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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 62 76
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 +29
Contract jobs citing REST 91 22 27
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.19% 2.47% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.81% 12.29% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 12 15
10th Percentile £402 £455 £330
25th Percentile £450 £500 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £574 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.29% +20.90% -9.52%
75th Percentile £566 £641 £731
90th Percentile £700 £673 £738
England median daily rate £521 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.86% - -4.55%

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 511 179 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.55% 20.13% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 110 258
10th Percentile £366 £399 £335
25th Percentile £447 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £738 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 5
10th Percentile £55.38 £87.75 £16.08
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £57.25 £102.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.87% +353.33% -67.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £62.00
90th Percentile - - £63.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%

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 March 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 March 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 -17 58 £510 -15.00% 10
West Yorkshire -9 31 £457 -8.60% 15
North Yorkshire - 2 £419 - 2
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 9 (9.89%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.20%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 50 (54.95%) AWS
2 47 (51.65%) GCP
3 39 (42.86%) Azure
4 24 (26.37%) Serverless
5 18 (19.78%) GitHub
6 11 (12.09%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (8.79%) SaaS
9 7 (7.69%) Entra ID
10 6 (6.59%) AWS KMS
11 4 (4.40%) Apigee
11 4 (4.40%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (4.40%) ChatGPT
11 4 (4.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
12 3 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.30%) Amazon S3
12 3 (3.30%) CloudBees
12 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (3.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) HTTP
2 1 (1.10%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.10%) DHCP
2 1 (1.10%) DNS
2 1 (1.10%) Firewall
2 1 (1.10%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.10%) Network Security
2 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (19.78%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.79%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.49%) MySQL
4 5 (5.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (4.40%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.30%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.30%) Power BI
7 2 (2.20%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.20%) DataStage
7 2 (2.20%) DB2
7 2 (2.20%) Metadata
7 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (58.24%) Jenkins
2 37 (40.66%) GitLab
3 29 (31.87%) JIRA
4 15 (16.48%) Selenium
5 14 (15.38%) Liquibase
6 13 (14.29%) Cucumber
6 13 (14.29%) Postman
7 11 (12.09%) REST Assured
8 9 (9.89%) Git
9 7 (7.69%) TestRail
10 4 (4.40%) Gatling
10 4 (4.40%) JMeter
10 4 (4.40%) LoadRunner
10 4 (4.40%) NeoLoad
11 3 (3.30%) Zephyr
12 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
12 2 (2.20%) Maven
12 2 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (2.20%) SpecFlow
13 1 (1.10%) Spinnaker
General
1 33 (36.26%) Finance
1 33 (36.26%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.37%) Banking
3 13 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 9 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.59%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Legal
6 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (19.78%) GCP Engineer
2 17 (18.68%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (16.48%) Developer
4 13 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 12 (13.19%) Architect
5 12 (13.19%) Senior
6 10 (10.99%) Lead
7 8 (8.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Test Automation Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Test Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Automation Test Lead
9 6 (6.59%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Consultant
10 5 (5.49%) AWS Software Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) GCP Software Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Oracle Consultant
10 5 (5.49%) Test Architect
10 5 (5.49%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (24.18%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (21.98%) RESTful
3 16 (17.58%) LDAP
3 16 (17.58%) OpenID
3 16 (17.58%) SailPoint
4 13 (14.29%) .NET
5 10 (10.99%) SOAP
6 7 (7.69%) JSON
6 7 (7.69%) Spring Boot
6 7 (7.69%) XML
7 6 (6.59%) Playwright
8 5 (5.49%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (5.49%) Web Services
9 4 (4.40%) Node.js
9 4 (4.40%) OpenAPI
9 4 (4.40%) Swagger
10 3 (3.30%) .NET Framework
10 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (3.30%) Spring
11 2 (2.20%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 21 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
1 21 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.49%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.49%) SCORM
3 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.30%) Learning Management System
4 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.20%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.20%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.20%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (3.30%) Windows
3 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.10%) Unix
4 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 61 (67.03%) DevOps
3 43 (47.25%) Agile
4 30 (32.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (31.87%) Containerisation
5 29 (31.87%) Test Automation
6 26 (28.57%) Microservices
7 24 (26.37%) Root Cause Analysis
8 18 (19.78%) Computer Science
8 18 (19.78%) Cryptography
8 18 (19.78%) Software Engineering
9 17 (18.68%) Non-Functional Testing
10 16 (17.58%) API Testing
10 16 (17.58%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (17.58%) Cost Optimisation
10 16 (17.58%) Data Security
10 16 (17.58%) High Availability
11 15 (16.48%) Change Management
11 15 (16.48%) Data Protection
11 15 (16.48%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (51.65%) Python
2 28 (30.77%) Java
3 24 (26.37%) SQL
4 21 (23.08%) Go
5 12 (13.19%) JavaScript
6 11 (12.09%) C#
7 10 (10.99%) Bash
8 9 (9.89%) Groovy
8 9 (9.89%) PowerShell
9 7 (7.69%) PHP
10 4 (4.40%) Cypher
10 4 (4.40%) Scala
10 4 (4.40%) TypeScript
11 3 (3.30%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (3.30%) T-SQL
12 2 (2.20%) Delphi
12 2 (2.20%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (2.20%) XPath
13 1 (1.10%) Bicep
13 1 (1.10%) X++
Qualifications
1 22 (24.18%) Degree
2 18 (19.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (19.78%) Master's Degree
3 11 (12.09%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.10%) CEH
7 1 (1.10%) GIAC
7 1 (1.10%) GWAPT
7 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.89%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (27.47%) Docker
2 5 (5.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 31 (34.07%) Ansible
1 31 (34.07%) Kubernetes
2 29 (31.87%) Terraform
3 23 (25.27%) Grafana
4 21 (23.08%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.49%) Puppet
6 4 (4.40%) Istio
6 4 (4.40%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (25.27%) Splunk
2 19 (20.88%) Google
2 19 (20.88%) ServiceNow
3 10 (10.99%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.79%) Oracle
5 5 (5.49%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.40%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.40%) OpenAI
7 3 (3.30%) Commvault
7 3 (3.30%) F5
7 3 (3.30%) Veritas
8 2 (2.20%) IBM
8 2 (2.20%) Informatica
8 2 (2.20%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (2.20%) New Relic
9 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.10%) Cribl.io
9 1 (1.10%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (1.10%) Workday
9 1 (1.10%) Zscaler