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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 73 83
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 +10
Contract jobs citing REST 89 24 22
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.27% 2.07% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.91% 12.00% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 15 14
10th Percentile £363 £361 £375
25th Percentile £408 £385 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +5.26% -8.21%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £550
90th Percentile £614 £633 £650
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -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 597 200 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.96% 17.21% 20.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 128 225
10th Percentile £364 £358 £400
25th Percentile £442 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £615
90th Percentile £630 £608 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 6
10th Percentile £29.55 - £13.25
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £38.19
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +140.12% -38.90%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -7 51 £510 +7.37% 5
West Yorkshire -6 36 £457 -8.60% 4
North Yorkshire - 1 £413 - 8
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 (8.99%) Confluence
2 6 (6.74%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (3.37%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.12%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.12%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (37.08%) Azure
2 25 (28.09%) AWS
3 20 (22.47%) GitHub
4 19 (21.35%) GCP
5 13 (14.61%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (11.24%) Serverless
7 9 (10.11%) Entra ID
8 7 (7.87%) Power Platform
9 6 (6.74%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.74%) Slack
10 5 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.49%) Apigee
11 4 (4.49%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (3.37%) Azure App Service
12 3 (3.37%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (3.37%) Cloud Run
12 3 (3.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (3.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) HTTP
2 1 (1.12%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.12%) DHCP
2 1 (1.12%) DNS
2 1 (1.12%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.12%) Network Security
2 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.74%) Power BI
4 5 (5.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (4.49%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.12%) Metadata
8 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.12%) MySQL
8 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.12%) Redis
8 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (30.34%) Jenkins
2 24 (26.97%) JIRA
3 16 (17.98%) Git
4 14 (15.73%) GitLab
5 7 (7.87%) Cucumber
5 7 (7.87%) Selenium
6 6 (6.74%) Gatling
6 6 (6.74%) REST Assured
7 5 (5.62%) JMeter
7 5 (5.62%) Liquibase
7 5 (5.62%) Postman
8 4 (4.49%) LoadRunner
8 4 (4.49%) NeoLoad
9 3 (3.37%) JUnit
10 2 (2.25%) Flyway
10 2 (2.25%) git-flow
10 2 (2.25%) Gradle
10 2 (2.25%) Maven
10 2 (2.25%) Mockito
11 1 (1.12%) Robot Framework
General
1 19 (21.35%) Finance
2 18 (20.22%) Banking
3 15 (16.85%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.62%) Law
7 4 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (28.09%) Developer
2 15 (16.85%) Senior
3 11 (12.36%) Architect
4 9 (10.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 7 (7.87%) Consultant
5 7 (7.87%) Lead
6 6 (6.74%) GCP Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.74%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.74%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) IAM Developer
7 5 (5.62%) Oracle Consultant
7 5 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Test Architect
7 5 (5.62%) Test Automation Architect
7 5 (5.62%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.36%) SOAP
2 10 (11.24%) LDAP
2 10 (11.24%) OpenID
2 10 (11.24%) Spring
3 9 (10.11%) .NET
3 9 (10.11%) Node.js
3 9 (10.11%) SailPoint
3 9 (10.11%) Spring Boot
4 8 (8.99%) Playwright
4 8 (8.99%) React
4 8 (8.99%) RESTful
5 7 (7.87%) Kafka
5 7 (7.87%) OpenAPI
5 7 (7.87%) Swagger
6 6 (6.74%) Web Services
7 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (5.62%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (4.49%) JSON
8 4 (4.49%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.61%) Cloud Native
1 13 (14.61%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.62%) SCORM
3 4 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.37%) Blog
4 3 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.37%) Learning Management System
4 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.37%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.25%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.25%) NHS
5 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.12%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.12%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.99%) Windows
2 6 (6.74%) Linux
3 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.25%) Unix
4 1 (1.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (49.44%) CI/CD
2 42 (47.19%) DevOps
3 34 (38.20%) Agile
4 21 (23.60%) Test Automation
5 20 (22.47%) Event-Driven
6 18 (20.22%) Microservices
7 17 (19.10%) Observability
8 16 (17.98%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (17.98%) Validation
9 14 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (14.61%) Software Engineering
11 12 (13.48%) AI
11 12 (13.48%) Containerisation
11 12 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (12.36%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (12.36%) Data Protection
12 11 (12.36%) RBAC
12 11 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (12.36%) Task Automation
13 10 (11.24%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 35 (39.33%) Java
2 33 (37.08%) Python
3 21 (23.60%) SQL
4 15 (16.85%) PowerShell
5 10 (11.24%) C#
6 9 (10.11%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.11%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.99%) Bash
8 4 (4.49%) Cypher
8 4 (4.49%) Scala
9 3 (3.37%) Go
9 3 (3.37%) Groovy
9 3 (3.37%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.37%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.25%) PromQL
10 2 (2.25%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (2.25%) VBA
11 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (8.99%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.87%) Degree
3 4 (4.49%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.99%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.37%) GDPR
3 2 (2.25%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.25%) WCAG
4 1 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.12%) GRC
4 1 (1.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 14 (15.73%) Docker
2 4 (4.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (19.10%) Ansible
2 15 (16.85%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.11%) Terraform
4 8 (8.99%) Grafana
5 6 (6.74%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.37%) Istio
6 3 (3.37%) NetBackup
6 3 (3.37%) Puppet
7 2 (2.25%) Consul
7 2 (2.25%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 19 (21.35%) Microsoft
1 19 (21.35%) ServiceNow
2 11 (12.36%) Google
3 8 (8.99%) Oracle
4 7 (7.87%) Splunk
5 4 (4.49%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.37%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.37%) Veritas
7 2 (2.25%) Commvault
7 2 (2.25%) F5
7 2 (2.25%) IBM
7 2 (2.25%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.25%) New Relic
7 2 (2.25%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.25%) Solace
8 1 (1.12%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.12%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.12%) Okta
8 1 (1.12%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.12%) Sitecore