirtualBox
2 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Oracle
2 5 (9.80%) Atlassian
2 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.88%) SAP
4 2 (3.92%) Infragistics
4 2 (3.92%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.96%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (1.96%) Salesforce