API Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 640 573 383
Rank change year-on-year -67 -190 +70
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 267 450 1,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.45% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.47% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 230 388 793
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the UK

API Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for API Testing in the UK

API Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Testing over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for API Testing in the UK

API Testing
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
England -75 233 £60,500 -13.57% 53
Work from Home -45 150 £65,000 -6.36% 26
London -39 125 £75,000 +7.14% 13
UK excluding London -4 120 £50,000 -9.09% 43
Midlands +22 35 £50,000 +33.33% 4
South East +1 35 £52,500 -8.70% 14
West Midlands +25 26 £52,500 +31.25% 3
North of England +22 20 £47,500 -13.64% 16
Yorkshire +95 12 £50,000 -9.09% 8
South West -19 11 £61,250 +36.87% 2
Scotland -48 10 £36,000 -15.29% 3
East Midlands -19 9 £47,500 +26.67% 1
North West -11 8 £47,500 -13.64% 8
Wales - 8 £43,750 - 2
East of England -2 3 £40,000 +23.08% 2

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.99%) Apache
2 9 (3.37%) Confluence
3 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 80 (29.96%) Azure
2 45 (16.85%) SaaS
3 36 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (7.49%) Azure Service Bus
5 18 (6.74%) AWS
5 18 (6.74%) Serverless
6 15 (5.62%) Azure Functions
7 14 (5.24%) Azure API Management
8 13 (4.87%) GitHub
9 12 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (4.49%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.87%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.87%) PaaS
12 4 (1.50%) BrowserStack
13 3 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 3 (1.12%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.87%) HTTP
2 4 (1.50%) Bluetooth
2 4 (1.50%) Ethernet
2 4 (1.50%) FlexRay
2 4 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (1.50%) Wireless
3 2 (0.75%) DSL
4 1 (0.37%) Firewall
4 1 (0.37%) Multicast
4 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.99%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.87%) DynamoDB
2 5 (1.87%) Redis
2 5 (1.87%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.75%) MySQL
5 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.37%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.37%) GIS
5 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.37%) Power BI
5 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 141 (52.81%) Postman
2 121 (45.32%) Selenium
3 103 (38.58%) Cucumber
4 77 (28.84%) Jenkins
5 52 (19.48%) Cypress.io
6 46 (17.23%) JIRA
7 31 (11.61%) SpecFlow
8 26 (9.74%) REST Assured
8 26 (9.74%) SoapUI
9 25 (9.36%) Git
9 25 (9.36%) JUnit
10 23 (8.61%) WebDriver
11 20 (7.49%) JMeter
12 18 (6.74%) TestNG
13 11 (4.12%) GitLab
14 10 (3.75%) TeamCity
14 10 (3.75%) Visual Studio
15 8 (3.00%) Gatling
16 7 (2.62%) Appium
16 7 (2.62%) LoadRunner
General
1 50 (18.73%) Social Skills
2 18 (6.74%) Public Sector
3 17 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.87%) Finance
5 11 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.75%) Law
7 8 (3.00%) Legal
8 6 (2.25%) Marketing
9 4 (1.50%) Automotive
9 4 (1.50%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.50%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.12%) Electronics
10 3 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.75%) Retail
12 1 (0.37%) Advertising
12 1 (0.37%) Games
12 1 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 55 (20.60%) Lead
2 52 (19.48%) Tester
3 47 (17.60%) QA Engineer
4 45 (16.85%) Senior
5 43 (16.10%) Test Engineer
6 26 (9.74%) Automation Tester
7 23 (8.61%) Developer
8 14 (5.24%) C# Developer
9 13 (4.87%) Azure Developer
10 12 (4.49%) Analyst
10 12 (4.49%) QA Automation Engineer
11 11 (4.12%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (4.12%) Test Automation Engineer
12 10 (3.75%) QA Leader
13 9 (3.37%) Software Tester
14 8 (3.00%) Penetration Tester
14 8 (3.00%) QA Manager
14 8 (3.00%) Test Analyst
15 7 (2.62%) Senior Test Engineer
15 7 (2.62%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (36.70%) REST
2 30 (11.24%) Swagger
3 28 (10.49%) .NET
4 21 (7.87%) Playwright
5 20 (7.49%) WireMock
6 19 (7.12%) .NET Framework
7 16 (5.99%) Apache Commons
7 16 (5.99%) Guava
7 16 (5.99%) Java Concurrency
7 16 (5.99%) SOAP
8 15 (5.62%) WebdriverIO
9 13 (4.87%) Gherkin
9 13 (4.87%) OpenAPI
9 13 (4.87%) Web Services
10 11 (4.12%) JSON
10 11 (4.12%) React
11 10 (3.75%) CSS
11 10 (3.75%) Kafka
11 10 (3.75%) Node.js
12 9 (3.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.87%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.00%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.00%) Security Posture
4 7 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.25%) IoT
6 5 (1.87%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.87%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.87%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.87%) Replication
7 4 (1.50%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.12%) Robotics
8 3 (1.12%) W3C
9 2 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.75%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.37%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.37%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.99%) Windows
2 12 (4.49%) Linux
3 5 (1.87%) Android
3 5 (1.87%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (62.92%) Test Automation
2 130 (48.69%) CI/CD
3 105 (39.33%) Agile
4 93 (34.83%) BDD
5 88 (32.96%) SDET
6 76 (28.46%) Test Strategy
7 75 (28.09%) Software Testing
8 62 (23.22%) DevOps
9 54 (20.22%) Clean Code
10 48 (17.98%) Scrum
10 48 (17.98%) Test Scripting
11 43 (16.10%) Manual Testing
12 33 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (11.61%) Fintech
14 30 (11.24%) Scenario Testing
15 28 (10.49%) Microservices
16 27 (10.11%) Performance Testing
16 27 (10.11%) TDD
17 26 (9.74%) Design Patterns
18 24 (8.99%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 103 (38.58%) Java
2 69 (25.84%) C#
3 61 (22.85%) JavaScript
4 57 (21.35%) SQL
5 27 (10.11%) Python
6 16 (5.99%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.00%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.50%) C
9 3 (1.12%) Swift
10 2 (0.75%) PHP
11 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (10.11%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.62%) ISTQB
2 15 (5.62%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.12%) Degree
4 10 (3.75%) ISEB
5 8 (3.00%) OSCP
6 6 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (49.06%) QA
2 22 (8.24%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.00%) GRC
4 3 (1.12%) JTAG
4 3 (1.12%) WCAG
5 2 (0.75%) PMO
6 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (11.24%) Docker
2 5 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (9.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.87%) Grafana
2 5 (1.87%) Kibana
2 5 (1.87%) Terraform
3 1 (0.37%) Ansible
3 1 (0.37%) Argo
Vendors
1 22 (8.24%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.25%) ServiceNow
2 6 (2.25%) Splunk
3 3 (1.12%) Conga
3 3 (1.12%) Lauterbach
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle
3 3 (1.12%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (0.37%) Databricks
4 1 (0.37%) Denodo
4 1 (0.37%) Google
4 1 (0.37%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.37%) Talend