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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 71 84
Rank change year-on-year +23 +13 -1
Contract jobs citing REST 118 55 17
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.16% 3.28% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.81% 11.22% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 42 14
10th Percentile £380 £363 £383
25th Percentile £406 £441 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £500 £549
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% -8.97% +9.86%
75th Percentile £525 £566 £580
90th Percentile £638 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £493 £528
% change year-on-year +6.60% -6.64% -8.26%

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 702 490 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.73% 29.25% 25.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 312 273
10th Percentile £382 £363 £381
25th Percentile £425 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% -7.73%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £14.28
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £39.35
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.37%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £63.75
90th Percentile £41.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.83 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.91% -16.92% +8.33%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 69 £475 -2.66% 18
West Yorkshire +14 47 £450 -25.00% 31
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 5
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 14 (11.86%) Confluence
2 3 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.85%) Apache
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.85%) CICS
4 1 (0.85%) CMS
4 1 (0.85%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.85%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.85%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.69%) Workfront
3 1 (0.85%) Exstream
Cloud Services
1 44 (37.29%) Azure
2 40 (33.90%) AWS
3 32 (27.12%) GitHub
4 26 (22.03%) GCP
5 16 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (7.63%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.63%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.63%) Serverless
7 7 (5.93%) Slack
8 5 (4.24%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.24%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.39%) Cloud Run
9 4 (3.39%) LangSmith
9 4 (3.39%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.54%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.54%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (2.54%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) HTTP
2 1 (0.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.95%) SQL Server
2 18 (15.25%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.63%) Power BI
4 6 (5.08%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.24%) Redis
6 4 (3.39%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.39%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.54%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.69%) MySQL
8 2 (1.69%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.69%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.69%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.85%) Apache Arrow
9 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.85%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.85%) Db2
9 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.85%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 27 (22.88%) JIRA
2 24 (20.34%) Jenkins
3 18 (15.25%) Git
4 8 (6.78%) GitLab
5 5 (4.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.39%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.39%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.39%) JUnit
6 4 (3.39%) Mockito
6 4 (3.39%) Postman
6 4 (3.39%) Zephyr
7 3 (2.54%) Gatling
8 2 (1.69%) Flyway
8 2 (1.69%) git-flow
8 2 (1.69%) JMeter
8 2 (1.69%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.69%) NeoLoad
8 2 (1.69%) Selenium
9 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.85%) Maven
General
1 32 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.03%) Finance
3 20 (16.95%) Banking
4 15 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.63%) Law
6 8 (6.78%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.24%) Retail
8 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.69%) Marketing
9 2 (1.69%) Military
10 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.85%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (34.75%) Developer
2 24 (20.34%) Senior
3 14 (11.86%) Lead
4 12 (10.17%) Architect
5 11 (9.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 11 (9.32%) Java Developer
5 11 (9.32%) Senior Developer
6 8 (6.78%) .NET Developer
6 8 (6.78%) IAM Developer
7 7 (5.93%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.08%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Administrator
10 4 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Backend Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Python Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.39%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.49%) React
2 22 (18.64%) Kafka
2 22 (18.64%) Spring
3 19 (16.10%) Spring Boot
4 18 (15.25%) .NET
5 13 (11.02%) ASP.NET
5 13 (11.02%) JSON
6 12 (10.17%) AngularJS
6 12 (10.17%) Node.js
6 12 (10.17%) RESTful
7 11 (9.32%) .NET Core
7 11 (9.32%) HTML
8 9 (7.63%) SailPoint
8 9 (7.63%) SOAP
9 8 (6.78%) Terraform
9 8 (6.78%) Web Services
10 7 (5.93%) OpenID
10 7 (5.93%) Playwright
11 6 (5.08%) .NET Framework
11 6 (5.08%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.80%) Cloud Native
2 19 (16.10%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (11.02%) Product Ownership
4 12 (10.17%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (6.78%) AI Agents
6 6 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (5.08%) Onboarding
6 6 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (4.24%) Autonomous Agent
8 4 (3.39%) NHS
9 3 (2.54%) Blog
9 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.54%) PKI
10 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (1.69%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.85%) CMDB
11 1 (0.85%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.85%) Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Unix
2 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (57.63%) CI/CD
2 49 (41.53%) DevOps
3 47 (39.83%) Agile
4 44 (37.29%) Microservices
5 38 (32.20%) Test Automation
6 31 (26.27%) Event-Driven
7 28 (23.73%) AI
8 27 (22.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (17.80%) Software Engineering
11 20 (16.95%) Observability
12 19 (16.10%) RBAC
13 18 (15.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 17 (14.41%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (13.56%) Mentoring
15 16 (13.56%) Workflow
16 15 (12.71%) Code Quality
16 15 (12.71%) Validation
17 14 (11.86%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 50 (42.37%) Java
2 34 (28.81%) Python
2 34 (28.81%) SQL
3 22 (18.64%) TypeScript
4 17 (14.41%) C#
4 17 (14.41%) JavaScript
5 15 (12.71%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.78%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.54%) ABAP
7 3 (2.54%) Apex Code
7 3 (2.54%) Bash
8 2 (1.69%) Cypher
8 2 (1.69%) PHP
8 2 (1.69%) PromQL
8 2 (1.69%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.69%) VBA
9 1 (0.85%) Bicep
9 1 (0.85%) COBOL
9 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (5.08%) Degree
2 5 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.39%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.54%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.54%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.69%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.10%) QA
2 3 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.69%) WCAG
4 1 (0.85%) GRC
4 1 (0.85%) HL7
System Software
1 23 (19.49%) Docker
2 10 (8.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (21.19%) Kubernetes
2 17 (14.41%) Ansible
3 6 (5.08%) Grafana
4 4 (3.39%) Kustomize
5 3 (2.54%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.69%) Consul
6 2 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.69%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.85%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.85%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.85%) WMI
Vendors
1 29 (24.58%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.86%) Google
3 11 (9.32%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.08%) Centrify
4 6 (5.08%) CyberArk
5 5 (4.24%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.39%) Oracle
6 4 (3.39%) SAP
7 3 (2.54%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.54%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.69%) Adobe
8 2 (1.69%) Okta
8 2 (1.69%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.69%) Solace
8 2 (1.69%) Splunk
9 1 (0.85%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.85%) Citrix
9 1 (0.85%) IBM
9 1 (0.85%) OpenText
9 1 (0.85%) Quadient