API Testing Jobs in Scotland

API Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 218 204
Rank change year-on-year -51 -14 -39
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 9 9 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.13% 0.19% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.20% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 37
10th Percentile - - £37,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £42,188 £46,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £51,750 £67,500 £75,000
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
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,255 4,450 5,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.28% 90.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,420 2,229 2,790
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,440 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,654 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +9.82% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in Scotland

API Testing
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for API Testing in Scotland

API Testing
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for API Testing in Scotland

API Testing
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Testing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 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
Aberdeen - 4 £35,000 -
Glasgow -111 3 £36,750 -13.53% 2
Edinburgh +39 2 £55,000 -15.38% 1
API Testing
UK

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Selenium
2 4 (44.44%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (44.44%) Visual Studio
2 4 (44.44%) WebDriver
3 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) JMeter
3 2 (22.22%) Postman
4 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 1 (11.11%) JIRA
4 1 (11.11%) JUnit
4 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
4 1 (11.11%) Maven
4 1 (11.11%) Mockito
4 1 (11.11%) Protractor
4 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Health Technology
1 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (11.11%) Law
1 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
1 4 (44.44%) DOM
1 4 (44.44%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) Spring
2 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) Playwright
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) WireMock
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
3 6 (66.67%) Manual Testing
4 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Exploratory Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Kanban
4 4 (44.44%) Regression Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 1 (11.11%) Microservices
6 1 (11.11%) OO
6 1 (11.11%) OOD
6 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
6 1 (11.11%) QA Automation
6 1 (11.11%) SDET
6 1 (11.11%) SDLC
6 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
6 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) ISTQB
2 4 (44.44%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform