REST Contracts in Yorkshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 84 90
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing REST 27 22 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.05% 1.28% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.69% 6.16% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 20
10th Percentile £362 £375 £398
25th Percentile £385 £434 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £579 £538
90th Percentile £629 £650 £543
England median daily rate £500 £522 £550
% change year-on-year -4.20% -5.10% -4.35%

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 231 357 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.58% 20.83% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 228 329
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £406 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £625
90th Percentile £634 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 £13.87 £61.25
Median hourly rate £91.69 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.70% - +84.69%
75th Percentile £98.56 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.75 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.94% -10.31% +21.50%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Yorkshire

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for REST in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for REST in Yorkshire

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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 5 July 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
West Yorkshire +18 15 £486 +2.38% 59
South Yorkshire -11 12 £435 -20.91% 27
REST
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) GCP
2 5 (18.52%) GitHub
3 4 (14.81%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) OpenShift
4 3 (11.11%) npm
5 2 (7.41%) Serverless
6 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) SAN
2 5 (18.52%) SMTP
2 5 (18.52%) SSL
3 4 (14.81%) HTTP
3 4 (14.81%) NAS
4 1 (3.70%) BGP
4 1 (3.70%) EIGRP
4 1 (3.70%) Network Security
4 1 (3.70%) OSPF
4 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Git
2 6 (22.22%) GitLab
2 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 6 (22.22%) JIRA
3 3 (11.11%) webpack
4 2 (7.41%) Liquibase
4 2 (7.41%) Selenium
4 2 (7.41%) TestNG
5 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.70%) JUnit
5 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Financial Institution
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Developer
2 3 (11.11%) Angular Developer
2 3 (11.11%) Architect
2 3 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (11.11%) Consultant
2 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow Developer
2 3 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Administrator
3 2 (7.41%) Applications Architect
3 2 (7.41%) DevOps Administrator
3 2 (7.41%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow Administrator
4 1 (3.70%) Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) RESTful
2 5 (18.52%) Kafka
2 5 (18.52%) LDAP
2 5 (18.52%) pytest
3 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
3 4 (14.81%) CSS
3 4 (14.81%) Flask
3 4 (14.81%) HTML
3 4 (14.81%) Middleware
3 4 (14.81%) SOAP
3 4 (14.81%) Web Services
4 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (7.41%) JSON
5 1 (3.70%) Ajax
5 1 (3.70%) Django
5 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.70%) JDBC
5 1 (3.70%) Node.js
5 1 (3.70%) XML
5 1 (3.70%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Clustering
2 3 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) CMDB
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.41%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
1 10 (37.04%) Containerisation
2 8 (29.63%) DevOps
2 8 (29.63%) ITSM
2 8 (29.63%) Test Automation
3 7 (25.93%) High Availability
4 6 (22.22%) Microservices
4 6 (22.22%) SDLC
5 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (18.52%) SIEM
6 4 (14.81%) Agile
6 4 (14.81%) Change Management
6 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
6 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (14.81%) Key Management
6 4 (14.81%) Workflow
7 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (11.11%) Loose Coupling
7 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
3 6 (22.22%) Bash
3 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.41%) Go
4 2 (7.41%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.70%) CISSP
3 1 (3.70%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (3.70%) GCIH
3 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
2 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 5 (18.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Ansible
2 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
3 7 (25.93%) Grafana
3 7 (25.93%) Prometheus
4 4 (14.81%) Terraform
5 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
5 2 (7.41%) Puppet
5 2 (7.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Splunk
2 5 (18.52%) Confluent
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle
3 4 (14.81%) ServiceNow
4 3 (11.11%) Cisco
4 3 (11.11%) Google
5 2 (7.41%) 3PAR
5 2 (7.41%) Brocade
5 2 (7.41%) EMC
5 2 (7.41%) HP
5 2 (7.41%) VMware
6 1 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.70%) Darktrace
6 1 (3.70%) IBM
6 1 (3.70%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft