API Testing Jobs in the North West

API Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 264 292
Rank change year-on-year -30 +28 -68
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 15 26 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.13% 0.36% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.37% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 6 22 30
10th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £34,125
25th Percentile £45,313 £43,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -8.00% +64.47%
75th Percentile £54,326 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £60,592 £81,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,055 6,958 9,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 79.67% 95.56% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,592 3,852 5,325
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing API Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for API Testing in the North West

API Testing
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for API Testing in the North West

API Testing
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing API Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for API Testing in the North West

API Testing
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing API Testing within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Manchester -4 9 £47,500 -9.52% 4
Cheshire -12 6 £47,500 -34.48%
API Testing
England

API Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) ClickUp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DSL
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Selenium
2 8 (53.33%) Postman
3 6 (40.00%) JIRA
4 4 (26.67%) Cypress.io
5 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (13.33%) Git
5 2 (13.33%) SpecFlow
6 1 (6.67%) Fiddler
6 1 (6.67%) SoapUI
6 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Tester
3 3 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Software Tester
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Manual Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Project Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) QA Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) QA Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Playwright
2 3 (20.00%) Swagger
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) Gherkin
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) JSON Schema
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) RESTful
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 8 (53.33%) Software Testing
3 7 (46.67%) Test Scripting
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (33.33%) BDD
5 5 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
5 5 (33.33%) Manual Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (26.67%) Regression Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Scenario Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
8 2 (13.33%) API Design
8 2 (13.33%) SDLC
8 2 (13.33%) User Experience
8 2 (13.33%) User Stories
8 2 (13.33%) Wireframes
8 2 (13.33%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) C#
2 4 (26.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (13.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (73.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) OpenAI