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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 76 77
Rank change year-on-year +16 +1 +17
Contract jobs citing REST 78 9 29
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.11% 0.83% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.56% 4.50% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 5 17
10th Percentile £371 - £330
25th Percentile £443 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.23% -0.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £650 £725
90th Percentile £700 £665 £738
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -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 471 200 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.83% 18.54% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 124 292
10th Percentile £362 £419 £375
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +0.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £600
90th Percentile £675 £738 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £53.13 £35.91 £16.08
25th Percentile £54.81 £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 £57.44 £102.00 £26.78
90th Percentile £57.78 - £47.91
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.74% -19.70%

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 2 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 2 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 -6 56 £476 -13.23% 12
West Yorkshire +6 20 £538 +7.50% 22
North Yorkshire - 2 £419 - 2
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 (1.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 54 (69.23%) AWS
2 46 (58.97%) GCP
3 34 (43.59%) Serverless
4 24 (30.77%) Azure
5 11 (14.10%) GitHub
6 8 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (10.26%) SaaS
7 6 (7.69%) AWS KMS
7 6 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.13%) npm
10 3 (3.85%) Akamai
10 3 (3.85%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.85%) Cloudflare
10 3 (3.85%) OCI
10 3 (3.85%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.85%) Slack
11 2 (2.56%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.56%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) HTTP
2 3 (3.85%) Firewall
2 3 (3.85%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (38.46%) NoSQL
2 22 (28.21%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.97%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.41%) MySQL
4 5 (6.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (3.85%) Power BI
6 2 (2.56%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.56%) DataStage
6 2 (2.56%) DB2
6 2 (2.56%) Metadata
6 2 (2.56%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (62.82%) Jenkins
2 37 (47.44%) GitLab
3 23 (29.49%) Liquibase
4 20 (25.64%) JIRA
5 12 (15.38%) Postman
6 10 (12.82%) Selenium
7 9 (11.54%) Cucumber
8 8 (10.26%) Git
9 7 (8.97%) REST Assured
9 7 (8.97%) TestRail
10 4 (5.13%) Babel
10 4 (5.13%) webpack
11 3 (3.85%) Zephyr
12 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket
12 2 (2.56%) Maven
12 2 (2.56%) SonarQube
12 2 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (2.56%) SpecFlow
13 1 (1.28%) SoapUI
13 1 (1.28%) Spinnaker
General
1 42 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 39 (50.00%) Finance
3 35 (44.87%) Banking
4 23 (29.49%) Financial Institution
5 7 (8.97%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (26.92%) Software Engineer
2 18 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (19.23%) GCP Engineer
4 13 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (15.38%) Senior
6 11 (14.10%) AWS Software Engineer
6 11 (14.10%) Developer
6 11 (14.10%) Senior Software Engineer
7 10 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (8.97%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Lead
10 5 (6.41%) Consultant
10 5 (6.41%) GCP Software Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) Oracle Consultant
10 5 (6.41%) Python Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) Test Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (38.46%) RESTful
2 29 (37.18%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (10.26%) JSON
3 8 (10.26%) LDAP
3 8 (10.26%) Node.js
3 8 (10.26%) OpenID
3 8 (10.26%) SailPoint
4 7 (8.97%) .NET
4 7 (8.97%) React
4 7 (8.97%) XML
5 5 (6.41%) CSS
5 5 (6.41%) CSS3
5 5 (6.41%) HTML
5 5 (6.41%) HTML5
5 5 (6.41%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (5.13%) Jest
6 4 (5.13%) Redux
6 4 (5.13%) SOAP
6 4 (5.13%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.85%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 28 (35.90%) Distributed Systems
1 28 (35.90%) Public Cloud
2 27 (34.62%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.41%) SCORM
4 3 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.85%) Learning Management System
4 3 (3.85%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.56%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (42.31%) Linux
2 2 (2.56%) Windows
3 1 (1.28%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.28%) Unix
3 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (75.64%) DevOps
2 56 (71.79%) CI/CD
3 46 (58.97%) Agile
4 35 (44.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (44.87%) Microservices
5 33 (42.31%) Containerisation
6 30 (38.46%) Root Cause Analysis
7 29 (37.18%) Computer Science
8 27 (34.62%) Software Engineering
9 26 (33.33%) Cryptography
9 26 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
9 26 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
10 25 (32.05%) Continuous Integration
11 24 (30.77%) Continuous Delivery
11 24 (30.77%) Data Security
11 24 (30.77%) High Availability
12 22 (28.21%) Cost Optimisation
13 21 (26.92%) Test Automation
14 20 (25.64%) Change Management
15 19 (24.36%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 43 (55.13%) Python
2 30 (38.46%) Go
3 24 (30.77%) Java
4 22 (28.21%) SQL
5 12 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.97%) C#
6 7 (8.97%) PHP
7 6 (7.69%) Groovy
8 5 (6.41%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.85%) Bash
10 2 (2.56%) Delphi
10 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.56%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.56%) XPath
11 1 (1.28%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 33 (42.31%) Degree
2 29 (37.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (33.33%) Master's Degree
4 9 (11.54%) AWS Certification
5 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
6 6 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) CEH
7 3 (3.85%) GIAC
7 3 (3.85%) GWAPT
7 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.28%) CISSP
9 1 (1.28%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (1.28%) GCIH
9 1 (1.28%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.54%) QA
2 3 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 35 (44.87%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 37 (47.44%) Terraform
2 35 (44.87%) Kubernetes
3 33 (42.31%) Ansible
4 29 (37.18%) Grafana
4 29 (37.18%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.56%) Puppet
6 1 (1.28%) Istio
6 1 (1.28%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.28%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (38.46%) Splunk
2 17 (21.79%) Google
3 10 (12.82%) ServiceNow
4 8 (10.26%) Oracle
5 5 (6.41%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.85%) F5
6 3 (3.85%) Imperva
7 2 (2.56%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.56%) Informatica
7 2 (2.56%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.28%) Commvault
8 1 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.28%) Darktrace
8 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.28%) IBM
8 1 (1.28%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.28%) Zscaler