REST Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Representational State Transfer (REST)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring REST skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 25 27
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing REST 5 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.22% 1.65% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.20% 9.38% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £275 £342 -
25th Percentile £425 £389 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -15.79% -2.98%
75th Percentile £488 £584 £628
90th Percentile £540 £639 £656
North East median daily rate £450 £480 £570
% change year-on-year -6.25% -15.79% -2.98%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 41 32 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 18.22% 17.58% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 19 38
10th Percentile £322 £341 £380
25th Percentile £409 £408 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £501 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% -16.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £503 £598 £709
90th Percentile £575 £655 £720
North East median daily rate £465 £450 £585
% change year-on-year +3.33% -23.08% +6.36%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Tyne and Wear

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Tyne and Wear

REST
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -3 4 £463 -3.65% 6
REST
North East

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (20.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) OpenAPI
1 4 (80.00%) Swagger
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware
2 2 (40.00%) Next.js
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) GatsbyJS
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) Playwright
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) WireMock
3 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Design Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Fintech
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) UML
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes