REST Contract Job Trends in Chester

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing REST 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 4.71% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 39.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £575 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -2.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 23 13 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 12.04% 14.13% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 4
10th Percentile £501 £643 £364
25th Percentile £541 £656 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £680 £565
Median % change year-on-year -19.06% +20.37% +2.64%
75th Percentile £591 £706 £585
90th Percentile £600 £740 £600
Cheshire median daily rate £474 £405 £445
% change year-on-year +17.04% -8.99% -10.78%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

REST job vacancy trend in Chester

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Chester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Chester over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Chester

REST
Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing REST.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing REST

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) SD-WAN
1 7 (77.78%) WAN
2 6 (66.67%) Wireless
3 2 (22.22%) Network Security
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 1 (11.11%) BGP
4 1 (11.11%) BIG-IP
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) DWDM
4 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
4 1 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (11.11%) IOS XR
4 1 (11.11%) IPv4
4 1 (11.11%) IPv6
4 1 (11.11%) MPLS
4 1 (11.11%) Multicast
4 1 (11.11%) OSPF
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Burp Suite
2 1 (11.11%) JMeter
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Automation Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior
4 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Python Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
5 1 (11.11%) Core Network Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Automation Tester
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Core Network Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Tester
5 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Django
1 6 (66.67%) JSON
2 4 (44.44%) Flask
3 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 2 (22.22%) XML
4 1 (11.11%) NETCONF
4 1 (11.11%) Playwright
4 1 (11.11%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (66.67%) Observability
3 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
3 4 (44.44%) Problem Management
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
5 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (22.22%) Workflow
6 1 (11.11%) Agile
6 1 (11.11%) AI
6 1 (11.11%) Logistics
6 1 (11.11%) Migration
6 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCIE
1 1 (11.11%) CCNP
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Arista
3 1 (11.11%) F5
3 1 (11.11%) VMware