API Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

API Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 652 609 477
Rank change year-on-year -43 -132 -32
Permanent jobs citing API Testing 122 110 440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.20% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.21% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 86 89 324
10th Percentile £33,125 £32,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £62,313 £66,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £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 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,470 52,964 71,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.81% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,693 28,448 41,385
10th Percentile £27,500 £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% +8.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 11 June 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 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
South East -32 35 £53,750 - 11
Midlands -8 33 £50,000 +25.00% 1
North of England +17 28 £47,500 -17.39% 5
West Midlands +9 25 £53,750 +26.47% 1
North West -30 15 £47,500 -17.39% 4
Yorkshire +68 13 £50,000 -13.04% 1
Scotland -54 10 £36,250 -44.23% 2
South West -26 9 £65,000 +38.30% 4
East Midlands -42 8 £47,500 +26.67%
Wales - 6 £45,000 - 1
East of England -14 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 (9.02%) Apache
2 8 (6.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.82%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (31.15%) Azure
2 14 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (9.84%) AWS
4 8 (6.56%) SaaS
5 4 (3.28%) BrowserStack
6 3 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (2.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (2.46%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (1.64%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.64%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.64%) GitHub
7 2 (1.64%) Serverless
7 2 (1.64%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.82%) ClickUp
8 1 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.28%) Bluetooth
1 4 (3.28%) Ethernet
1 4 (3.28%) FlexRay
1 4 (3.28%) HTTP
1 4 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (3.28%) Wireless
2 2 (1.64%) DSL
3 1 (0.82%) Firewall
3 1 (0.82%) Multicast
3 1 (0.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.20%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.10%) DynamoDB
2 5 (4.10%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (38.52%) Selenium
2 46 (37.70%) Postman
3 34 (27.87%) JIRA
4 23 (18.85%) Cucumber
5 22 (18.03%) Cypress.io
6 21 (17.21%) Git
7 17 (13.93%) JUnit
8 16 (13.11%) WebDriver
9 15 (12.30%) SoapUI
10 13 (10.66%) SpecFlow
11 12 (9.84%) TestNG
12 11 (9.02%) REST Assured
13 10 (8.20%) Jenkins
14 8 (6.56%) JMeter
15 7 (5.74%) MSTest
16 6 (4.92%) Visual Studio
17 5 (4.10%) TestRail
18 4 (3.28%) Appium
18 4 (3.28%) GitLab
18 4 (3.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 14 (11.48%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.56%) Legal
4 6 (4.92%) Law
5 5 (4.10%) Finance
5 5 (4.10%) Marketing
5 5 (4.10%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.28%) Automotive
7 3 (2.46%) Electronics
7 3 (2.46%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Retail
8 2 (1.64%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.82%) Advertising
9 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (28.69%) Test Engineer
2 26 (21.31%) Tester
3 21 (17.21%) QA Engineer
4 13 (10.66%) Automation Tester
4 13 (10.66%) Senior
5 9 (7.38%) Lead
6 8 (6.56%) Analyst
6 8 (6.56%) Developer
6 8 (6.56%) Penetration Tester
7 7 (5.74%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) QA Manager
8 6 (4.92%) Senior Test Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Test Leader
9 5 (4.10%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) QA Test Manager
9 5 (4.10%) Test Analyst
9 5 (4.10%) Test Manager
10 4 (3.28%) Development Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) QA Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (22.13%) REST
2 14 (11.48%) SOAP
2 14 (11.48%) WireMock
3 13 (10.66%) Swagger
4 12 (9.84%) .NET
4 12 (9.84%) Playwright
5 11 (9.02%) Apache Commons
5 11 (9.02%) Guava
5 11 (9.02%) Java Concurrency
5 11 (9.02%) Web Services
6 9 (7.38%) CSS
6 9 (7.38%) JSON
7 7 (5.74%) Gherkin
7 7 (5.74%) HTML
7 7 (5.74%) Kafka
7 7 (5.74%) React
7 7 (5.74%) XML
8 6 (4.92%) RESTful
8 6 (4.92%) Spring Boot
9 5 (4.10%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.38%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.56%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.10%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.28%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (3.28%) IoT
4 4 (3.28%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.46%) Robotics
6 2 (1.64%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.64%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.82%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.82%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.82%) NHS
7 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.82%) PMI
7 1 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.92%) Linux
2 5 (4.10%) Windows
3 1 (0.82%) Android
3 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (78.69%) Test Automation
2 56 (45.90%) Software Testing
3 53 (43.44%) Agile
4 35 (28.69%) CI/CD
5 30 (24.59%) Test Scripting
6 28 (22.95%) DevOps
6 28 (22.95%) Manual Testing
7 25 (20.49%) Test Strategy
8 24 (19.67%) Scenario Testing
9 22 (18.03%) BDD
10 21 (17.21%) Scrum
10 21 (17.21%) SDET
11 17 (13.93%) Microservices
11 17 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (13.11%) Performance Testing
12 16 (13.11%) Regression Testing
13 14 (11.48%) Containerisation
13 14 (11.48%) Design Patterns
14 13 (10.66%) Code Quality
14 13 (10.66%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 35 (28.69%) Java
2 34 (27.87%) SQL
3 30 (24.59%) C#
4 24 (19.67%) JavaScript
5 18 (14.75%) Python
6 7 (5.74%) T-SQL
7 5 (4.10%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.28%) C
9 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.66%) ISTQB
3 8 (6.56%) OSCP
4 7 (5.74%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.92%) ISEB
6 4 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.46%) Degree
8 2 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (40.98%) QA
2 8 (6.56%) GRC
3 3 (2.46%) JTAG
4 1 (0.82%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (16.39%) Docker
2 2 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.46%) Terraform
3 1 (0.82%) Ansible
3 1 (0.82%) Grafana
3 1 (0.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (9.02%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.46%) Conga
2 3 (2.46%) Lauterbach
2 3 (2.46%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (0.82%) Denodo
3 1 (0.82%) Google
3 1 (0.82%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle
3 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.82%) Splunk
3 1 (0.82%) Talend