API Testing Jobs in the West Midlands

API Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 220 265
Rank change year-on-year +28 +45 -19
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 11 26 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.24% 0.36% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.43% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10 19 2
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £55,625
90th Percentile £58,750 - £58,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -10.71% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,099 6,048 6,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.29% 83.16% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,689 4,551 3,275
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,725 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the West Midlands

API Testing
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Testing in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for API Testing in the West Midlands

API Testing
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for API Testing in the West Midlands

API Testing
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Testing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
Birmingham +38 7 £50,000 +11.11% 2
Staffordshire +24 1 £32,500 +4.84% 4
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
1 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Pipelines
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Postman
1 5 (45.45%) Selenium
1 5 (45.45%) WebDriver
2 4 (36.36%) Appium
3 2 (18.18%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) NUnit
3 2 (18.18%) SpecFlow
4 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
4 1 (9.09%) TestComplete
4 1 (9.09%) TestRail
General
1 3 (27.27%) Law
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Software Tester
1 4 (36.36%) Test Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Tester
2 2 (18.18%) Automation Tester
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
3 1 (9.09%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer in Test
3 1 (9.09%) Graduate
3 1 (9.09%) Graduate Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) QA Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) QA Leader
3 1 (9.09%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) Playwright
2 2 (18.18%) React
3 1 (9.09%) Express.js
3 1 (9.09%) Fastify
3 1 (9.09%) Jest
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) MERN Stack
3 1 (9.09%) Next.js
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Mobile App
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Low-Code
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 7 (63.64%) Software Testing
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Test Scripting
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Manual Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Regression Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) B2B
5 3 (27.27%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Exploratory Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Functional Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Test Management
6 2 (18.18%) API Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
6 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) C#
1 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) UiPath