API Testing Jobs in the South East

API Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for API Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited API Testing over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 364 383
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 -84
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 36 44 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.22% 0.29% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.31% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 27 26 84
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,208 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +26.37% -4.21%
75th Percentile £63,750 £74,688 £58,750
90th Percentile £69,500 £81,250 £65,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

API Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,140 14,106 18,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.73% 94.52% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,922 8,179 12,081
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing API Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the South East

API Testing
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Testing in the South East.

Salary trend for API Testing in the South East

API Testing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for API Testing in the South East

API Testing
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Testing within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +26 21 £62,500 +28.21% 9
Berkshire +26 14 £62,500 -26.47% 7
Buckinghamshire -14 6 £52,500 +23.53% 2
Surrey -1 5 £45,000 -40.00% 2
Hampshire -16 5 £52,500 +28.61% 4
Middlesex - 4 £42,500 -
Oxfordshire +14 1 £35,000 -36.36%
Kent -5 1 £60,000 -
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (30.56%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) Azure
2 11 (30.56%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) AWS
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.78%) AWS KMS
5 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (63.89%) Selenium
2 15 (41.67%) Cucumber
2 15 (41.67%) JUnit
2 15 (41.67%) Postman
3 13 (36.11%) TestNG
4 12 (33.33%) WebDriver
5 11 (30.56%) REST Assured
6 9 (25.00%) Jenkins
6 9 (25.00%) JIRA
7 8 (22.22%) Cypress.io
8 5 (13.89%) eggPlant
9 4 (11.11%) Git
9 4 (11.11%) SoapUI
10 3 (8.33%) JMeter
10 3 (8.33%) Mockito
10 3 (8.33%) SpecFlow
11 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
11 1 (2.78%) DbUnit
11 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
11 1 (2.78%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Marketing
4 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 2 (5.56%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Tester
2 12 (33.33%) Automation Tester
3 6 (16.67%) QA Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Test Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Lead
6 3 (8.33%) Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Developer
6 3 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Test Leader
7 2 (5.56%) Developer in Test
7 2 (5.56%) Java Automation Tester
7 2 (5.56%) QA Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Software Tester
8 1 (2.78%) QA Manager
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Test Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Team Leader
8 1 (2.78%) Technical Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (41.67%) REST
2 13 (36.11%) WireMock
3 11 (30.56%) Apache Commons
3 11 (30.56%) Guava
3 11 (30.56%) Java Concurrency
4 7 (19.44%) Swagger
5 5 (13.89%) Web Services
6 4 (11.11%) Playwright
6 4 (11.11%) SOAP
7 3 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (8.33%) React
7 3 (8.33%) Spring
8 2 (5.56%) Celery
8 2 (5.56%) Gherkin
8 2 (5.56%) JSON
8 2 (5.56%) Kafka
8 2 (5.56%) Node.js
8 2 (5.56%) RESTful
8 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
8 2 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (8.33%) Robotics
3 2 (5.56%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (94.44%) Test Automation
2 22 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 21 (58.33%) Software Testing
4 18 (50.00%) Agile
5 14 (38.89%) Scenario Testing
6 13 (36.11%) Design Patterns
6 13 (36.11%) DevOps
7 12 (33.33%) Code Quality
8 11 (30.56%) BDD
8 11 (30.56%) Containerisation
8 11 (30.56%) SDET
9 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (22.22%) Scrum
11 7 (19.44%) QA Automation
12 6 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (16.67%) Test Strategy
13 5 (13.89%) Continuous Deployment
13 5 (13.89%) Release Management
13 5 (13.89%) Test Scripting
14 4 (11.11%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) Java
2 11 (30.56%) SQL
3 6 (16.67%) C#
4 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.33%) Python
6 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (36.11%) QA
System Software
1 15 (41.67%) Docker
2 5 (13.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Consul
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Conga
2 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud