REST Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 28 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing REST 37 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 13.55% 3.49% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 29.60% 9.68% -
Number of daily rates quoted 37 6 0
10th Percentile £330 £358 -
25th Percentile £370 £360 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £439 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% - -
75th Percentile £469 £548 -
90th Percentile £493 £558 -
Cheshire median daily rate £430 £439 £481
% change year-on-year -1.99% -8.83% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 125 62 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 45.79% 36.05% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 49 13
10th Percentile £313 £310 £467
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £390 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -27.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £468 £496 £567
90th Percentile £495 £571 £582
Cheshire median daily rate £405 £395 £488
% change year-on-year +2.53% -18.97% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £64.25 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -24.41% - -

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

REST job vacancy trend in Knutsford

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Knutsford over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Knutsford

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 6 (16.22%) JBoss
1 6 (16.22%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.70%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) AWS
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
3 6 (16.22%) npm
4 5 (13.51%) GitHub
4 5 (13.51%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.41%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) DB2
2 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (64.86%) Git
2 17 (45.95%) JIRA
3 11 (29.73%) Jenkins
4 10 (27.03%) JUnit
5 6 (16.22%) Cucumber
5 6 (16.22%) Cypress.io
5 6 (16.22%) Grunt
5 6 (16.22%) gulp
5 6 (16.22%) SonarQube
6 5 (13.51%) GitLab
6 5 (13.51%) Gradle
6 5 (13.51%) Maven
6 5 (13.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (10.81%) Selenium
8 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.70%) REST Assured
General
1 14 (37.84%) Banking
2 12 (32.43%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (29.73%) Finance
4 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (67.57%) Developer
2 16 (43.24%) Java Developer
3 6 (16.22%) Architect
4 5 (13.51%) AWS Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (13.51%) UI Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (5.41%) Lead
5 2 (5.41%) Scrum Master
5 2 (5.41%) Software Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Test Leader
5 2 (5.41%) Tester
6 1 (2.70%) Agile Scrum Master
6 1 (2.70%) Applications Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Java Applications Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Java Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Payments Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (48.65%) Spring
1 18 (48.65%) Spring Boot
2 12 (32.43%) React
3 9 (24.32%) SOAP
4 8 (21.62%) CSS
4 8 (21.62%) HTML
4 8 (21.62%) JSON
4 8 (21.62%) Web Services
5 7 (18.92%) JMS
5 7 (18.92%) Kafka
6 6 (16.22%) Ajax
6 6 (16.22%) CSS3
6 6 (16.22%) Enzyme
6 6 (16.22%) HTML5
6 6 (16.22%) LESS
6 6 (16.22%) Nightwatchjs
6 6 (16.22%) Node.js
6 6 (16.22%) Redux
6 6 (16.22%) RESTful
6 6 (16.22%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 7 (18.92%) Cloud Native
3 5 (13.51%) Product Ownership
4 4 (10.81%) PACS
5 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.70%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
1 5 (13.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (51.35%) Agile
3 15 (40.54%) CI/CD
4 13 (35.14%) Microservices
4 13 (35.14%) Test Automation
5 12 (32.43%) Migration
5 12 (32.43%) SDLC
5 12 (32.43%) Unit Testing
6 11 (29.73%) Performance Optimisation
6 11 (29.73%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (24.32%) Scrum
7 9 (24.32%) TDD
8 8 (21.62%) DevOps
8 8 (21.62%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (18.92%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
10 6 (16.22%) Design Patterns
10 6 (16.22%) Front End Development
10 6 (16.22%) Sprint Planning
10 6 (16.22%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 26 (70.27%) Java
2 15 (40.54%) SQL
3 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.51%) Python
4 5 (13.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (32.43%) QA
2 7 (18.92%) ISO 20022
2 7 (18.92%) PSD2
2 7 (18.92%) SEPA
3 6 (16.22%) Accessibility
4 4 (10.81%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Oracle
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
3 6 (16.22%) Perforce
4 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.70%) Google