REST Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 70 85
Rank change year-on-year +16 +15 +5
Contract jobs citing REST 96 24 19
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.56% 2.13% 1.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.82% 12.37% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 15 13
10th Percentile £363 £361 £375
25th Percentile £409 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £550
90th Percentile £624 £633 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 607 194 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.51% 17.24% 21.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 123 245
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £447 £400 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £568 £550 £600
90th Percentile £629 £620 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 6
10th Percentile £29.55 - £13.25
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £38.19
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +140.12% -38.90%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

REST job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Yorkshire

REST
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing REST

REST
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
South Yorkshire +2 58 £505 +6.32% 4
West Yorkshire -7 36 £457 -8.60% 9
North Yorkshire - 1 £413 - 5
REST
England

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 8 (8.33%) Confluence
2 6 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (3.13%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.04%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.04%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (41.67%) Azure
2 33 (34.38%) AWS
3 27 (28.13%) GCP
4 20 (20.83%) GitHub
5 12 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (10.42%) Serverless
7 9 (9.38%) Entra ID
8 7 (7.29%) SaaS
9 6 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
9 6 (6.25%) Slack
10 5 (5.21%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.17%) Apigee
11 4 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (3.13%) Azure App Service
12 3 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (3.13%) Cloud Run
12 3 (3.13%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) HTTP
2 1 (1.04%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.04%) DHCP
2 1 (1.04%) DNS
2 1 (1.04%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.04%) Network Security
2 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.25%) MySQL
4 5 (5.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 5 (5.21%) Power BI
5 4 (4.17%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.04%) Metadata
8 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.04%) Redis
8 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (36.46%) Jenkins
2 32 (33.33%) JIRA
3 21 (21.88%) GitLab
4 16 (16.67%) Git
5 15 (15.63%) Selenium
6 14 (14.58%) Cucumber
7 13 (13.54%) REST Assured
8 11 (11.46%) Postman
9 6 (6.25%) Gatling
10 5 (5.21%) JMeter
10 5 (5.21%) Liquibase
10 5 (5.21%) TestRail
11 4 (4.17%) JUnit
11 4 (4.17%) LoadRunner
11 4 (4.17%) NeoLoad
12 3 (3.13%) Maven
13 2 (2.08%) git-flow
13 2 (2.08%) Gradle
13 2 (2.08%) Mockito
13 2 (2.08%) SoapUI
General
1 21 (21.88%) Finance
2 19 (19.79%) Banking
3 17 (17.71%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.21%) Law
7 4 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.08%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (26.04%) Developer
2 15 (15.63%) Senior
3 12 (12.50%) Lead
4 11 (11.46%) Architect
5 10 (10.42%) Test Automation Engineer
5 10 (10.42%) Test Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Consultant
8 6 (6.25%) Automation Test Lead
8 6 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Java Developer
8 6 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) IAM Developer
9 5 (5.21%) Oracle Consultant
9 5 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Test Architect
9 5 (5.21%) Test Automation Architect
10 4 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.75%) LDAP
1 18 (18.75%) OpenID
2 17 (17.71%) SailPoint
3 14 (14.58%) .NET
4 11 (11.46%) SOAP
5 10 (10.42%) Spring
6 9 (9.38%) Node.js
6 9 (9.38%) Spring Boot
7 8 (8.33%) Playwright
7 8 (8.33%) React
7 8 (8.33%) RESTful
8 7 (7.29%) Kafka
8 7 (7.29%) OpenAPI
8 7 (7.29%) Swagger
9 6 (6.25%) Web Services
10 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (5.21%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (4.17%) JSON
11 4 (4.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.54%) Cloud Native
1 13 (13.54%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.21%) SCORM
3 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.13%) Learning Management System
4 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.08%) Blog
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.08%) NHS
5 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.04%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.04%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (1.04%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.33%) Windows
2 6 (6.25%) Linux
3 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.08%) Unix
4 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (52.08%) CI/CD
2 46 (47.92%) DevOps
3 38 (39.58%) Agile
4 29 (30.21%) Test Automation
5 20 (20.83%) Event-Driven
6 18 (18.75%) Microservices
7 17 (17.71%) Observability
7 17 (17.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (16.67%) API Testing
8 16 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
8 16 (16.67%) Validation
9 14 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (14.58%) Scenario Testing
9 14 (14.58%) System Integration Testing
10 13 (13.54%) Data Ingestion
10 13 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (13.54%) Software Engineering
10 13 (13.54%) User Acceptance Testing
11 12 (12.50%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (43.75%) Java
2 37 (38.54%) Python
3 28 (29.17%) SQL
4 15 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 14 (14.58%) JavaScript
6 9 (9.38%) C#
6 9 (9.38%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.33%) Bash
8 5 (5.21%) PHP
9 4 (4.17%) Cypher
9 4 (4.17%) Scala
10 3 (3.13%) Go
10 3 (3.13%) Groovy
10 3 (3.13%) Kotlin
10 3 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (2.08%) PromQL
11 2 (2.08%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (2.08%) VBA
12 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.29%) Degree
3 4 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.04%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.54%) QA
2 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.13%) GDPR
3 2 (2.08%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.08%) WCAG
4 1 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.04%) GRC
4 1 (1.04%) SEPA
System Software
1 14 (14.58%) Docker
2 5 (5.21%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (17.71%) Ansible
2 15 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.38%) Terraform
4 8 (8.33%) Grafana
5 6 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.13%) Istio
6 3 (3.13%) NetBackup
6 3 (3.13%) Puppet
7 2 (2.08%) Consul
7 2 (2.08%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 27 (28.13%) ServiceNow
2 19 (19.79%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.46%) Google
4 8 (8.33%) Oracle
5 7 (7.29%) Splunk
6 4 (4.17%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.13%) Dynatrace
7 3 (3.13%) Veritas
8 2 (2.08%) Commvault
8 2 (2.08%) F5
8 2 (2.08%) IBM
8 2 (2.08%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (2.08%) New Relic
8 2 (2.08%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.08%) Solace
9 1 (1.04%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.04%) Okta
9 1 (1.04%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (1.04%) Sitecore