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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 81 79
Rank change year-on-year +21 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing REST 100 27 22
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.52% 2.00% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.31% 11.25% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 18 16
10th Percentile £356 £359 £375
25th Percentile £406 £384 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £435 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% -8.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £516 £500 £579
90th Percentile £568 £523 £650
England median daily rate £520 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.44% -6.82%

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 613 240 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.58% 17.76% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 150 223
10th Percentile £366 £358 £400
25th Percentile £431 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £605
90th Percentile £630 £600 £675
England median daily rate £525 £524 £550
% change year-on-year +0.19% -4.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 6
10th Percentile £23.00 - £13.87
25th Percentile £50.31 £84.83 £14.21
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £39.35
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +133.04% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £58.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +5.60% -8.66%

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 July 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 July 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 +11 62 £455 +16.22% 11
West Yorkshire -3 35 £454 -6.64% 8
North Yorkshire - 2 £413 - 1
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 (12.00%) Confluence
2 6 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (3.00%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.00%) Apache
5 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.00%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.00%) Exstream
2 1 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (34.00%) Azure
2 29 (29.00%) AWS
3 28 (28.00%) GitHub
4 24 (24.00%) GCP
5 12 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (11.00%) Serverless
7 8 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (7.00%) Power Platform
9 6 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (6.00%) Entra ID
9 6 (6.00%) Slack
10 5 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.00%) Apigee
11 4 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (4.00%) Cloud Run
11 4 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (3.00%) Azure App Service
12 3 (3.00%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (3.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) HTTP
2 1 (1.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.00%) DHCP
2 1 (1.00%) DNS
2 1 (1.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.00%) Network Security
2 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (14.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.00%) Power BI
3 6 (6.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.00%) MySQL
4 2 (2.00%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.00%) Redis
4 2 (2.00%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.00%) Apache Arrow
5 1 (1.00%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.00%) Metadata
5 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.00%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.00%) Trino
Development Applications
1 32 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 23 (23.00%) JIRA
3 18 (18.00%) Git
4 11 (11.00%) GitLab
5 5 (5.00%) Liquibase
6 4 (4.00%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.00%) Gatling
6 4 (4.00%) Selenium
6 4 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.00%) JMeter
7 3 (3.00%) JUnit
7 3 (3.00%) Postman
7 3 (3.00%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.00%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.00%) Flyway
8 2 (2.00%) git-flow
8 2 (2.00%) Gradle
8 2 (2.00%) Maven
8 2 (2.00%) Mockito
8 2 (2.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 23 (23.00%) Finance
2 22 (22.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.00%) Banking
4 8 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.00%) Law
7 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.00%) Retail
8 2 (2.00%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.00%) Military
9 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (35.00%) Developer
2 19 (19.00%) Senior
3 11 (11.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 9 (9.00%) .NET Developer
4 9 (9.00%) Architect
5 8 (8.00%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.00%) IAM Developer
7 6 (6.00%) GCP Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.00%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Backend Developer
8 5 (5.00%) Lead
8 5 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.00%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (4.00%) Senior Python Developer
9 4 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.00%) Spring
2 14 (14.00%) .NET
2 14 (14.00%) Spring Boot
3 12 (12.00%) SOAP
4 11 (11.00%) Kafka
4 11 (11.00%) React
4 11 (11.00%) Web Services
5 10 (10.00%) Node.js
5 10 (10.00%) RESTful
6 8 (8.00%) ASP.NET
6 8 (8.00%) SailPoint
7 7 (7.00%) OpenAPI
7 7 (7.00%) Playwright
7 7 (7.00%) Swagger
8 6 (6.00%) .NET Core
8 6 (6.00%) .NET Framework
8 6 (6.00%) JSON
9 5 (5.00%) LDAP
9 5 (5.00%) OAuth
9 5 (5.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.00%) Cloud Native
1 14 (14.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.00%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.00%) AI Agents
7 3 (3.00%) Blog
7 3 (3.00%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.00%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.00%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.00%) NHS
8 2 (2.00%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.00%) Low-Code
9 1 (1.00%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.00%) Windows
2 6 (6.00%) Linux
3 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.00%) Unix
4 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (51.00%) CI/CD
2 40 (40.00%) DevOps
3 36 (36.00%) Agile
4 29 (29.00%) Microservices
5 22 (22.00%) Test Automation
6 20 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (18.00%) Event-Driven
7 18 (18.00%) Observability
8 16 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (15.00%) AI
9 15 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (14.00%) Containerisation
10 14 (14.00%) Software Engineering
11 13 (13.00%) API Development
11 13 (13.00%) Validation
12 12 (12.00%) Performance Optimisation
13 11 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (11.00%) RBAC
13 11 (11.00%) Task Automation
13 11 (11.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 38 (38.00%) Java
2 33 (33.00%) Python
3 30 (30.00%) SQL
4 16 (16.00%) PowerShell
5 13 (13.00%) C#
6 10 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 8 (8.00%) Bash
7 8 (8.00%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.00%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.00%) Go
9 3 (3.00%) Groovy
9 3 (3.00%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (3.00%) VBA
10 2 (2.00%) ABAP
10 2 (2.00%) Cypher
10 2 (2.00%) PromQL
10 2 (2.00%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (2.00%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (9.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.00%) Degree
2 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.00%) QA
2 4 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.00%) WCAG
4 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.00%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.00%) GRC
5 1 (1.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (24.00%) Docker
2 8 (8.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 23 (23.00%) Ansible
3 10 (10.00%) Grafana
3 10 (10.00%) Terraform
4 6 (6.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.00%) Istio
5 3 (3.00%) NetBackup
5 3 (3.00%) Puppet
6 2 (2.00%) Consul
6 2 (2.00%) Zipkin
7 1 (1.00%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.00%) WMI
Vendors
1 23 (23.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.00%) Google
3 12 (12.00%) ServiceNow
4 7 (7.00%) Splunk
5 4 (4.00%) Centrify
5 4 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 4 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.00%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.00%) Oracle
6 3 (3.00%) Veritas
7 2 (2.00%) Commvault
7 2 (2.00%) F5
7 2 (2.00%) IBM
7 2 (2.00%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.00%) New Relic
7 2 (2.00%) Okta
7 2 (2.00%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.00%) SAP
7 2 (2.00%) Solace
8 1 (1.00%) OpenText