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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 75 84
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 +6
Contract jobs citing REST 100 27 22
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.59% 2.05% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.29% 11.69% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 18 16
10th Percentile £363 £362 £375
25th Percentile £412 £385 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £461 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.28% -2.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £528 £575 £579
90th Percentile £608 £629 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £522
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.20% -5.10%

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 614 231 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.02% 17.58% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 144 228
10th Percentile £366 £358 £400
25th Percentile £447 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% -10.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £579 £550 £603
90th Percentile £638 £634 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 5
10th Percentile £27.40 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +46.70% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £58.30
% change year-on-year +12.55% -0.94% -10.31%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +9 61 £496 +14.08% 7
West Yorkshire -6 36 £454 -6.64% 9
North Yorkshire - 2 £413 - 1
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 (12.00%) Confluence
2 6 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (3.00%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (39.00%) Azure
2 33 (33.00%) AWS
3 27 (27.00%) GCP
4 25 (25.00%) GitHub
5 14 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (11.00%) Serverless
7 9 (9.00%) Entra ID
8 7 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (7.00%) Power Platform
9 6 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (6.00%) Slack
10 5 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.00%) Apigee
11 4 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (4.00%) Cloud Run
12 3 (3.00%) Azure App Service
12 3 (3.00%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (3.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (3.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.00%) HTTP
2 1 (1.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.00%) DHCP
2 1 (1.00%) DNS
2 1 (1.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.00%) Network Security
2 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.00%) Neo4j
3 6 (6.00%) Power BI
4 3 (3.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.00%) MySQL
5 2 (2.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.00%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.00%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.00%) Metadata
6 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.00%) Redis
6 1 (1.00%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (36.00%) Jenkins
2 30 (30.00%) JIRA
3 19 (19.00%) Git
4 17 (17.00%) GitLab
5 8 (8.00%) Gatling
6 7 (7.00%) Cucumber
6 7 (7.00%) JMeter
6 7 (7.00%) Postman
6 7 (7.00%) Selenium
7 6 (6.00%) NeoLoad
7 6 (6.00%) REST Assured
8 5 (5.00%) Liquibase
9 4 (4.00%) LoadRunner
10 3 (3.00%) JUnit
10 3 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (2.00%) Flyway
11 2 (2.00%) git-flow
11 2 (2.00%) Maven
11 2 (2.00%) Mockito
11 2 (2.00%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (24.00%) Finance
2 21 (21.00%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.00%) Banking
4 6 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.00%) Law
6 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.00%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.00%) Retail
8 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.00%) Military
8 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (33.00%) Developer
2 17 (17.00%) Senior
3 14 (14.00%) Architect
4 9 (9.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 8 (8.00%) .NET Developer
5 8 (8.00%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.00%) IAM Developer
6 7 (7.00%) Lead
6 7 (7.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 7 (7.00%) Test Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) GCP Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.00%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Backend Developer
8 5 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Test Architect
8 5 (5.00%) Test Automation Architect
9 4 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.00%) .NET
2 14 (14.00%) Spring
3 13 (13.00%) SailPoint
3 13 (13.00%) SOAP
3 13 (13.00%) Spring Boot
4 12 (12.00%) LDAP
4 12 (12.00%) OpenID
5 10 (10.00%) Node.js
5 10 (10.00%) Playwright
5 10 (10.00%) RESTful
5 10 (10.00%) Web Services
6 9 (9.00%) React
7 8 (8.00%) Kafka
8 7 (7.00%) ASP.NET
8 7 (7.00%) OpenAPI
8 7 (7.00%) Swagger
9 6 (6.00%) .NET Framework
10 5 (5.00%) .NET Core
10 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 14 (14.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.00%) Blog
5 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.00%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.00%) NHS
7 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.00%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.00%) TM Forum
7 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.00%) Windows
2 6 (6.00%) Linux
3 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.00%) Unix
4 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (52.00%) CI/CD
2 46 (46.00%) DevOps
3 39 (39.00%) Agile
4 27 (27.00%) Test Automation
5 25 (25.00%) Microservices
6 24 (24.00%) Event-Driven
7 17 (17.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (17.00%) Observability
8 16 (16.00%) Validation
9 15 (15.00%) Containerisation
10 14 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (14.00%) RBAC
11 13 (13.00%) AI
11 13 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (13.00%) Identity Access Management
11 13 (13.00%) Software Engineering
12 12 (12.00%) API Development
13 11 (11.00%) Cloud Security
13 11 (11.00%) ITSM
13 11 (11.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (40.00%) Java
2 36 (36.00%) Python
3 29 (29.00%) SQL
4 15 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 13 (13.00%) C#
6 11 (11.00%) TypeScript
7 9 (9.00%) JavaScript
8 8 (8.00%) Bash
9 6 (6.00%) Cypher
10 4 (4.00%) Scala
11 3 (3.00%) Go
11 3 (3.00%) Groovy
11 3 (3.00%) Kotlin
11 3 (3.00%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (3.00%) VBA
12 2 (2.00%) ABAP
12 2 (2.00%) PromQL
12 2 (2.00%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (2.00%) VB.NET
13 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.00%) Degree
2 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.00%) QA
2 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.00%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.00%) WCAG
4 1 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.00%) GRC
4 1 (1.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 22 (22.00%) Docker
2 6 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 21 (21.00%) Ansible
1 21 (21.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.00%) Grafana
3 9 (9.00%) Terraform
4 6 (6.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.00%) Istio
5 3 (3.00%) NetBackup
5 3 (3.00%) Puppet
6 2 (2.00%) Consul
6 2 (2.00%) Zipkin
7 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.00%) ServiceNow
3 16 (16.00%) Google
4 7 (7.00%) Splunk
5 4 (4.00%) Centrify
5 4 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 4 (4.00%) Oracle
5 4 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.00%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.00%) Veritas
7 2 (2.00%) Commvault
7 2 (2.00%) F5
7 2 (2.00%) IBM
7 2 (2.00%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.00%) New Relic
7 2 (2.00%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.00%) SAP
7 2 (2.00%) Solace
8 1 (1.00%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (1.00%) Okta