RESTful Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

RESTful
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring RESTful skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 40 44
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing RESTful 45 12 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 7.06% 2.98% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.57% 14.63% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 8 1
10th Percentile £337 £498 -
25th Percentile £372 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £534 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.97% +12.32% +58.33%
75th Percentile £525 £584 £488
90th Percentile £644 £615 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £534 £475
% change year-on-year -10.97% +12.32% +58.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 176 82 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 27.63% 20.35% 24.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 56 61
10th Percentile £350 £463 £375
25th Percentile £404 £500 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +9.86% -
75th Percentile £538 £606 £650
90th Percentile £675 £650 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% -

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RESTful relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

RESTful job vacancy trend in Sheffield

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing RESTful.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing RESTful

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in Sheffield over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in Sheffield

RESTful
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 33 (73.33%) AWS
1 33 (73.33%) GCP
2 31 (68.89%) Serverless
3 6 (13.33%) AWS KMS
4 4 (8.89%) Azure
5 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.22%) CloudBees
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (73.33%) NoSQL
2 16 (35.56%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (71.11%) GitLab
1 32 (71.11%) Jenkins
2 23 (51.11%) Liquibase
3 9 (20.00%) Git
4 4 (8.89%) Android Studio
4 4 (8.89%) Gradle
5 3 (6.67%) CocoaPods
5 3 (6.67%) Xcode
6 2 (4.44%) JIRA
6 2 (4.44%) JUnit
6 2 (4.44%) Selenium
6 2 (4.44%) TestNG
General
1 33 (73.33%) Finance
2 28 (62.22%) Banking
2 28 (62.22%) Social Skills
3 25 (55.56%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 14 (31.11%) GCP Engineer
4 12 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (22.22%) Senior
5 10 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (20.00%) Developer
7 8 (17.78%) AWS Software Engineer
8 7 (15.56%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 5 (11.11%) GCP Software Engineer
9 5 (11.11%) Python Engineer
10 4 (8.89%) Android Developer
10 4 (8.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (6.67%) iOS Developer
12 2 (4.44%) Angular Developer
12 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
12 2 (4.44%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (71.11%) REST
2 31 (68.89%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (15.56%) JSON
4 3 (6.67%) CSS
4 3 (6.67%) HTML
5 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.44%) CSS3
5 2 (4.44%) Express.js
5 2 (4.44%) Hibernate
5 2 (4.44%) HTML5
5 2 (4.44%) MEAN Stack
5 2 (4.44%) NestJS
5 2 (4.44%) NgRx
5 2 (4.44%) Node.js
5 2 (4.44%) Sass
5 2 (4.44%) Spring
6 1 (2.22%) .NET
6 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.22%) Compass CSS Framework
6 1 (2.22%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 29 (64.44%) Distributed Systems
1 29 (64.44%) Public Cloud
2 23 (51.11%) Cloud Native
3 7 (15.56%) Mobile App
4 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 31 (68.89%) Linux
2 4 (8.89%) Android
3 3 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (97.78%) DevOps
2 38 (84.44%) Agile
3 36 (80.00%) CI/CD
4 33 (73.33%) Containerisation
4 33 (73.33%) Microservices
5 31 (68.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (64.44%) Root Cause Analysis
7 28 (62.22%) Computer Science
7 28 (62.22%) Cryptography
8 27 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
8 27 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
9 26 (57.78%) Continuous Delivery
10 25 (55.56%) High Availability
11 23 (51.11%) Cost Optimisation
11 23 (51.11%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (51.11%) Data Security
11 23 (51.11%) Software Engineering
12 20 (44.44%) Change Management
13 19 (42.22%) Data Encryption
13 19 (42.22%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (75.56%) Python
2 30 (66.67%) Go
3 15 (33.33%) Java
4 6 (13.33%) SQL
5 4 (8.89%) Kotlin
6 3 (6.67%) Objective-C
6 3 (6.67%) Swift
7 2 (4.44%) Bash
7 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.22%) C#
8 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 28 (62.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 28 (62.22%) Degree
1 28 (62.22%) Master's Degree
2 11 (24.44%) AWS Certification
3 8 (17.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (8.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) ISTQB
6 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) QA
System Software
1 25 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (73.33%) Ansible
1 33 (73.33%) Kubernetes
1 33 (73.33%) Terraform
2 31 (68.89%) Grafana
2 31 (68.89%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.22%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 31 (68.89%) Splunk
2 18 (40.00%) Google
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.22%) Commvault
5 1 (2.22%) GoldenSource
5 1 (2.22%) Veritas