API Testing Job Trends in the North West

API Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West 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 177 192 199
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +72
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 9 13 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.14% 0.26% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.28% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 3
10th Percentile £49,375 £41,250 £56,722
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £63,576
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -36.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £63,063 £51,563 £79,375
90th Percentile £64,750 £52,500 £82,000
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,173 4,612 3,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.20% 91.25% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,546 2,263 3,047
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,114 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,445 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £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 West

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in the North West

API Testing
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing API Testing

API Testing
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for API Testing in the North West

API Testing
Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +20 9 £60,000 +26.32% 10
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (22.22%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) MongoDB
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Selenium
2 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
2 2 (22.22%) Postman
3 1 (11.11%) Appium
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) .NET Developer
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Tester
4 1 (11.11%) QA Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) .NET
1 5 (55.56%) .NET Core
1 5 (55.56%) Akka
1 5 (55.56%) Akka.NET
1 5 (55.56%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 6 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Clean Code
2 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 5 (55.56%) End-to-End Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Low Latency
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) Performance Optimisation
2 5 (55.56%) Scrum
2 5 (55.56%) Unit Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Coaching
5 2 (22.22%) People Management
5 2 (22.22%) QA Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) Erlang
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA