RESTful Contracts in the North West

RESTful
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 82 64 124
Rank change year-on-year -18 +60 -8
Contract jobs citing RESTful 38 74 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.93% 2.69% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.70% 14.71% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 63 20
10th Percentile £358 £385 £358
25th Percentile £389 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% +3.26% -0.54%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £564
90th Percentile £537 £625 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.21% 18.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £337
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful 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 RESTful in the North West.

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the North West

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for RESTful 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 RESTful in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for RESTful 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 RESTful within the North West 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
Manchester -22 25 £450 -5.26% 79
Cheshire - 9 £384 - 19
Lancashire -2 1 £775 +24.00% 21
Merseyside - 1 £475 - 8
RESTful
England

RESTful
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 3 (7.89%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.63%) Apache
2 1 (2.63%) CMS
2 1 (2.63%) JBoss
2 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.63%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 19 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (23.68%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) Serverless
3 8 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon Glacier
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.53%) Apigee
5 4 (10.53%) GCP
5 4 (10.53%) GitHub
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.26%) Slack
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (18.42%) MongoDB
3 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 5 (13.16%) DynamoDB
4 5 (13.16%) NoSQL
5 4 (10.53%) ObjectStore
6 3 (7.89%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (7.89%) GIS
6 3 (7.89%) MySQL
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) Jenkins
2 9 (23.68%) Git
3 8 (21.05%) GitLab
4 7 (18.42%) JIRA
5 5 (13.16%) Babel
5 5 (13.16%) webpack
6 4 (10.53%) CircleCI
6 4 (10.53%) Jasmine
7 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
8 2 (5.26%) Cypress.io
8 2 (5.26%) JUnit
8 2 (5.26%) Mocha
9 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.63%) Gatling
9 1 (2.63%) Hudson
9 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
1 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Finance
5 1 (2.63%) Billing
5 1 (2.63%) Legal
5 1 (2.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (57.89%) Developer
2 12 (31.58%) Senior
3 10 (26.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 8 (21.05%) JavaScript Developer
5 7 (18.42%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (15.79%) Architect
7 5 (13.16%) React Developer
7 5 (13.16%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
8 4 (10.53%) Java Developer
8 4 (10.53%) Senior Developer
8 4 (10.53%) Software Developer
8 4 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (7.89%) Python Engineer
9 3 (7.89%) Python Software Engineer
10 2 (5.26%) AWS Architect
10 2 (5.26%) AWS Solution Architect
10 2 (5.26%) Java Architect
10 2 (5.26%) Java Solutions Architect
10 2 (5.26%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (44.74%) React
2 11 (28.95%) AngularJS
2 11 (28.95%) CSS
2 11 (28.95%) HTML
3 10 (26.32%) Node.js
4 9 (23.68%) .NET
4 9 (23.68%) Kafka
4 9 (23.68%) REST
5 7 (18.42%) HTML5
5 7 (18.42%) Spring
6 5 (13.16%) OpenAPI
6 5 (13.16%) Spring Boot
6 5 (13.16%) Swagger
7 4 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (7.89%) GraphQL
8 3 (7.89%) OAuth
9 2 (5.26%) Jest
9 2 (5.26%) NestJS
9 2 (5.26%) Playwright
9 2 (5.26%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (52.63%) CI/CD
1 20 (52.63%) Containerisation
2 19 (50.00%) Agile
3 18 (47.37%) Microservices
4 15 (39.47%) Front End Development
5 13 (34.21%) Test Automation
6 11 (28.95%) API Development
6 11 (28.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (23.68%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (23.68%) SDLC
8 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (18.42%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (18.42%) Event-Driven
9 7 (18.42%) Software Engineering
9 7 (18.42%) TDD
10 6 (15.79%) Code Quality
11 5 (13.16%) B2B
11 5 (13.16%) Digital Twin
11 5 (13.16%) Unit Testing
11 5 (13.16%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) Java
2 14 (36.84%) JavaScript
2 14 (36.84%) TypeScript
3 12 (31.58%) SQL
4 10 (26.32%) Python
5 4 (10.53%) Bash
6 3 (7.89%) C#
7 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.26%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (44.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Grafana
2 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) Google
2 6 (15.79%) Oracle
3 2 (5.26%) Mapbox
3 2 (5.26%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.63%) Adobe
4 1 (2.63%) IBM