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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 64 85
Rank change year-on-year +10 +21 +17
Contract jobs citing REST 84 17 28
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.14% 1.88% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.80% 9.66% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 10 15
10th Percentile £400 £495 £330
25th Percentile £450 £512 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £731
90th Percentile £700 £678 £738
England median daily rate £513 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.21% -2.73% -

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 500 176 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.63% 19.51% 21.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 109 282
10th Percentile £368 £400 £360
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £489
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.86% -6.90%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £728 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £54.63 £87.75 £16.94
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £102.00 £24.64
Median % change year-on-year -44.61% +313.96% -64.80%
75th Percentile £60.69 - £53.20
90th Percentile £68.75 - £62.88
England median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.60% +13.64% -15.38%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -20 59 £523 -12.92% 3
West Yorkshire 0 23 £465 -7.00% 18
North Yorkshire - 2 £419 - 3
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 5 (5.95%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 54 (64.29%) AWS
2 53 (63.10%) GCP
3 35 (41.67%) Azure
4 28 (33.33%) Serverless
5 12 (14.29%) GitHub
6 8 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (9.52%) SaaS
7 6 (7.14%) AWS KMS
7 6 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.76%) Apigee
8 4 (4.76%) ChatGPT
8 4 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (3.57%) Akamai
9 3 (3.57%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.57%) Cloudflare
9 3 (3.57%) OCI
9 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.38%) AtomSphere
10 2 (2.38%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) HTTP
2 3 (3.57%) Firewall
2 3 (3.57%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.19%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.19%) DHCP
3 1 (1.19%) DNS
3 1 (1.19%) Network Security
3 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 21 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.95%) MySQL
4 5 (5.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (4.76%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.57%) Power BI
7 2 (2.38%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.38%) DataStage
7 2 (2.38%) DB2
7 2 (2.38%) Metadata
8 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (64.29%) Jenkins
2 42 (50.00%) GitLab
3 25 (29.76%) JIRA
4 20 (23.81%) Liquibase
5 14 (16.67%) Selenium
6 13 (15.48%) Cucumber
6 13 (15.48%) Postman
7 11 (13.10%) REST Assured
8 7 (8.33%) Git
8 7 (8.33%) TestRail
9 4 (4.76%) Gatling
9 4 (4.76%) JMeter
9 4 (4.76%) LoadRunner
9 4 (4.76%) NeoLoad
10 3 (3.57%) Zephyr
11 2 (2.38%) Bitbucket
11 2 (2.38%) Maven
11 2 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (2.38%) SpecFlow
12 1 (1.19%) JUnit
General
1 40 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 36 (42.86%) Finance
3 28 (33.33%) Banking
4 19 (22.62%) Financial Institution
5 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (22.62%) Cloud Engineer
1 19 (22.62%) GCP Engineer
2 18 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 14 (16.67%) Senior
4 12 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
5 11 (13.10%) Architect
6 10 (11.90%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (10.71%) Developer
7 9 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (10.71%) Lead
8 8 (9.52%) Test Automation Engineer
8 8 (9.52%) Test Engineer
9 7 (8.33%) AWS Software Engineer
9 7 (8.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 6 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
11 5 (5.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 5 (5.95%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (5.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.95%) Test Architect
11 5 (5.95%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (30.95%) Elastic Stack
1 26 (30.95%) RESTful
2 16 (19.05%) LDAP
2 16 (19.05%) OpenID
2 16 (19.05%) SailPoint
3 9 (10.71%) .NET
4 8 (9.52%) JSON
4 8 (9.52%) XML
5 6 (7.14%) Playwright
5 6 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 5 (5.95%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (5.95%) SOAP
7 4 (4.76%) OpenAPI
7 4 (4.76%) Swagger
8 3 (3.57%) Node.js
9 2 (2.38%) Spring
9 2 (2.38%) WebSockets
10 1 (1.19%) CSS
10 1 (1.19%) Hibernate
10 1 (1.19%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 26 (30.95%) Cloud Native
1 26 (30.95%) Distributed Systems
1 26 (30.95%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.95%) SCORM
3 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.57%) Learning Management System
3 3 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.38%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.38%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (36.90%) Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (1.19%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.19%) Unix
3 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (76.19%) CI/CD
1 64 (76.19%) DevOps
2 46 (54.76%) Agile
3 33 (39.29%) Containerisation
3 33 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (38.10%) Microservices
5 29 (34.52%) Root Cause Analysis
6 27 (32.14%) Test Automation
7 24 (28.57%) Computer Science
7 24 (28.57%) Cryptography
8 23 (27.38%) Non-Functional Testing
8 23 (27.38%) Software Engineering
9 22 (26.19%) Continuous Integration
9 22 (26.19%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (26.19%) Data Security
9 22 (26.19%) High Availability
10 21 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
10 21 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
11 20 (23.81%) Change Management
12 18 (21.43%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 47 (55.95%) Python
2 28 (33.33%) Java
3 27 (32.14%) Go
4 26 (30.95%) SQL
5 11 (13.10%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.71%) Groovy
7 7 (8.33%) Bash
7 7 (8.33%) C#
7 7 (8.33%) PHP
8 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.76%) Cypher
9 4 (4.76%) Scala
9 4 (4.76%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.38%) Delphi
10 2 (2.38%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.38%) XPath
11 1 (1.19%) Bicep
11 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (33.33%) Degree
2 24 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (28.57%) Master's Degree
3 7 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.57%) CEH
6 3 (3.57%) GIAC
6 3 (3.57%) GWAPT
6 3 (3.57%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) QA
2 3 (3.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (34.52%) Docker
2 5 (5.95%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 34 (40.48%) Kubernetes
2 32 (38.10%) Ansible
2 32 (38.10%) Terraform
3 26 (30.95%) Grafana
3 26 (30.95%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.76%) Istio
5 2 (2.38%) Puppet
6 1 (1.19%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (30.95%) Splunk
2 22 (26.19%) Google
3 18 (21.43%) ServiceNow
4 9 (10.71%) Oracle
5 6 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.76%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.76%) F5
6 4 (4.76%) OpenAI
7 3 (3.57%) Imperva
8 2 (2.38%) Informatica
8 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.19%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.19%) Commvault
9 1 (1.19%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.19%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (1.19%) Workday
9 1 (1.19%) Zscaler