API Testing Jobs in England

API Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for API Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited API Testing over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 621 535 374
Rank change year-on-year -86 -161 +70
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 220 416 1,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.48% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.50% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 187 357 749
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

API Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,781 82,738 134,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.16% 95.57% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 54,521 49,312 73,714
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,329 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing API Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in England

API Testing
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Testing in England.

Salary trend for API Testing in England

API Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Testing in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for API Testing in England

API Testing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
London -27 115 £75,000 +7.14% 10
South East -6 36 £52,500 -8.70% 14
Midlands +9 34 £47,500 +22.58% 1
West Midlands +29 26 £52,500 +23.53% 1
North of England +35 20 £47,500 -17.39% 10
Yorkshire +87 11 £50,000 -13.04% 4
North West -11 9 £47,500 -17.39% 6
East Midlands -20 8 £47,500 +26.67%
South West -24 8 £65,000 +45.25% 3
East of England -10 3 £40,000 +23.08% 2
API Testing
UK

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (7.27%) Apache
2 9 (4.09%) Confluence
3 2 (0.91%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 60 (27.27%) Azure
2 34 (15.45%) SaaS
3 26 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (7.27%) AWS
5 15 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (5.45%) Serverless
7 11 (5.00%) Azure Functions
8 9 (4.09%) GitHub
9 8 (3.64%) Azure API Management
9 8 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.82%) BrowserStack
11 3 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.36%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (1.36%) Sauce Labs
12 1 (0.45%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.45%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.27%) HTTP
2 4 (1.82%) Bluetooth
2 4 (1.82%) Ethernet
2 4 (1.82%) FlexRay
2 4 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (1.82%) Wireless
3 2 (0.91%) DSL
4 1 (0.45%) Firewall
4 1 (0.45%) Multicast
4 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.27%) DynamoDB
2 5 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.45%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.45%) Power BI
4 1 (0.45%) Redis
4 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 112 (50.91%) Postman
2 92 (41.82%) Selenium
3 88 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 65 (29.55%) Jenkins
5 37 (16.82%) Cypress.io
6 36 (16.36%) JIRA
7 27 (12.27%) SpecFlow
8 25 (11.36%) JUnit
8 25 (11.36%) REST Assured
9 22 (10.00%) SoapUI
10 18 (8.18%) WebDriver
11 17 (7.73%) TestNG
12 16 (7.27%) Git
12 16 (7.27%) JMeter
13 8 (3.64%) TeamCity
14 7 (3.18%) MSTest
15 6 (2.73%) Appium
15 6 (2.73%) Gatling
15 6 (2.73%) LoadRunner
16 5 (2.27%) TestRail
General
1 43 (19.55%) Social Skills
2 15 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (6.36%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.09%) Law
5 8 (3.64%) Legal
6 7 (3.18%) Finance
6 7 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.27%) Marketing
8 4 (1.82%) Automotive
9 3 (1.36%) Electronics
9 3 (1.36%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.36%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.91%) Retail
11 1 (0.45%) Back Office
11 1 (0.45%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (23.64%) Tester
2 46 (20.91%) Lead
3 40 (18.18%) QA Engineer
4 35 (15.91%) Senior
5 29 (13.18%) Test Engineer
6 25 (11.36%) Automation Tester
7 17 (7.73%) Developer
8 11 (5.00%) Analyst
9 10 (4.55%) C# Developer
9 10 (4.55%) QA Automation Engineer
10 9 (4.09%) Azure Developer
10 9 (4.09%) Software Tester
11 8 (3.64%) Penetration Tester
11 8 (3.64%) Senior Tester
12 7 (3.18%) QA Manager
12 7 (3.18%) Test Analyst
12 7 (3.18%) Test Automation Engineer
13 6 (2.73%) QA Leader
13 6 (2.73%) Test Leader
13 6 (2.73%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (39.55%) REST
2 25 (11.36%) Swagger
3 23 (10.45%) .NET
4 19 (8.64%) WireMock
5 18 (8.18%) Playwright
6 16 (7.27%) Apache Commons
6 16 (7.27%) Guava
6 16 (7.27%) Java Concurrency
7 15 (6.82%) .NET Framework
8 14 (6.36%) SOAP
9 13 (5.91%) Gherkin
10 12 (5.45%) Kafka
10 12 (5.45%) Web Services
11 11 (5.00%) JSON
11 11 (5.00%) React
12 10 (4.55%) RESTful
13 9 (4.09%) OpenAPI
13 9 (4.09%) WebdriverIO
13 9 (4.09%) XML
14 6 (2.73%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.64%) Product Ownership
1 8 (3.64%) Security Posture
2 6 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.27%) IoT
3 5 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.82%) Client/Server
4 4 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (1.82%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.36%) Robotics
6 2 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.91%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.45%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.45%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.45%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.45%) Linux
1 12 (5.45%) Windows
2 1 (0.45%) Android
2 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.45%) Debian
2 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (59.09%) Test Automation
2 104 (47.27%) CI/CD
3 82 (37.27%) Agile
4 77 (35.00%) SDET
5 72 (32.73%) BDD
6 65 (29.55%) Software Testing
6 65 (29.55%) Test Strategy
7 44 (20.00%) Clean Code
8 43 (19.55%) DevOps
9 36 (16.36%) Scrum
10 34 (15.45%) Test Scripting
11 31 (14.09%) Scenario Testing
12 29 (13.18%) Manual Testing
13 24 (10.91%) Fintech
14 23 (10.45%) Design Patterns
14 23 (10.45%) Microservices
14 23 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (9.55%) Performance Testing
16 20 (9.09%) QA Automation
16 20 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 87 (39.55%) Java
2 52 (23.64%) C#
3 45 (20.45%) SQL
4 35 (15.91%) JavaScript
5 20 (9.09%) Python
6 8 (3.64%) T-SQL
6 8 (3.64%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.82%) C
8 1 (0.45%) PHP
8 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 25 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.00%) ISTQB
4 8 (3.64%) OSCP
5 7 (3.18%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.73%) Degree
6 6 (2.73%) ISEB
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (45.45%) QA
2 16 (7.27%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.64%) GRC
4 3 (1.36%) JTAG
5 2 (0.91%) PMO
6 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (11.82%) Docker
2 5 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.82%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) Ansible
3 1 (0.45%) Argo
3 1 (0.45%) Grafana
3 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.36%) Conga
2 3 (1.36%) Lauterbach
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle
2 3 (1.36%) Salesforce
2 3 (1.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 2 (0.91%) ServiceNow
3 2 (0.91%) Splunk
4 1 (0.45%) Databricks
4 1 (0.45%) Denodo
4 1 (0.45%) Google
4 1 (0.45%) Talend