REST Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 32 25
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +23
Contract jobs citing REST 15 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.75% 2.08% 2.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.74% 7.55% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 3
10th Percentile £400 - £452
25th Percentile £406 - £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £590 £570
Median % change year-on-year -27.97% +3.51% -2.98%
75th Percentile £503 £620 £580
90th Percentile £585 £638 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £590 £570
% change year-on-year -27.97% +3.51% -2.98%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 69 53 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 21.84% 27.60% 26.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 36 33
10th Percentile £354 £340 £364
25th Percentile £405 £383 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -15.57% +3.64%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £625
90th Percentile £600 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £53.75 - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

REST job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing REST

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Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) GitHub
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (20.00%) Serverless
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 9 (60.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (26.67%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) GitLab
4 3 (20.00%) Postman
4 3 (20.00%) Selenium
5 2 (13.33%) Mocha
6 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
6 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
6 1 (6.67%) JMeter
General
1 11 (73.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Backend Developer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Tester
4 1 (6.67%) QA Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) WireMock
2 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 3 (20.00%) Spring
4 2 (13.33%) GraphQL
4 2 (13.33%) Jest
4 2 (13.33%) Node.js
4 2 (13.33%) OpenAPI
4 2 (13.33%) Swagger
5 1 (6.67%) Middleware
5 1 (6.67%) Next.js
5 1 (6.67%) Playwright
5 1 (6.67%) React
5 1 (6.67%) RESTful
5 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 12 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 10 (66.67%) Containerisation
4 9 (60.00%) Agile
4 9 (60.00%) TDD
5 8 (53.33%) BDD
5 8 (53.33%) Microservices
6 7 (46.67%) DevOps
7 6 (40.00%) API Testing
7 6 (40.00%) Functional Testing
7 6 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
8 5 (33.33%) Performance Testing
9 3 (20.00%) Code Quality
9 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (20.00%) Integration Testing
9 3 (20.00%) Security Testing
10 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
10 2 (13.33%) Migration
10 2 (13.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (20.00%) WCAG
2 2 (13.33%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft