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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 62 82
Rank change year-on-year +5 +20 +16
Contract jobs citing REST 82 17 28
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.10% 1.85% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.67% 9.55% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 10 15
10th Percentile £413 £495 £330
25th Percentile £450 £512 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +26.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £663 £647 £731
90th Percentile £705 £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 492 178 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.62% 19.35% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 110 280
10th Percentile £370 £406 £359
25th Percentile £447 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £571 £622 £588
90th Percentile £675 £726 £650
England median daily rate £521 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.36% - -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 £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 10 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 10 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 -16 59 £523 -12.92% 1
West Yorkshire -9 21 £575 +15.00% 12
North Yorkshire - 2 £419 - 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 5 (6.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 55 (67.07%) AWS
2 50 (60.98%) GCP
3 35 (42.68%) Azure
4 28 (34.15%) Serverless
5 11 (13.41%) GitHub
6 8 (9.76%) SaaS
7 7 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (7.32%) AWS KMS
8 6 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.88%) ChatGPT
9 4 (4.88%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.66%) Akamai
10 3 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.66%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.66%) Cloudflare
10 3 (3.66%) OCI
10 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (2.44%) Boomi
11 2 (2.44%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) HTTP
2 3 (3.66%) Firewall
2 3 (3.66%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.22%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.22%) DHCP
3 1 (1.22%) DNS
3 1 (1.22%) Network Security
3 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (29.27%) NoSQL
2 20 (24.39%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.10%) MySQL
4 5 (6.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (4.88%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.66%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.66%) Power BI
7 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.44%) DataStage
7 2 (2.44%) DB2
7 2 (2.44%) Metadata
8 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (63.41%) Jenkins
2 42 (51.22%) GitLab
3 26 (31.71%) JIRA
4 20 (24.39%) Liquibase
5 14 (17.07%) Selenium
6 13 (15.85%) Cucumber
6 13 (15.85%) Postman
7 11 (13.41%) REST Assured
8 7 (8.54%) TestRail
9 6 (7.32%) Git
10 4 (4.88%) Gatling
10 4 (4.88%) JMeter
10 4 (4.88%) LoadRunner
10 4 (4.88%) NeoLoad
11 3 (3.66%) Zephyr
12 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
12 2 (2.44%) Maven
12 2 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (2.44%) SpecFlow
13 1 (1.22%) Spinnaker
General
1 40 (48.78%) Social Skills
2 36 (43.90%) Finance
3 28 (34.15%) Banking
4 19 (23.17%) Financial Institution
5 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.10%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (23.17%) Cloud Engineer
1 19 (23.17%) Software Engineer
2 17 (20.73%) GCP Engineer
3 13 (15.85%) Senior
4 12 (14.63%) Senior Software Engineer
5 11 (13.41%) Architect
5 11 (13.41%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (10.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.98%) Lead
7 8 (9.76%) AWS Software Engineer
7 8 (9.76%) Developer
7 8 (9.76%) Test Automation Engineer
7 8 (9.76%) Test Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) Automation Test Lead
10 5 (6.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (6.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Test Architect
10 5 (6.10%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (31.71%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (30.49%) RESTful
3 16 (19.51%) LDAP
3 16 (19.51%) OpenID
3 16 (19.51%) SailPoint
4 9 (10.98%) .NET
5 8 (9.76%) JSON
5 8 (9.76%) XML
6 6 (7.32%) Playwright
6 6 (7.32%) Spring Boot
7 5 (6.10%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (6.10%) SOAP
8 4 (4.88%) Node.js
9 2 (2.44%) OpenAPI
9 2 (2.44%) Spring
9 2 (2.44%) Swagger
9 2 (2.44%) WebSockets
10 1 (1.22%) AngularJS
10 1 (1.22%) JWT
10 1 (1.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (32.93%) Cloud Native
2 26 (31.71%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (31.71%) Public Cloud
3 5 (6.10%) SCORM
4 3 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.66%) Learning Management System
4 3 (3.66%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.66%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.44%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (37.80%) Linux
2 3 (3.66%) Windows
3 1 (1.22%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Unix
3 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (79.27%) DevOps
2 62 (75.61%) CI/CD
3 46 (56.10%) Agile
4 32 (39.02%) Containerisation
4 32 (39.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (37.80%) Microservices
6 27 (32.93%) Root Cause Analysis
6 27 (32.93%) Test Automation
7 24 (29.27%) Computer Science
7 24 (29.27%) Cryptography
7 24 (29.27%) Software Engineering
8 23 (28.05%) Non-Functional Testing
9 22 (26.83%) Continuous Integration
9 22 (26.83%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (26.83%) Data Security
9 22 (26.83%) High Availability
10 21 (25.61%) Continuous Delivery
10 21 (25.61%) Cost Optimisation
11 20 (24.39%) Change Management
12 18 (21.95%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 44 (53.66%) Python
2 28 (34.15%) Java
3 27 (32.93%) Go
4 25 (30.49%) SQL
5 11 (13.41%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.54%) C#
6 7 (8.54%) Groovy
6 7 (8.54%) PHP
7 5 (6.10%) Bash
7 5 (6.10%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.88%) Cypher
8 4 (4.88%) Scala
9 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.44%) Delphi
10 2 (2.44%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.44%) XPath
11 1 (1.22%) Bicep
11 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (34.15%) Degree
2 24 (29.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (29.27%) Master's Degree
3 7 (8.54%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.32%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.88%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (4.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.66%) CEH
6 3 (3.66%) GIAC
6 3 (3.66%) GWAPT
6 3 (3.66%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) QA
2 3 (3.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (35.37%) Docker
2 5 (6.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 32 (39.02%) Ansible
2 31 (37.80%) Kubernetes
2 31 (37.80%) Terraform
3 26 (31.71%) Grafana
3 26 (31.71%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.44%) Istio
4 2 (2.44%) Puppet
5 1 (1.22%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (31.71%) Splunk
2 20 (24.39%) Google
3 18 (21.95%) ServiceNow
4 9 (10.98%) Oracle
5 6 (7.32%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.88%) F5
6 4 (4.88%) OpenAI
7 3 (3.66%) Imperva
8 2 (2.44%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.44%) Informatica
8 2 (2.44%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.22%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.22%) Commvault
9 1 (1.22%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.22%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (1.22%) Workday
9 1 (1.22%) Zscaler