API Testing Job Trends in Yorkshire

API Testing
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring API Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 154 177
Rank change year-on-year -29 +23 +15
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 8 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.10% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £64,250 £49,700 -
25th Percentile £66,875 £51,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,400 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.31% +20.84% -13.64%
75th Percentile £78,875 £60,600 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,950 £61,680 -
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -23.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,150 2,931 3,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.21% 86.90% 79.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,805 1,405 1,818
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,483 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,664
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.82% -4.27%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

API Testing
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing API Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing API Testing

API Testing
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Testing in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Salary histogram for API Testing in Yorkshire

API Testing
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Testing within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
West Yorkshire -31 8 £72,500 +21.04% 4
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 5 (62.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon S3
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (62.50%) GitHub
1 5 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
1 5 (62.50%) Serverless
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Cypress.io
1 6 (75.00%) JIRA
2 5 (62.50%) GitLab
2 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (62.50%) JMeter
2 5 (62.50%) Postman
3 2 (25.00%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Test Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Junior
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Software Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Tester
4 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Playwright
2 5 (62.50%) Gherkin
2 5 (62.50%) RESTful
3 2 (25.00%) .NET
3 2 (25.00%) React
3 2 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 6 (75.00%) SDLC
3 5 (62.50%) Code Quality
3 5 (62.50%) Defect Management
3 5 (62.50%) Kanban
3 5 (62.50%) Scrum
3 5 (62.50%) Security Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Software Delivery
3 5 (62.50%) Software Testing
3 5 (62.50%) TDD
4 4 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (50.00%) Case Management
4 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (50.00%) User Stories
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) TypeScript
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) GRC
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft