API Testing Job Trends in West Sussex

API Testing
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring API Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 44 44
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +60
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 2 2 23
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 0.51% 0.46% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.56% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 23
10th Percentile £57,625 £68,250 £42,350
25th Percentile £59,688 £69,375 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £72,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +45.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £67,188 £74,375 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,875 £74,750 -
South East median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 343 355 522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 87.06% 81.61% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 232 189 354
10th Percentile £28,550 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,375 £40,000 £42,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,853 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,250 £72,000
90th Percentile £74,875 £72,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in West Sussex

API Testing
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing API Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing API Testing

API Testing
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Testing in West Sussex over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Salary histogram for API Testing in West Sussex

API Testing
Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Burgess Hill +7 2 £63,750 -12.07% 2
API Testing
South East

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (50.00%) mountebank
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) TestNG
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Trend Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CA Agile Central