API Testing Job Trends in Birmingham

API Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring API Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 132 -
Rank change year-on-year +35 - -
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 9 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.52% 0.055% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.059% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £42,000 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £57,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 -
90th Percentile £65,250 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £61,500 £60,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% +53.85% -29.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

API Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,369 1,685 1,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.32% 93.15% 88.04%
Number of salaries quoted 968 786 1,008
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,974 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,625 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing API Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

API Testing job vacancy trend in Birmingham

API Testing
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing API Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing API Testing

API Testing
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Birmingham over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for API Testing in Birmingham

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
2 2 (22.22%) Postman
3 1 (11.11%) MSTest
3 1 (11.11%) NUnit
General
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) QA Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Lead
2 6 (66.67%) QA Automation Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) QA Leader
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) Jest
2 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 5 (55.56%) QA Automation
4 4 (44.44%) Coaching
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) People Management
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
6 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (11.11%) Agile
6 1 (11.11%) DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) Exploratory Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft