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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 83 79
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing REST 61 11 31
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.40% 0.81% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.63% 4.15% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 7 20
10th Percentile £363 £485 £330
25th Percentile £438 £500 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.85% +9.71% -
75th Percentile £575 £580 £725
90th Percentile £715 £628 £738
England median daily rate £500 £535 £570
% change year-on-year -6.54% -6.14% -0.87%

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 417 265 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.23% 19.49% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 173 301
10th Percentile £358 £425 £375
25th Percentile £406 £463 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +4.90% -4.67%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £721 £650
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £22.12 £30.30
25th Percentile - £32.46 £35.59
Median hourly rate - £53.30 £44.39
Median % change year-on-year - +20.08% -11.22%
75th Percentile - £76.77 £53.20
90th Percentile - £88.69 £58.48
England median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.62% +18.18% -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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 45 £500 -11.31% 2
West Yorkshire +1 14 £613 +25.64% 13
North Yorkshire - 2 £419 -
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 (1.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 45 (73.77%) AWS
2 37 (60.66%) GCP
3 36 (59.02%) Serverless
4 12 (19.67%) Azure
5 9 (14.75%) GitHub
6 6 (9.84%) AWS KMS
6 6 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.56%) npm
9 3 (4.92%) Akamai
9 3 (4.92%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.92%) Cloudflare
9 3 (4.92%) Slack
10 2 (3.28%) AtomSphere
10 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.28%) Boomi
10 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) HTTP
2 3 (4.92%) Firewall
2 3 (4.92%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (52.46%) NoSQL
2 20 (32.79%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.92%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.92%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.28%) Power BI
5 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.64%) DataStage
5 1 (1.64%) DB2
5 1 (1.64%) Metadata
5 1 (1.64%) MySQL
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (68.85%) Jenkins
2 33 (54.10%) GitLab
3 24 (39.34%) Liquibase
4 12 (19.67%) JIRA
5 9 (14.75%) Git
6 5 (8.20%) Postman
7 4 (6.56%) Babel
7 4 (6.56%) webpack
8 3 (4.92%) SonarQube
9 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
9 2 (3.28%) Cucumber
9 2 (3.28%) Selenium
9 2 (3.28%) SpecFlow
9 2 (3.28%) TestRail
9 2 (3.28%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.64%) Gradle
10 1 (1.64%) Maven
10 1 (1.64%) Mocha
10 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (62.30%) Social Skills
2 37 (60.66%) Finance
3 34 (55.74%) Banking
4 25 (40.98%) Financial Institution
5 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.64%) Legal
7 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) Software Engineer
2 17 (27.87%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (24.59%) GCP Engineer
4 13 (21.31%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (19.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (19.67%) Senior
6 11 (18.03%) AWS Software Engineer
6 11 (18.03%) Developer
6 11 (18.03%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (11.48%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 6 (9.84%) Python Engineer
9 5 (8.20%) GCP Software Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.92%) Architect
11 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (4.92%) Java Developer
11 3 (4.92%) Node.js Developer
12 2 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (52.46%) RESTful
2 31 (50.82%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (13.11%) JSON
3 8 (13.11%) Node.js
4 7 (11.48%) React
4 7 (11.48%) XML
5 5 (8.20%) CSS
5 5 (8.20%) CSS3
5 5 (8.20%) HTML
5 5 (8.20%) HTML5
6 4 (6.56%) Jest
6 4 (6.56%) Redux
6 4 (6.56%) SOAP
7 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.92%) Bootstrap
7 3 (4.92%) lodash
8 2 (3.28%) DOM
8 2 (3.28%) Express.js
8 2 (3.28%) Sass
8 2 (3.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (47.54%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (45.90%) Cloud Native
2 28 (45.90%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.92%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 33 (54.10%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (86.89%) DevOps
2 47 (77.05%) CI/CD
3 42 (68.85%) Agile
4 36 (59.02%) Microservices
5 34 (55.74%) Containerisation
5 34 (55.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (50.82%) Computer Science
6 31 (50.82%) Root Cause Analysis
7 28 (45.90%) Cryptography
8 27 (44.26%) Cybersecurity
9 26 (42.62%) Continuous Integration
9 26 (42.62%) Non-Functional Testing
9 26 (42.62%) Software Engineering
10 25 (40.98%) Continuous Delivery
10 25 (40.98%) Data Security
10 25 (40.98%) High Availability
11 23 (37.70%) Cost Optimisation
12 20 (32.79%) Change Management
13 19 (31.15%) Data Encryption
13 19 (31.15%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (60.66%) Python
2 31 (50.82%) Go
3 17 (27.87%) Java
4 11 (18.03%) SQL
5 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.20%) Groovy
6 5 (8.20%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.56%) C#
8 2 (3.28%) Bash
8 2 (3.28%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.28%) XPath
9 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (50.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 31 (50.82%) Degree
2 28 (45.90%) Master's Degree
3 11 (18.03%) AWS Certification
4 8 (13.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
5 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) CEH
6 3 (4.92%) GIAC
6 3 (4.92%) GWAPT
7 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.64%) CISSP
8 1 (1.64%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.64%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (52.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (59.02%) Terraform
2 35 (57.38%) Kubernetes
3 34 (55.74%) Ansible
4 31 (50.82%) Grafana
4 31 (50.82%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.28%) Puppet
6 1 (1.64%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (52.46%) Splunk
2 19 (31.15%) Google
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.92%) F5
4 3 (4.92%) Imperva
5 2 (3.28%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.28%) Oracle
5 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.64%) Commvault
6 1 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.64%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.64%) IBM
6 1 (1.64%) Informatica
6 1 (1.64%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.64%) Zscaler