API Testing Jobs in England

API Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for API Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited API Testing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 524 378
Rank change year-on-year -43 -146 +51
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 255 463 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.50% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.52% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 229 393 734
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,050 £37,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +20.00%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,867 88,602 125,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.85% 95.64% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 53,758 52,331 73,895
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,338
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for API Testing in England

API Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Testing in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for API Testing in England

API Testing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -16 144 £75,000 +7.14% 15
South East +17 39 £53,750 -6.52% 16
Midlands +15 35 £50,000 +33.33% 3
West Midlands +44 26 £52,500 +10.53% 3
North of England +12 16 £48,750 -12.95% 8
South West -13 12 £60,000 +34.08% 3
Yorkshire +95 9 £48,750 -11.36% 2
East Midlands -14 9 £47,500 +26.67%
North West -6 6 £47,500 -20.83% 6
East of England +5 3 £40,000 +23.08% 5
North East -8 1 £55,000 -1.79%
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 16 (6.27%) Apache
2 6 (2.35%) Confluence
3 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 66 (25.88%) Azure
2 45 (17.65%) SaaS
3 33 (12.94%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (7.06%) AWS
5 14 (5.49%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (5.49%) Serverless
6 13 (5.10%) Azure Functions
7 10 (3.92%) Azure API Management
7 10 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (3.92%) GitHub
8 4 (1.57%) BrowserStack
8 4 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.18%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (1.18%) Sauce Labs
10 1 (0.39%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.39%) GCP
10 1 (0.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.57%) Bluetooth
1 4 (1.57%) Ethernet
1 4 (1.57%) FlexRay
1 4 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (1.57%) Wireless
2 3 (1.18%) HTTP
3 1 (0.39%) Firewall
3 1 (0.39%) Multicast
3 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.96%) DynamoDB
2 5 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.96%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.39%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.39%) GIS
3 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.39%) Power BI
3 1 (0.39%) Redis
3 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 141 (55.29%) Postman
2 119 (46.67%) Cucumber
3 116 (45.49%) Selenium
4 93 (36.47%) Jenkins
5 51 (20.00%) Cypress.io
6 34 (13.33%) JIRA
7 31 (12.16%) SpecFlow
8 29 (11.37%) REST Assured
9 26 (10.20%) SoapUI
10 25 (9.80%) JUnit
11 21 (8.24%) JMeter
12 19 (7.45%) TestNG
13 18 (7.06%) WebDriver
14 16 (6.27%) Git
15 13 (5.10%) TeamCity
16 12 (4.71%) Gatling
17 7 (2.75%) Appium
17 7 (2.75%) MSTest
18 6 (2.35%) LoadRunner
19 5 (1.96%) eggPlant
General
1 45 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 15 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 11 (4.31%) Finance
4 9 (3.53%) Law
4 9 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (3.14%) Legal
6 7 (2.75%) Tech for Good
7 4 (1.57%) Automotive
7 4 (1.57%) Marketing
8 3 (1.18%) Electronics
8 3 (1.18%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.78%) Retail
10 1 (0.39%) Games
10 1 (0.39%) Local Government
10 1 (0.39%) Publishing
10 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (22.35%) Lead
2 53 (20.78%) Tester
3 48 (18.82%) Senior
4 44 (17.25%) QA Engineer
5 28 (10.98%) Test Engineer
6 27 (10.59%) Automation Tester
7 20 (7.84%) Developer
8 13 (5.10%) C# Developer
8 13 (5.10%) QA Automation Engineer
9 11 (4.31%) Analyst
9 11 (4.31%) Azure Developer
9 11 (4.31%) QA Leader
10 9 (3.53%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (3.53%) Software Tester
11 8 (3.14%) Penetration Tester
11 8 (3.14%) QA Manager
11 8 (3.14%) Test Manager
12 7 (2.75%) Senior Tester
12 7 (2.75%) Test Analyst
12 7 (2.75%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (45.10%) REST
2 27 (10.59%) .NET
3 23 (9.02%) Swagger
4 21 (8.24%) Playwright
5 20 (7.84%) WireMock
6 19 (7.45%) .NET Framework
7 16 (6.27%) Apache Commons
7 16 (6.27%) Guava
7 16 (6.27%) Java Concurrency
7 16 (6.27%) SOAP
8 14 (5.49%) WebdriverIO
9 11 (4.31%) Gherkin
9 11 (4.31%) React
9 11 (4.31%) Web Services
10 10 (3.92%) OpenAPI
11 9 (3.53%) JSON
11 9 (3.53%) Kafka
11 9 (3.53%) RESTful
11 9 (3.53%) XML
12 7 (2.75%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (3.14%) Security Posture
3 7 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.35%) IoT
5 5 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.96%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.57%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.18%) Robotics
8 2 (0.78%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.39%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.39%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.39%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.71%) Windows
2 11 (4.31%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Android
3 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.39%) Debian
3 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (54.51%) Test Automation
2 131 (51.37%) CI/CD
3 101 (39.61%) SDET
4 92 (36.08%) BDD
5 84 (32.94%) Agile
6 80 (31.37%) Test Strategy
7 69 (27.06%) Clean Code
8 63 (24.71%) Software Testing
9 46 (18.04%) DevOps
10 36 (14.12%) Scrum
11 34 (13.33%) Fintech
11 34 (13.33%) Manual Testing
12 33 (12.94%) Test Scripting
13 29 (11.37%) Scenario Testing
14 26 (10.20%) QA Automation
15 25 (9.80%) Performance Testing
16 23 (9.02%) Line Management
16 23 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
17 21 (8.24%) Design Patterns
17 21 (8.24%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 107 (41.96%) Java
2 66 (25.88%) C#
3 52 (20.39%) JavaScript
4 45 (17.65%) SQL
5 26 (10.20%) Python
6 11 (4.31%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.14%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.96%) Swift
9 4 (1.57%) C
10 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.78%) Ruby
11 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (9.02%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.31%) ISTQB
4 9 (3.53%) OSCP
5 6 (2.35%) Degree
5 6 (2.35%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.35%) ISEB
6 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (49.41%) QA
2 23 (9.02%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.14%) GRC
4 3 (1.18%) JTAG
5 2 (0.78%) PMO
6 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (10.98%) Docker
2 5 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.57%) Terraform
3 2 (0.78%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Argo
4 1 (0.39%) Consul
4 1 (0.39%) Grafana
4 1 (0.39%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.18%) Conga
2 3 (1.18%) Lauterbach
2 3 (1.18%) Oracle
2 3 (1.18%) Salesforce
2 3 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 2 (0.78%) ServiceNow
3 2 (0.78%) Splunk
4 1 (0.39%) Databricks
4 1 (0.39%) Denodo
4 1 (0.39%) Google
4 1 (0.39%) Talend