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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 62 88
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 +7
Contract jobs citing REST 92 25 18
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.46% 2.32% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.28% 13.16% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 15 13
10th Percentile £363 £361 £375
25th Percentile £411 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £550
90th Percentile £629 £633 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 602 190 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.65% 17.64% 21.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 122 239
10th Percentile £366 £358 £375
25th Percentile £442 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -
75th Percentile £563 £555 £605
90th Percentile £630 £636 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 6
10th Percentile £37.50 - £13.25
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £62.75 £91.69 £38.19
Median % change year-on-year -31.56% +140.12% -45.45%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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 30 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 30 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 -9 57 £500 +5.26% 7
West Yorkshire -11 33 £460 -8.00% 4
North Yorkshire - 1 £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 8 (8.70%) Confluence
2 6 (6.52%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (3.26%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.09%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.09%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.48%) Azure
2 34 (36.96%) AWS
3 25 (27.17%) GCP
4 20 (21.74%) GitHub
5 11 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (9.78%) Entra ID
7 8 (8.70%) Serverless
8 7 (7.61%) SaaS
9 6 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.52%) Power Platform
9 6 (6.52%) Slack
10 5 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.35%) Apigee
11 4 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (3.26%) Azure App Service
12 3 (3.26%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (3.26%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) HTTP
2 1 (1.09%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.09%) DHCP
2 1 (1.09%) DNS
2 1 (1.09%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.09%) Network Security
2 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.96%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.52%) MySQL
3 5 (5.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 5 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.43%) Power BI
4 4 (4.35%) Neo4j
5 3 (3.26%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.17%) Metadata
6 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.09%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.09%) DataStage
7 1 (1.09%) DB2
7 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (36.96%) Jenkins
2 32 (34.78%) JIRA
3 21 (22.83%) GitLab
4 15 (16.30%) Selenium
5 14 (15.22%) Cucumber
5 14 (15.22%) Git
6 13 (14.13%) REST Assured
7 11 (11.96%) Postman
8 6 (6.52%) Gatling
9 5 (5.43%) JMeter
9 5 (5.43%) Liquibase
9 5 (5.43%) TestRail
10 4 (4.35%) JUnit
10 4 (4.35%) LoadRunner
10 4 (4.35%) NeoLoad
11 3 (3.26%) Maven
12 2 (2.17%) git-flow
12 2 (2.17%) Gradle
12 2 (2.17%) Mockito
12 2 (2.17%) SoapUI
General
1 22 (23.91%) Finance
2 18 (19.57%) Banking
2 18 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.43%) Law
5 5 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (25.00%) Developer
2 13 (14.13%) Senior
3 12 (13.04%) Lead
4 11 (11.96%) Architect
5 10 (10.87%) Test Automation Engineer
5 10 (10.87%) Test Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Consultant
8 6 (6.52%) Automation Test Lead
8 6 (6.52%) GCP Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Java Developer
9 5 (5.43%) IAM Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Oracle Consultant
9 5 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Test Architect
9 5 (5.43%) Test Automation Architect
10 4 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.57%) LDAP
1 18 (19.57%) OpenID
2 17 (18.48%) SailPoint
3 13 (14.13%) .NET
4 11 (11.96%) SOAP
5 9 (9.78%) Node.js
6 8 (8.70%) Playwright
6 8 (8.70%) Spring
6 8 (8.70%) Spring Boot
7 7 (7.61%) OpenAPI
7 7 (7.61%) React
7 7 (7.61%) Swagger
8 6 (6.52%) Kafka
8 6 (6.52%) Web Services
9 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (5.43%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (5.43%) RESTful
10 4 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (4.35%) JSON
10 4 (4.35%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.04%) Cloud Native
1 12 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.43%) SCORM
3 4 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.26%) Learning Management System
4 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.26%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.17%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.17%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.09%) Blog
6 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.09%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (1.09%) TM Forum
6 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.70%) Windows
2 6 (6.52%) Linux
3 2 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.17%) Unix
4 1 (1.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (51.09%) CI/CD
2 45 (48.91%) DevOps
3 34 (36.96%) Agile
4 29 (31.52%) Test Automation
5 19 (20.65%) Event-Driven
6 17 (18.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (17.39%) API Testing
7 16 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
7 16 (17.39%) Microservices
7 16 (17.39%) Observability
8 14 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (15.22%) Scenario Testing
8 14 (15.22%) System Integration Testing
9 13 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (14.13%) Data Ingestion
9 13 (14.13%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (14.13%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (14.13%) Validation
10 12 (13.04%) AI
10 12 (13.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (43.48%) Java
2 34 (36.96%) Python
3 26 (28.26%) SQL
4 15 (16.30%) PowerShell
5 13 (14.13%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.70%) Bash
6 8 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 7 (7.61%) C#
8 5 (5.43%) PHP
9 4 (4.35%) Cypher
9 4 (4.35%) Groovy
9 4 (4.35%) Scala
10 3 (3.26%) Go
10 3 (3.26%) Kotlin
10 3 (3.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (2.17%) PromQL
11 2 (2.17%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (2.17%) VBA
12 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (8.70%) Degree
1 8 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.09%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.04%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.26%) GDPR
3 2 (2.17%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.17%) WCAG
4 1 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.09%) GRC
4 1 (1.09%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (11.96%) Docker
2 5 (5.43%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (18.48%) Ansible
2 13 (14.13%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.78%) Terraform
4 8 (8.70%) Grafana
5 6 (6.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.26%) Istio
6 3 (3.26%) NetBackup
6 3 (3.26%) Puppet
7 2 (2.17%) Consul
7 2 (2.17%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 27 (29.35%) ServiceNow
2 19 (20.65%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.87%) Google
4 9 (9.78%) Oracle
5 7 (7.61%) Splunk
6 4 (4.35%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.26%) Dynatrace
7 3 (3.26%) OpenAI
7 3 (3.26%) Veritas
8 2 (2.17%) Commvault
8 2 (2.17%) F5
8 2 (2.17%) IBM
8 2 (2.17%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (2.17%) New Relic
8 2 (2.17%) Solace
9 1 (1.09%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.09%) Informatica
9 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.09%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (1.09%) Sitecore