API Testing Job Trends in the UK excluding London

API Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring API Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 485 480
Rank change year-on-year +92 -5 +75
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 114 66 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.21% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 90 38 72
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,575 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,188 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £50,000 £47,961
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +4.25% -8.65%
75th Percentile £63,750 £58,125 £61,250
90th Percentile £66,375 £66,375 £68,625
UK median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year -0.95% -28.81% +18.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,958 31,987 30,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.54% 88.93% 88.63%
Number of salaries quoted 18,919 14,386 22,914
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

API Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing API Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing API Testing

API Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for API Testing in the UK excluding London

API Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +48 42 £42,500 -17.07% 33
South West +33 26 £47,500 +35.71% 12
North of England +21 26 £61,500 +29.47% 27
Yorkshire +6 18 £65,000 -23.76% 14
Midlands +15 11 £61,500 +82.22% 12
West Midlands +28 9 £61,500 +2.50% 7
East of England +29 8 £55,000 - 20
North West +29 8 £60,000 +26.32% 10
East Midlands -17 2 £62,500 +93.80% 5
Northern Ireland -12 1 - - 4
API Testing
UK

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.88%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 27 (23.68%) Azure
2 22 (19.30%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (16.67%) AWS
4 18 (15.79%) GitHub
5 15 (13.16%) SaaS
6 11 (9.65%) Serverless
7 4 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.75%) GCP
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.88%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) GSM
1 2 (1.75%) HTTP
1 2 (1.75%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.14%) MongoDB
2 7 (6.14%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.75%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.88%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 54 (47.37%) Selenium
2 51 (44.74%) Postman
3 36 (31.58%) JIRA
4 35 (30.70%) SoapUI
5 33 (28.95%) Team Foundation Server
6 31 (27.19%) WebDriver
7 16 (14.04%) Cypress.io
8 12 (10.53%) Jenkins
9 11 (9.65%) REST Assured
10 9 (7.89%) Git
11 6 (5.26%) Cucumber
11 6 (5.26%) TestNG
12 5 (4.39%) Appium
12 5 (4.39%) JUnit
13 4 (3.51%) JMeter
13 4 (3.51%) NUnit
14 3 (2.63%) Katalon Studio
14 3 (2.63%) MSTest
14 3 (2.63%) SpecFlow
15 2 (1.75%) GitLab
General
1 32 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.81%) Finance
3 8 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.39%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.63%) Automotive
6 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.75%) Electronics
6 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.75%) Legal
7 1 (0.88%) Advertising
7 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 30 (26.32%) Lead
2 27 (23.68%) Senior
3 24 (21.05%) Analyst
4 23 (20.18%) Test Analyst
5 20 (17.54%) QA Engineer
6 18 (15.79%) Tester
7 17 (14.91%) Developer
8 16 (14.04%) QA Automation Engineer
8 16 (14.04%) QA Leader
8 16 (14.04%) Test Engineer
9 15 (13.16%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (9.65%) Python Developer
10 11 (9.65%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (9.65%) Senior Test Analyst
11 10 (8.77%) Test Automation Engineer
11 10 (8.77%) Test Leader
12 8 (7.02%) Senior Test Engineer
13 7 (6.14%) Automation Tester
13 7 (6.14%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
14 5 (4.39%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (39.47%) HTML
2 43 (37.72%) .NET
3 34 (29.82%) SOAP
4 18 (15.79%) Playwright
5 12 (10.53%) CSS
5 12 (10.53%) React
6 11 (9.65%) Django
6 11 (9.65%) FastAPI
6 11 (9.65%) Flask
6 11 (9.65%) Vue
7 8 (7.02%) REST
8 5 (4.39%) .NET Core
8 5 (4.39%) Akka
8 5 (4.39%) Akka.NET
8 5 (4.39%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (3.51%) RESTful
10 2 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.75%) Kafka
10 2 (1.75%) pytest
10 2 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.65%) Data Structures
3 8 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.75%) IoT
5 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.88%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.88%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (59.65%) Agile
2 54 (47.37%) Mentoring
3 52 (45.61%) Test Automation
4 50 (43.86%) Software Testing
5 48 (42.11%) Scrum
6 45 (39.47%) CI/CD
7 40 (35.09%) Test Scripting
8 34 (29.82%) Non-Functional Testing
8 34 (29.82%) Test Management
9 33 (28.95%) Cross-Browser Testing
9 33 (28.95%) DevOps
10 23 (20.18%) Manual Testing
11 17 (14.91%) Logistics
12 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (12.28%) Regression Testing
13 14 (12.28%) Test Strategy
14 13 (11.40%) QA Automation
15 12 (10.53%) Coaching
15 12 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (10.53%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 68 (59.65%) C#
2 57 (50.00%) SQL
3 45 (39.47%) Java
4 27 (23.68%) JavaScript
5 21 (18.42%) Python
6 8 (7.02%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.63%) Erlang
8 1 (0.88%) Groovy
8 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 45 (39.47%) ISTQB
2 36 (31.58%) Degree
3 30 (26.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 7 (6.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 6 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.51%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (41.23%) QA
2 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (14.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.65%) Terraform
2 5 (4.39%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.88%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow
2 3 (2.63%) Oracle
3 2 (1.75%) Splunk
4 1 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft