REST Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 64 58
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +29
Contract jobs citing REST 15 3 21
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.63% 0.43% 1.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.94% 1.79% 8.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 18
10th Percentile £424 - £330
25th Percentile £453 - £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -
75th Percentile £700 - £681
90th Percentile £703 - £738
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £579 £500
% change year-on-year -17.96% +15.80% -9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 216 168 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 23.53% 23.90% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 99 194
10th Percentile £375 £424 £363
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £591 £600
90th Percentile £675 £740 £663
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £35.91 £30.30
25th Percentile - £66.95 £35.59
Median hourly rate - £96.21 £44.39
Median % change year-on-year - +116.73% -36.59%
75th Percentile - £102.00 £53.20
90th Percentile - - £58.48
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 West Yorkshire

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

REST job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

REST
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in West Yorkshire

REST
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing REST.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing REST

REST
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Leeds -3 14 £500 - 8
REST
Yorkshire

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Serverless
3 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (33.33%) GitHub
3 5 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (20.00%) GCP
5 3 (20.00%) Slack
6 2 (13.33%) AtomSphere
6 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
6 2 (13.33%) Boomi
6 2 (13.33%) SaaS
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (6.67%) Apigee
7 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Storage
7 1 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (6.67%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 3 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) Mocha
3 1 (6.67%) Spinnaker
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Legal
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
1 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Delphi Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Integration Developer
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (6.67%) PHP Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Node.js
2 4 (26.67%) SOAP
3 3 (20.00%) JSON
3 3 (20.00%) React
4 2 (13.33%) .NET
4 2 (13.33%) Spring
4 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (13.33%) WebSockets
4 2 (13.33%) XML
5 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
5 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
5 1 (6.67%) J2EE
5 1 (6.67%) Jest
5 1 (6.67%) JPA
5 1 (6.67%) JWT
5 1 (6.67%) OpenAPI
5 1 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Code
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Mac OS X
3 1 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) Microservices
4 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (20.00%) Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Architectural Design
7 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
7 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven
7 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
7 2 (13.33%) SDLC
7 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
7 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) C#
1 5 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) Delphi
4 2 (13.33%) Groovy
4 2 (13.33%) PHP
4 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (13.33%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
5 1 (6.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) GCIH
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (6.67%) Darktrace
2 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) IBM
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Zscaler