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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 85 89
Rank change year-on-year +30 +4 0
Contract jobs citing REST 112 41 17
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.92% 2.53% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.00% 8.95% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 32 14
10th Percentile £369 £358 £383
25th Percentile £406 £396 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £500 £549
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% -8.97% +9.86%
75th Percentile £525 £700 £580
90th Percentile £624 £723 £650
England median daily rate £525 £490 £532
% change year-on-year +7.14% -7.81% -7.57%

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 700 458 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.53% 28.25% 25.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 289 277
10th Percentile £382 £362 £381
25th Percentile £432 £406 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -7.27%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £594
90th Percentile £638 £675 £652
England median daily rate £538 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £16.19
Median % change year-on-year - - -63.53%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £63.75
90th Percentile £41.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +3 69 £475 +5.56% 20
West Yorkshire +9 41 £450 -18.18% 38
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 6
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 13 (11.61%) Confluence
2 3 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.89%) Apache
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.89%) CICS
4 1 (0.89%) CMS
4 1 (0.89%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.89%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.89%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.79%) Workfront
3 1 (0.89%) Exstream
Cloud Services
1 42 (37.50%) Azure
2 36 (32.14%) AWS
3 27 (24.11%) GitHub
4 26 (23.21%) GCP
5 15 (13.39%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 8 (7.14%) Serverless
7 6 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (5.36%) Slack
8 5 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.57%) Cloud Run
9 4 (3.57%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.57%) LangSmith
10 3 (2.68%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.79%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.79%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.79%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.79%) HTTP
2 1 (0.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.96%) SQL Server
2 18 (16.07%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.14%) Power BI
4 6 (5.36%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.46%) Redis
6 4 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.68%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.68%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.79%) MySQL
8 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.79%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.89%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.89%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.89%) Db2
9 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.89%) Metadata
9 1 (0.89%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 26 (23.21%) JIRA
2 24 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 15 (13.39%) Git
4 8 (7.14%) GitLab
5 5 (4.46%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.57%) JUnit
6 4 (3.57%) Mockito
6 4 (3.57%) Postman
6 4 (3.57%) Zephyr
7 3 (2.68%) Gatling
8 2 (1.79%) Flyway
8 2 (1.79%) git-flow
8 2 (1.79%) JMeter
8 2 (1.79%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.79%) NeoLoad
8 2 (1.79%) Selenium
9 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.89%) Maven
General
1 26 (23.21%) Finance
2 25 (22.32%) Social Skills
3 20 (17.86%) Banking
4 14 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.04%) Law
6 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.46%) Retail
8 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.79%) Marketing
9 2 (1.79%) Military
10 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.89%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (33.04%) Developer
2 22 (19.64%) Senior
3 13 (11.61%) Lead
4 12 (10.71%) Architect
5 11 (9.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 10 (8.93%) Java Developer
6 10 (8.93%) Senior Developer
7 8 (7.14%) .NET Developer
7 8 (7.14%) IAM Developer
8 7 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Technical Architect
9 6 (5.36%) Java Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Backend Developer
10 4 (3.57%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Python Developer
10 4 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.57%) Test Engineer
11 3 (2.68%) React Developer
11 3 (2.68%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.64%) Kafka
1 22 (19.64%) Spring
2 19 (16.96%) React
2 19 (16.96%) Spring Boot
3 16 (14.29%) .NET
4 13 (11.61%) JSON
5 12 (10.71%) ASP.NET
6 11 (9.82%) RESTful
7 10 (8.93%) .NET Core
7 10 (8.93%) HTML
8 9 (8.04%) Node.js
8 9 (8.04%) SailPoint
8 9 (8.04%) SOAP
9 8 (7.14%) AngularJS
9 8 (7.14%) Web Services
10 7 (6.25%) OpenID
10 7 (6.25%) Terraform
11 6 (5.36%) OAuth
11 6 (5.36%) XML
12 5 (4.46%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 17 (15.18%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (11.61%) Product Ownership
4 12 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (7.14%) AI Agents
6 6 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (4.46%) Autonomous Agent
7 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
7 5 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.68%) Blog
8 3 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.68%) NHS
8 3 (2.68%) PKI
9 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.04%) Windows
2 1 (0.89%) Linux
2 1 (0.89%) Unix
2 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.89%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (55.36%) CI/CD
2 47 (41.96%) DevOps
3 43 (38.39%) Agile
4 40 (35.71%) Microservices
5 33 (29.46%) Test Automation
6 31 (27.68%) Event-Driven
7 28 (25.00%) AI
8 24 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (18.75%) Software Engineering
11 20 (17.86%) Observability
12 18 (16.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 18 (16.07%) RBAC
13 16 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (14.29%) Validation
14 15 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (12.50%) API Integration
15 14 (12.50%) Mentoring
15 14 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
15 14 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 49 (43.75%) Java
2 34 (30.36%) SQL
3 33 (29.46%) Python
4 17 (15.18%) TypeScript
5 15 (13.39%) C#
6 14 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 14 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.14%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.68%) ABAP
8 3 (2.68%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.79%) Bash
9 2 (1.79%) Cypher
9 2 (1.79%) PHP
9 2 (1.79%) PromQL
9 2 (1.79%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.79%) VBA
10 1 (0.89%) Bicep
10 1 (0.89%) COBOL
10 1 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (5.36%) Degree
2 5 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.68%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.68%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.68%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.79%) MBA
4 2 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.07%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.79%) WCAG
4 1 (0.89%) GRC
4 1 (0.89%) HL7
System Software
1 23 (20.54%) Docker
2 10 (8.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (22.32%) Kubernetes
2 17 (15.18%) Ansible
3 6 (5.36%) Grafana
4 4 (3.57%) Kustomize
5 3 (2.68%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.79%) Consul
6 2 (1.79%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.89%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.89%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.89%) WMI
Vendors
1 27 (24.11%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.50%) Google
3 10 (8.93%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.36%) Centrify
4 6 (5.36%) CyberArk
5 5 (4.46%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.57%) Oracle
6 4 (3.57%) SAP
7 3 (2.68%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.68%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.79%) Adobe
8 2 (1.79%) Okta
8 2 (1.79%) Solace
8 2 (1.79%) Splunk
9 1 (0.89%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.89%) Citrix
9 1 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.89%) IBM
9 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.89%) Quadient