RESTful Contracts in the North of England

RESTful
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring RESTful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RESTful 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 107 96 156
Rank change year-on-year -11 +60 -24
Contract jobs citing RESTful 60 92 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.82% 1.93% 1.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.76% 10.22% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 77 41
10th Percentile £352 £390 £375
25th Percentile £385 £432 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -9.30% +7.50%
75th Percentile £531 £550 £600
90th Percentile £606 £625 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -31.25% +6.67% +25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

RESTful 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%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the North of England

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the North of England

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the North of England

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in the North of England

RESTful
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 RESTful 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 -18 38 £406 -14.47% 118
Yorkshire +13 18 £500 -2.44% 38
North East -1 4 £366 -26.75% 12
RESTful
England

RESTful
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 10 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) CMS
2 1 (1.67%) JBoss
2 1 (1.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 29 (48.33%) AWS
2 17 (28.33%) Azure
3 9 (15.00%) Serverless
3 9 (15.00%) Slack
4 8 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (13.33%) GCP
5 7 (11.67%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (10.00%) GitHub
7 5 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.67%) Amazon Glacier
8 4 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.67%) Apigee
9 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.33%) npm
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) HTTP
2 1 (1.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (30.00%) MongoDB
3 12 (20.00%) MySQL
4 11 (18.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (13.33%) SQL Server
6 6 (10.00%) NoSQL
7 5 (8.33%) DynamoDB
8 4 (6.67%) ObjectStore
8 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
9 3 (5.00%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (5.00%) GIS
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (43.33%) Git
2 19 (31.67%) JIRA
3 15 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 12 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 12 (20.00%) Jasmine
5 11 (18.33%) GitLab
5 11 (18.33%) JUnit
6 7 (11.67%) webpack
7 5 (8.33%) Babel
8 4 (6.67%) CircleCI
9 3 (5.00%) Visual Studio
9 3 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (3.33%) Cypress.io
10 2 (3.33%) Mocha
10 2 (3.33%) REST Assured
10 2 (3.33%) Selenium
11 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.67%) Gatling
11 1 (1.67%) Hudson
11 1 (1.67%) TestNG
General
1 9 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.67%) Finance
3 4 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (5.00%) French Language
5 2 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Billing
6 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
6 1 (1.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (63.33%) Developer
2 20 (33.33%) Senior
3 11 (18.33%) Java Developer
3 11 (18.33%) Senior Developer
4 10 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 8 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (13.33%) JavaScript Developer
5 8 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (11.67%) Architect
6 7 (11.67%) React Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) C# Developer
8 4 (6.67%) Python Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Software Developer
8 4 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Angular Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Node.js Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) Java Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (36.67%) React
2 19 (31.67%) CSS
3 17 (28.33%) HTML
4 16 (26.67%) Spring
5 14 (23.33%) AngularJS
5 14 (23.33%) Spring Boot
6 13 (21.67%) .NET
7 12 (20.00%) Node.js
7 12 (20.00%) REST
7 12 (20.00%) Swagger
8 11 (18.33%) OpenAPI
9 9 (15.00%) Kafka
9 9 (15.00%) Spring Security
10 8 (13.33%) HTML5
10 8 (13.33%) Spring Batch
11 4 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
11 4 (6.67%) Web Services
12 3 (5.00%) CSS3
12 3 (5.00%) GraphQL
12 3 (5.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.67%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.33%) Linux
2 10 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (61.67%) CI/CD
2 32 (53.33%) Microservices
3 30 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 27 (45.00%) Agile
5 24 (40.00%) Test Automation
6 17 (28.33%) TDD
7 16 (26.67%) Front End Development
8 14 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (23.33%) SDLC
8 14 (23.33%) Software Engineering
9 13 (21.67%) BDD
9 13 (21.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (18.33%) API Design
10 11 (18.33%) API Development
11 10 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
11 10 (16.67%) Integration Testing
11 10 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 10 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 28 (46.67%) Java
2 20 (33.33%) SQL
3 19 (31.67%) JavaScript
4 16 (26.67%) Python
5 15 (25.00%) Bash
5 15 (25.00%) TypeScript
6 7 (11.67%) C#
7 1 (1.67%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.67%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.33%) Degree
5 1 (1.67%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.00%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Ansible
3 2 (3.33%) Grafana
3 2 (3.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.67%) Puppet
4 1 (1.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.67%) Google
3 6 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) IBM
4 2 (3.33%) Mapbox
4 2 (3.33%) New Relic
4 2 (3.33%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.67%) 3PAR
5 1 (1.67%) Adobe
5 1 (1.67%) Brocade
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco
5 1 (1.67%) EMC
5 1 (1.67%) HP
5 1 (1.67%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (1.67%) VMware