REST Contracts in the North of England

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 97 117 113
Rank change year-on-year +20 -4 -23
Contract jobs citing REST 70 69 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.12% 1.45% 2.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.22% 7.67% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 59 94
10th Percentile £364 £330 £429
25th Percentile £400 £400 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £635 £598 £608
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £74.44 £53.87
% change year-on-year -26.11% +38.18% +8.28%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 685 900 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.79% 18.88% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 615 875
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £597
90th Percentile £650 £691 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile £65.25 £13.87 £44.28
25th Percentile £68.81 £21.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £86.46 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.22% -26.11% +48.81%
75th Percentile £99.42 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for REST in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for REST in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for REST in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +7 40 £455 -13.33% 101
Yorkshire +14 25 £500 +12.36% 54
North East +1 5 £590 +22.92% 12
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (7.14%) JBoss
1 5 (7.14%) NetWeaver
1 5 (7.14%) Tomcat
1 5 (7.14%) WebSphere
2 4 (5.71%) WebLogic
3 3 (4.29%) CMS
3 3 (4.29%) nginx
4 2 (2.86%) CICS
5 1 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.43%) Apache
5 1 (1.43%) Confluence
5 1 (1.43%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.43%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Kondor
2 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (31.43%) AWS
2 19 (27.14%) Azure
3 13 (18.57%) GitHub
4 7 (10.00%) GCP
5 5 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (5.71%) dbt
6 4 (5.71%) OpenShift
7 3 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.29%) Serverless
8 2 (2.86%) npm
8 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.43%) AWS CodeCommit
9 1 (1.43%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 1 (1.43%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.43%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.43%) Contentful
9 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.43%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.86%) SMTP
2 8 (11.43%) SSL
3 7 (10.00%) HTTP
4 6 (8.57%) SAN
5 4 (5.71%) NAS
6 1 (1.43%) BGP
6 1 (1.43%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.43%) Network Security
6 1 (1.43%) OSPF
6 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.86%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.71%) Airbyte
3 4 (5.71%) DB2
3 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.86%) Easytrieve
4 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.86%) MySQL
4 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (17.14%) Git
2 7 (10.00%) webpack
3 6 (8.57%) JIRA
4 5 (7.14%) Babel
4 5 (7.14%) Bitbucket
4 5 (7.14%) GitLab
4 5 (7.14%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.29%) Postman
5 3 (4.29%) REST Assured
5 3 (4.29%) Selenium
6 2 (2.86%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.86%) TestNG
7 1 (1.43%) Hudson
7 1 (1.43%) JMeter
7 1 (1.43%) JUnit
7 1 (1.43%) Maven
7 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.43%) Banking
2 15 (21.43%) Finance
3 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.43%) Billing
5 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (30.00%) Developer
2 10 (14.29%) Senior
3 9 (12.86%) Architect
4 6 (8.57%) Data Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (8.57%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Integration Developer
5 5 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
5 5 (7.14%) React Developer
5 5 (7.14%) SAP Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Scrum Master
7 3 (4.29%) Angular Developer
7 3 (4.29%) Applications Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Designer
7 3 (4.29%) DevOps Developer
7 3 (4.29%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.29%) Windows Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Mainframe Designer
8 2 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (34.29%) SOAP
2 13 (18.57%) Web Services
3 12 (17.14%) CSS
3 12 (17.14%) HTML
3 12 (17.14%) RESTful
4 11 (15.71%) Middleware
5 10 (14.29%) React
6 8 (11.43%) .NET
7 7 (10.00%) HTML5
8 6 (8.57%) AngularJS
8 6 (8.57%) RAML
9 5 (7.14%) JDBC
9 5 (7.14%) JMS
9 5 (7.14%) JSP
9 5 (7.14%) Kafka
9 5 (7.14%) LDAP
9 5 (7.14%) SAP PI
9 5 (7.14%) Servlets
9 5 (7.14%) Spring
9 5 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Private Cloud
1 6 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.14%) Derivative
2 5 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.71%) Clustering
3 4 (5.71%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (5.71%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.86%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.86%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.86%) VSAM
6 1 (1.43%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.43%) CMDB
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.43%) Windows
2 7 (10.00%) Linux
3 5 (7.14%) Unix
4 3 (4.29%) Android
4 3 (4.29%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.71%) Agile
2 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (21.43%) SDLC
3 13 (18.57%) CI/CD
3 13 (18.57%) Containerisation
4 12 (17.14%) Scrum
4 12 (17.14%) Test Automation
5 11 (15.71%) API Development
5 11 (15.71%) ITSM
6 10 (14.29%) DevOps
7 9 (12.86%) Front End Development
7 9 (12.86%) SIEM
8 8 (11.43%) Migration
9 6 (8.57%) Analytics
9 6 (8.57%) Code Quality
9 6 (8.57%) ETL
9 6 (8.57%) Microservices
9 6 (8.57%) Risk Management
10 5 (7.14%) High Availability
10 5 (7.14%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.14%) JavaScript
2 18 (25.71%) Python
3 13 (18.57%) Java
4 12 (17.14%) SQL
5 11 (15.71%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.14%) ABAP
6 5 (7.14%) Bash
7 4 (5.71%) SPARQL
8 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.86%) C#
9 2 (2.86%) COBOL
9 2 (2.86%) JCL
10 1 (1.43%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.43%) PHP
10 1 (1.43%) XPath
Qualifications
1 10 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.29%) Degree
4 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.14%) Basel III
1 5 (7.14%) MiFID
2 3 (4.29%) QA
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (12.86%) Active Directory
1 9 (12.86%) Docker
2 5 (7.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 15 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 13 (18.57%) Ansible
3 8 (11.43%) Grafana
3 8 (11.43%) Prometheus
4 6 (8.57%) Terraform
5 3 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.86%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.86%) Puppet
6 2 (2.86%) vRealize
7 1 (1.43%) Kibana
7 1 (1.43%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Oracle
2 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.14%) Confluent
3 5 (7.14%) SAP
3 5 (7.14%) Splunk
3 5 (7.14%) Sybase
4 4 (5.71%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.29%) Cisco
6 2 (2.86%) 3PAR
6 2 (2.86%) Brocade
6 2 (2.86%) EMC
6 2 (2.86%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.86%) HP
6 2 (2.86%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.86%) Talend
6 2 (2.86%) VMware
7 1 (1.43%) Adobe
7 1 (1.43%) IBM
7 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.43%) Virgin Media