API Testing Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

API Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 430 384
Rank change year-on-year +79 -46 -49
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 46 166 318
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.49% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.54% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 35 155 290
10th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £44,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £64,875 £102,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £73,700 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

API Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing API Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

API Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

API Testing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing API Testing.

API Testing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

API Testing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing API Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

API Testing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (4.35%) CICS
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Moodle
2 1 (2.17%) Totara
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) Azure
2 7 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (13.04%) AWS
3 6 (13.04%) GCP
3 6 (13.04%) SaaS
4 5 (10.87%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.35%) GitHub
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.17%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.17%) mabl
7 1 (2.17%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.35%) DB2
4 1 (2.17%) MySQL
4 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.17%) Power BI
4 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (50.00%) Postman
2 18 (39.13%) Selenium
3 10 (21.74%) SoapUI
4 5 (10.87%) Appium
4 5 (10.87%) Git
4 5 (10.87%) JIRA
4 5 (10.87%) WebDriver
5 3 (6.52%) Cypress.io
5 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.52%) JMeter
6 2 (4.35%) Locust
6 2 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (2.17%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.17%) Gatling
7 1 (2.17%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (2.17%) MSTest
7 1 (2.17%) Robot Framework
7 1 (2.17%) TestRail
7 1 (2.17%) YouTrack
General
1 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Law
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Billing
5 2 (4.35%) Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Advertising
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Tester
2 10 (21.74%) Senior
3 8 (17.39%) Test Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Automation Tester
4 7 (15.22%) Lead
4 7 (15.22%) QA Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Software Tester
6 5 (10.87%) QA Leader
6 5 (10.87%) Support Manager
6 5 (10.87%) Technical Manager
6 5 (10.87%) Technical Support
6 5 (10.87%) Technical Support Manager
7 4 (8.70%) Analyst
7 4 (8.70%) Test Analyst
7 4 (8.70%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Test Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) QA Tester
9 2 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Senior Tester
9 2 (4.35%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (32.61%) JSON
2 10 (21.74%) .NET
3 7 (15.22%) XML
4 6 (13.04%) Playwright
4 6 (13.04%) Swagger
4 6 (13.04%) Web Services
5 5 (10.87%) AngularJS
5 5 (10.87%) Pandas
5 5 (10.87%) Puppeteer
5 5 (10.87%) Scrapy
6 4 (8.70%) CSS
6 4 (8.70%) HTML
6 4 (8.70%) SOAP
7 3 (6.52%) REST
8 2 (4.35%) .NET Core
8 2 (4.35%) ADO
8 2 (4.35%) ISPF
8 2 (4.35%) React
9 1 (2.17%) pytest
9 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Mobile App
2 5 (10.87%) Client/Server
2 5 (10.87%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (8.70%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.52%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.35%) IBM Mainframe
5 2 (4.35%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.17%) Digital Media
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.17%) NHS
6 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.17%) Robotics
6 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Linux
2 3 (6.52%) Windows
3 2 (4.35%) Android
3 2 (4.35%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (71.74%) Test Automation
2 19 (41.30%) Agile
3 18 (39.13%) Software Testing
4 16 (34.78%) Test Strategy
5 14 (30.43%) Manual Testing
6 11 (23.91%) DevOps
6 11 (23.91%) Regression Testing
7 9 (19.57%) ETL
7 9 (19.57%) Software Engineering
7 9 (19.57%) Test Management
8 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
9 7 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (15.22%) Exploratory Testing
9 7 (15.22%) Non-Functional Testing
9 7 (15.22%) Test Scripting
10 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
10 5 (10.87%) Data Extraction
10 5 (10.87%) Mentoring
10 5 (10.87%) SDLC
10 5 (10.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) SQL
2 17 (36.96%) C#
3 15 (32.61%) JavaScript
4 11 (23.91%) Python
5 9 (19.57%) Java
6 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.35%) COBOL
7 2 (4.35%) JCL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) ISTQB
2 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
2 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.87%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (58.70%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
1 1 (2.17%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (2.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) CA Endevor
1 2 (4.35%) MAINVIEW
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) BMC
2 2 (4.35%) IBM
3 1 (2.17%) Databricks
3 1 (2.17%) Google
3 1 (2.17%) Splunk
3 1 (2.17%) UiPath