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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 72 80
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing REST 80 12 25
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.15% 1.17% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.46% 6.03% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 7 12
10th Percentile £372 £500 £330
25th Percentile £450 £524 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £581 £663 £738
90th Percentile £700 £685 -
England median daily rate £506 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -5.64% -2.50% -3.85%

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 486 199 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 25.22% 19.41% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 125 278
10th Percentile £363 £416 £371
25th Percentile £417 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £560 £622 £588
90th Percentile £675 £738 £650
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £53.88 £35.91 £16.08
25th Percentile £55.75 £66.95 £21.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £96.21 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.27% +327.59% -67.86%
75th Percentile £57.25 £102.00 £26.78
90th Percentile £57.63 - £47.91
England median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -7.60% +16.82% -17.69%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 58 £500 -16.67% 11
West Yorkshire -8 20 £588 +17.50% 19
North Yorkshire - 2 £419 - 6
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 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 56 (70.00%) AWS
2 48 (60.00%) GCP
3 32 (40.00%) Serverless
4 28 (35.00%) Azure
5 11 (13.75%) GitHub
6 8 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (10.00%) SaaS
7 6 (7.50%) AWS KMS
8 5 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.00%) npm
10 3 (3.75%) Akamai
10 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.75%) Cloudflare
10 3 (3.75%) OCI
10 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.75%) Slack
11 2 (2.50%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) HTTP
2 3 (3.75%) Firewall
2 3 (3.75%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (32.50%) NoSQL
2 20 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.75%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.25%) MySQL
4 5 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (5.00%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.75%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.75%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.75%) Power BI
7 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.50%) DataStage
7 2 (2.50%) DB2
7 2 (2.50%) Metadata
8 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 39 (48.75%) GitLab
3 25 (31.25%) JIRA
4 21 (26.25%) Liquibase
5 16 (20.00%) Postman
6 12 (15.00%) Selenium
7 11 (13.75%) Cucumber
8 9 (11.25%) REST Assured
9 7 (8.75%) Git
9 7 (8.75%) TestRail
10 4 (5.00%) Babel
10 4 (5.00%) Gatling
10 4 (5.00%) JMeter
10 4 (5.00%) LoadRunner
10 4 (5.00%) NeoLoad
10 4 (5.00%) webpack
11 3 (3.75%) Zephyr
12 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
12 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
12 2 (2.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 40 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 37 (46.25%) Finance
3 31 (38.75%) Banking
4 21 (26.25%) Financial Institution
5 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (26.25%) Software Engineer
2 18 (22.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (18.75%) GCP Engineer
4 13 (16.25%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (15.00%) Senior
6 11 (13.75%) AWS Software Engineer
6 11 (13.75%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (11.25%) Developer
7 9 (11.25%) Lead
8 8 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
8 8 (10.00%) Test Engineer
9 7 (8.75%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 6 (7.50%) Architect
10 6 (7.50%) Automation Test Lead
11 5 (6.25%) Consultant
11 5 (6.25%) GCP Software Engineer
11 5 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
12 4 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
12 4 (5.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (33.75%) Elastic Stack
2 26 (32.50%) RESTful
3 14 (17.50%) LDAP
3 14 (17.50%) OpenID
3 14 (17.50%) SailPoint
4 8 (10.00%) XML
5 7 (8.75%) .NET
5 7 (8.75%) JSON
5 7 (8.75%) React
6 6 (7.50%) Node.js
6 6 (7.50%) Playwright
7 5 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (6.25%) SOAP
8 4 (5.00%) CSS
8 4 (5.00%) HTML
8 4 (5.00%) Jest
8 4 (5.00%) Redux
8 4 (5.00%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.75%) HTML5
9 3 (3.75%) lodash
Miscellaneous
1 28 (35.00%) Cloud Native
2 27 (33.75%) Public Cloud
3 26 (32.50%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.25%) SCORM
5 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.75%) Learning Management System
5 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.75%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.50%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (38.75%) Linux
2 2 (2.50%) Windows
3 1 (1.25%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.25%) Unix
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (75.00%) DevOps
2 57 (71.25%) CI/CD
3 48 (60.00%) Agile
4 33 (41.25%) Containerisation
5 31 (38.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (38.75%) Microservices
6 28 (35.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 27 (33.75%) Test Automation
8 26 (32.50%) Computer Science
9 25 (31.25%) Non-Functional Testing
9 25 (31.25%) Software Engineering
10 24 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (30.00%) Cryptography
11 23 (28.75%) Continuous Delivery
11 23 (28.75%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (27.50%) Data Security
12 22 (27.50%) High Availability
13 20 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
14 18 (22.50%) Change Management
15 17 (21.25%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 42 (52.50%) Python
2 29 (36.25%) Java
3 28 (35.00%) Go
4 22 (27.50%) SQL
5 13 (16.25%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.75%) C#
6 7 (8.75%) PHP
6 7 (8.75%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.50%) Groovy
8 4 (5.00%) Cypher
8 4 (5.00%) Scala
9 2 (2.50%) Bash
9 2 (2.50%) Delphi
9 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.50%) XPath
10 1 (1.25%) Bicep
10 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (37.50%) Degree
2 26 (32.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (30.00%) Master's Degree
4 7 (8.75%) AWS Certification
4 7 (8.75%) Security Cleared
5 4 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.75%) CEH
6 3 (3.75%) GIAC
6 3 (3.75%) GWAPT
6 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (38.75%) Docker
2 5 (6.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 33 (41.25%) Terraform
2 31 (38.75%) Ansible
2 31 (38.75%) Kubernetes
3 27 (33.75%) Grafana
3 27 (33.75%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.50%) Puppet
5 1 (1.25%) Istio
5 1 (1.25%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (33.75%) Splunk
2 17 (21.25%) Google
3 16 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 9 (11.25%) Oracle
5 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.75%) F5
6 3 (3.75%) Imperva
7 2 (2.50%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.50%) Informatica
7 2 (2.50%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.25%) Commvault
8 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.25%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.25%) Workday
8 1 (1.25%) Zscaler