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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 141 83
Rank change year-on-year +19 -58 +58
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 5 27 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.31% 0.98% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 1.05% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5 27 94
10th Percentile £73,750 - £45,375
25th Percentile £92,500 £42,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £50,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +110.00% -47.37% +35.71%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £109,500 £85,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £105,000 £50,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +110.00% -47.37% +35.71%

All Process and 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 1,520 2,579 2,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.66% 94.02% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,190 1,689 2,625
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,188 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £121,375 £115,000 £115,750
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,750
% change year-on-year - +3.09% -2.02%

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 3 November 2025.

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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Playwright
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Thrift
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) SDET
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Automated Trading
3 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft