API Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 622 545 393
Rank change year-on-year -77 -152 +43
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 291 495 1,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.48% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.50% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 258 423 785
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,552 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +12.99%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,360 99,485 147,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59,619 58,411 83,272
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for API Testing in the UK

API Testing
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for API Testing in the UK

API Testing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Testing within the UK 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
England -43 255 £62,500 -10.71% 53
Work from Home -42 168 £75,000 +7.14% 30
London -16 144 £75,000 +7.14% 15
UK excluding London -13 123 £50,000 - 42
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%
Scotland -60 9 £35,500 -16.47% 3
Wales +21 8 £37,500 - 4
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%
Northern Ireland - 1 £80,000 -

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 16 (5.50%) Apache
2 7 (2.41%) Confluence
3 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 87 (29.90%) Azure
2 53 (18.21%) SaaS
3 43 (14.78%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (6.87%) Azure Service Bus
4 20 (6.87%) Serverless
5 19 (6.53%) AWS
6 17 (5.84%) Azure Functions
7 16 (5.50%) Azure API Management
8 14 (4.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (4.81%) Azure Logic Apps
8 14 (4.81%) GitHub
9 8 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.72%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.72%) PaaS
11 4 (1.37%) BrowserStack
12 3 (1.03%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (1.03%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.72%) Wireless
2 4 (1.37%) Bluetooth
2 4 (1.37%) Ethernet
2 4 (1.37%) FlexRay
2 4 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.03%) HTTP
4 1 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) Multicast
4 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.53%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.72%) DynamoDB
2 5 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.72%) Redis
2 5 (1.72%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.37%) MySQL
4 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.34%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.34%) GIS
4 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.34%) Power BI
4 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 160 (54.98%) Postman
2 136 (46.74%) Selenium
3 122 (41.92%) Cucumber
4 95 (32.65%) Jenkins
5 60 (20.62%) Cypress.io
6 44 (15.12%) JIRA
7 34 (11.68%) SpecFlow
8 29 (9.97%) REST Assured
8 29 (9.97%) SoapUI
9 26 (8.93%) JUnit
10 24 (8.25%) Git
11 23 (7.90%) JMeter
11 23 (7.90%) WebDriver
12 19 (6.53%) TestNG
13 13 (4.47%) TeamCity
14 12 (4.12%) Gatling
15 11 (3.78%) GitLab
16 10 (3.44%) Visual Studio
17 7 (2.41%) LoadRunner
17 7 (2.41%) MSTest
General
1 53 (18.21%) Social Skills
2 19 (6.53%) Public Sector
3 17 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (5.84%) Finance
4 13 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (3.44%) Law
6 8 (2.75%) Legal
7 7 (2.41%) Tech for Good
8 5 (1.72%) Marketing
8 5 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.37%) Automotive
9 4 (1.37%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.03%) Electronics
10 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.69%) Retail
12 1 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 60 (20.62%) Lead
2 55 (18.90%) Senior
3 54 (18.56%) Tester
4 49 (16.84%) QA Engineer
5 43 (14.78%) Test Engineer
6 27 (9.28%) Automation Tester
7 26 (8.93%) Developer
8 17 (5.84%) C# Developer
9 15 (5.15%) Automation Engineer
9 15 (5.15%) Azure Developer
10 14 (4.81%) QA Automation Engineer
11 12 (4.12%) Analyst
11 12 (4.12%) QA Leader
12 11 (3.78%) Test Automation Engineer
13 9 (3.09%) Penetration Tester
13 9 (3.09%) Software Tester
14 8 (2.75%) QA Manager
14 8 (2.75%) Senior Tester
14 8 (2.75%) Test Analyst
14 8 (2.75%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (39.86%) REST
2 30 (10.31%) .NET
3 29 (9.97%) Swagger
4 22 (7.56%) Playwright
5 21 (7.22%) .NET Framework
5 21 (7.22%) WireMock
6 18 (6.19%) WebdriverIO
7 17 (5.84%) SOAP
8 16 (5.50%) Apache Commons
8 16 (5.50%) Guava
8 16 (5.50%) Java Concurrency
9 14 (4.81%) OpenAPI
10 13 (4.47%) Web Services
11 11 (3.78%) Gherkin
11 11 (3.78%) Node.js
11 11 (3.78%) React
12 10 (3.44%) CSS
13 9 (3.09%) HTML
13 9 (3.09%) Kafka
13 9 (3.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (3.78%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.09%) Mobile App
3 9 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.75%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.06%) IoT
6 5 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (1.72%) Replication
7 4 (1.37%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.03%) Robotics
8 3 (1.03%) W3C
9 2 (0.69%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.34%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.34%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.34%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.84%) Windows
2 13 (4.47%) Linux
3 5 (1.72%) Android
3 5 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.69%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.34%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (59.79%) Test Automation
2 145 (49.83%) CI/CD
3 108 (37.11%) Agile
4 105 (36.08%) BDD
5 102 (35.05%) SDET
6 85 (29.21%) Test Strategy
7 74 (25.43%) Software Testing
8 69 (23.71%) Clean Code
9 65 (22.34%) DevOps
10 48 (16.49%) Scrum
11 47 (16.15%) Test Scripting
12 44 (15.12%) Manual Testing
13 37 (12.71%) Fintech
14 35 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (10.65%) TDD
16 30 (10.31%) Performance Testing
16 30 (10.31%) Scenario Testing
17 27 (9.28%) Microservices
17 27 (9.28%) QA Automation
18 24 (8.25%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (40.21%) Java
2 79 (27.15%) C#
3 71 (24.40%) JavaScript
4 55 (18.90%) SQL
5 30 (10.31%) Python
6 16 (5.50%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.75%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.72%) Swift
9 4 (1.37%) C
10 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.69%) Ruby
11 1 (0.34%) PHP
11 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (9.28%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.50%) ISTQB
3 15 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.47%) Degree
5 10 (3.44%) ISEB
5 10 (3.44%) OSCP
6 6 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (50.52%) QA
2 26 (8.93%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.75%) GRC
4 3 (1.03%) JTAG
4 3 (1.03%) WCAG
5 2 (0.69%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (11.00%) Docker
2 6 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (9.28%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.72%) Grafana
2 5 (1.72%) Kibana
2 5 (1.72%) Terraform
3 2 (0.69%) Ansible
4 1 (0.34%) Argo
4 1 (0.34%) Consul
4 1 (0.34%) Nessus
4 1 (0.34%) Nmap
Vendors
1 22 (7.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.06%) ServiceNow
2 6 (2.06%) Splunk
3 3 (1.03%) Conga
3 3 (1.03%) Lauterbach
3 3 (1.03%) Oracle
3 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (0.34%) Databricks
4 1 (0.34%) Denodo
4 1 (0.34%) Google
4 1 (0.34%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.34%) Talend