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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 65 84
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 +17
Contract jobs citing REST 75 25 17
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.16% 2.50% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.15% 13.16% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 15 12
10th Percentile £371 £370 £330
25th Percentile £427 £418 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £500 £423
Median % change year-on-year -7.75% +18.34% -19.52%
75th Percentile £558 £631 £488
90th Percentile £688 £665 £544
England median daily rate £513 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +0.24% -2.62% -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 530 190 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.31% 19.00% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 116 216
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £623 £731 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 6
10th Percentile - £84.38 £13.25
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.67 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £96.85 £18.19
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +432.55% -74.02%
75th Percentile £68.75 £102.00 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £43.75
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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -24 39 £496 -9.77% 4
West Yorkshire -6 33 £454 -9.20% 18
North Yorkshire - 3 £413 - 5
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 (10.67%) Confluence
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (50.67%) Azure
2 34 (45.33%) AWS
3 28 (37.33%) GCP
4 16 (21.33%) GitHub
5 11 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (12.00%) Serverless
7 7 (9.33%) Entra ID
7 7 (9.33%) SaaS
8 5 (6.67%) Apigee
9 4 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (5.33%) ChatGPT
9 4 (5.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.00%) Azure App Service
10 3 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.00%) Azure WebJobs
10 3 (4.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) BIG-IP
1 1 (1.33%) DHCP
1 1 (1.33%) DNS
1 1 (1.33%) HTTP
1 1 (1.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.33%) Network Security
1 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.67%) MySQL
3 5 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 4 (5.33%) Neo4j
5 3 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.67%) Metadata
6 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.67%) Power BI
6 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.33%) DataStage
7 1 (1.33%) DB2
7 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 27 (36.00%) JIRA
3 22 (29.33%) GitLab
4 16 (21.33%) Selenium
5 14 (18.67%) Cucumber
5 14 (18.67%) Postman
6 13 (17.33%) Git
7 12 (16.00%) REST Assured
8 7 (9.33%) TestRail
9 5 (6.67%) Gatling
9 5 (6.67%) JMeter
9 5 (6.67%) Liquibase
10 4 (5.33%) LoadRunner
10 4 (5.33%) NeoLoad
11 3 (4.00%) Maven
11 3 (4.00%) Zephyr
12 2 (2.67%) Gradle
12 2 (2.67%) JUnit
12 2 (2.67%) SoapUI
12 2 (2.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (21.33%) Finance
2 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.00%) Banking
4 8 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (17.33%) Developer
2 10 (13.33%) Architect
2 10 (13.33%) Lead
3 9 (12.00%) Senior
3 9 (12.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 9 (12.00%) Test Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) Consultant
4 7 (9.33%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Automation Test Lead
5 6 (8.00%) GCP Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Oracle Consultant
6 5 (6.67%) Test Architect
6 5 (6.67%) Test Automation Architect
7 4 (5.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Test Leader
8 3 (4.00%) GCP DevOps
8 3 (4.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.00%) LDAP
1 18 (24.00%) OpenID
2 17 (22.67%) SailPoint
3 13 (17.33%) .NET
4 9 (12.00%) Playwright
4 9 (12.00%) SOAP
5 8 (10.67%) Spring Boot
6 6 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (8.00%) JSON
6 6 (8.00%) OpenAPI
6 6 (8.00%) Swagger
6 6 (8.00%) XML
7 5 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (6.67%) Web Services
8 4 (5.33%) Kafka
8 4 (5.33%) Node.js
8 4 (5.33%) React
8 4 (5.33%) RESTful
8 4 (5.33%) Spring
9 3 (4.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.67%) Public Cloud
2 5 (6.67%) SCORM
3 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.00%) Learning Management System
4 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.67%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.33%) CMDB
6 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.33%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.33%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.00%) Linux
2 4 (5.33%) Windows
3 2 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.67%) Unix
4 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 40 (53.33%) DevOps
3 28 (37.33%) Agile
4 27 (36.00%) Test Automation
5 17 (22.67%) API Testing
6 16 (21.33%) Identity Access Management
7 14 (18.67%) Scenario Testing
7 14 (18.67%) System Integration Testing
8 13 (17.33%) Containerisation
8 13 (17.33%) Data Ingestion
8 13 (17.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (17.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (17.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (17.33%) Validation
9 12 (16.00%) ETL
9 12 (16.00%) Event-Driven
9 12 (16.00%) Software Engineering
9 12 (16.00%) Test Strategy
10 11 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (14.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.33%) Python
2 28 (37.33%) Java
3 23 (30.67%) SQL
4 13 (17.33%) JavaScript
5 9 (12.00%) Bash
5 9 (12.00%) C#
5 9 (12.00%) PowerShell
6 7 (9.33%) PHP
7 6 (8.00%) TypeScript
8 5 (6.67%) Go
9 4 (5.33%) Cypher
9 4 (5.33%) Groovy
9 4 (5.33%) Scala
10 3 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (2.67%) Delphi
11 2 (2.67%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (2.67%) XPath
12 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.33%) VBA
12 1 (1.33%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.00%) Degree
3 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) GDPR
3 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.67%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.67%) WCAG
4 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 15 (20.00%) Docker
2 5 (6.67%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (17.33%) Terraform
3 12 (16.00%) Ansible
4 7 (9.33%) Grafana
5 4 (5.33%) Istio
5 4 (5.33%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.00%) NetBackup
6 3 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (26.67%) ServiceNow
2 10 (13.33%) Google
2 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.67%) Oracle
4 7 (9.33%) Splunk
5 4 (5.33%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.33%) OpenAI
5 4 (5.33%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.00%) Veritas
7 2 (2.67%) Commvault
7 2 (2.67%) F5
7 2 (2.67%) IBM
7 2 (2.67%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.67%) New Relic
8 1 (1.33%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.33%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.33%) Informatica
8 1 (1.33%) Okta
8 1 (1.33%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.33%) Workday