API Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring API Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 671 574 635
Rank change year-on-year -97 +61 -143
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 132 106 167
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.21% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.24% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 99 75 101
10th Percentile - £39,921 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -19.23%
75th Percentile £65,625 £64,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

API Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing API Testing

API Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Testing over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for API Testing in the UK

API Testing
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 September 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
England -82 120 £52,500 - 152
UK excluding London -97 87 £47,500 -13.64% 84
London -50 38 £62,500 +25.00% 90
Work from Home -40 36 £50,000 - 68
South West -56 28 £42,500 -29.17% 9
North of England -54 20 £65,000 +18.18% 27
South East -52 17 £59,500 +25.26% 18
Midlands -29 15 £45,000 -27.42% 8
West Midlands -36 14 £45,000 -15.49% 7
Yorkshire -27 11 £76,750 +39.55% 8
North West -14 6 £58,750 -6.00% 13
Wales -77 4 £32,000 -20.00% 1
Scotland +8 3 £62,500 +13.64% 10
North East -61 3 £47,500 -13.64% 6
East Midlands -33 1 - - 1

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 15 (11.36%) Confluence
2 5 (3.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.52%) Anypoint
Applications
1 12 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.55%) Moqups
3 5 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 49 (37.12%) Azure
2 34 (25.76%) AWS
3 29 (21.97%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (19.70%) GitHub
5 17 (12.88%) Power Platform
6 14 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (9.09%) SaaS
7 12 (9.09%) Serverless
8 11 (8.33%) Figma
9 9 (6.82%) BrowserStack
10 8 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.79%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (3.03%) GCP
13 4 (3.03%) Tricentis Tosca
14 2 (1.52%) Kong
14 2 (1.52%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.03%) HTTP
2 2 (1.52%) DNS
2 2 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.52%) X.509
3 1 (0.76%) 5G
3 1 (0.76%) Broadband
3 1 (0.76%) DHCP
3 1 (0.76%) LTE
3 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.85%) Power BI
2 6 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.79%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.52%) DTS
5 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 62 (46.97%) Postman
2 46 (34.85%) JIRA
3 36 (27.27%) Selenium
4 21 (15.91%) Cypress.io
4 21 (15.91%) Git
4 21 (15.91%) Jenkins
5 19 (14.39%) Cucumber
6 18 (13.64%) JMeter
6 18 (13.64%) REST Assured
7 17 (12.88%) GitLab
8 13 (9.85%) Zephyr
9 10 (7.58%) SoapUI
10 8 (6.06%) Gatling
11 5 (3.79%) SpecFlow
11 5 (3.79%) WebDriver
12 4 (3.03%) Burp Suite
12 4 (3.03%) JUnit
13 3 (2.27%) Bugzilla
13 3 (2.27%) Maven
13 3 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 49 (37.12%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.97%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (19.70%) Documentation Skills
4 19 (14.39%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (8.33%) Finance
7 2 (1.52%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.52%) Aviation
7 2 (1.52%) Banking
7 2 (1.52%) Retail
8 1 (0.76%) Billing
8 1 (0.76%) Games
8 1 (0.76%) Law
8 1 (0.76%) Legal
8 1 (0.76%) Local Government
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (27.27%) Test Engineer
2 23 (17.42%) Senior
3 18 (13.64%) Developer
4 15 (11.36%) Analyst
4 15 (11.36%) QA Engineer
5 14 (10.61%) Lead
5 14 (10.61%) Test Automation Engineer
6 13 (9.85%) Tester
7 12 (9.09%) Applications Support
7 12 (9.09%) Quality Engineer
8 10 (7.58%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (7.58%) Test Analyst
9 8 (6.06%) Junior
9 8 (6.06%) Senior QA Engineer
9 8 (6.06%) Support Specialist
10 7 (5.30%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (5.30%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (5.30%) Support Engineer
11 6 (4.55%) Junior Product Manager
11 6 (4.55%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (39.39%) Playwright
2 32 (24.24%) REST
3 19 (14.39%) .NET
4 17 (12.88%) RESTful
5 12 (9.09%) Swagger
6 11 (8.33%) SOAP
7 10 (7.58%) Gherkin
7 10 (7.58%) JSON
8 9 (6.82%) ADO
8 9 (6.82%) HTML
9 8 (6.06%) XML
10 7 (5.30%) Web Services
11 6 (4.55%) .NET Framework
11 6 (4.55%) CSS
11 6 (4.55%) Kafka
11 6 (4.55%) OAuth
11 6 (4.55%) OAuth2
12 5 (3.79%) JWT
12 5 (3.79%) React
12 5 (3.79%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.97%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.82%) Mobile App
3 7 (5.30%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.03%) IoT
5 4 (3.03%) PKI
6 3 (2.27%) CCTV
6 3 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.27%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.52%) Blog
7 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.76%) Life Science
8 1 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.52%) Android
1 2 (1.52%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.52%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (1.52%) Linux
1 2 (1.52%) OpenWrt
2 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (87.12%) Test Automation
2 80 (60.61%) Agile
3 65 (49.24%) CI/CD
4 52 (39.39%) DevOps
5 51 (38.64%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (34.85%) Software Testing
7 41 (31.06%) Scrum
8 34 (25.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (25.00%) AI
10 31 (23.48%) Defect Management
11 29 (21.97%) BDD
11 29 (21.97%) Defect Tracking
12 28 (21.21%) Test Strategy
12 28 (21.21%) Validation
13 27 (20.45%) Software Delivery
13 27 (20.45%) Test Management
14 26 (19.70%) Manual Testing
15 24 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
15 24 (18.18%) Regression Testing
16 23 (17.42%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 67 (50.76%) SQL
2 40 (30.30%) Java
3 27 (20.45%) JavaScript
4 24 (18.18%) C#
5 18 (13.64%) Python
6 17 (12.88%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.79%) C
8 4 (3.03%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.52%) DataWeave
10 2 (1.52%) Go
11 1 (0.76%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.76%) Bash
11 1 (0.76%) C++
11 1 (0.76%) Dart
11 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.76%) Lua
11 1 (0.76%) Ruby
11 1 (0.76%) Rust
11 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (14.39%) ISTQB
2 17 (12.88%) Security Cleared
3 14 (10.61%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.85%) Degree
5 8 (6.06%) ISEB
6 4 (3.03%) OCA
6 4 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (62.12%) QA
2 15 (11.36%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.55%) Software Quality Assurance
3 6 (4.55%) WCAG
4 4 (3.03%) GDPR
5 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.76%) GRC
System Software
1 14 (10.61%) Docker
2 4 (3.03%) Firmware
3 1 (0.76%) QEMU
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.03%) Grafana
3 2 (1.52%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.76%) Ansible
4 1 (0.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.82%) SAP
3 7 (5.30%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.79%) Oracle
4 5 (3.79%) Pega
5 4 (3.03%) Workday
6 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.52%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.76%) Aderant
8 1 (0.76%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.76%) Conga
8 1 (0.76%) GoCardless
8 1 (0.76%) Perfecto Mobile