API Testing Job Trends in Leeds

API Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring API Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 - 106
Rank change year-on-year - - +62
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 16 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.17% - 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% - 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £58,250 - -
25th Percentile £60,000 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £55,000
75th Percentile £77,500 - £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £85,253 £51,250
% change year-on-year -12.03% +66.35% -6.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,081 905 1,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 79.19% 89.07% 92.46%
Number of salaries quoted 713 514 940
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,026 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Leeds

API Testing
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing API Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing API Testing

API Testing
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Leeds over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for API Testing in Leeds

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 12 (75.00%) AWS
1 12 (75.00%) GitHub
2 11 (68.75%) Serverless
3 3 (18.75%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (6.25%) Appium
2 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
1 11 (68.75%) Python Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Lead
3 3 (18.75%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) QA Automation Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) QA Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) QA Leader
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Python Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) CSS
1 11 (68.75%) Django
1 11 (68.75%) FastAPI
1 11 (68.75%) Flask
1 11 (68.75%) HTML
1 11 (68.75%) React
1 11 (68.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Data Structures
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Mentoring
2 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (68.75%) Data Analysis
3 11 (68.75%) Design Patterns
3 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (68.75%) OOP
4 9 (56.25%) Front End Development
4 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
5 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (43.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (43.75%) OO
6 7 (43.75%) Software Architecture
7 5 (31.25%) Mathematics
7 5 (31.25%) Unit Testing
8 4 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
9 3 (18.75%) DevOps
9 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (18.75%) QA Automation
10 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 12 (75.00%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Terraform