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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 60 85
Rank change year-on-year 0 +25 +2
Contract jobs citing RESTful 22 38 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.41% 2.61% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.95% 10.89% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 32 14
10th Percentile £363 £431 £337
25th Percentile £400 £445 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £469 £460
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +1.90% -8.00%
75th Percentile £472 £518 £580
90th Percentile £527 - £638
North West median daily rate £400 £463 £470
% change year-on-year -13.51% -1.60% -6.00%

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 221 349 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 24.23% 24.00% 20.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 261 292
10th Percentile £381 £363 £338
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £546 £634 £575
90th Percentile £638 £825 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £70.63 £65.50 -
25th Percentile £71.56 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £76.25 £71.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% - -
75th Percentile £84.06 £74.50 -
90th Percentile £86.88 £81.30 -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -42.01%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 - 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Apigee
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) GCP
2 5 (22.73%) GitHub
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
1 4 (18.18%) ObjectStore
2 3 (13.64%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (13.64%) GIS
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) GitLab
2 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 5 (22.73%) Babel
3 5 (22.73%) CircleCI
3 5 (22.73%) JIRA
3 5 (22.73%) webpack
4 4 (18.18%) Git
5 3 (13.64%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.55%) Gatling
6 1 (4.55%) Jasmine
6 1 (4.55%) Mocha
6 1 (4.55%) REST Assured
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Developer
2 9 (40.91%) Senior
3 8 (36.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 7 (31.82%) JavaScript Developer
5 5 (22.73%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (22.73%) React Developer
6 4 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (18.18%) Software Developer
6 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 2 (9.09%) GIS Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Java Software Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Test Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (72.73%) React
2 9 (40.91%) Node.js
3 8 (36.36%) .NET
4 7 (31.82%) AngularJS
5 6 (27.27%) CSS
5 6 (27.27%) HTML
5 6 (27.27%) REST
6 5 (22.73%) HTML5
7 4 (18.18%) OAuth
8 3 (13.64%) GraphQL
8 3 (13.64%) NestJS
8 3 (13.64%) Playwright
8 3 (13.64%) Puppeteer
9 2 (9.09%) GeoJSON
9 2 (9.09%) Kafka
9 2 (9.09%) Leaflet
9 2 (9.09%) MapLibre
9 2 (9.09%) OpenAPI
9 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
9 2 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Agile
1 11 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 10 (45.45%) API Development
2 10 (45.45%) Containerisation
2 10 (45.45%) Test Automation
3 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
4 8 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (31.82%) Microservices
6 5 (22.73%) B2B
6 5 (22.73%) Code Quality
6 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (22.73%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (22.73%) Digital Twin
6 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
6 5 (22.73%) Visualisation
7 4 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (18.18%) RBAC
7 4 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 11 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 8 (36.36%) Java
4 7 (31.82%) Python
5 6 (27.27%) SQL
6 3 (13.64%) Bash
7 2 (9.09%) C#
8 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Terraform
3 3 (13.64%) Grafana
3 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Google
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) PagerDuty
4 2 (9.09%) Mapbox
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle
5 1 (4.55%) Ping Identity