REST Contracts in Cheshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 48 31
Rank change year-on-year -1 -17 +16
Contract jobs citing REST 9 10 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.00% 1.98% 6.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.71% 19.61% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 31
10th Percentile £353 £308 £475
25th Percentile £380 £311 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £393 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -28.55% +35.80%
75th Percentile - £509 £575
90th Percentile £422 £575 £638
North West median daily rate £455 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% -4.55% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 84 51 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.71% 10.12% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 40 90
10th Percentile £322 £288 £325
25th Percentile £358 £318 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -16.67% +32.52%
75th Percentile £537 £509 £575
90th Percentile £615 £575 £620
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £11.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +508.70% - -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Cheshire

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for REST in Cheshire

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for REST in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford -1 7 £402 +29.26%
Macclesfield - 1 £400 -
REST
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (44.44%) JBoss
1 4 (44.44%) Tomcat
1 4 (44.44%) WebSphere
2 3 (33.33%) WebLogic
3 2 (22.22%) CICS
4 1 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Apache
4 1 (11.11%) CMS
4 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) DB2
2 2 (22.22%) Easytrieve
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) Hudson
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Billing
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Scrum Master
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Mainframe Designer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (11.11%) Angular Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Scrum Master
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Web Services
2 4 (44.44%) JSP
2 4 (44.44%) RAML
2 4 (44.44%) Servlets
2 4 (44.44%) SOAP
2 4 (44.44%) Spring
3 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 3 (33.33%) CSS
3 3 (33.33%) EJB
3 3 (33.33%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) J2EE
3 3 (33.33%) RESTful
3 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 3 (33.33%) WSDL
4 2 (22.22%) CSS3
4 2 (22.22%) HTML5
5 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 1 (11.11%) Node.js
5 1 (11.11%) React
5 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Private Cloud
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Mainframe
2 2 (22.22%) VSAM
3 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) zOS
2 1 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) SDLC
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) API Development
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) Scrum
5 3 (33.33%) Backlog Management
5 3 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (33.33%) Budget Control
6 2 (22.22%) API Integration
6 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
6 2 (22.22%) Conflict Resolution
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (22.22%) DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
6 2 (22.22%) Microservices
6 2 (22.22%) Migration
6 2 (22.22%) Servant Leadership
6 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
6 2 (22.22%) Situational Awareness
6 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) COBOL
3 2 (22.22%) JCL
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) IBM