RESTful Contracts in Cheshire

RESTful
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring RESTful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RESTful over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 39 48
Rank change year-on-year -16 +9 +13
Contract jobs citing RESTful 19 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.09% 2.25% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.75% 14.47% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 1
10th Percentile £346 £322 -
25th Percentile £361 £354 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £373 £325
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% +14.77% -32.29%
75th Percentile £469 £382 £338
90th Percentile £537 £397 -
North West median daily rate £469 £438 £400
% change year-on-year +7.20% +9.38% -20.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

RESTful 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 149 76 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.27% 15.54% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 61 48
10th Percentile £313 £311 £325
25th Percentile £350 £366 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £382 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.11% -16.28% +2.38%
75th Percentile £455 £511 £586
90th Percentile £588 £638 £611
North West median daily rate £447 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.00 - -
Median hourly rate £32.00 - -
75th Percentile £34.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £51.00 £67.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -23.88% +45.08% -34.03%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in Cheshire

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in Cheshire

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in Cheshire over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in Cheshire

RESTful
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 RESTful within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 17 August 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 -9 16 £415 +10.08%
Macclesfield - 1 £400 -
Warrington - 1 £410 - 2
Chester - 1 £675 - 3
RESTful
North West

RESTful
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 3 (15.79%) Tomcat
2 2 (10.53%) JBoss
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Apache
3 1 (5.26%) CMS
3 1 (5.26%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) OpenStack
3 1 (5.26%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) GitHub
2 6 (31.58%) Serverless
3 5 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon Glacier
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (10.53%) Azure
6 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) DynamoDB
2 2 (10.53%) MySQL
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.26%) Redis
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (63.16%) Jenkins
2 8 (42.11%) Git
3 7 (36.84%) JUnit
4 6 (31.58%) Cucumber
4 6 (31.58%) GitLab
4 6 (31.58%) JIRA
5 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.26%) Gradle
5 1 (5.26%) Hudson
5 1 (5.26%) Maven
5 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Billing
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Architect
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Developer
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Java Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Java Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Applications Architect
6 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) Spring
2 9 (47.37%) Kafka
2 9 (47.37%) React
2 9 (47.37%) REST
2 9 (47.37%) Spring Boot
3 4 (21.05%) AngularJS
3 4 (21.05%) CSS
3 4 (21.05%) HTML
4 3 (15.79%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (10.53%) .NET
5 2 (10.53%) CSS3
5 2 (10.53%) HTML5
5 2 (10.53%) Node.js
5 2 (10.53%) SOAP
5 2 (10.53%) Web Services
6 1 (5.26%) JAX-WS
6 1 (5.26%) jQuery
6 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.26%) Spring MVC
6 1 (5.26%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Agile
1 14 (73.68%) Microservices
2 12 (63.16%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (57.89%) SDLC
4 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
5 9 (47.37%) TDD
6 8 (42.11%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (31.58%) Scrum
7 6 (31.58%) Sprint Retrospective
8 5 (26.32%) API Development
8 5 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
8 5 (26.32%) Migration
8 5 (26.32%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (26.32%) Release Management
8 5 (26.32%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (21.05%) Acceptance Criteria
9 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
9 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
9 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (84.21%) Java
2 8 (42.11%) SQL
3 6 (31.58%) Python
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.53%) C#
5 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.26%) Bash
6 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe
3 1 (5.26%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk