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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 62 87
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 +13
Contract jobs citing REST 80 27 18
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.22% 2.61% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.39% 14.52% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 16 13
10th Percentile £363 £373 £363
25th Percentile £425 £434 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £525 £445
Median % change year-on-year -12.14% +17.98% -15.24%
75th Percentile £541 £628 £550
90th Percentile £635 £663 £630
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -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 556 186 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.37% 17.97% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 114 227
10th Percentile £366 £360 £375
25th Percentile £432 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £613
90th Percentile £625 £684 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 8
10th Percentile £53.50 £88.26 £13.50
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.41 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £102.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +353.33% -67.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -21 45 £500 -9.09% 16
West Yorkshire +2 33 £454 -13.52% 9
North Yorkshire - 1 £413 - 3
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 8 (10.00%) Confluence
2 4 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.75%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.25%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (48.75%) Azure
2 36 (45.00%) AWS
3 27 (33.75%) GCP
4 16 (20.00%) GitHub
5 10 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (8.75%) Entra ID
7 7 (8.75%) SaaS
8 6 (7.50%) Serverless
9 5 (6.25%) Apigee
10 4 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (5.00%) ChatGPT
10 4 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
11 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.75%) Azure App Service
11 3 (3.75%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (3.75%) Azure WebJobs
11 3 (3.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) BIG-IP
1 1 (1.25%) DHCP
1 1 (1.25%) DNS
1 1 (1.25%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.25%) Network Security
1 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.25%) MySQL
2 5 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.00%) Neo4j
4 3 (3.75%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (3.75%) Power BI
5 2 (2.50%) Metadata
5 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.25%) DataStage
6 1 (1.25%) DB2
6 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (41.25%) Jenkins
2 28 (35.00%) JIRA
3 21 (26.25%) GitLab
4 15 (18.75%) Selenium
5 13 (16.25%) REST Assured
6 12 (15.00%) Cucumber
6 12 (15.00%) Postman
7 10 (12.50%) Git
8 6 (7.50%) Gatling
9 5 (6.25%) JMeter
9 5 (6.25%) TestRail
10 4 (5.00%) Liquibase
10 4 (5.00%) LoadRunner
10 4 (5.00%) NeoLoad
11 3 (3.75%) Maven
12 2 (2.50%) Gradle
12 2 (2.50%) JUnit
12 2 (2.50%) SoapUI
13 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
13 1 (1.25%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 17 (21.25%) Finance
3 12 (15.00%) Banking
4 8 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (18.75%) Developer
2 11 (13.75%) Architect
2 11 (13.75%) Lead
3 10 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
3 10 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) Senior
5 7 (8.75%) Consultant
6 6 (7.50%) Automation Test Lead
6 6 (7.50%) GCP Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
7 5 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Test Architect
7 5 (6.25%) Test Automation Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) GCP DevOps
9 3 (3.75%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.50%) LDAP
1 18 (22.50%) OpenID
2 17 (21.25%) SailPoint
3 13 (16.25%) .NET
4 11 (13.75%) SOAP
5 8 (10.00%) Playwright
6 7 (8.75%) Spring Boot
7 6 (7.50%) Kafka
7 6 (7.50%) OpenAPI
7 6 (7.50%) Swagger
8 5 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (6.25%) Spring
8 5 (6.25%) Web Services
9 4 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (5.00%) JSON
9 4 (5.00%) JSP
9 4 (5.00%) Node.js
9 4 (5.00%) React
9 4 (5.00%) XML
10 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.25%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.25%) SCORM
4 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.75%) Learning Management System
5 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.25%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (1.25%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Linux
2 6 (7.50%) Windows
3 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.50%) Unix
4 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 40 (50.00%) DevOps
3 29 (36.25%) Agile
4 27 (33.75%) Test Automation
5 16 (20.00%) API Testing
5 16 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 16 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
6 14 (17.50%) Scenario Testing
6 14 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 14 (17.50%) System Integration Testing
7 13 (16.25%) Data Ingestion
7 13 (16.25%) Observability
7 13 (16.25%) Software Engineering
7 13 (16.25%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (15.00%) ETL
8 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (15.00%) Microservices
8 12 (15.00%) Test Strategy
9 11 (13.75%) Data Protection
9 11 (13.75%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.50%) Java
1 30 (37.50%) Python
2 25 (31.25%) SQL
3 12 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 11 (13.75%) PowerShell
5 9 (11.25%) Bash
6 7 (8.75%) C#
6 7 (8.75%) PHP
7 6 (7.50%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.00%) Cypher
8 4 (5.00%) Go
8 4 (5.00%) Groovy
8 4 (5.00%) Scala
9 3 (3.75%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.50%) Delphi
10 2 (2.50%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.50%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.50%) Degree
3 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.75%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.75%) GDPR
3 2 (2.50%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.50%) WCAG
4 1 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.25%) GRC
4 1 (1.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 14 (17.50%) Docker
2 5 (6.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
2 12 (15.00%) Ansible
2 12 (15.00%) Terraform
3 6 (7.50%) Grafana
4 4 (5.00%) Istio
4 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.75%) NetBackup
5 3 (3.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (28.75%) ServiceNow
2 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
3 10 (12.50%) Google
4 8 (10.00%) Oracle
5 7 (8.75%) Splunk
6 4 (5.00%) Dynatrace
6 4 (5.00%) OpenAI
6 4 (5.00%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.75%) Veritas
8 2 (2.50%) Commvault
8 2 (2.50%) F5
8 2 (2.50%) IBM
8 2 (2.50%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (2.50%) New Relic
9 1 (1.25%) Cribl.io
9 1 (1.25%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.25%) Informatica
9 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.25%) Okta
9 1 (1.25%) Workday