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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 47 66
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 +24
Contract jobs citing REST 28 11 13
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 2.93% 2.11% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.79% 8.80% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 10
10th Percentile £363 £460 £330
25th Percentile £425 £475 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% -14.89% +11.90%
75th Percentile £575 - £734
90th Percentile £700 - £738
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £574 £475
% change year-on-year -17.29% +20.90% -9.52%

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 203 125 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.23% 23.95% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 68 163
10th Percentile £363 £400 £325
25th Percentile £450 £436 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £577 £615
90th Percentile £643 £741 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £102.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - +64.52% -11.43%
Yorkshire median hourly rate £57.25 £102.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -43.87% +353.33% -67.86%

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 5 March 2026.

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 5 March 2026. 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 27 £454 -9.20% 12
Halifax - 2 £375 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) AWS
3 8 (28.57%) GitHub
3 8 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (25.00%) GCP
5 6 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (17.86%) Serverless
7 4 (14.29%) Apigee
7 4 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (10.71%) Azure App Service
8 3 (10.71%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (10.71%) Azure WebJobs
8 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
8 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (10.71%) OCI
8 3 (10.71%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.86%) Git
3 2 (7.14%) JIRA
4 1 (3.57%) GitLab
4 1 (3.57%) Mocha
4 1 (3.57%) Spinnaker
General
1 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Architect
2 5 (17.86%) Consultant
2 5 (17.86%) Oracle Consultant
3 4 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Developer
4 3 (10.71%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Apigee Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Delphi Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Integration Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Management Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) SOAP
2 7 (25.00%) .NET
3 5 (17.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (14.29%) OpenAPI
4 4 (14.29%) Swagger
4 4 (14.29%) Web Services
4 4 (14.29%) XML
5 3 (10.71%) .NET Framework
5 3 (10.71%) JSON
5 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (10.71%) Node.js
6 2 (7.14%) Spring
6 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 2 (7.14%) WebSockets
7 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.57%) CSS
7 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.57%) Jest
7 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) SCORM
2 3 (10.71%) Learning Management System
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) DevOps
2 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
3 9 (32.14%) Agile
4 8 (28.57%) Migration
4 8 (28.57%) Observability
5 7 (25.00%) Analytics
5 7 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 6 (21.43%) Data Protection
6 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (21.43%) Validation
7 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (17.86%) Data Migration
7 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (17.86%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (17.86%) Microservices
7 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
7 5 (17.86%) Scenario Testing
7 5 (17.86%) System Integration Testing
7 5 (17.86%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) C#
2 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (25.00%) Python
3 5 (17.86%) Groovy
3 5 (17.86%) Java
4 4 (14.29%) Bash
4 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.71%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (10.71%) SQL
6 2 (7.14%) Delphi
6 2 (7.14%) PHP
6 2 (7.14%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (7.14%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 4 (14.29%) Istio
3 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.29%) Dynatrace
4 3 (10.71%) Google
4 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
5 2 (7.14%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (7.14%) New Relic
5 2 (7.14%) Splunk
6 1 (3.57%) Cribl.io
6 1 (3.57%) IBM
6 1 (3.57%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (3.57%) Workday
6 1 (3.57%) Zscaler