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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 82 89
Rank change year-on-year +25 +7 0
Contract jobs citing REST 111 38 15
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.82% 2.45% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.29% 9.00% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 30 12
10th Percentile £353 £357 £378
25th Percentile £406 £384 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £461 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -16.13% +10.00%
75th Percentile £519 £566 £598
90th Percentile £600 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -8.70%

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 726 422 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 25.02% 27.17% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 267 274
10th Percentile £381 £360 £381
25th Percentile £428 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £598
90th Percentile £638 £675 £655
England median daily rate £534 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.99% -5.73% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £16.19
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.54%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 67 £475 +5.56% 10
West Yorkshire +6 41 £450 -18.18% 33
North Yorkshire - 2 £413 - 4
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 12 (10.81%) Confluence
2 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.90%) Apache
4 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.90%) CICS
4 1 (0.90%) CMS
4 1 (0.90%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.90%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.90%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.90%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.90%) Exstream
2 1 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (36.94%) Azure
2 35 (31.53%) AWS
3 27 (24.32%) GitHub
4 26 (23.42%) GCP
5 14 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (8.11%) Serverless
7 8 (7.21%) Power Platform
8 6 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.41%) Slack
9 5 (4.50%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.60%) Cloud Run
10 4 (3.60%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.60%) LangSmith
11 3 (2.70%) Figma
11 3 (2.70%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.80%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.80%) HTTP
2 1 (0.90%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.32%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (14.41%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.21%) Power BI
4 6 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.50%) Redis
6 4 (3.60%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.70%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.80%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.80%) MySQL
8 2 (1.80%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.80%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.90%) Apache Arrow
9 1 (0.90%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.90%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.90%) Db2
9 1 (0.90%) Metadata
9 1 (0.90%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 26 (23.42%) JIRA
2 24 (21.62%) Jenkins
3 18 (16.22%) Git
4 10 (9.01%) GitLab
5 5 (4.50%) Postman
5 5 (4.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.60%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.60%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.60%) Gatling
6 4 (3.60%) JUnit
6 4 (3.60%) Zephyr
7 3 (2.70%) JMeter
7 3 (2.70%) Mockito
7 3 (2.70%) Selenium
8 2 (1.80%) Flyway
8 2 (1.80%) git-flow
8 2 (1.80%) Gradle
8 2 (1.80%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.80%) NeoLoad
8 2 (1.80%) REST Assured
General
1 26 (23.42%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.52%) Finance
3 21 (18.92%) Banking
4 14 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.21%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.31%) Law
7 5 (4.50%) Retail
8 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.80%) Military
10 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.90%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (32.43%) Developer
2 20 (18.02%) Senior
3 11 (9.91%) Architect
3 11 (9.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 11 (9.91%) Lead
4 9 (8.11%) Java Developer
4 9 (8.11%) Senior Developer
5 8 (7.21%) .NET Developer
5 8 (7.21%) IAM Developer
5 8 (7.21%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.31%) Technical Architect
7 6 (5.41%) Java Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Test Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Backend Developer
9 4 (3.60%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Python Developer
9 4 (3.60%) React Developer
9 4 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.60%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (21.62%) Kafka
2 22 (19.82%) Spring
3 20 (18.02%) React
4 19 (17.12%) Spring Boot
5 15 (13.51%) .NET
6 11 (9.91%) ASP.NET
6 11 (9.91%) HTML
6 11 (9.91%) SOAP
7 10 (9.01%) JSON
7 10 (9.01%) SailPoint
8 9 (8.11%) .NET Core
8 9 (8.11%) Node.js
8 9 (8.11%) OpenID
8 9 (8.11%) RESTful
9 8 (7.21%) OAuth
9 8 (7.21%) Terraform
9 8 (7.21%) Web Services
10 7 (6.31%) AngularJS
10 7 (6.31%) LDAP
10 7 (6.31%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.02%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.51%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (12.61%) Product Ownership
4 11 (9.91%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (7.21%) AI Agents
6 6 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (4.50%) Autonomous Agent
7 5 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.60%) NHS
8 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.70%) Blog
9 3 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.70%) PKI
10 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.21%) Windows
2 1 (0.90%) Linux
2 1 (0.90%) Unix
2 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.90%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (54.95%) CI/CD
2 46 (41.44%) DevOps
3 45 (40.54%) Agile
4 38 (34.23%) Microservices
5 35 (31.53%) Test Automation
6 32 (28.83%) Event-Driven
7 25 (22.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 24 (21.62%) AI
9 23 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (19.82%) Observability
10 22 (19.82%) Software Engineering
11 20 (18.02%) RBAC
12 19 (17.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 18 (16.22%) Validation
14 17 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
16 14 (12.61%) API Integration
16 14 (12.61%) Code Quality
16 14 (12.61%) Integration Patterns
16 14 (12.61%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (44.14%) Java
2 33 (29.73%) SQL
3 32 (28.83%) Python
4 16 (14.41%) TypeScript
5 14 (12.61%) C#
5 14 (12.61%) JavaScript
6 11 (9.91%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.21%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.70%) ABAP
8 3 (2.70%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.80%) Cypher
9 2 (1.80%) PromQL
9 2 (1.80%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.80%) VBA
10 1 (0.90%) Bash
10 1 (0.90%) Bicep
10 1 (0.90%) COBOL
10 1 (0.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (3.60%) Degree
1 4 (3.60%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.70%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.41%) QA
2 5 (4.50%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.60%) WCAG
4 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.80%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.90%) GRC
5 1 (0.90%) HL7
5 1 (0.90%) SEPA
System Software
1 25 (22.52%) Docker
2 11 (9.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (23.42%) Kubernetes
2 16 (14.41%) Ansible
3 6 (5.41%) Grafana
4 4 (3.60%) Kustomize
5 3 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.80%) Consul
6 2 (1.80%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.90%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.90%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.90%) WMI
Vendors
1 23 (20.72%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.71%) Google
3 11 (9.91%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.41%) Centrify
4 6 (5.41%) CyberArk
5 4 (3.60%) SAP
6 3 (2.70%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.70%) Okta
6 3 (2.70%) Oracle
6 3 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.70%) Sitecore
6 3 (2.70%) Splunk
7 2 (1.80%) Solace
8 1 (0.90%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.90%) Databricks
8 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.90%) Quadient
8 1 (0.90%) Workday