API Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

API Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 659 640 488
Rank change year-on-year -19 -152 -47
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 116 114 437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.20% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.21% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 92 79 321
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,958 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,313 £66,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,750 £75,000
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,033 55,511 69,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.47% 95.56% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42,006 28,806 41,464
10th Percentile £27,336 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing API Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the UK excluding London

API Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing API Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for API Testing in the UK excluding London

API Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for API Testing in the UK excluding London

API Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Testing within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -48 10 £36,250 -44.23% 2
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
Wales - 7 £45,000 -
East of England -10 3 £40,000 +23.08% 2
API Testing
UK

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (9.48%) Apache
2 6 (5.17%) Confluence
3 1 (0.86%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (34.48%) Azure
2 17 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (9.48%) AWS
4 7 (6.03%) SaaS
5 4 (3.45%) BrowserStack
6 3 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (2.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (2.59%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (1.72%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.72%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.72%) GitHub
7 2 (1.72%) Serverless
8 1 (0.86%) ClickUp
8 1 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) Bluetooth
1 4 (3.45%) Ethernet
1 4 (3.45%) FlexRay
1 4 (3.45%) HTTP
1 4 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (3.45%) Wireless
2 2 (1.72%) DSL
3 1 (0.86%) Firewall
3 1 (0.86%) Multicast
3 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.76%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.31%) DynamoDB
2 5 (4.31%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.86%) MySQL
4 1 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (38.79%) Postman
1 45 (38.79%) Selenium
2 30 (25.86%) JIRA
3 22 (18.97%) Cucumber
4 21 (18.10%) Git
5 20 (17.24%) Cypress.io
6 17 (14.66%) JUnit
7 16 (13.79%) WebDriver
8 15 (12.93%) SoapUI
9 13 (11.21%) SpecFlow
10 12 (10.34%) TestNG
11 11 (9.48%) REST Assured
12 10 (8.62%) Jenkins
13 8 (6.90%) JMeter
14 7 (6.03%) MSTest
15 6 (5.17%) Visual Studio
16 5 (4.31%) eggPlant
16 5 (4.31%) TestRail
17 4 (3.45%) Appium
17 4 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 17 (14.66%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.90%) Legal
4 6 (5.17%) Finance
4 6 (5.17%) Law
5 5 (4.31%) Marketing
5 5 (4.31%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.45%) Automotive
7 3 (2.59%) Electronics
7 3 (2.59%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Retail
8 2 (1.72%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (28.45%) Test Engineer
2 28 (24.14%) Tester
3 19 (16.38%) QA Engineer
4 15 (12.93%) Automation Tester
5 12 (10.34%) Senior
6 10 (8.62%) Lead
7 8 (6.90%) Developer
7 8 (6.90%) Penetration Tester
8 7 (6.03%) Analyst
8 7 (6.03%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (6.03%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) QA Manager
9 6 (5.17%) Senior Test Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Test Leader
10 5 (4.31%) QA Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) QA Test Manager
10 5 (4.31%) Test Manager
11 3 (2.59%) Automation Test Lead
11 3 (2.59%) JavaScript Engineer
11 3 (2.59%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (25.00%) REST
2 14 (12.07%) SOAP
2 14 (12.07%) WireMock
3 13 (11.21%) Swagger
4 11 (9.48%) .NET
4 11 (9.48%) Apache Commons
4 11 (9.48%) Guava
4 11 (9.48%) Java Concurrency
4 11 (9.48%) Web Services
5 10 (8.62%) JSON
6 9 (7.76%) CSS
7 8 (6.90%) Playwright
7 8 (6.90%) XML
8 7 (6.03%) HTML
8 7 (6.03%) React
9 6 (5.17%) RESTful
10 5 (4.31%) Gherkin
10 5 (4.31%) Kafka
10 5 (4.31%) Node.js
10 5 (4.31%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.90%) Security Posture
2 7 (6.03%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.31%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (3.45%) IoT
5 4 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.59%) Robotics
7 2 (1.72%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.72%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.86%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.86%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.86%) PMI
8 1 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.76%) Windows
2 3 (2.59%) Linux
3 1 (0.86%) Android
3 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (81.03%) Test Automation
2 56 (48.28%) Agile
3 50 (43.10%) Software Testing
4 38 (32.76%) CI/CD
5 31 (26.72%) DevOps
6 28 (24.14%) Test Scripting
7 25 (21.55%) Manual Testing
8 24 (20.69%) Scenario Testing
9 23 (19.83%) Test Strategy
10 22 (18.97%) Scrum
11 21 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (16.38%) BDD
13 17 (14.66%) SDET
14 15 (12.93%) Microservices
15 14 (12.07%) Design Patterns
16 13 (11.21%) Code Quality
16 13 (11.21%) Performance Testing
16 13 (11.21%) Regression Testing
17 12 (10.34%) Non-Functional Testing
17 12 (10.34%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (27.59%) Java
1 32 (27.59%) SQL
2 30 (25.86%) C#
3 22 (18.97%) JavaScript
4 14 (12.07%) Python
5 7 (6.03%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.45%) C
6 4 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (12.07%) ISTQB
2 12 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.62%) ISEB
4 8 (6.90%) OSCP
5 7 (6.03%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.45%) Degree
7 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (40.52%) QA
2 8 (6.90%) GRC
3 3 (2.59%) JTAG
4 1 (0.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (15.52%) Docker
2 5 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.59%) Terraform
3 1 (0.86%) Ansible
3 1 (0.86%) Grafana
3 1 (0.86%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.59%) Conga
2 3 (2.59%) Lauterbach
2 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (0.86%) Denodo
3 1 (0.86%) Google
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle
3 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.86%) Splunk
3 1 (0.86%) Talend