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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 65 88
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 +18
Contract jobs citing REST 87 24 18
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.76% 2.53% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.32% 13.04% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 14 11
10th Percentile £372 £368 £330
25th Percentile £447 £401 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +12.36% -15.24%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £606
90th Percentile £643 £668 £725
England median daily rate £506 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -3.25% -0.38% -4.55%

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 533 184 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.05% 19.41% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 111 227
10th Percentile £363 £360 £345
25th Percentile £431 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £613 £738 £650
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 5
10th Percentile - £84.38 £13.12
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.67 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £96.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +330.42% -67.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £102.00 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £47.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -17 51 £500 -9.09% 6
West Yorkshire -5 33 £454 -4.42% 15
North Yorkshire - 3 £413 - 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 9 (10.34%) Confluence
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.45%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (47.13%) AWS
2 38 (43.68%) GCP
3 37 (42.53%) Azure
4 19 (21.84%) Serverless
5 18 (20.69%) GitHub
6 11 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (12.64%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (10.34%) SaaS
8 7 (8.05%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.75%) Apigee
10 4 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.60%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (4.60%) ChatGPT
10 4 (4.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (4.60%) Power Platform
11 3 (3.45%) AWS KMS
11 3 (3.45%) Azure App Service
11 3 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (3.45%) Azure WebJobs
11 3 (3.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) BIG-IP
1 1 (1.15%) DHCP
1 1 (1.15%) DNS
1 1 (1.15%) HTTP
1 1 (1.15%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.15%) Network Security
1 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.54%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (13.79%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.20%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.75%) MySQL
4 5 (5.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 4 (4.60%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (3.45%) Power BI
7 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.30%) DataStage
7 2 (2.30%) DB2
7 2 (2.30%) Metadata
7 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (52.87%) Jenkins
2 32 (36.78%) GitLab
3 29 (33.33%) JIRA
4 16 (18.39%) Selenium
5 14 (16.09%) Cucumber
5 14 (16.09%) Postman
6 13 (14.94%) Git
7 12 (13.79%) REST Assured
8 8 (9.20%) Liquibase
9 7 (8.05%) TestRail
10 5 (5.75%) Gatling
10 5 (5.75%) JMeter
11 4 (4.60%) LoadRunner
11 4 (4.60%) NeoLoad
12 3 (3.45%) Maven
12 3 (3.45%) Zephyr
13 2 (2.30%) Gradle
13 2 (2.30%) JUnit
13 2 (2.30%) SoapUI
13 2 (2.30%) SpecFlow
General
1 25 (28.74%) Finance
1 25 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.54%) Banking
3 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.05%) Financial Institution
5 6 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (18.39%) Developer
1 16 (18.39%) GCP Engineer
2 15 (17.24%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (11.49%) Architect
3 10 (11.49%) Lead
4 9 (10.34%) Software Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) Test Automation Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) Test Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) Consultant
5 7 (8.05%) Senior
6 6 (6.90%) Automation Test Lead
6 6 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Oracle Consultant
7 5 (5.75%) Test Architect
7 5 (5.75%) Test Automation Architect
8 4 (4.60%) AWS Software Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.69%) LDAP
1 18 (20.69%) OpenID
2 17 (19.54%) SailPoint
3 16 (18.39%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (16.09%) RESTful
5 13 (14.94%) .NET
6 10 (11.49%) SOAP
7 9 (10.34%) Playwright
8 8 (9.20%) Spring Boot
9 7 (8.05%) JSON
9 7 (8.05%) XML
10 6 (6.90%) OpenAPI
10 6 (6.90%) Swagger
11 5 (5.75%) Oracle Fusion
11 5 (5.75%) Web Services
12 4 (4.60%) Kafka
12 4 (4.60%) Node.js
12 4 (4.60%) React
12 4 (4.60%) Spring
13 3 (3.45%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.24%) Cloud Native
1 15 (17.24%) Public Cloud
2 14 (16.09%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.75%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.75%) SCORM
4 4 (4.60%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.45%) Learning Management System
5 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.30%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.30%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.30%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.15%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.15%) NHS
7 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.15%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.84%) Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Windows
3 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.15%) Unix
4 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (67.82%) CI/CD
2 54 (62.07%) DevOps
3 40 (45.98%) Agile
4 30 (34.48%) Test Automation
5 23 (26.44%) Containerisation
5 23 (26.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (21.84%) Microservices
7 17 (19.54%) API Testing
7 17 (19.54%) Root Cause Analysis
8 16 (18.39%) Identity Access Management
9 14 (16.09%) Scenario Testing
9 14 (16.09%) Software Engineering
9 14 (16.09%) System Integration Testing
9 14 (16.09%) Validation
10 13 (14.94%) Data Ingestion
10 13 (14.94%) Data Protection
10 13 (14.94%) ETL
10 13 (14.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (14.94%) User Acceptance Testing
11 12 (13.79%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (47.13%) Python
2 30 (34.48%) Java
3 23 (26.44%) SQL
4 15 (17.24%) JavaScript
5 14 (16.09%) Go
6 11 (12.64%) C#
7 10 (11.49%) Bash
8 9 (10.34%) PowerShell
9 8 (9.20%) Groovy
10 7 (8.05%) PHP
11 6 (6.90%) TypeScript
12 4 (4.60%) Cypher
12 4 (4.60%) Scala
13 3 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (3.45%) T-SQL
14 2 (2.30%) Delphi
14 2 (2.30%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (2.30%) XPath
15 1 (1.15%) Bicep
15 1 (1.15%) X++
Qualifications
1 15 (17.24%) Degree
2 11 (12.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (12.64%) Master's Degree
2 11 (12.64%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.75%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.34%) QA
2 3 (3.45%) GDPR
3 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.30%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.30%) WCAG
4 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 20 (22.99%) Docker
2 5 (5.75%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (29.89%) Kubernetes
2 24 (27.59%) Ansible
3 23 (26.44%) Terraform
4 17 (19.54%) Grafana
5 14 (16.09%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.60%) Istio
6 4 (4.60%) NetBackup
6 4 (4.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (21.84%) ServiceNow
2 17 (19.54%) Splunk
3 16 (18.39%) Google
4 10 (11.49%) Microsoft
5 9 (10.34%) Oracle
6 5 (5.75%) Red Hat
7 4 (4.60%) Dynatrace
7 4 (4.60%) OpenAI
8 3 (3.45%) Commvault
8 3 (3.45%) Veritas
9 2 (2.30%) F5
9 2 (2.30%) IBM
9 2 (2.30%) Informatica
9 2 (2.30%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (2.30%) New Relic
10 1 (1.15%) Cribl.io
10 1 (1.15%) Infoblox
10 1 (1.15%) Okta
10 1 (1.15%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (1.15%) Workday