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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 58 75
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 +31
Contract jobs citing REST 86 22 26
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.02% 2.49% 1.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.17% 12.50% 6.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 12 15
10th Percentile £408 £455 £330
25th Percentile £450 £500 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £574 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +20.90% -11.63%
75th Percentile £609 £641 £731
90th Percentile £742 £673 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.10% -2.50%

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 501 176 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.43% 19.93% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 108 259
10th Percentile £363 £400 £350
25th Percentile £447 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £568 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £729 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 6
10th Percentile £55.38 £87.75 £16.94
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £57.25 £102.00 £24.64
Median % change year-on-year -43.87% +313.96% -64.80%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £53.20
90th Percentile - - £62.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -15 59 £525 -12.50% 9
West Yorkshire -14 25 £456 -8.75% 18
North Yorkshire - 2 £419 - 4
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 7 (8.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 52 (60.47%) AWS
2 50 (58.14%) GCP
3 34 (39.53%) Azure
4 26 (30.23%) Serverless
5 14 (16.28%) GitHub
6 8 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (9.30%) SaaS
7 6 (6.98%) AWS KMS
7 6 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.65%) Apigee
8 4 (4.65%) ChatGPT
8 4 (4.65%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.49%) OCI
9 3 (3.49%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.33%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.33%) Cloudflare
10 2 (2.33%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.49%) HTTP
2 2 (2.33%) Firewall
2 2 (2.33%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.16%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.16%) DHCP
3 1 (1.16%) DNS
3 1 (1.16%) Network Security
3 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (24.42%) NoSQL
2 20 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.14%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.81%) MySQL
4 5 (5.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (4.65%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.49%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.49%) Power BI
7 2 (2.33%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.33%) DataStage
7 2 (2.33%) DB2
7 2 (2.33%) Metadata
8 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (61.63%) Jenkins
2 40 (46.51%) GitLab
3 27 (31.40%) JIRA
4 17 (19.77%) Liquibase
5 14 (16.28%) Selenium
6 13 (15.12%) Cucumber
6 13 (15.12%) Postman
7 11 (12.79%) REST Assured
8 7 (8.14%) Git
8 7 (8.14%) TestRail
9 4 (4.65%) Gatling
9 4 (4.65%) JMeter
9 4 (4.65%) LoadRunner
9 4 (4.65%) NeoLoad
10 3 (3.49%) Zephyr
11 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
11 2 (2.33%) Maven
11 2 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (2.33%) SpecFlow
12 1 (1.16%) JUnit
General
1 36 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 35 (40.70%) Finance
3 27 (31.40%) Banking
4 16 (18.60%) Financial Institution
5 8 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.81%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (22.09%) Cloud Engineer
1 19 (22.09%) GCP Engineer
2 16 (18.60%) Software Engineer
3 14 (16.28%) Senior
4 11 (12.79%) Architect
4 11 (12.79%) Senior Software Engineer
5 10 (11.63%) Developer
5 10 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (11.63%) Lead
6 8 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Test Automation Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Test Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Automation Test Lead
7 6 (6.98%) AWS Software Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) GCP Software Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (27.91%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (26.74%) RESTful
3 16 (18.60%) LDAP
3 16 (18.60%) OpenID
3 16 (18.60%) SailPoint
4 9 (10.47%) .NET
5 8 (9.30%) JSON
5 8 (9.30%) XML
6 6 (6.98%) Playwright
6 6 (6.98%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.81%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (5.81%) SOAP
8 4 (4.65%) OpenAPI
8 4 (4.65%) Swagger
9 3 (3.49%) Node.js
10 2 (2.33%) Spring
10 2 (2.33%) WebSockets
11 1 (1.16%) CSS
11 1 (1.16%) JSP
11 1 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.91%) Cloud Native
1 24 (27.91%) Public Cloud
2 23 (26.74%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.81%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.81%) SCORM
4 4 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.49%) Learning Management System
5 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.33%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.33%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.33%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (33.72%) Linux
2 3 (3.49%) Windows
3 2 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.16%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.16%) Unix
4 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (73.26%) CI/CD
2 60 (69.77%) DevOps
3 45 (52.33%) Agile
4 33 (38.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (36.05%) Containerisation
6 28 (32.56%) Microservices
7 27 (31.40%) Test Automation
8 26 (30.23%) Root Cause Analysis
9 21 (24.42%) Computer Science
9 21 (24.42%) Cryptography
9 21 (24.42%) Software Engineering
10 20 (23.26%) Non-Functional Testing
11 19 (22.09%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (22.09%) Cost Optimisation
11 19 (22.09%) Data Security
11 19 (22.09%) High Availability
12 18 (20.93%) Change Management
12 18 (20.93%) Continuous Delivery
12 18 (20.93%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (18.60%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (55.81%) Python
2 27 (31.40%) Java
3 25 (29.07%) SQL
4 24 (27.91%) Go
5 10 (11.63%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.47%) Bash
6 9 (10.47%) Groovy
7 7 (8.14%) C#
7 7 (8.14%) PHP
8 5 (5.81%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.65%) Cypher
9 4 (4.65%) Scala
9 4 (4.65%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.33%) Delphi
10 2 (2.33%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (2.33%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.33%) XPath
11 1 (1.16%) Bicep
11 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (29.07%) Degree
2 21 (24.42%) Computer Science Degree
2 21 (24.42%) Master's Degree
3 7 (8.14%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.81%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.33%) CEH
6 2 (2.33%) GIAC
6 2 (2.33%) GWAPT
6 2 (2.33%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.16%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) QA
2 3 (3.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (30.23%) Docker
2 5 (5.81%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 32 (37.21%) Ansible
1 32 (37.21%) Kubernetes
1 32 (37.21%) Terraform
2 26 (30.23%) Grafana
3 24 (27.91%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.65%) Istio
4 4 (4.65%) Puppet
5 3 (3.49%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (30.23%) Splunk
2 21 (24.42%) Google
3 19 (22.09%) ServiceNow
4 8 (9.30%) Oracle
5 6 (6.98%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.65%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.65%) F5
6 4 (4.65%) OpenAI
7 3 (3.49%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.33%) Commvault
8 2 (2.33%) Imperva
8 2 (2.33%) Informatica
8 2 (2.33%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (2.33%) New Relic
8 2 (2.33%) Veritas
9 1 (1.16%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.16%) Cribl.io
9 1 (1.16%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.16%) Workday
9 1 (1.16%) Zscaler