REST Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 37 45
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +4
Contract jobs citing REST 58 9 9
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 7.56% 2.65% 2.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.98% 18.37% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 7 3
10th Percentile £371 £500 £460
25th Percentile £425 £524 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £579 £700
Median % change year-on-year -17.96% -17.29% +40.00%
75th Percentile £530 £615 £963
90th Percentile £700 £660 £1,120
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £579 £500
% change year-on-year -17.96% +15.80% -4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 215 49 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 28.03% 14.41% 27.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 35 88
10th Percentile £358 £461 £397
25th Percentile £410 £517 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £588 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.30% +23.68% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £591
90th Percentile £675 £714 £706
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £96.21 £24.64
% change year-on-year -41.27% +290.45% -64.80%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

REST job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

REST
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in South Yorkshire

REST
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Sheffield +1 58 £475 -17.96% 7
REST
Yorkshire

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 46 (79.31%) AWS
2 45 (77.59%) GCP
3 30 (51.72%) Serverless
4 18 (31.03%) Azure
5 6 (10.34%) AWS KMS
5 6 (10.34%) SaaS
6 4 (6.90%) GitHub
6 4 (6.90%) npm
7 3 (5.17%) Akamai
7 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.17%) Cloudflare
7 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.45%) ChatGPT
8 2 (3.45%) Collibra
9 1 (1.72%) Cohesity
9 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.72%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) Firewall
1 3 (5.17%) HTTP
1 3 (5.17%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (55.17%) NoSQL
2 18 (31.03%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.62%) MySQL
3 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.17%) Power BI
5 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.45%) DataStage
5 2 (3.45%) DB2
5 2 (3.45%) Metadata
5 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (77.59%) Jenkins
2 38 (65.52%) GitLab
3 25 (43.10%) Liquibase
4 14 (24.14%) JIRA
5 10 (17.24%) Postman
6 8 (13.79%) Selenium
7 7 (12.07%) Cucumber
7 7 (12.07%) REST Assured
8 5 (8.62%) TestRail
9 4 (6.90%) Babel
9 4 (6.90%) webpack
10 3 (5.17%) Git
11 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
11 2 (3.45%) Maven
11 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
11 2 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
12 1 (1.72%) Gradle
12 1 (1.72%) JUnit
12 1 (1.72%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (68.97%) Finance
2 39 (67.24%) Social Skills
3 36 (62.07%) Banking
4 25 (43.10%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (29.31%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (27.59%) Software Engineer
3 15 (25.86%) GCP Engineer
4 12 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (18.97%) Senior
5 11 (18.97%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (13.79%) AWS Software Engineer
8 7 (12.07%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 6 (10.34%) Developer
9 6 (10.34%) Python Engineer
10 5 (8.62%) GCP Software Engineer
10 5 (8.62%) Lead
10 5 (8.62%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (8.62%) Test Engineer
11 4 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 3 (5.17%) Automation Test Lead
12 3 (5.17%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (55.17%) RESTful
2 30 (51.72%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (13.79%) LDAP
3 8 (13.79%) OpenID
3 8 (13.79%) SailPoint
4 5 (8.62%) .NET
4 5 (8.62%) CSS
4 5 (8.62%) CSS3
4 5 (8.62%) HTML
4 5 (8.62%) HTML5
5 4 (6.90%) React
5 4 (6.90%) Redux
6 3 (5.17%) Bootstrap
6 3 (5.17%) Jest
6 3 (5.17%) JSON
6 3 (5.17%) lodash
6 3 (5.17%) XML
7 2 (3.45%) DOM
7 2 (3.45%) Node.js
7 2 (3.45%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 30 (51.72%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (50.00%) Public Cloud
3 25 (43.10%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.17%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.45%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 32 (55.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (84.48%) DevOps
2 48 (82.76%) CI/CD
3 38 (65.52%) Agile
4 34 (58.62%) Containerisation
5 33 (56.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (55.17%) Microservices
6 32 (55.17%) Root Cause Analysis
7 30 (51.72%) Computer Science
8 28 (48.28%) Cryptography
9 27 (46.55%) Cybersecurity
9 27 (46.55%) Non-Functional Testing
10 26 (44.83%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (44.83%) Data Security
10 26 (44.83%) High Availability
11 25 (43.10%) Continuous Delivery
12 24 (41.38%) Cost Optimisation
12 24 (41.38%) Software Engineering
13 22 (37.93%) Change Management
14 20 (34.48%) Infrastructure Automation
15 19 (32.76%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 41 (70.69%) Python
2 32 (55.17%) Go
3 19 (32.76%) SQL
4 18 (31.03%) Java
5 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.62%) PHP
7 4 (6.90%) Groovy
8 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.72%) Bash
Qualifications
1 31 (53.45%) Degree
2 30 (51.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (48.28%) Master's Degree
4 11 (18.97%) AWS Certification
5 8 (13.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
7 3 (5.17%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (5.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) CEH
7 3 (5.17%) GIAC
7 3 (5.17%) GWAPT
8 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (51.72%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 35 (60.34%) Kubernetes
1 35 (60.34%) Terraform
2 34 (58.62%) Ansible
3 31 (53.45%) Prometheus
4 30 (51.72%) Grafana
5 2 (3.45%) Puppet
6 1 (1.72%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (53.45%) Splunk
2 18 (31.03%) Google
3 8 (13.79%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.17%) F5
5 3 (5.17%) Imperva
6 2 (3.45%) AppDynamics
6 2 (3.45%) Informatica
6 2 (3.45%) OpenAI
6 2 (3.45%) Oracle
7 1 (1.72%) Commvault
7 1 (1.72%) Red Hat