REST Contracts in Leeds

Representational State Transfer (REST)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 60 79
Rank change year-on-year +11 +19 -13
Contract jobs citing REST 11 3 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.37% 0.38% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.09% 1.58% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 16
10th Percentile £460 - £438
25th Percentile £475 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £538
90th Percentile £560 - £575
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £403 £525
% change year-on-year +24.22% -23.33% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 109 190 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 23.44% 23.78% 23.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 136 253
10th Percentile £388 £325 £414
25th Percentile £441 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £770 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £84.38 - £61.25
25th Percentile £84.67 - £63.44
Median hourly rate £96.85 £13.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +598.23% -80.19% -
75th Percentile £102.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £75.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £96.85 £13.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +598.23% -80.19% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for REST in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) OpenShift
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) SSL
2 4 (36.36%) NAS
2 4 (36.36%) SAN
3 2 (18.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) webpack
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Angular Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Kafka
1 5 (45.45%) LDAP
2 4 (36.36%) Middleware
3 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
3 3 (27.27%) CSS
3 3 (27.27%) Flask
3 3 (27.27%) HTML
3 3 (27.27%) SOAP
3 3 (27.27%) Web Services
4 2 (18.18%) Ajax
4 2 (18.18%) pytest
4 2 (18.18%) RESTful
5 1 (9.09%) Django
5 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
5 1 (9.09%) JDBC
5 1 (9.09%) React
5 1 (9.09%) SAML
5 1 (9.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) CMDB
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
2 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (45.45%) High Availability
3 4 (36.36%) Key Management
4 3 (27.27%) SDLC
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Workflow
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) ITSM
5 2 (18.18%) Loose Coupling
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Service Catalogue
6 1 (9.09%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
6 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
6 1 (9.09%) Data Sharing
6 1 (9.09%) DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (9.09%) Interface Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Bash
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Grafana
2 5 (45.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Confluent
1 5 (45.45%) Splunk
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle
3 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow