RESTful Contracts in Manchester

RESTful
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring RESTful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RESTful 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 54 32 93
Rank change year-on-year -22 +61 -3
Contract jobs citing RESTful 25 68 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.70% 4.48% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.46% 18.84% 6.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 59 14
10th Percentile £363 £375 £337
25th Percentile £400 £431 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +1.62%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £580
90th Percentile £525 £625 £638
North West median daily rate £406 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -14.47% +3.26% -0.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

RESTful 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%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in Manchester

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in Manchester

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in Manchester

RESTful
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 RESTful 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 - 6
RESTful
North West

RESTful
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 (8.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Apigee
3 4 (16.00%) GCP
3 4 (16.00%) GitHub
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (12.00%) Serverless
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.00%) Slack
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (16.00%) ObjectStore
4 3 (12.00%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (12.00%) GIS
4 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (8.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (8.00%) MySQL
5 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) GitLab
2 6 (24.00%) Git
2 6 (24.00%) JIRA
3 5 (20.00%) Babel
3 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (20.00%) webpack
4 4 (16.00%) CircleCI
5 3 (12.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (12.00%) Jasmine
6 2 (8.00%) Cypress.io
6 2 (8.00%) JUnit
7 1 (4.00%) Gatling
7 1 (4.00%) Mocha
7 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) Developer
2 12 (48.00%) Senior
3 8 (32.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 7 (28.00%) JavaScript Developer
5 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (20.00%) React Developer
5 5 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
6 4 (16.00%) Java Developer
6 4 (16.00%) Senior Developer
6 4 (16.00%) Software Developer
7 3 (12.00%) Python Engineer
7 3 (12.00%) Python Software Engineer
8 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 2 (8.00%) GIS Developer
8 2 (8.00%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (8.00%) Senior Software Developer
9 1 (4.00%) Senior Test Engineer
9 1 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (60.00%) React
2 8 (32.00%) .NET
3 7 (28.00%) AngularJS
3 7 (28.00%) Node.js
4 6 (24.00%) CSS
4 6 (24.00%) HTML
4 6 (24.00%) REST
5 5 (20.00%) HTML5
5 5 (20.00%) Kafka
6 4 (16.00%) OpenAPI
6 4 (16.00%) Spring
6 4 (16.00%) Spring Boot
6 4 (16.00%) Swagger
7 3 (12.00%) OAuth
8 2 (8.00%) GeoJSON
8 2 (8.00%) Google Maps API
8 2 (8.00%) GraphQL
8 2 (8.00%) Leaflet
8 2 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (8.00%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Containerisation
2 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (44.00%) Test Automation
4 10 (40.00%) Agile
4 10 (40.00%) Front End Development
4 10 (40.00%) Microservices
5 9 (36.00%) API Development
6 8 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (28.00%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
9 5 (20.00%) B2B
9 5 (20.00%) Code Quality
9 5 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (20.00%) Digital Twin
9 5 (20.00%) Visualisation
10 4 (16.00%) API Design
10 4 (16.00%) Continuous Deployment
10 4 (16.00%) Integration Testing
10 4 (16.00%) RBAC
10 4 (16.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) TypeScript
2 11 (44.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (40.00%) SQL
4 9 (36.00%) Java
4 9 (36.00%) Python
5 4 (16.00%) Bash
6 2 (8.00%) C#
7 1 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Grafana
2 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Google
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Mapbox
3 2 (8.00%) PagerDuty