API Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

API Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 632 620 468
Rank change year-on-year -12 -152 -30
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 123 131 416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.21% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.22% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 103 88 305
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,125 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,500 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,500 £76,125 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,230 59,150 66,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.47% 95.64% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,096 30,337 41,441
10th Percentile £27,234 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing API Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the UK excluding London

API Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for API Testing in the UK excluding London

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 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
South East +26 39 £53,750 -4.44% 14
Midlands +22 35 £50,000 +33.33% 2
West Midlands +45 26 £52,500 +10.53% 2
North of England +19 16 £48,750 -12.95% 8
South West -18 12 £60,000 +34.08% 3
Yorkshire +97 9 £48,750 -11.36% 2
East Midlands -20 9 £47,500 +26.67%
Scotland -60 9 £35,500 -16.47% 3
Wales +15 8 £37,500 - 2
North West -15 6 £47,500 -20.83% 6
East of England +16 3 £40,000 +23.08% 5
North East -4 1 £55,000 -1.79%
Northern Ireland - 1 £80,000 -
API Testing
UK

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (8.94%) Apache
2 4 (3.25%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (35.77%) Azure
2 20 (16.26%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (10.57%) AWS
4 8 (6.50%) SaaS
5 4 (3.25%) BrowserStack
6 3 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (2.44%) GitHub
6 3 (2.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (2.44%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (1.63%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.63%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.63%) Serverless
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.81%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.81%) ClickUp
8 1 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.81%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.07%) Wireless
2 4 (3.25%) Bluetooth
2 4 (3.25%) Ethernet
2 4 (3.25%) FlexRay
2 4 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.63%) HTTP
4 1 (0.81%) Firewall
4 1 (0.81%) Multicast
4 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.07%) DynamoDB
2 5 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.07%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.25%) MySQL
4 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.81%) GIS
4 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (41.46%) Selenium
2 47 (38.21%) Postman
3 28 (22.76%) JIRA
4 25 (20.33%) Cucumber
5 23 (18.70%) Cypress.io
6 20 (16.26%) Git
7 19 (15.45%) SoapUI
8 17 (13.82%) JUnit
9 16 (13.01%) WebDriver
10 15 (12.20%) REST Assured
11 14 (11.38%) TestNG
12 12 (9.76%) Jenkins
13 11 (8.94%) SpecFlow
14 8 (6.50%) JMeter
15 7 (5.69%) MSTest
16 6 (4.88%) Visual Studio
17 5 (4.07%) eggPlant
17 5 (4.07%) GitLab
17 5 (4.07%) TestRail
18 4 (3.25%) Mockito
General
1 20 (16.26%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (9.76%) Finance
4 8 (6.50%) Legal
5 6 (4.88%) Law
5 6 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.07%) Marketing
6 5 (4.07%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.25%) Automotive
8 3 (2.44%) Electronics
8 3 (2.44%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.63%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.81%) Local Government
10 1 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (27.64%) Test Engineer
2 31 (25.20%) Tester
3 17 (13.82%) Automation Tester
3 17 (13.82%) QA Engineer
4 16 (13.01%) Senior
5 13 (10.57%) Automation Engineer
5 13 (10.57%) Lead
6 9 (7.32%) Developer
6 9 (7.32%) Penetration Tester
7 8 (6.50%) Analyst
7 8 (6.50%) QA Automation Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) QA Manager
9 6 (4.88%) Senior Test Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Test Leader
9 6 (4.88%) Test Manager
10 5 (4.07%) Junior
10 5 (4.07%) QA Leader
10 5 (4.07%) QA Test Manager
11 4 (3.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (26.02%) REST
2 16 (13.01%) SOAP
3 14 (11.38%) WireMock
4 12 (9.76%) Swagger
5 11 (8.94%) Apache Commons
5 11 (8.94%) Guava
5 11 (8.94%) Java Concurrency
6 10 (8.13%) Playwright
6 10 (8.13%) Web Services
7 9 (7.32%) CSS
8 8 (6.50%) .NET
8 8 (6.50%) JSON
8 8 (6.50%) React
8 8 (6.50%) XML
9 7 (5.69%) HTML
10 6 (4.88%) Node.js
11 5 (4.07%) AngularJS
11 5 (4.07%) Kafka
11 5 (4.07%) OAuth
11 5 (4.07%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (6.50%) Security Posture
3 6 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.07%) IoT
4 5 (4.07%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.07%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.25%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (2.44%) Robotics
7 2 (1.63%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.63%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.81%) PMI
8 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.13%) Windows
2 5 (4.07%) Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Android
3 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (82.11%) Test Automation
2 60 (48.78%) Agile
3 48 (39.02%) Software Testing
4 36 (29.27%) CI/CD
5 32 (26.02%) DevOps
6 28 (22.76%) Test Scripting
7 27 (21.95%) Manual Testing
8 24 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (18.70%) Scenario Testing
9 23 (18.70%) Test Strategy
10 21 (17.07%) Scrum
11 19 (15.45%) BDD
12 15 (12.20%) Non-Functional Testing
12 15 (12.20%) QA Automation
13 14 (11.38%) Design Patterns
13 14 (11.38%) Microservices
13 14 (11.38%) Penetration Testing
14 13 (10.57%) Code Quality
14 13 (10.57%) Performance Testing
15 12 (9.76%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (31.71%) Java
2 34 (27.64%) C#
3 30 (24.39%) SQL
4 27 (21.95%) JavaScript
5 16 (13.01%) Python
6 7 (5.69%) T-SQL
6 7 (5.69%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.25%) C
8 2 (1.63%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.63%) Ruby
9 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (13.01%) ISTQB
2 12 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.13%) ISEB
3 10 (8.13%) OSCP
4 7 (5.69%) Degree
4 7 (5.69%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.81%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (39.84%) QA
2 8 (6.50%) GRC
3 3 (2.44%) JTAG
4 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (16.26%) Docker
2 5 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (15.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.44%) Terraform
3 2 (1.63%) Ansible
4 1 (0.81%) Consul
4 1 (0.81%) Grafana
4 1 (0.81%) Kibana
4 1 (0.81%) Nessus
4 1 (0.81%) Nmap
Vendors
1 13 (10.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.44%) Conga
2 3 (2.44%) Lauterbach
2 3 (2.44%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (0.81%) Denodo
3 1 (0.81%) Google
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle
3 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.81%) Splunk
3 1 (0.81%) Talend