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 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 90 126
Rank change year-on-year +2 +36 -11
Contract jobs citing RESTful 37 46 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.88% 1.68% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.83% 9.33% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 39 16
10th Percentile £350 £370 £348
25th Percentile £365 £431 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £470
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -1.60% -6.00%
75th Percentile £472 £518 £597
90th Percentile £537 - £638
England median daily rate £488 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -2.50% -16.67% +10.09%

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 419 493 555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 21.28% 17.99% 18.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 349 441
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% - -4.08%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £575
90th Percentile £636 £750 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
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 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.81%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the North West

RESTful
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 6 June 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 0 22 £413 -12.00% 84
Cheshire -4 12 £368 -1.08% 13
Lancashire - 1 £775 - 12
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 2 (5.41%) JBoss
1 2 (5.41%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 19 (51.35%) AWS
2 10 (27.03%) Serverless
3 9 (24.32%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (24.32%) Azure
4 5 (13.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (13.51%) Apigee
4 5 (13.51%) GCP
4 5 (13.51%) GitHub
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon Glacier
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) MongoDB
1 6 (16.22%) NoSQL
2 5 (13.51%) DynamoDB
3 4 (10.81%) ObjectStore
4 3 (8.11%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (8.11%) GIS
4 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.70%) MySQL
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Jenkins
2 9 (24.32%) GitLab
3 7 (18.92%) Git
3 7 (18.92%) JIRA
4 5 (13.51%) Babel
4 5 (13.51%) CircleCI
4 5 (13.51%) webpack
5 3 (8.11%) Cypress.io
6 2 (5.41%) Jasmine
6 2 (5.41%) Mocha
7 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.70%) Gatling
7 1 (2.70%) Gradle
7 1 (2.70%) Hudson
7 1 (2.70%) JUnit
7 1 (2.70%) Maven
7 1 (2.70%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Finance
5 1 (2.70%) Billing
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) Developer
2 10 (27.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (24.32%) JavaScript Developer
3 9 (24.32%) Senior
4 8 (21.62%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (16.22%) Architect
5 6 (16.22%) React Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Java Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Software Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 2 (5.41%) AWS Architect
8 2 (5.41%) AWS Solution Architect
8 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (5.41%) GIS Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (51.35%) React
2 12 (32.43%) Node.js
3 11 (29.73%) AngularJS
3 11 (29.73%) CSS
3 11 (29.73%) HTML
4 10 (27.03%) REST
5 9 (24.32%) .NET
6 7 (18.92%) HTML5
7 6 (16.22%) Kafka
7 6 (16.22%) Spring
8 5 (13.51%) Spring Boot
9 4 (10.81%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (10.81%) GraphQL
9 4 (10.81%) OAuth
10 3 (8.11%) NestJS
10 3 (8.11%) Playwright
10 3 (8.11%) Puppeteer
10 3 (8.11%) Web Services
11 2 (5.41%) Jest
11 2 (5.41%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.81%) Public Cloud
3 3 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Agile
2 16 (43.24%) CI/CD
2 16 (43.24%) Containerisation
2 16 (43.24%) Microservices
3 15 (40.54%) Front End Development
4 12 (32.43%) API Development
4 12 (32.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (32.43%) Test Automation
5 9 (24.32%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (24.32%) SDLC
6 7 (18.92%) Event-Driven
6 7 (18.92%) Software Engineering
7 6 (16.22%) Code Quality
7 6 (16.22%) TDD
7 6 (16.22%) User Experience
8 5 (13.51%) B2B
8 5 (13.51%) DevOps
8 5 (13.51%) Digital Twin
8 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) Java
2 16 (43.24%) JavaScript
3 13 (35.14%) TypeScript
4 8 (21.62%) Python
4 8 (21.62%) SQL
5 3 (8.11%) Bash
5 3 (8.11%) C#
6 1 (2.70%) Scala
6 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.41%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (32.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Terraform
3 3 (8.11%) Grafana
3 3 (8.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.92%) Google
3 4 (10.81%) Oracle
4 3 (8.11%) PagerDuty
5 2 (5.41%) Mapbox
6 1 (2.70%) Adobe
6 1 (2.70%) IBM
6 1 (2.70%) Ping Identity