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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 71 80
Rank change year-on-year +15 +9 +18
Contract jobs citing REST 79 14 27
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.13% 1.45% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.67% 7.41% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 9 13
10th Percentile £405 £500 £330
25th Percentile £450 £549 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% -14.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £738
90th Percentile £700 £680 -
England median daily rate £506 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -5.42% -2.73% -1.79%

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 474 189 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.75% 19.61% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 119 276
10th Percentile £372 £425 £375
25th Percentile £450 £454 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £564 £622 £600
90th Percentile £675 £728 £650
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £54.25 £87.75 £16.08
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £102.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.61% +353.33% -67.86%
75th Percentile £57.63 - £26.78
90th Percentile £62.30 - £47.91
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -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 26 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 26 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 -14 56 £515 -14.17% 9
West Yorkshire 0 21 £588 +17.50% 19
North Yorkshire - 2 £419 - 8
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 3 (3.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 55 (69.62%) AWS
2 48 (60.76%) GCP
3 31 (39.24%) Azure
4 30 (37.97%) Serverless
5 10 (12.66%) GitHub
6 8 (10.13%) SaaS
7 7 (8.86%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (7.59%) AWS KMS
8 6 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.06%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.80%) Akamai
10 3 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (3.80%) Cloudflare
10 3 (3.80%) OCI
10 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.53%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.53%) ChatGPT
11 2 (2.53%) Collibra
11 2 (2.53%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) HTTP
2 3 (3.80%) Firewall
2 3 (3.80%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (31.65%) NoSQL
2 20 (25.32%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.86%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.33%) MySQL
4 5 (6.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (5.06%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.80%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.80%) Power BI
7 2 (2.53%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.53%) DataStage
7 2 (2.53%) DB2
7 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.53%) Metadata
8 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (62.03%) Jenkins
2 39 (49.37%) GitLab
3 26 (32.91%) JIRA
4 20 (25.32%) Liquibase
5 15 (18.99%) Postman
6 13 (16.46%) Selenium
7 12 (15.19%) Cucumber
8 10 (12.66%) REST Assured
9 8 (10.13%) Git
10 7 (8.86%) TestRail
11 4 (5.06%) Gatling
11 4 (5.06%) JMeter
11 4 (5.06%) LoadRunner
11 4 (5.06%) NeoLoad
12 3 (3.80%) Zephyr
13 2 (2.53%) Babel
13 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
13 2 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (2.53%) SpecFlow
13 2 (2.53%) webpack
General
1 38 (48.10%) Social Skills
2 36 (45.57%) Finance
3 28 (35.44%) Banking
4 21 (26.58%) Financial Institution
5 7 (8.86%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (24.05%) Software Engineer
2 17 (21.52%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (17.72%) GCP Engineer
4 12 (15.19%) Senior
5 11 (13.92%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (13.92%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (11.39%) Architect
6 9 (11.39%) AWS Software Engineer
6 9 (11.39%) Developer
6 9 (11.39%) Lead
7 8 (10.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (10.13%) Test Automation Engineer
7 8 (10.13%) Test Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) Automation Test Lead
8 6 (7.59%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 5 (6.33%) Consultant
9 5 (6.33%) Oracle Consultant
10 4 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (5.06%) Test Architect
10 4 (5.06%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.91%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (31.65%) RESTful
3 15 (18.99%) LDAP
3 15 (18.99%) OpenID
3 15 (18.99%) SailPoint
4 9 (11.39%) .NET
5 8 (10.13%) XML
6 7 (8.86%) JSON
7 6 (7.59%) Playwright
8 5 (6.33%) Node.js
8 5 (6.33%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (6.33%) SOAP
9 4 (5.06%) React
9 4 (5.06%) Spring Boot
10 3 (3.80%) CSS
10 3 (3.80%) HTML
10 3 (3.80%) Jest
11 2 (2.53%) lodash
11 2 (2.53%) Redux
11 2 (2.53%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 27 (34.18%) Cloud Native
2 26 (32.91%) Public Cloud
3 25 (31.65%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.33%) SCORM
5 3 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.80%) Learning Management System
5 3 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.80%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.53%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.53%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (37.97%) Linux
2 2 (2.53%) Windows
3 1 (1.27%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.27%) Unix
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (77.22%) DevOps
2 58 (73.42%) CI/CD
3 47 (59.49%) Agile
4 32 (40.51%) Containerisation
5 30 (37.97%) Microservices
6 29 (36.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (35.44%) Root Cause Analysis
8 27 (34.18%) Test Automation
9 25 (31.65%) Software Engineering
10 24 (30.38%) Computer Science
10 24 (30.38%) Non-Functional Testing
11 23 (29.11%) Continuous Integration
11 23 (29.11%) Cryptography
11 23 (29.11%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (27.85%) Continuous Delivery
12 22 (27.85%) Data Security
12 22 (27.85%) High Availability
13 19 (24.05%) Cost Optimisation
14 17 (21.52%) Change Management
14 17 (21.52%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 41 (51.90%) Python
2 29 (36.71%) Java
3 27 (34.18%) Go
4 23 (29.11%) SQL
5 12 (15.19%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.86%) C#
6 7 (8.86%) PHP
7 6 (7.59%) Groovy
7 6 (7.59%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.06%) Cypher
8 4 (5.06%) Scala
9 2 (2.53%) Bash
9 2 (2.53%) Delphi
9 2 (2.53%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.53%) XPath
10 1 (1.27%) Bicep
10 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (35.44%) Degree
2 24 (30.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (29.11%) Master's Degree
4 7 (8.86%) Security Cleared
5 6 (7.59%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.80%) CEH
6 3 (3.80%) GIAC
6 3 (3.80%) GWAPT
6 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.27%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.39%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) GDPR
3 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (37.97%) Docker
2 5 (6.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 31 (39.24%) Terraform
2 30 (37.97%) Ansible
2 30 (37.97%) Kubernetes
3 26 (32.91%) Grafana
3 26 (32.91%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.53%) Puppet
5 1 (1.27%) Istio
5 1 (1.27%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (32.91%) Splunk
2 17 (21.52%) Google
2 17 (21.52%) ServiceNow
3 9 (11.39%) Oracle
4 5 (6.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.80%) F5
5 3 (3.80%) Imperva
6 2 (2.53%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.53%) Informatica
6 2 (2.53%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.27%) Commvault
7 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.27%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.27%) Workday
7 1 (1.27%) Zscaler