API Testing Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

API Testing
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring API Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing API Testing 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 2.01% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

API Testing 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 226 150 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 90.76% 78.13% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 66 78
10th Percentile £263 £146 £204
25th Percentile £325 £168 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £413
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +12.12% -15.82%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £529
90th Percentile £634 £650 £608
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 17 9
10th Percentile £12.81 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £14.78 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +31.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.25 £16.00
90th Percentile - £43.00 £18.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.87% -20.54% +27.14%

API Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

API Testing job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

API Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing API Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing API Testing

API Testing
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 Testing within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 5 November 2025. 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 - 5 £400 - 4
API Testing
UK

API Testing
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 3 (60.00%) Parquet
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Postman
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Migration Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Test Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Avro
1 3 (60.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (40.00%) Playwright
2 2 (40.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) Data Validation
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
1 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Fintech
2 2 (40.00%) Load Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Automated Trading
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA