REST Contracts in South Yorkshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 48 50
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing REST 18 14 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.87% 3.01% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.53% 13.59% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 1
10th Percentile £335 £375 -
25th Percentile £358 £423 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £387 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -29.64% -21.43% +40.00%
75th Percentile £440 £615 -
90th Percentile £500 £650 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £393 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -28.55% +10.00% -

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 133 103 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 21.18% 22.15% 17.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 66 65
10th Percentile £345 £453 £388
25th Percentile £384 £487 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £552 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% -4.00% +19.17%
75th Percentile £525 £622 £688
90th Percentile £612 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £531
% change year-on-year -13.64% +3.53% +6.25%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in South Yorkshire

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for REST in South Yorkshire

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 August 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 15 August 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 -9 18 £387 -29.64% 7
REST
Yorkshire

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 9 (50.00%) GCP
2 7 (38.89%) Serverless
3 4 (22.22%) npm
4 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.11%) Azure
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (5.56%) BGP
2 1 (5.56%) EIGRP
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) OSPF
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) Jenkins
2 7 (38.89%) GitLab
2 7 (38.89%) Liquibase
3 6 (33.33%) Git
4 5 (27.78%) JIRA
5 4 (22.22%) Babel
5 4 (22.22%) webpack
6 3 (16.67%) Postman
7 2 (11.11%) Selenium
7 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
7 2 (11.11%) TestNG
8 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
8 1 (5.56%) JUnit
8 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
8 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (72.22%) Finance
2 11 (61.11%) Banking
3 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (33.33%) Financial Institution
5 3 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Python Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Angular Developer
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) React Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) RESTful
2 7 (38.89%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (27.78%) CSS
3 5 (27.78%) CSS3
3 5 (27.78%) HTML
3 5 (27.78%) HTML5
4 4 (22.22%) React
4 4 (22.22%) Redux
5 3 (16.67%) Bootstrap
5 3 (16.67%) Jest
5 3 (16.67%) lodash
6 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
6 2 (11.11%) DOM
6 2 (11.11%) Express.js
6 2 (11.11%) MEAN Stack
6 2 (11.11%) NestJS
6 2 (11.11%) NgRx
6 2 (11.11%) Node.js
6 2 (11.11%) pytest
6 2 (11.11%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Cloud Native
2 5 (27.78%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (27.78%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 2 (11.11%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 11 (61.11%) Agile
2 11 (61.11%) DevOps
3 10 (55.56%) Containerisation
4 9 (50.00%) Microservices
5 8 (44.44%) Computer Science
5 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure Automation
6 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
7 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (33.33%) Data Security
7 6 (33.33%) High Availability
7 6 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
8 5 (27.78%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (27.78%) Cost Optimisation
8 5 (27.78%) Non-Functional Testing
8 5 (27.78%) TDD
8 5 (27.78%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) Go
3 5 (27.78%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) Bash
5 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (44.44%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Certification
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Master's Degree
3 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
2 3 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Ansible
1 11 (61.11%) Terraform
2 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 7 (38.89%) Grafana
3 7 (38.89%) Prometheus
4 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 2 (11.11%) Puppet
4 2 (11.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Splunk
2 5 (27.78%) Google
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) 3PAR
4 2 (11.11%) Brocade
4 2 (11.11%) EMC
4 2 (11.11%) HP
4 2 (11.11%) VMware
5 1 (5.56%) AppDynamics