API Testing Job Trends in the North of England

API Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 246 264 281
Rank change year-on-year +18 +17 +93
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 27 17 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.25% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.21% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 8
10th Percentile £50,700 £39,750 £50,382
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,250 £52,413
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.47% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £52,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £64,883 £77,625
England median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% -33.33% +15.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,623 8,255 7,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.03% 90.79% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,624 3,681 5,913
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,010
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,100 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in the North of England

API Testing
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing API Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing API Testing

API Testing
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for API Testing in the North of England

API Testing
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Yorkshire +5 18 £65,000 -23.76% 14
North West +15 9 £60,000 +26.32% 12
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (48.15%) AWS
1 13 (48.15%) GitHub
2 11 (40.74%) Serverless
3 6 (22.22%) SaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Postman
1 5 (18.52%) Selenium
2 3 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 2 (7.41%) Appium
3 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.41%) REST Assured
4 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Developer
2 11 (40.74%) Python Developer
3 8 (29.63%) Lead
4 7 (25.93%) QA Engineer
5 6 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (22.22%) QA Automation Engineer
5 6 (22.22%) Senior
6 5 (18.52%) .NET Developer
6 5 (18.52%) QA Leader
7 3 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
8 2 (7.41%) Lead Developer
8 2 (7.41%) Lead Python Developer
8 2 (7.41%) Senior QA Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Lead Test Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) QA Automation Tester
9 1 (3.70%) Robotics Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Senior Automation Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Senior Robotics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) CSS
1 11 (40.74%) Django
1 11 (40.74%) FastAPI
1 11 (40.74%) Flask
1 11 (40.74%) HTML
1 11 (40.74%) React
1 11 (40.74%) Vue
2 6 (22.22%) .NET
3 5 (18.52%) .NET Core
3 5 (18.52%) Akka
3 5 (18.52%) Akka.NET
3 5 (18.52%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) Data Structures
2 5 (18.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.70%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) CI/CD
2 18 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 15 (55.56%) Test Automation
4 14 (51.85%) Agile
5 11 (40.74%) Data Analysis
5 11 (40.74%) Design Patterns
5 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (40.74%) OOP
6 10 (37.04%) Unit Testing
7 9 (33.33%) Front End Development
7 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (25.93%) OO
9 7 (25.93%) Software Architecture
10 6 (22.22%) Functional Testing
11 5 (18.52%) Low Latency
11 5 (18.52%) Mathematics
11 5 (18.52%) Microservices
11 5 (18.52%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (18.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) JavaScript
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 12 (44.44%) C#
3 7 (25.93%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) Erlang
5 2 (7.41%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (40.74%) QA
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Terraform