REST Contracts in the North East

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 33 34 55
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 -15
Contract jobs citing REST 5 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.56% 1.18% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.94% 7.14% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £401 £342 £540
25th Percentile £463 £389 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £480 £613
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% -21.63% +13.95%
75th Percentile - £584 £650
90th Percentile £626 £639 £665
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 63 56 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 19.69% 16.57% 28.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 17 100
10th Percentile £354 £334 £380
25th Percentile £380 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £431 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -25.04% +12.20%
75th Percentile £538 £501 £681
90th Percentile £629 £590 £758
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - -57.61% -1.01%
75th Percentile - £27.12 £49.50
90th Percentile - £38.56 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the North East.

Daily rate trend for REST in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for REST in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear -4 5 £590 +22.92% 10
REST
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (60.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Kong
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (20.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Design Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) UML
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kibana
2 1 (20.00%) logstash