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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 77 85
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing REST 105 32 19
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.69% 2.18% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.41% 11.23% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 22 14
10th Percentile £359 £358 £375
25th Percentile £406 £364 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £407 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.69% -20.68% +2.50%
75th Percentile £515 £500 £580
90th Percentile £560 £520 £650
England median daily rate £520 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.31% -5.00%

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 603 285 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.18% 19.43% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 183 227
10th Percentile £366 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £395 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £600 £693
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £23.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +466.34% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 64 £460 +17.95% 8
West Yorkshire -2 38 £454 -6.64% 13
North Yorkshire - 2 £413 - 1
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 13 (12.38%) Confluence
2 6 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.86%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.95%) Apache
5 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.95%) CICS
5 1 (0.95%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.95%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.95%) Exstream
2 1 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.33%) Azure
2 30 (28.57%) AWS
3 28 (26.67%) GitHub
4 25 (23.81%) GCP
5 13 (12.38%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (10.48%) Serverless
7 8 (7.62%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.62%) Power Platform
8 7 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (5.71%) Entra ID
9 6 (5.71%) Slack
10 5 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.81%) Apigee
11 4 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (3.81%) Cloud Run
11 4 (3.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (2.86%) Azure App Service
12 3 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.86%) Azure WebJobs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) HTTP
2 1 (0.95%) BIG-IP
2 1 (0.95%) DHCP
2 1 (0.95%) DNS
2 1 (0.95%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.95%) Network Security
2 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.24%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.67%) Power BI
4 6 (5.71%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.90%) MySQL
5 2 (1.90%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.90%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.90%) Redis
5 2 (1.90%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.95%) Apache Arrow
6 1 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.95%) Db2
6 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.95%) Metadata
6 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.95%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.95%) Trino
Development Applications
1 30 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 25 (23.81%) JIRA
3 18 (17.14%) Git
4 10 (9.52%) GitLab
5 4 (3.81%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.81%) Gatling
5 4 (3.81%) Liquibase
5 4 (3.81%) Selenium
5 4 (3.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.86%) JMeter
6 3 (2.86%) JUnit
6 3 (2.86%) Postman
6 3 (2.86%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.90%) Flyway
7 2 (1.90%) git-flow
7 2 (1.90%) Gradle
7 2 (1.90%) Maven
7 2 (1.90%) NeoLoad
7 2 (1.90%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (24.76%) Finance
2 22 (20.95%) Banking
2 22 (20.95%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.76%) Law
6 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.86%) Retail
7 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.95%) Military
8 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (36.19%) Developer
2 20 (19.05%) Senior
3 10 (9.52%) Architect
3 10 (9.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 9 (8.57%) .NET Developer
5 8 (7.62%) Lead
5 8 (7.62%) Senior Developer
6 7 (6.67%) IAM Developer
6 7 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.71%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Backend Developer
8 5 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Python Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Senior Python Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.29%) .NET
1 15 (14.29%) Spring
2 14 (13.33%) Kafka
3 13 (12.38%) React
4 12 (11.43%) SOAP
4 12 (11.43%) Spring Boot
5 11 (10.48%) Web Services
6 10 (9.52%) Node.js
7 9 (8.57%) HTML
8 8 (7.62%) ASP.NET
8 8 (7.62%) RESTful
8 8 (7.62%) SailPoint
9 7 (6.67%) OpenAPI
9 7 (6.67%) Playwright
9 7 (6.67%) Swagger
10 6 (5.71%) .NET Core
10 6 (5.71%) .NET Framework
10 6 (5.71%) JSON
10 6 (5.71%) OAuth
10 6 (5.71%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.24%) Product Ownership
2 15 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 10 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.81%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.86%) Blog
8 3 (2.86%) NHS
8 3 (2.86%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.90%) Autonomous Agent
9 2 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.90%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.95%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.95%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.62%) Windows
2 4 (3.81%) Linux
3 2 (1.90%) Unix
4 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.95%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (49.52%) CI/CD
2 39 (37.14%) Agile
3 38 (36.19%) DevOps
4 29 (27.62%) Microservices
5 24 (22.86%) Test Automation
6 22 (20.95%) Event-Driven
7 20 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (18.10%) Observability
8 19 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (15.24%) AI
11 15 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 15 (14.29%) Software Engineering
12 13 (12.38%) API Development
12 13 (12.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (12.38%) Validation
13 12 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (11.43%) Integration Patterns
13 12 (11.43%) Performance Optimisation
13 12 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (40.00%) Java
2 34 (32.38%) Python
3 33 (31.43%) SQL
4 15 (14.29%) C#
4 15 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 14 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.71%) Bash
7 6 (5.71%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.86%) Groovy
8 3 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.86%) VBA
9 2 (1.90%) ABAP
9 2 (1.90%) Cypher
9 2 (1.90%) Go
9 2 (1.90%) PromQL
9 2 (1.90%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (1.90%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.95%) COBOL
10 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) Degree
4 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) QA
2 5 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.81%) WCAG
4 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.90%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.95%) GRC
5 1 (0.95%) SEPA
System Software
1 25 (23.81%) Docker
2 8 (7.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 21 (20.00%) Ansible
3 10 (9.52%) Terraform
4 9 (8.57%) Grafana
5 5 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.86%) Istio
6 3 (2.86%) NetBackup
6 3 (2.86%) Puppet
7 2 (1.90%) Consul
7 2 (1.90%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.95%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.95%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.95%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.95%) WMI
Vendors
1 23 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.24%) Google
3 12 (11.43%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.71%) Splunk
5 4 (3.81%) Centrify
5 4 (3.81%) CyberArk
6 3 (2.86%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.86%) IBM
6 3 (2.86%) Oracle
6 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.86%) Veritas
7 2 (1.90%) Commvault
7 2 (1.90%) F5
7 2 (1.90%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.90%) New Relic
7 2 (1.90%) Okta
7 2 (1.90%) SAP
7 2 (1.90%) Solace
8 1 (0.95%) Databricks
8 1 (0.95%) Workday