API Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

API Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 649 645
Rank change year-on-year +121 -4 -158
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 43 116 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.19% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 40 93 79
10th Percentile £33,350 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,958
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £60,978 £61,250 £66,750
90th Percentile £66,875 £67,500 £75,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

All Process and 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 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
Midlands +43 17 £43,500 -8.42% 17
West Midlands +49 11 £43,500 -17.14% 8
North of England +29 9 £55,000 +15.79% 32
South East +61 6 £52,500 - 34
East Midlands +37 6 £47,500 - 8
South West +114 5 £41,250 -35.29% 7
North East - 4 £55,000 - 2
Scotland +118 3 £55,000 +51.72% 5
North West -5 3 £90,000 +89.47% 15
Yorkshire +52 2 £51,150 +2.30% 15
Wales +42 2 £75,000 +66.67% 7
East of England +41 1 £55,000 +37.50% 5
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 4 (9.30%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Moodle
2 1 (2.33%) Totara
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) Azure
1 12 (27.91%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (4.65%) BrowserStack
2 2 (4.65%) Slack
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (2.33%) AWS
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.33%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (2.33%) GitHub
3 1 (2.33%) mabl
3 1 (2.33%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) DHCP
1 1 (2.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (51.16%) Selenium
2 18 (41.86%) Postman
3 13 (30.23%) Git
4 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
5 9 (20.93%) Cypress.io
6 8 (18.60%) SpecFlow
7 7 (16.28%) Appium
7 7 (16.28%) JMeter
7 7 (16.28%) WebDriver
8 6 (13.95%) JIRA
9 5 (11.63%) REST Assured
9 5 (11.63%) SoapUI
10 4 (9.30%) JUnit
10 4 (9.30%) Katalon Studio
10 4 (9.30%) NUnit
11 3 (6.98%) Cucumber
11 3 (6.98%) Maven
11 3 (6.98%) TestNG
12 2 (4.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Law
5 3 (6.98%) Tech for Good
6 2 (4.65%) Billing
6 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Marketing
7 1 (2.33%) Games
7 1 (2.33%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) QA Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) Lead
2 10 (23.26%) Test Engineer
3 9 (20.93%) Senior
4 8 (18.60%) QA Leader
5 7 (16.28%) Analyst
5 7 (16.28%) Test Analyst
5 7 (16.28%) Tester
6 6 (13.95%) Software Test Engineer
6 6 (13.95%) Software Tester
7 5 (11.63%) QA Automation Engineer
8 4 (9.30%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (9.30%) Senior Software Test Engineer
8 4 (9.30%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (6.98%) QA Test Engineer
9 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.98%) Test Automation Engineer
10 2 (4.65%) Automation Test Analyst
10 2 (4.65%) Automation Tester
10 2 (4.65%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) .NET
1 8 (18.60%) Playwright
2 6 (13.95%) REST
3 4 (9.30%) GraphQL
3 4 (9.30%) SOAP
4 2 (4.65%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.65%) Kafka
4 2 (4.65%) NumPy
4 2 (4.65%) Pandas
4 2 (4.65%) React
5 1 (2.33%) Apache Cordova
5 1 (2.33%) Express.js
5 1 (2.33%) Fastify
5 1 (2.33%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (2.33%) Jest
5 1 (2.33%) JSON
5 1 (2.33%) MERN Stack
5 1 (2.33%) Node.js
5 1 (2.33%) pytest
5 1 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.65%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.33%) NHS
5 1 (2.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Android
1 2 (4.65%) Apple iOS
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (81.40%) Test Automation
2 23 (53.49%) Agile
3 21 (48.84%) Test Strategy
4 20 (46.51%) CI/CD
5 19 (44.19%) Software Testing
6 17 (39.53%) DevOps
7 12 (27.91%) Regression Testing
7 12 (27.91%) Test Scripting
8 11 (25.58%) Manual Testing
9 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (16.28%) BDD
10 7 (16.28%) Performance Testing
10 7 (16.28%) SDLC
10 7 (16.28%) Software Engineering
11 6 (13.95%) Code Quality
11 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
12 5 (11.63%) Scrum
13 4 (9.30%) Artificial Intelligence
13 4 (9.30%) Test Management
13 4 (9.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) JavaScript
2 12 (27.91%) C#
3 11 (25.58%) Java
4 9 (20.93%) Python
4 9 (20.93%) SQL
4 9 (20.93%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.98%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.33%) ISEB
2 1 (2.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (60.47%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle
3 1 (2.33%) CyberSource
3 1 (2.33%) Databricks
3 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.33%) Splunk
3 1 (2.33%) UiPath
3 1 (2.33%) VMware