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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 625 569 390
Rank change year-on-year -56 -179 +52
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 272 467 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.46% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.48% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 238 404 785
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £82,813 £81,313 £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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for API Testing in the UK

API Testing
Top 15 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 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -78 237 £62,500 -10.71% 58
Work from Home -51 156 £67,500 -0.97% 27
London -44 129 £75,000 +7.14% 14
UK excluding London -4 120 £50,000 - 49
South East +11 36 £52,500 -8.70% 15
Midlands +21 35 £50,000 +33.33% 4
West Midlands +30 26 £52,500 +10.53% 3
North of England +24 17 £50,000 -9.09% 14
South West -19 12 £60,000 +34.08% 4
Yorkshire +86 11 £57,500 +4.55% 9
Scotland -53 10 £36,000 -15.29% 4
East Midlands -14 9 £47,500 +26.67% 1
Wales - 7 £42,500 - 3
North West -13 6 £47,500 -13.64% 5
East of England +5 3 £40,000 +23.08% 5

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 (5.88%) Apache
2 7 (2.57%) Confluence
3 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 82 (30.15%) Azure
2 48 (17.65%) SaaS
3 39 (14.34%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (7.35%) Azure Service Bus
5 19 (6.99%) AWS
5 19 (6.99%) Serverless
6 16 (5.88%) Azure Functions
7 15 (5.51%) Azure API Management
8 13 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (4.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 13 (4.78%) GitHub
9 7 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.84%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.84%) PaaS
11 4 (1.47%) BrowserStack
12 3 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.10%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.10%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (1.10%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.47%) Bluetooth
1 4 (1.47%) Ethernet
1 4 (1.47%) FlexRay
1 4 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (1.47%) Wireless
2 3 (1.10%) HTTP
3 1 (0.37%) Firewall
3 1 (0.37%) Multicast
3 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.84%) DynamoDB
2 5 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.84%) Redis
2 5 (1.84%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.10%) MySQL
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.37%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.37%) GIS
4 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.37%) Power BI
4 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 145 (53.31%) Postman
2 125 (45.96%) Selenium
3 109 (40.07%) Cucumber
4 83 (30.51%) Jenkins
5 52 (19.12%) Cypress.io
6 44 (16.18%) JIRA
7 31 (11.40%) SpecFlow
8 27 (9.93%) SoapUI
9 26 (9.56%) JUnit
9 26 (9.56%) REST Assured
10 25 (9.19%) Git
11 23 (8.46%) WebDriver
12 21 (7.72%) JMeter
13 19 (6.99%) TestNG
14 11 (4.04%) GitLab
14 11 (4.04%) TeamCity
15 10 (3.68%) Visual Studio
16 9 (3.31%) Gatling
17 7 (2.57%) LoadRunner
17 7 (2.57%) MSTest
General
1 51 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 18 (6.62%) Public Sector
3 17 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.15%) Finance
5 12 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.68%) Law
7 8 (2.94%) Legal
8 6 (2.21%) Marketing
9 4 (1.47%) Automotive
9 4 (1.47%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.47%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.10%) Electronics
10 3 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.74%) Retail
12 1 (0.37%) Advertising
12 1 (0.37%) Games
12 1 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 56 (20.59%) Lead
2 52 (19.12%) Tester
3 49 (18.01%) Senior
4 45 (16.54%) QA Engineer
5 43 (15.81%) Test Engineer
6 26 (9.56%) Automation Tester
7 24 (8.82%) Developer
8 15 (5.51%) C# Developer
9 14 (5.15%) Azure Developer
10 12 (4.41%) Analyst
10 12 (4.41%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (4.41%) QA Automation Engineer
11 11 (4.04%) QA Leader
11 11 (4.04%) Test Automation Engineer
12 9 (3.31%) Software Tester
13 8 (2.94%) Penetration Tester
13 8 (2.94%) QA Manager
13 8 (2.94%) Test Analyst
14 7 (2.57%) Senior Test Engineer
14 7 (2.57%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (37.50%) REST
2 28 (10.29%) .NET
2 28 (10.29%) Swagger
3 20 (7.35%) .NET Framework
3 20 (7.35%) Playwright
3 20 (7.35%) WireMock
4 17 (6.25%) SOAP
5 16 (5.88%) Apache Commons
5 16 (5.88%) Guava
5 16 (5.88%) Java Concurrency
5 16 (5.88%) WebdriverIO
6 13 (4.78%) OpenAPI
7 12 (4.41%) Gherkin
7 12 (4.41%) React
7 12 (4.41%) Web Services
8 11 (4.04%) Node.js
9 10 (3.68%) CSS
9 10 (3.68%) Kafka
10 9 (3.31%) HTML
10 9 (3.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.04%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (2.94%) Mobile App
3 8 (2.94%) Security Posture
3 8 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.21%) IoT
5 5 (1.84%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.84%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.84%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.84%) Replication
6 4 (1.47%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.10%) Robotics
7 3 (1.10%) W3C
8 2 (0.74%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.37%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.37%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.88%) Windows
2 12 (4.41%) Linux
3 5 (1.84%) Android
3 5 (1.84%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.74%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (62.87%) Test Automation
2 133 (48.90%) CI/CD
3 106 (38.97%) Agile
4 96 (35.29%) BDD
5 91 (33.46%) SDET
6 79 (29.04%) Test Strategy
7 75 (27.57%) Software Testing
8 64 (23.53%) DevOps
9 57 (20.96%) Clean Code
10 47 (17.28%) Scrum
10 47 (17.28%) Test Scripting
11 42 (15.44%) Manual Testing
12 32 (11.76%) Fintech
12 32 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (10.29%) Performance Testing
13 28 (10.29%) Scenario Testing
13 28 (10.29%) TDD
14 27 (9.93%) Microservices
15 25 (9.19%) Design Patterns
16 24 (8.82%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 106 (38.97%) Java
2 72 (26.47%) C#
3 62 (22.79%) JavaScript
4 56 (20.59%) SQL
5 27 (9.93%) Python
6 16 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.94%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.47%) C
9 3 (1.10%) Swift
10 2 (0.74%) PHP
10 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (9.93%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.88%) ISTQB
3 15 (5.51%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.41%) Degree
5 10 (3.68%) ISEB
6 9 (3.31%) OSCP
7 6 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (48.53%) QA
2 23 (8.46%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.94%) GRC
4 3 (1.10%) JTAG
4 3 (1.10%) WCAG
5 2 (0.74%) PMO
6 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (11.76%) Docker
2 5 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (9.93%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.84%) Grafana
2 5 (1.84%) Kibana
2 5 (1.84%) Terraform
3 2 (0.74%) Ansible
4 1 (0.37%) Argo
4 1 (0.37%) Consul
Vendors
1 22 (8.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.21%) ServiceNow
2 6 (2.21%) Splunk
3 3 (1.10%) Conga
3 3 (1.10%) Lauterbach
3 3 (1.10%) Oracle
3 3 (1.10%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (0.37%) Databricks
4 1 (0.37%) Denodo
4 1 (0.37%) Google
4 1 (0.37%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.37%) Talend