REST Contracts in Manchester

Representational State Transfer (REST)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 57 62 65
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 -12
Contract jobs citing REST 22 34 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.38% 2.24% 2.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.21% 9.42% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 31 41
10th Percentile - £400 £425
25th Percentile £400 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £586
90th Percentile £590 £598 £611
North West median daily rate £455 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
North West median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 239 361 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.81% 23.80% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 283 310
10th Percentile £400 £375 £336
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £581
90th Percentile £638 £825 £639
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £71.87 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +59.71% +143.24%
75th Percentile £88.75 £76.75 -
90th Percentile - £81.60 -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for REST in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Stockport - 6 £400 - 12
REST
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (9.09%) CMS
2 1 (4.55%) Headless CMS
2 1 (4.55%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
1 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) GCP
3 4 (18.18%) dbt
4 2 (9.09%) Serverless
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.55%) Azure API Management
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.55%) Cloudflare
5 1 (4.55%) Contentful
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 4 (18.18%) Airbyte
2 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Babel
1 5 (22.73%) webpack
2 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) JMeter
2 1 (4.55%) Maven
2 1 (4.55%) Postman
2 1 (4.55%) REST Assured
2 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Banking
3 5 (22.73%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript Developer
3 5 (22.73%) React Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Senior
4 4 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Architect
5 2 (9.09%) ForgeRock Architect
6 1 (4.55%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Automation Tester
6 1 (4.55%) Backend Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) React
2 7 (31.82%) .NET
3 6 (27.27%) CSS
3 6 (27.27%) HTML
3 6 (27.27%) RESTful
3 6 (27.27%) SOAP
4 5 (22.73%) HTML5
5 2 (9.09%) OAuth
5 2 (9.09%) OAuth2
6 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.55%) Ajax
6 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (4.55%) Express.js
6 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
6 1 (4.55%) Jest
6 1 (4.55%) Next.js
6 1 (4.55%) Node.js
6 1 (4.55%) React Native
6 1 (4.55%) Redux
6 1 (4.55%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Derivative
1 5 (22.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
1 5 (22.73%) Unix
2 2 (9.09%) Android
2 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) Front End Development
3 5 (22.73%) API Development
3 5 (22.73%) B2B
3 5 (22.73%) Code Quality
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
4 4 (18.18%) Analytics
4 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 4 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (18.18%) Digital Twin
4 4 (18.18%) ETL
4 4 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (18.18%) Open Source
4 4 (18.18%) RDF
4 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (18.18%) Visualisation
5 3 (13.64%) Migration
6 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
4 4 (18.18%) SPARQL
5 2 (9.09%) Java
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) Basel III
1 5 (22.73%) MiFID
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 5 (22.73%) Sybase
3 2 (9.09%) ForgeRock
3 2 (9.09%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) Virgin Media