API Testing Jobs with Work from Home Options

API Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 396 332
Rank change year-on-year -30 -64 +54
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 152 290 744
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.70% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.73% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 140 266 416
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £38,950
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,412 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +15.69% +20.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £89,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,803 39,731 67,272
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 97.00%
Number of salaries quoted 23,360 27,643 41,432
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing API Testing.

API Testing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

API Testing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing API Testing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

API Testing salary histogram 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 5 (3.29%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (26.32%) SaaS
2 33 (21.71%) Azure
3 17 (11.18%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.26%) GitHub
5 5 (3.29%) AWS
6 4 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (2.63%) BrowserStack
6 4 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.63%) PaaS
7 3 (1.97%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.97%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.97%) Azure Storage
7 3 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.97%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.97%) Sauce Labs
7 3 (1.97%) Serverless
8 1 (0.66%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) Firewall
1 1 (0.66%) HTTP
1 1 (0.66%) Multicast
1 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.63%) Redis
1 4 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 100 (65.79%) Postman
2 87 (57.24%) Selenium
3 86 (56.58%) Cucumber
4 75 (49.34%) Jenkins
5 35 (23.03%) Cypress.io
6 24 (15.79%) SpecFlow
7 22 (14.47%) JIRA
8 13 (8.55%) REST Assured
9 10 (6.58%) Git
9 10 (6.58%) JMeter
9 10 (6.58%) JUnit
9 10 (6.58%) TeamCity
10 8 (5.26%) SoapUI
11 6 (3.95%) WebDriver
12 5 (3.29%) Appium
12 5 (3.29%) eggPlant
12 5 (3.29%) TestNG
13 4 (2.63%) GitLab
13 4 (2.63%) Mockito
14 3 (1.97%) Moq
General
1 19 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.26%) Legal
3 8 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.61%) Finance
5 4 (2.63%) Health Technology
5 4 (2.63%) Law
6 3 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.97%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.66%) Advertising
8 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (29.61%) Lead
2 35 (23.03%) Senior
3 31 (20.39%) QA Engineer
4 30 (19.74%) Tester
5 12 (7.89%) Automation Tester
6 9 (5.92%) Software Tester
6 9 (5.92%) Test Engineer
7 8 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (5.26%) Penetration Tester
8 7 (4.61%) QA Automation Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) QA Leader
9 6 (3.95%) Senior QA Engineer
10 5 (3.29%) Analyst
10 5 (3.29%) Senior Tester
11 4 (2.63%) Senior Software Tester
11 4 (2.63%) Test Analyst
11 4 (2.63%) Test Leader
12 3 (1.97%) Developer
12 3 (1.97%) Lead Developer
12 3 (1.97%) QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (46.71%) REST
2 17 (11.18%) .NET
3 15 (9.87%) .NET Framework
3 15 (9.87%) WebdriverIO
4 12 (7.89%) Swagger
5 10 (6.58%) Playwright
6 9 (5.92%) Gherkin
6 9 (5.92%) WireMock
7 5 (3.29%) Apache Commons
7 5 (3.29%) Guava
7 5 (3.29%) Java Concurrency
7 5 (3.29%) Nightwatchjs
7 5 (3.29%) Node.js
7 5 (3.29%) Web Services
8 4 (2.63%) Kafka
8 4 (2.63%) Spring
8 4 (2.63%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.97%) Entity Framework
9 3 (1.97%) pytest
9 3 (1.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.58%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 8 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 5 (3.29%) Replication
4 4 (2.63%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.97%) W3C
6 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.32%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.55%) Windows
2 5 (3.29%) Android
2 5 (3.29%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.97%) Linux
4 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (59.21%) CI/CD
2 74 (48.68%) SDET
3 73 (48.03%) Test Automation
4 71 (46.71%) BDD
5 55 (36.18%) Clean Code
5 55 (36.18%) Test Strategy
6 39 (25.66%) Agile
6 39 (25.66%) Software Testing
7 29 (19.08%) DevOps
8 27 (17.76%) Fintech
9 22 (14.47%) Line Management
9 22 (14.47%) Test Scripting
10 20 (13.16%) Microservices
11 19 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (12.50%) Scrum
12 16 (10.53%) QA Automation
13 13 (8.55%) Design Patterns
13 13 (8.55%) Manual Testing
13 13 (8.55%) Software Engineering
14 11 (7.24%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 68 (44.74%) Java
2 36 (23.68%) C#
3 34 (22.37%) JavaScript
4 19 (12.50%) SQL
5 9 (5.92%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.29%) Python
7 3 (1.97%) Swift
8 1 (0.66%) PHP
8 1 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (7.24%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.92%) ISTQB
3 8 (5.26%) Degree
3 8 (5.26%) OSCP
4 7 (4.61%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.95%) ISEB
6 5 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (58.55%) QA
2 14 (9.21%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.26%) GRC
4 3 (1.97%) WCAG
5 2 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (8.55%) Docker
2 5 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (5.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.63%) Grafana
2 4 (2.63%) Kibana
2 4 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (8.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.29%) ServiceNow
3 4 (2.63%) Splunk
4 1 (0.66%) OpenAI