API Testing Jobs in Scotland

API Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 157 273 212
Rank change year-on-year +116 -61 -13
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 3 10 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.10% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.16% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 7
10th Percentile £45,500 - -
25th Percentile £48,125 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £36,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.78% -15.29% -10.53%
75th Percentile £61,875 £45,000 £56,875
90th Percentile £64,500 £59,500 £67,500
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
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,693 6,250 4,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.38% 92.80% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,350 2,418 2,230
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,499
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in Scotland

API Testing
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for API Testing in Scotland

API Testing
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for API Testing in Scotland

API Testing
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Testing within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +20 3 £55,000 - 4
API Testing
UK

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) SoapUI
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Tech for Good
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Development Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Software Development Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Development Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Development Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Development Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) SDET
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Fund Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk