API Testing Job Trends in the City of London

API Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring API Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 134 66
Rank change year-on-year +7 -68 +35
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 20 16 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.67% 0.68% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.71% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 115
10th Percentile £51,375 - £62,500
25th Percentile £59,063 £42,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £60,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% -36.84% +26.67%
75th Percentile £96,563 £85,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £106,125 - £115,000
Central London median annual salary £97,500 £60,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +62.50% -36.84% +26.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,526 2,264 2,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 84.79% 95.73% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,799 1,532 2,492
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,125 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £118,650 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

API Testing
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing API Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing API Testing

API Testing
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for API Testing in the City of London

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (5.00%) AWS
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (90.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Big Data
1 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Burp Suite
1 9 (45.00%) Metasploit
2 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) JMeter
2 1 (5.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) TestRail
2 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (90.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Analyst
1 9 (45.00%) Digital Analyst
1 9 (45.00%) Security Analyst
1 9 (45.00%) Security Manager
1 9 (45.00%) Senior
1 9 (45.00%) Senior Analyst
1 9 (45.00%) Senior Digital Analyst
1 9 (45.00%) Senior Security Analyst
2 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Tester
2 1 (5.00%) Lead
2 1 (5.00%) Tester
2 1 (5.00%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Thrift
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (95.00%) Mobile App
2 9 (45.00%) Cyber Defence
2 9 (45.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Mentoring
2 18 (90.00%) Agile
2 18 (90.00%) Application Security
2 18 (90.00%) Business Strategy
2 18 (90.00%) Business Transformation
2 18 (90.00%) Coaching
2 18 (90.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 18 (90.00%) Creative Thinking
2 18 (90.00%) Internal Audit
2 18 (90.00%) Offensive Security
2 18 (90.00%) Penetration Testing
2 18 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (90.00%) Purple Team
2 18 (90.00%) Red Team
3 9 (45.00%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (45.00%) Digital Forensics
3 9 (45.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 9 (45.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Bash
1 9 (45.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (45.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (90.00%) CCSAM
1 18 (90.00%) CHECK Team Leader
1 18 (90.00%) CHECK Team Member
1 18 (90.00%) CREST Certified
1 18 (90.00%) OSCP
2 9 (45.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Nessus