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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 66 81
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 +18
Contract jobs citing REST 73 26 18
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.00% 2.54% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.54% 13.54% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 15 13
10th Percentile £369 £370 £363
25th Percentile £425 £418 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +12.36% -15.24%
75th Percentile £553 £631 £550
90th Percentile £653 £665 £630
England median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -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 539 192 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.16% 18.77% 20.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 117 228
10th Percentile £366 £360 £350
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £560 £600 £600
90th Percentile £625 £730 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 7
10th Percentile - £84.38 £13.37
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.67 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £96.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +330.42% -67.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £102.00 £43.75
90th Percentile - - £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -30 39 £480 -12.68% 5
West Yorkshire -9 33 £454 -9.20% 13
North Yorkshire - 1 £413 - 3
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 8 (10.96%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.11%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.37%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.37%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.37%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (50.68%) Azure
2 34 (46.58%) AWS
3 27 (36.99%) GCP
4 14 (19.18%) GitHub
5 9 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (9.59%) Entra ID
6 7 (9.59%) SaaS
6 7 (9.59%) Serverless
7 5 (6.85%) Apigee
8 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.48%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (5.48%) ChatGPT
8 4 (5.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (4.11%) Azure App Service
9 3 (4.11%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.11%) Azure WebJobs
9 3 (4.11%) OCI
9 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) BIG-IP
1 1 (1.37%) DHCP
1 1 (1.37%) DNS
1 1 (1.37%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.37%) Network Security
1 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.85%) MySQL
2 5 (6.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.48%) Neo4j
4 3 (4.11%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.74%) Metadata
5 2 (2.74%) Power BI
6 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.37%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.37%) DataStage
6 1 (1.37%) DB2
6 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (43.84%) Jenkins
2 25 (34.25%) JIRA
3 21 (28.77%) GitLab
4 14 (19.18%) Selenium
5 12 (16.44%) Cucumber
5 12 (16.44%) Postman
5 12 (16.44%) REST Assured
6 10 (13.70%) Git
7 5 (6.85%) Gatling
7 5 (6.85%) JMeter
7 5 (6.85%) TestRail
8 4 (5.48%) Liquibase
8 4 (5.48%) LoadRunner
8 4 (5.48%) NeoLoad
9 3 (4.11%) Maven
10 2 (2.74%) Gradle
10 2 (2.74%) JUnit
10 2 (2.74%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.37%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.37%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (20.55%) Finance
2 14 (19.18%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.33%) Banking
4 8 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.85%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (17.81%) Developer
2 10 (13.70%) Architect
3 9 (12.33%) Lead
3 9 (12.33%) Senior
3 9 (12.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Test Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Consultant
5 6 (8.22%) GCP Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Automation Test Lead
6 5 (6.85%) Oracle Consultant
6 5 (6.85%) Test Architect
6 5 (6.85%) Test Automation Architect
7 4 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Azure Developer
8 3 (4.11%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.66%) LDAP
1 18 (24.66%) OpenID
2 17 (23.29%) SailPoint
3 13 (17.81%) .NET
4 9 (12.33%) SOAP
5 7 (9.59%) Playwright
5 7 (9.59%) Spring Boot
6 6 (8.22%) OpenAPI
6 6 (8.22%) Swagger
7 5 (6.85%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (6.85%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (6.85%) Web Services
8 4 (5.48%) JSON
8 4 (5.48%) JSP
8 4 (5.48%) Kafka
8 4 (5.48%) React
8 4 (5.48%) Spring
8 4 (5.48%) XML
9 3 (4.11%) GraphQL
9 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.22%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.85%) SCORM
4 4 (5.48%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.11%) Learning Management System
5 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.74%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.37%) CMDB
7 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.37%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.37%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.96%) Linux
2 4 (5.48%) Windows
3 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.74%) Unix
4 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (58.90%) CI/CD
2 37 (50.68%) DevOps
3 26 (35.62%) Agile
3 26 (35.62%) Test Automation
4 16 (21.92%) Identity Access Management
5 15 (20.55%) API Testing
6 14 (19.18%) Scenario Testing
6 14 (19.18%) System Integration Testing
7 13 (17.81%) Data Ingestion
7 13 (17.81%) Event-Driven
7 13 (17.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (17.81%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (16.44%) Containerisation
8 12 (16.44%) ETL
8 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (16.44%) Software Engineering
9 11 (15.07%) Data Protection
9 11 (15.07%) Test Strategy
9 11 (15.07%) Validation
10 10 (13.70%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 28 (38.36%) Python
2 27 (36.99%) Java
3 22 (30.14%) SQL
4 12 (16.44%) JavaScript
5 9 (12.33%) Bash
5 9 (12.33%) PowerShell
6 7 (9.59%) C#
6 7 (9.59%) PHP
7 6 (8.22%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.48%) Cypher
8 4 (5.48%) Go
8 4 (5.48%) Groovy
8 4 (5.48%) Scala
9 3 (4.11%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.74%) Delphi
10 2 (2.74%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (1.37%) Bicep
11 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.85%) Degree
2 5 (6.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.37%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.70%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) GDPR
3 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.74%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.74%) WCAG
4 1 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 14 (19.18%) Docker
2 5 (6.85%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (19.18%) Kubernetes
2 12 (16.44%) Terraform
3 10 (13.70%) Ansible
4 6 (8.22%) Grafana
5 4 (5.48%) Istio
6 3 (4.11%) NetBackup
6 3 (4.11%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (27.40%) ServiceNow
2 10 (13.70%) Google
3 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.96%) Oracle
4 6 (8.22%) Splunk
5 4 (5.48%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.48%) OpenAI
5 4 (5.48%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.11%) Veritas
7 2 (2.74%) Commvault
7 2 (2.74%) F5
7 2 (2.74%) IBM
7 2 (2.74%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.74%) New Relic
8 1 (1.37%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.37%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.37%) Informatica
8 1 (1.37%) Okta
8 1 (1.37%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.37%) Workday