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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 90 89
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -9
Contract jobs citing REST 37 15 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.40% 1.00% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.04% 4.93% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 12 22
10th Percentile £355 £378 £413
25th Percentile £384 £447 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £598 £538
90th Percentile £700 £650 £584
England median daily rate £478 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -8.95% -8.70% -0.26%

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 335 304 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.70% 20.21% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 215 314
10th Percentile £352 £411 £396
25th Percentile £400 £464 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - +7.84%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £696
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year - -39.54% -36.12%
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% -3.16%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for REST 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +1 26 £450 -18.18% 5
West Yorkshire -1 11 £525 +10.53% 24
REST
England

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 26 (70.27%) AWS
2 19 (51.35%) GCP
3 18 (48.65%) Serverless
4 7 (18.92%) Azure
5 5 (13.51%) npm
6 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
7 3 (8.11%) GitHub
7 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (8.11%) Slack
8 2 (5.41%) Akamai
8 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.41%) Cloudflare
9 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) HTTP
2 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (43.24%) NoSQL
2 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.11%) DynamoDB
3 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.70%) MySQL
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (56.76%) Jenkins
2 17 (45.95%) GitLab
3 16 (43.24%) Liquibase
4 10 (27.03%) JIRA
5 8 (21.62%) Git
6 5 (13.51%) webpack
7 4 (10.81%) Babel
8 3 (8.11%) Postman
8 3 (8.11%) SonarQube
9 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.70%) JUnit
9 1 (2.70%) REST Assured
9 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (54.05%) Finance
1 20 (54.05%) Social Skills
2 19 (51.35%) Banking
3 13 (35.14%) Financial Institution
4 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Software Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Developer
2 8 (21.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Senior
3 7 (18.92%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) AWS Software Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Python Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) DevOps Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Angular Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) GCP Software Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (45.95%) RESTful
2 14 (37.84%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (21.62%) React
4 7 (18.92%) CSS
4 7 (18.92%) HTML
5 6 (16.22%) Node.js
6 5 (13.51%) CSS3
6 5 (13.51%) HTML5
7 4 (10.81%) AngularJS
7 4 (10.81%) JSON
7 4 (10.81%) Redux
8 3 (8.11%) Bootstrap
8 3 (8.11%) Jest
8 3 (8.11%) lodash
8 3 (8.11%) SOAP
8 3 (8.11%) XML
9 2 (5.41%) Express.js
9 2 (5.41%) Flask
9 2 (5.41%) Sass
9 2 (5.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (51.35%) Cloud Native
2 13 (35.14%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (32.43%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) CMDB
4 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.41%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (43.24%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Mac OS X
2 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) DevOps
2 25 (67.57%) CI/CD
3 22 (59.46%) Agile
4 19 (51.35%) Microservices
5 18 (48.65%) Containerisation
5 18 (48.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (48.65%) Software Engineering
6 16 (43.24%) Computer Science
6 16 (43.24%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (40.54%) Change Management
7 15 (40.54%) Data Security
7 15 (40.54%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (37.84%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (35.14%) Cost Optimisation
9 13 (35.14%) High Availability
10 12 (32.43%) Continuous Delivery
10 12 (32.43%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (32.43%) Cryptography
10 12 (32.43%) Non-Functional Testing
11 8 (21.62%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) Python
2 16 (43.24%) Go
3 10 (27.03%) Java
4 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 7 (18.92%) SQL
5 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.41%) Bash
7 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.70%) XPath
Qualifications
1 16 (43.24%) Computer Science Degree
1 16 (43.24%) Degree
2 13 (35.14%) Master's Degree
3 10 (27.03%) AWS Certification
4 8 (21.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (5.41%) CEH
6 2 (5.41%) GIAC
6 2 (5.41%) GWAPT
6 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.70%) CISSP
7 1 (2.70%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (2.70%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (56.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (54.05%) Terraform
2 17 (45.95%) Kubernetes
3 15 (40.54%) Ansible
4 14 (37.84%) Grafana
4 14 (37.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Splunk
2 11 (29.73%) Google
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.41%) F5
4 2 (5.41%) Imperva
5 1 (2.70%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.70%) Darktrace
5 1 (2.70%) IBM
5 1 (2.70%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle