API Integration Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

API Integration
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring API Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Integration 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.98% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.05% +0.05% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

API Integration falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 155 150 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 75.98% 92.02% 75.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 90 53
10th Percentile £325 £155 £211
25th Percentile £387 £302 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% -17.07% +24.24%
75th Percentile £538 £547 £600
90th Percentile £626 £625 £670
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 15 21
10th Percentile - £13.50 -
25th Percentile £14.50 £22.49 £12.25
Median hourly rate £18.41 £24.18 £13.94
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% +73.46% -8.59%
75th Percentile £53.75 £44.65 £23.54
90th Percentile - £78.47 £31.88
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.96
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.35% -0.11%

API Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing API Integration relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

API Integration job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

API Integration
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing API Integration within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 7 May 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
County Antrim - 1 £450 - 5
API Integration
UK

API Integration
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft