REST Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Blackpool requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing REST 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 1.37% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £525 £670 -
% change year-on-year -21.64% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Blackpool

REST falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 22 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 30.14% 20.00% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 2
10th Percentile - £375 £429
25th Percentile £563 £394 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -12.32% -20.43%
75th Percentile £688 £475 £572
90th Percentile - - £605
Lancashire median daily rate £600 £450 £426
% change year-on-year +33.33% +5.57% -33.91%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool.

REST job vacancy trend in Blackpool

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing REST

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Slack
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript