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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 114 104
Rank change year-on-year +16 -10 -6
Contract jobs citing REST 69 70 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.06% 1.49% 1.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.55% 7.73% 10.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 63 84
10th Percentile £359 £363 £436
25th Percentile £393 £415 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £593 £584
90th Percentile £612 £670 £630
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%

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 654 906 1,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.56% 19.25% 19.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 607 840
10th Percentile £358 £356 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £549 £600 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 30 7
10th Percentile - £13.87 £37.78
25th Percentile £70.00 £37.63 £41.99
Median hourly rate £76.25 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.11% -26.11% -3.85%
75th Percentile £91.20 £70.81 £66.88
90th Percentile £95.61 £72.70 £74.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

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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 31 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 31 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 -1 41 £455 -13.33% 101
Yorkshire +21 25 £500 +5.26% 41
North East 0 3 £371 -22.67% 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 7 (10.14%) JBoss
1 7 (10.14%) Tomcat
2 5 (7.25%) WebSphere
3 4 (5.80%) CMS
3 4 (5.80%) NetWeaver
3 4 (5.80%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.90%) CICS
5 1 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.45%) Apache
5 1 (1.45%) Confluence
5 1 (1.45%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 7 (10.14%) Kondor
2 1 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.78%) AWS
2 19 (27.54%) Azure
3 9 (13.04%) GitHub
4 8 (11.59%) GCP
5 6 (8.70%) OpenShift
6 4 (5.80%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (5.80%) dbt
6 4 (5.80%) Serverless
7 3 (4.35%) npm
8 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.45%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.45%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 1 (1.45%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.45%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.45%) Contentful
9 1 (1.45%) SaaS
9 1 (1.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.14%) HTTP
2 6 (8.70%) SAN
3 5 (7.25%) SMTP
3 5 (7.25%) SSL
4 4 (5.80%) NAS
5 1 (1.45%) BGP
5 1 (1.45%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.45%) Network Security
5 1 (1.45%) OSPF
5 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.49%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 6 (8.70%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.80%) Airbyte
4 4 (5.80%) DB2
5 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.35%) MySQL
6 2 (2.90%) Easytrieve
6 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (24.64%) Git
2 10 (14.49%) JIRA
3 8 (11.59%) webpack
4 7 (10.14%) Jenkins
5 5 (7.25%) Babel
5 5 (7.25%) Bitbucket
6 4 (5.80%) GitLab
7 3 (4.35%) JUnit
7 3 (4.35%) Maven
7 3 (4.35%) Postman
7 3 (4.35%) REST Assured
7 3 (4.35%) Selenium
8 2 (2.90%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.90%) Gradle
8 2 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.90%) TestNG
9 1 (1.45%) Hudson
9 1 (1.45%) JMeter
9 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.09%) Finance
3 14 (20.29%) Banking
4 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Back Office
6 2 (2.90%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.45%) Billing
7 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (34.78%) Developer
2 8 (11.59%) Architect
3 6 (8.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (8.70%) JavaScript Developer
3 6 (8.70%) Senior
4 5 (7.25%) React Developer
5 4 (5.80%) Angular Developer
5 4 (5.80%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Integration Developer
5 4 (5.80%) SAP Developer
5 4 (5.80%) Scrum Master
5 4 (5.80%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Applications Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Consultant
6 3 (4.35%) Designer
6 3 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow Developer
6 3 (4.35%) Software Developer
6 3 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (34.78%) SOAP
2 15 (21.74%) HTML
3 14 (20.29%) CSS
4 13 (18.84%) RESTful
4 13 (18.84%) Web Services
5 12 (17.39%) React
6 10 (14.49%) Middleware
7 8 (11.59%) .NET
7 8 (11.59%) HTML5
8 7 (10.14%) AngularJS
8 7 (10.14%) Spring
9 6 (8.70%) RAML
9 6 (8.70%) Spring Boot
10 5 (7.25%) JSP
10 5 (7.25%) Kafka
10 5 (7.25%) LDAP
10 5 (7.25%) Node.js
10 5 (7.25%) pytest
10 5 (7.25%) Servlets
10 5 (7.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Derivative
1 7 (10.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 7 (10.14%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.70%) Private Cloud
3 4 (5.80%) Clustering
4 3 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.90%) CMDB
5 2 (2.90%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (2.90%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.90%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.90%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.90%) VSAM
6 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.39%) Linux
2 9 (13.04%) Unix
3 4 (5.80%) Windows
4 3 (4.35%) Android
4 3 (4.35%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.90%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.78%) Agile
2 17 (24.64%) SDLC
3 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (18.84%) CI/CD
4 13 (18.84%) Containerisation
4 13 (18.84%) Test Automation
5 11 (15.94%) API Development
5 11 (15.94%) Scrum
6 10 (14.49%) DevOps
7 9 (13.04%) Front End Development
7 9 (13.04%) Microservices
8 8 (11.59%) ITSM
8 8 (11.59%) Risk Management
9 7 (10.14%) High Availability
10 6 (8.70%) Code Quality
10 6 (8.70%) Migration
11 5 (7.25%) B2B
11 5 (7.25%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (7.25%) Open Source
11 5 (7.25%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.43%) JavaScript
2 20 (28.99%) Python
3 15 (21.74%) Java
4 12 (17.39%) SQL
5 7 (10.14%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.25%) Bash
6 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.80%) ABAP
7 4 (5.80%) SPARQL
8 2 (2.90%) C#
8 2 (2.90%) COBOL
8 2 (2.90%) JCL
8 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.45%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.45%) PHP
9 1 (1.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (10.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.35%) Degree
3 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) Basel III
1 7 (10.14%) MiFID
2 3 (4.35%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (11.59%) Docker
2 5 (7.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 13 (18.84%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.04%) Ansible
3 5 (7.25%) Grafana
3 5 (7.25%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.35%) Terraform
5 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.90%) Puppet
5 2 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.90%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (26.09%) Oracle
2 12 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.14%) Sybase
4 5 (7.25%) Confluent
4 5 (7.25%) Splunk
5 4 (5.80%) SAP
5 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.35%) Cisco
7 2 (2.90%) 3PAR
7 2 (2.90%) Brocade
7 2 (2.90%) EMC
7 2 (2.90%) ForgeRock
7 2 (2.90%) HP
7 2 (2.90%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.90%) VMware
8 1 (1.45%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.45%) Okta
8 1 (1.45%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.45%) Virgin Media