REST Contracts in the North West

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 82 81 77
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 -12
Contract jobs citing REST 41 52 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.09% 1.91% 2.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.72% 10.61% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 48 65
10th Percentile £363 £360 £463
25th Percentile £400 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £590 £586
90th Percentile £603 £661 £627
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 422 490 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 21.50% 18.03% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 352 447
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £545 £598 £575
90th Percentile £636 £750 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 20 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £37.76
25th Percentile - £45.88 £37.77
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -42.01%
75th Percentile £79.38 £72.03 £44.78
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.15 £45.62
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for REST in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +8 25 £469 -10.71% 75
Cheshire -4 10 £401 +14.57% 9
Cumbria +4 1 - -
Lancashire - 1 £650 - 29
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (17.07%) JBoss
1 7 (17.07%) Tomcat
2 5 (12.20%) WebSphere
3 4 (9.76%) NetWeaver
3 4 (9.76%) WebLogic
4 3 (7.32%) CMS
5 2 (4.88%) CICS
6 1 (2.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (2.44%) Apache
6 1 (2.44%) Confluence
6 1 (2.44%) Headless CMS
6 1 (2.44%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Kondor
2 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (46.34%) AWS
2 14 (34.15%) Azure
3 5 (12.20%) GCP
4 4 (9.76%) dbt
4 4 (9.76%) Serverless
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.88%) GitHub
6 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.44%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.44%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.44%) Contentful
7 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.44%) Slack
7 1 (2.44%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) SQL Server
2 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
3 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (9.76%) Airbyte
4 4 (9.76%) DB2
5 2 (4.88%) Easytrieve
5 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.88%) MySQL
5 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Git
2 5 (12.20%) Babel
2 5 (12.20%) Bitbucket
2 5 (12.20%) JIRA
2 5 (12.20%) webpack
3 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.32%) Maven
4 2 (4.88%) Gradle
4 2 (4.88%) JUnit
4 2 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.44%) Hudson
5 1 (2.44%) JMeter
5 1 (2.44%) Postman
5 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.44%) Selenium
General
1 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 13 (31.71%) Finance
3 11 (26.83%) Banking
4 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Back Office
5 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) Developer
2 6 (14.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 6 (14.63%) JavaScript Developer
2 6 (14.63%) Senior
3 5 (12.20%) Architect
3 5 (12.20%) React Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Data Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Integration Developer
4 4 (9.76%) SAP Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Scrum Master
4 4 (9.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.88%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Designer
6 2 (4.88%) ForgeRock Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Mainframe Designer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Integration Architect
7 1 (2.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (46.34%) SOAP
2 10 (24.39%) CSS
2 10 (24.39%) HTML
2 10 (24.39%) React
3 9 (21.95%) RESTful
4 8 (19.51%) .NET
4 8 (19.51%) HTML5
5 7 (17.07%) Spring
5 7 (17.07%) Web Services
6 6 (14.63%) Spring Boot
7 5 (12.20%) JSP
7 5 (12.20%) Middleware
7 5 (12.20%) RAML
7 5 (12.20%) Servlets
8 4 (9.76%) EJB
8 4 (9.76%) IDoc
8 4 (9.76%) J2EE
8 4 (9.76%) JMS
8 4 (9.76%) SAP PI
8 4 (9.76%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Derivative
1 7 (17.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (14.63%) Product Ownership
3 5 (12.20%) Private Cloud
4 3 (7.32%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (7.32%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.88%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (4.88%) Mainframe
5 2 (4.88%) Market Risk
5 2 (4.88%) VSAM
6 1 (2.44%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.95%) Linux
1 9 (21.95%) Unix
2 3 (7.32%) Android
2 3 (7.32%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) Agile
2 11 (26.83%) API Development
2 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (26.83%) SDLC
3 9 (21.95%) Scrum
4 8 (19.51%) Front End Development
4 8 (19.51%) Risk Management
5 6 (14.63%) Code Quality
6 5 (12.20%) B2B
6 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
6 5 (12.20%) Open Source
7 4 (9.76%) Analytics
7 4 (9.76%) Budget Control
7 4 (9.76%) DevOps
7 4 (9.76%) ETL
7 4 (9.76%) Microservices
7 4 (9.76%) Migration
7 4 (9.76%) RDF
7 4 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (9.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) Java
1 14 (34.15%) JavaScript
2 12 (29.27%) Python
2 12 (29.27%) SQL
3 4 (9.76%) ABAP
3 4 (9.76%) SPARQL
3 4 (9.76%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.88%) C#
4 2 (4.88%) COBOL
4 2 (4.88%) JCL
4 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.44%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) Basel III
1 7 (17.07%) MiFID
2 2 (4.88%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (34.15%) Oracle
2 12 (29.27%) Microsoft
3 7 (17.07%) Sybase
4 4 (9.76%) SAP
5 2 (4.88%) ForgeRock
5 2 (4.88%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.44%) Adobe
6 1 (2.44%) IBM
6 1 (2.44%) Okta
6 1 (2.44%) Ping Identity
6 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.44%) Virgin Media