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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 73 83
Rank change year-on-year +21 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing REST 117 48 17
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.10% 2.91% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.55% 10.15% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 36 14
10th Percentile £380 £360 £383
25th Percentile £406 £415 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £508 £549
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -7.61% +9.86%
75th Percentile £525 £700 £580
90th Percentile £638 £713 £650
England median daily rate £525 £492 £532
% change year-on-year +6.71% -7.43% -7.57%

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 707 473 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.75% 28.65% 25.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 297 274
10th Percentile £381 £363 £381
25th Percentile £425 £406 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year - -1.72% -7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.37% -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 £67.00 £54.85 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.15% -15.62% +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 8 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 8 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 +1 69 £475 -5.00% 17
West Yorkshire +18 46 £450 -25.00% 32
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 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 14 (11.97%) Confluence
2 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.71%) 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 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.85%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.71%) Workfront
3 1 (0.85%) Exstream
Cloud Services
1 44 (37.61%) Azure
2 40 (34.19%) AWS
3 31 (26.50%) GitHub
4 26 (22.22%) GCP
5 16 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.69%) Serverless
7 6 (5.13%) Slack
8 5 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.42%) Cloud Run
9 4 (3.42%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.42%) LangSmith
9 4 (3.42%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.56%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (2.56%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) HTTP
2 1 (0.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.09%) SQL Server
2 18 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.69%) Power BI
4 6 (5.13%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.27%) Redis
6 4 (3.42%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.42%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.56%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.71%) MySQL
8 2 (1.71%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.71%) 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 (23.08%) JIRA
2 24 (20.51%) Jenkins
3 18 (15.38%) Git
4 8 (6.84%) GitLab
5 5 (4.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.42%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.42%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.42%) JUnit
6 4 (3.42%) Mockito
6 4 (3.42%) Postman
6 4 (3.42%) Zephyr
7 3 (2.56%) Gatling
8 2 (1.71%) Flyway
8 2 (1.71%) git-flow
8 2 (1.71%) JMeter
8 2 (1.71%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.71%) NeoLoad
8 2 (1.71%) Selenium
9 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.85%) Maven
General
1 31 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.22%) Finance
3 20 (17.09%) Banking
4 15 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.69%) Law
6 7 (5.98%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.27%) Retail
8 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.71%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.71%) Marketing
9 2 (1.71%) 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 (35.04%) Developer
2 24 (20.51%) Senior
3 14 (11.97%) Lead
4 12 (10.26%) Architect
5 11 (9.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 11 (9.40%) Java Developer
5 11 (9.40%) Senior Developer
6 8 (6.84%) .NET Developer
6 8 (6.84%) IAM Developer
7 7 (5.98%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.13%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Backend Developer
10 4 (3.42%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Python Developer
10 4 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.42%) Test Engineer
11 3 (2.56%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.66%) React
2 22 (18.80%) Kafka
2 22 (18.80%) Spring
3 19 (16.24%) Spring Boot
4 18 (15.38%) .NET
5 13 (11.11%) ASP.NET
5 13 (11.11%) JSON
6 12 (10.26%) AngularJS
6 12 (10.26%) Node.js
6 12 (10.26%) RESTful
7 11 (9.40%) .NET Core
7 11 (9.40%) HTML
8 9 (7.69%) SailPoint
8 9 (7.69%) SOAP
9 8 (6.84%) Web Services
10 7 (5.98%) OpenID
10 7 (5.98%) Playwright
10 7 (5.98%) Terraform
11 6 (5.13%) OAuth
11 6 (5.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 19 (16.24%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 12 (10.26%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (6.84%) AI Agents
6 6 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (4.27%) Autonomous Agent
7 5 (4.27%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.42%) NHS
9 3 (2.56%) Blog
9 3 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.56%) PKI
10 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (1.71%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.85%) FMCG
11 1 (0.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.69%) 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 (58.12%) CI/CD
2 49 (41.88%) DevOps
3 47 (40.17%) Agile
4 44 (37.61%) Microservices
5 38 (32.48%) Test Automation
6 31 (26.50%) Event-Driven
7 28 (23.93%) AI
8 27 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (17.95%) Software Engineering
11 20 (17.09%) Observability
12 18 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 18 (15.38%) RBAC
13 17 (14.53%) Technical Leadership
14 16 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (13.68%) Mentoring
15 15 (12.82%) Code Quality
15 15 (12.82%) Validation
15 15 (12.82%) Workflow
16 14 (11.97%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 50 (42.74%) Java
2 34 (29.06%) SQL
3 33 (28.21%) Python
4 22 (18.80%) TypeScript
5 17 (14.53%) C#
5 17 (14.53%) JavaScript
6 14 (11.97%) PowerShell
7 8 (6.84%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.56%) ABAP
8 3 (2.56%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.71%) Bash
9 2 (1.71%) Cypher
9 2 (1.71%) PHP
9 2 (1.71%) PromQL
9 2 (1.71%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.71%) VBA
10 1 (0.85%) Bicep
10 1 (0.85%) COBOL
10 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (5.13%) Degree
2 5 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.56%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.71%) MBA
5 2 (1.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.24%) QA
2 3 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.71%) WCAG
4 1 (0.85%) GRC
4 1 (0.85%) HL7
System Software
1 23 (19.66%) Docker
2 10 (8.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (21.37%) Kubernetes
2 17 (14.53%) Ansible
3 6 (5.13%) Grafana
4 4 (3.42%) Kustomize
5 3 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.71%) Consul
6 2 (1.71%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.85%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.85%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.85%) WMI
Vendors
1 28 (23.93%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.97%) Google
3 10 (8.55%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.13%) Centrify
4 6 (5.13%) CyberArk
5 5 (4.27%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.42%) Oracle
6 4 (3.42%) SAP
7 3 (2.56%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.56%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.71%) Adobe
8 2 (1.71%) Okta
8 2 (1.71%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.71%) Solace
8 2 (1.71%) Splunk
9 1 (0.85%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.85%) Citrix
9 1 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.85%) IBM
9 1 (0.85%) Quadient