REST Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Representational State Transfer (REST)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 27 33
Rank change year-on-year -20 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing REST 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.30% 1.22% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.56% 7.41% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.22%
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £478 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +3.38% -11.90% -4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 39 27 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 11.61% 16.46% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 13
10th Percentile £418 £388 -
25th Percentile £450 £456 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £545 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +21.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £574 £631 £494
90th Percentile £640 £645 £543
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £47.31
% change year-on-year +3.32% +43.22% +16.54%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

REST job vacancy trend in Merseyside

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing REST

REST
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. 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
Liverpool -22 1 £650 - 2
REST
North West

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA Administrator
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Webhook
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian