API Testing Jobs in England

API Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring API Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited API Testing over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 605 553
Rank change year-on-year +25 -52 -174
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 88 242 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.28% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.33% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 69 216 382
10th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £42,025
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,688 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,400 £95,000 £83,438
90th Percentile £69,500 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44,280 73,086 88,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.72% 85.76% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 23,940 53,858 52,090
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,308
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,840 £73,650 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing API Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in England

API Testing
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Testing in England.

Salary trend for API Testing in England

API Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Testing in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for API Testing in England

API Testing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 6 May 2025. 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
London +28 41 £49,000 -34.67% 35
Midlands +41 21 £42,500 -15.00% 18
North of England +60 12 £55,000 +10.00% 23
West Midlands +35 11 £43,500 -17.14% 9
East Midlands +45 10 £33,500 -29.47% 9
South East +71 9 £52,500 - 16
North East +52 5 £55,000 - 5
South West +102 4 £41,250 -31.25% 2
Yorkshire +70 4 £59,800 +19.60% 6
North West +11 3 £90,000 +89.47% 12
East of England +44 1 £55,000 +37.50% 5
API Testing
UK

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.68%) Confluence
2 4 (4.55%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (3.41%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.41%) IIS
4 2 (2.27%) Appian
4 2 (2.27%) CICS
5 1 (1.14%) Moodle
5 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.14%) Totara
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 35 (39.77%) Azure
2 21 (23.86%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (17.05%) AWS
4 10 (11.36%) GCP
5 7 (7.95%) SaaS
6 5 (5.68%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.41%) GitHub
8 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.27%) BrowserStack
9 2 (2.27%) Slack
10 1 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.14%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.14%) mabl
10 1 (1.14%) Sauce Labs
10 1 (1.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) HTTP
2 1 (1.14%) DHCP
2 1 (1.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.91%) NoSQL
2 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.41%) Big Data
3 3 (3.41%) Delta Lake
3 3 (3.41%) Power BI
3 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.27%) DB2
4 2 (2.27%) MySQL
4 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (50.00%) Postman
2 37 (42.05%) Selenium
3 21 (23.86%) Git
4 17 (19.32%) JMeter
5 16 (18.18%) Jenkins
5 16 (18.18%) JIRA
6 14 (15.91%) SoapUI
7 13 (14.77%) Cypress.io
8 10 (11.36%) SpecFlow
9 9 (10.23%) REST Assured
10 8 (9.09%) WebDriver
11 7 (7.95%) Gatling
12 6 (6.82%) JUnit
12 6 (6.82%) TestRail
13 5 (5.68%) Appium
13 5 (5.68%) Locust
13 5 (5.68%) NUnit
14 4 (4.55%) Burp Suite
14 4 (4.55%) GitLab
14 4 (4.55%) TestCafe
General
1 30 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.91%) Finance
3 10 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.55%) Law
6 3 (3.41%) Billing
7 2 (2.27%) Banking
7 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Advertising
8 1 (1.14%) Games
8 1 (1.14%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Marketing
8 1 (1.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 21 (23.86%) Test Engineer
2 20 (22.73%) Senior
3 19 (21.59%) Tester
4 16 (18.18%) QA Engineer
5 13 (14.77%) Analyst
6 11 (12.50%) Lead
7 9 (10.23%) Software Test Engineer
8 8 (9.09%) QA Leader
9 7 (7.95%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (7.95%) Senior Test Engineer
9 7 (7.95%) Software Tester
10 6 (6.82%) Senior Software Test Engineer
10 6 (6.82%) Test Analyst
10 6 (6.82%) Test Automation Engineer
11 5 (5.68%) Automation Tester
11 5 (5.68%) QA Automation Engineer
11 5 (5.68%) Support Manager
11 5 (5.68%) Technical Manager
11 5 (5.68%) Technical Support
11 5 (5.68%) Technical Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.05%) REST
2 13 (14.77%) JSON
3 12 (13.64%) .NET
4 9 (10.23%) React
5 8 (9.09%) GraphQL
5 8 (9.09%) Playwright
6 7 (7.95%) Pandas
6 7 (7.95%) XML
7 6 (6.82%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.82%) SOAP
7 6 (6.82%) Web Services
8 5 (5.68%) Kafka
8 5 (5.68%) Puppeteer
8 5 (5.68%) Scrapy
9 4 (4.55%) pytest
9 4 (4.55%) Swagger
9 4 (4.55%) YAML
10 3 (3.41%) .NET Framework
10 3 (3.41%) CSS
10 3 (3.41%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 5 (5.68%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (5.68%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.68%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.41%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.27%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.27%) NHS
5 1 (1.14%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.14%) PropTech
5 1 (1.14%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.95%) Linux
2 3 (3.41%) Android
2 3 (3.41%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.41%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (2.27%) Windows
3 2 (2.27%) zOS
4 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (71.59%) Test Automation
2 41 (46.59%) Agile
3 40 (45.45%) Software Testing
4 34 (38.64%) CI/CD
4 34 (38.64%) Test Strategy
5 29 (32.95%) DevOps
6 28 (31.82%) Manual Testing
7 21 (23.86%) Test Scripting
8 18 (20.45%) Performance Testing
8 18 (20.45%) Regression Testing
9 16 (18.18%) Scrum
9 16 (18.18%) SDLC
10 14 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (15.91%) Validation
11 13 (14.77%) End-to-End Testing
11 13 (14.77%) Security Testing
12 10 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (11.36%) ETL
12 10 (11.36%) Functional Testing
12 10 (11.36%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (53.41%) SQL
2 24 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 23 (26.14%) C#
4 20 (22.73%) Python
5 17 (19.32%) Java
6 15 (17.05%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.55%) Scala
8 2 (2.27%) COBOL
8 2 (2.27%) Groovy
8 2 (2.27%) JCL
9 1 (1.14%) C
9 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (21.59%) ISTQB
2 13 (14.77%) Degree
3 11 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 8 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (4.55%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.14%) CISSP
8 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (48.86%) QA
2 5 (5.68%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.55%) Terraform
3 2 (2.27%) CA Endevor
3 2 (2.27%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (2.27%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.55%) Databricks
3 3 (3.41%) Oracle
4 2 (2.27%) BMC
4 2 (2.27%) IBM
5 1 (1.14%) CyberSource
5 1 (1.14%) Google
5 1 (1.14%) HP
5 1 (1.14%) Splunk
5 1 (1.14%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.14%) UiPath
5 1 (1.14%) VMware