REST Contract Job Trends in Halifax

Representational State Transfer (REST)
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Halifax requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing REST 2 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Halifax 7.69% - 52.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £700
75th Percentile £388 - £738
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £500 £588
% change year-on-year -7.00% -14.89% +11.90%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Halifax

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 Halifax.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2 1 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Halifax 7.69% 11.11% 52.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -28.57% +30.23%
75th Percentile £388 - £738
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

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

REST job vacancy trend in Halifax

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Halifax

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Halifax citing REST

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax 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 2 (100.00%) Apigee
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Apigee Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Groovy
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) Google