REST Contracts in Sheffield

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 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 36 43 55
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 -14
Contract jobs citing REST 14 12 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 4.39% 3.17% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.44% 11.54% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 1
10th Percentile £363 £374 -
25th Percentile £385 £381 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £445 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -15.24% +31.25%
75th Percentile £641 £550 £538
90th Percentile £673 £650 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £445 £525
% change year-on-year +23.60% -15.24% +27.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 72 104 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 22.57% 27.44% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 58 55
10th Percentile £359 £388 £413
25th Percentile £400 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -20.83% +24.68%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £700
90th Percentile £711 £647 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £462 £600
% change year-on-year +13.76% -23.08% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.50 -

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for REST in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) SMTP
2 2 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (7.14%) BGP
3 1 (7.14%) EIGRP
3 1 (7.14%) HTTP
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) OSPF
3 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 2 (14.29%) TestNG
3 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.14%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
3 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) pytest
2 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) RAML
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
2 1 (7.14%) XML
2 1 (7.14%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (14.29%) EMC VMAX
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) ITSM
1 9 (64.29%) SIEM
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) BDD
4 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) TDD
4 2 (14.29%) Validation
5 1 (7.14%) API Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (7.14%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) PowerShell
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 2 (14.29%) Puppet
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) vRealize
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco
2 2 (14.29%) 3PAR
2 2 (14.29%) Brocade
2 2 (14.29%) EMC
2 2 (14.29%) HP
2 2 (14.29%) VMware