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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 59 82
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 +28
Contract jobs citing REST 89 24 18
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.89% 2.58% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.76% 12.97% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 14 11
10th Percentile £372 £368 £330
25th Percentile £447 £401 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +12.36% -15.24%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £606
90th Percentile £688 £668 £725
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.62% - -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 531 185 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.24% 19.85% 21.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 110 239
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £428 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £581
90th Percentile £613 £738 £650
England median daily rate £525 £537 £545
% change year-on-year -2.23% -1.47% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 5
10th Percentile - £84.38 £16.08
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.67 £21.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £96.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +330.42% -67.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £102.00 £62.00
90th Percentile - - £63.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%

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 31 March 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 31 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
South Yorkshire -15 55 £510 -7.27% 6
West Yorkshire -6 31 £454 -4.42% 15
North Yorkshire - 3 £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 9 (10.11%) Confluence
2 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.25%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 46 (51.69%) AWS
2 42 (47.19%) GCP
3 37 (41.57%) Azure
4 23 (25.84%) Serverless
5 19 (21.35%) GitHub
6 11 (12.36%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (8.99%) SaaS
9 7 (7.87%) Entra ID
10 6 (6.74%) AWS KMS
11 5 (5.62%) Apigee
12 4 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.49%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (4.49%) ChatGPT
12 4 (4.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (4.49%) Power Platform
13 3 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (3.37%) Azure App Service
13 3 (3.37%) Azure WebJobs
13 3 (3.37%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) HTTP
2 1 (1.12%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.12%) DHCP
2 1 (1.12%) DNS
2 1 (1.12%) Firewall
2 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.12%) Network Security
2 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.60%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (17.98%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.99%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.62%) MySQL
4 5 (5.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (4.49%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.37%) Power BI
7 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.25%) DataStage
7 2 (2.25%) DB2
7 2 (2.25%) Metadata
7 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (56.18%) Jenkins
2 35 (39.33%) GitLab
3 30 (33.71%) JIRA
4 15 (16.85%) Selenium
5 13 (14.61%) Cucumber
5 13 (14.61%) Postman
6 12 (13.48%) Git
7 11 (12.36%) Liquibase
7 11 (12.36%) REST Assured
8 7 (7.87%) TestRail
9 4 (4.49%) Gatling
9 4 (4.49%) JMeter
9 4 (4.49%) LoadRunner
9 4 (4.49%) NeoLoad
10 3 (3.37%) Zephyr
11 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
11 2 (2.25%) Maven
11 2 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (2.25%) SpecFlow
12 1 (1.12%) Gradle
General
1 29 (32.58%) Finance
2 28 (31.46%) Social Skills
3 20 (22.47%) Banking
4 11 (12.36%) Financial Institution
5 10 (11.24%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.74%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (19.10%) GCP Engineer
2 16 (17.98%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (17.98%) Developer
3 12 (13.48%) Software Engineer
4 10 (11.24%) Lead
5 9 (10.11%) Architect
5 9 (10.11%) Senior
6 8 (8.99%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Test Automation Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Test Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Automation Test Lead
8 6 (6.74%) AWS Software Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Consultant
9 5 (5.62%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Oracle Consultant
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Test Architect
9 5 (5.62%) Test Automation Architect
10 4 (4.49%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.47%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (20.22%) RESTful
3 16 (17.98%) LDAP
3 16 (17.98%) OpenID
3 16 (17.98%) SailPoint
4 13 (14.61%) .NET
5 9 (10.11%) SOAP
6 8 (8.99%) JSON
6 8 (8.99%) Playwright
7 7 (7.87%) Spring Boot
7 7 (7.87%) XML
8 5 (5.62%) OpenAPI
8 5 (5.62%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (5.62%) Swagger
8 5 (5.62%) Web Services
9 4 (4.49%) Node.js
9 4 (4.49%) React
10 3 (3.37%) .NET Framework
10 3 (3.37%) CSS
10 3 (3.37%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.35%) Public Cloud
2 18 (20.22%) Cloud Native
2 18 (20.22%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.62%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.62%) SCORM
4 4 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.37%) Learning Management System
5 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.25%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.25%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.12%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.12%) NHS
7 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.97%) Linux
2 3 (3.37%) Windows
3 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.12%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.12%) Unix
4 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (69.66%) CI/CD
2 59 (66.29%) DevOps
3 44 (49.44%) Agile
4 32 (35.96%) Test Automation
5 27 (30.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (29.21%) Containerisation
7 22 (24.72%) Microservices
8 21 (23.60%) Root Cause Analysis
9 17 (19.10%) API Testing
9 17 (19.10%) Software Engineering
10 16 (17.98%) Cryptography
11 15 (16.85%) Computer Science
11 15 (16.85%) Identity Access Management
11 15 (16.85%) Non-Functional Testing
12 14 (15.73%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (15.73%) Data Protection
12 14 (15.73%) High Availability
12 14 (15.73%) Scenario Testing
12 14 (15.73%) System Integration Testing
13 13 (14.61%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 45 (50.56%) Python
2 27 (30.34%) Java
3 23 (25.84%) SQL
4 18 (20.22%) Go
5 14 (15.73%) JavaScript
6 11 (12.36%) C#
7 10 (11.24%) Bash
8 9 (10.11%) Groovy
8 9 (10.11%) PowerShell
9 7 (7.87%) PHP
10 6 (6.74%) TypeScript
11 4 (4.49%) Cypher
11 4 (4.49%) Scala
12 3 (3.37%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (3.37%) T-SQL
13 2 (2.25%) Delphi
13 2 (2.25%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (2.25%) XPath
14 1 (1.12%) VBA
14 1 (1.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 19 (21.35%) Degree
2 15 (16.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (16.85%) Master's Degree
3 11 (12.36%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.12%) CEH
6 1 (1.12%) GIAC
6 1 (1.12%) GWAPT
6 1 (1.12%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.11%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) GDPR
3 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.25%) WCAG
4 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (24.72%) Docker
2 5 (5.62%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 29 (32.58%) Ansible
1 29 (32.58%) Kubernetes
2 27 (30.34%) Terraform
3 21 (23.60%) Grafana
4 19 (21.35%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.62%) Puppet
6 4 (4.49%) Istio
6 4 (4.49%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (23.60%) Splunk
2 18 (20.22%) ServiceNow
3 17 (19.10%) Google
4 10 (11.24%) Microsoft
5 9 (10.11%) Oracle
6 5 (5.62%) Red Hat
7 4 (4.49%) Dynatrace
7 4 (4.49%) OpenAI
8 3 (3.37%) Commvault
8 3 (3.37%) F5
8 3 (3.37%) Veritas
9 2 (2.25%) IBM
9 2 (2.25%) Informatica
9 2 (2.25%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (2.25%) New Relic
10 1 (1.12%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.12%) Imperva
10 1 (1.12%) Infoblox
10 1 (1.12%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (1.12%) Workday