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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 81 85
Rank change year-on-year +27 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing REST 106 33 18
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.72% 2.14% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.66% 8.38% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 26 13
10th Percentile £367 £351 £380
25th Percentile £406 £364 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £410 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.12% -25.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £520 £511 £580
90th Percentile £600 £575 £650
England median daily rate £523 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +6.63% -6.67% -8.70%

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 723 394 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 25.38% 25.60% 24.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 254 275
10th Percentile £381 £358 £381
25th Percentile £426 £400 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £592
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £23.00 - -
25th Percentile £34.00 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +466.34% -39.54%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +10 66 £484 +23.56% 17
West Yorkshire +1 37 £450 -14.29% 27
North Yorkshire - 2 £413 - 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 12 (11.32%) Confluence
2 3 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.89%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.94%) Apache
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.94%) CICS
4 1 (0.94%) CMS
4 1 (0.94%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.94%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.94%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.94%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.94%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 3 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.94%) Exstream
2 1 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (35.85%) Azure
2 35 (33.02%) AWS
3 27 (25.47%) GitHub
4 25 (23.58%) GCP
5 10 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (9.43%) Serverless
6 9 (8.49%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (5.66%) Slack
8 4 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.77%) Cloud Run
8 4 (3.77%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.77%) LangSmith
9 3 (2.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.83%) Figma
9 3 (2.83%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.89%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.89%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.89%) HTTP
2 1 (0.94%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.98%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (15.09%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.55%) Power BI
4 6 (5.66%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.72%) Redis
6 4 (3.77%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.83%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.89%) MySQL
8 2 (1.89%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.89%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.94%) Apache Arrow
9 1 (0.94%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.94%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.94%) Db2
9 1 (0.94%) Metadata
9 1 (0.94%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 26 (24.53%) Jenkins
1 26 (24.53%) JIRA
2 18 (16.98%) Git
3 10 (9.43%) GitLab
4 5 (4.72%) Postman
4 5 (4.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (3.77%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.77%) Gatling
5 4 (3.77%) JUnit
5 4 (3.77%) Zephyr
6 3 (2.83%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.83%) JMeter
6 3 (2.83%) Mockito
6 3 (2.83%) Selenium
7 2 (1.89%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.89%) Flyway
7 2 (1.89%) Gradle
7 2 (1.89%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.89%) Maven
7 2 (1.89%) NeoLoad
General
1 25 (23.58%) Finance
1 25 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.87%) Banking
3 13 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.60%) Law
6 3 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.83%) Retail
7 2 (1.89%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.89%) Military
8 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (34.91%) Developer
2 19 (17.92%) Senior
3 11 (10.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 10 (9.43%) Java Developer
4 10 (9.43%) Lead
5 9 (8.49%) Architect
6 8 (7.55%) .NET Developer
6 8 (7.55%) IAM Developer
6 8 (7.55%) Senior Developer
7 7 (6.60%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Java Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.72%) Test Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Backend Developer
9 4 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Python Developer
9 4 (3.77%) React Developer
9 4 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.77%) Test Automation Engineer
10 3 (2.83%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (22.64%) Kafka
2 21 (19.81%) Spring
3 19 (17.92%) React
4 18 (16.98%) Spring Boot
5 15 (14.15%) .NET
6 10 (9.43%) ASP.NET
6 10 (9.43%) HTML
6 10 (9.43%) Node.js
6 10 (9.43%) SailPoint
6 10 (9.43%) SOAP
7 9 (8.49%) JSON
7 9 (8.49%) Web Services
8 8 (7.55%) .NET Core
8 8 (7.55%) OpenID
9 7 (6.60%) AngularJS
9 7 (6.60%) LDAP
9 7 (6.60%) OAuth
9 7 (6.60%) Playwright
9 7 (6.60%) RESTful
9 7 (6.60%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.92%) Cloud Native
2 14 (13.21%) Product Ownership
3 13 (12.26%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (8.49%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (7.55%) AI Agents
6 7 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (4.72%) Autonomous Agent
7 5 (4.72%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.77%) NHS
8 4 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.83%) Blog
9 3 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.89%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.94%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.55%) Windows
2 1 (0.94%) Linux
2 1 (0.94%) Unix
2 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (53.77%) CI/CD
2 44 (41.51%) Agile
3 38 (35.85%) DevOps
4 36 (33.96%) Microservices
5 31 (29.25%) Test Automation
6 30 (28.30%) Event-Driven
7 24 (22.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (19.81%) AI
8 21 (19.81%) Software Engineering
9 19 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (17.92%) RBAC
10 18 (16.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 18 (16.98%) Observability
11 16 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (15.09%) Validation
12 15 (14.15%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (12.26%) API Development
13 13 (12.26%) LLM
14 12 (11.32%) Integration Patterns
14 12 (11.32%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (45.28%) Java
2 34 (32.08%) SQL
3 29 (27.36%) Python
4 14 (13.21%) C#
4 14 (13.21%) TypeScript
5 13 (12.26%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.55%) PowerShell
7 7 (6.60%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.83%) ABAP
9 2 (1.89%) Bash
9 2 (1.89%) Cypher
9 2 (1.89%) PromQL
9 2 (1.89%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.89%) VBA
10 1 (0.94%) COBOL
10 1 (0.94%) Scala
10 1 (0.94%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.94%) X++
Qualifications
1 4 (3.77%) Degree
1 4 (3.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.83%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.26%) QA
2 5 (4.72%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.77%) WCAG
4 3 (2.83%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.89%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.94%) GRC
6 1 (0.94%) HL7
6 1 (0.94%) SEPA
System Software
1 25 (23.58%) Docker
2 11 (10.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (24.53%) Kubernetes
2 17 (16.04%) Ansible
3 6 (5.66%) Grafana
4 4 (3.77%) Kustomize
5 3 (2.83%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.89%) Consul
6 2 (1.89%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.94%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.94%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.94%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.94%) Puppet
7 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.94%) WMI
Vendors
1 23 (21.70%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.26%) Google
3 11 (10.38%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.66%) Centrify
4 6 (5.66%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.83%) Okta
5 3 (2.83%) Oracle
5 3 (2.83%) SAP
5 3 (2.83%) Sitecore
5 3 (2.83%) Splunk
6 2 (1.89%) IBM
6 2 (1.89%) Solace
7 1 (0.94%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.94%) Databricks
7 1 (0.94%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.94%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.94%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.94%) Quadient
7 1 (0.94%) Workday