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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 81 99
Rank change year-on-year +15 +18 -12
Contract jobs citing REST 26 18 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.54% 1.07% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.54% 5.20% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 20
10th Percentile £370 £363 £413
25th Percentile £418 £375 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -15.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £631 £550 £538
90th Percentile £665 £630 £575
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -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 192 346 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.77% 20.53% 18.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 228 320
10th Percentile £360 £350 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £730 £675 £689
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 6
10th Percentile £84.38 £13.37 £61.25
25th Percentile £84.67 £13.87 £63.44
Median hourly rate £96.85 £22.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +330.42% -67.86% +106.86%
75th Percentile £102.00 £43.75 -
90th Percentile - £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 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 2 May 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
South Yorkshire +10 14 £550 +23.60% 16
West Yorkshire +24 12 £500 +5.26% 39
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 9 (34.62%) GitHub
2 4 (15.38%) OpenShift
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) GCP
3 3 (11.54%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) SMTP
2 6 (23.08%) SAN
3 5 (19.23%) SSL
4 4 (15.38%) HTTP
4 4 (15.38%) NAS
5 1 (3.85%) BGP
5 1 (3.85%) EIGRP
5 1 (3.85%) Network Security
5 1 (3.85%) OSPF
5 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Git
2 5 (19.23%) JIRA
3 3 (11.54%) GitLab
3 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.54%) webpack
4 2 (7.69%) Selenium
4 2 (7.69%) TestNG
5 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.85%) JUnit
5 1 (3.85%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Banking
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Legal
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Angular Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Applications Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) DevOps Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Kafka
1 5 (19.23%) LDAP
1 5 (19.23%) pytest
1 5 (19.23%) Web Services
2 4 (15.38%) AngularJS
2 4 (15.38%) CSS
2 4 (15.38%) Flask
2 4 (15.38%) HTML
2 4 (15.38%) Middleware
2 4 (15.38%) RESTful
2 4 (15.38%) SOAP
3 2 (7.69%) Ajax
4 1 (3.85%) Django
4 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.85%) JDBC
4 1 (3.85%) JSON
4 1 (3.85%) React
4 1 (3.85%) SAML
4 1 (3.85%) XML
4 1 (3.85%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (15.38%) Clustering
3 2 (7.69%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.85%) CMDB
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) ITSM
2 9 (34.62%) SIEM
3 8 (30.77%) Containerisation
3 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
5 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (19.23%) High Availability
6 4 (15.38%) DevOps
6 4 (15.38%) Key Management
6 4 (15.38%) SDLC
6 4 (15.38%) Workflow
7 3 (11.54%) Agile
7 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
7 3 (11.54%) Loose Coupling
7 3 (11.54%) Microservices
8 2 (7.69%) BDD
8 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (7.69%) Migration
8 2 (7.69%) TDD
8 2 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) PowerShell
2 9 (34.62%) Python
3 6 (23.08%) Bash
3 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Ansible
2 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 5 (19.23%) Grafana
3 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.69%) Puppet
4 2 (7.69%) Terraform
4 2 (7.69%) vRealize
5 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Confluent
1 5 (19.23%) Splunk
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco
3 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.69%) 3PAR
4 2 (7.69%) Brocade
4 2 (7.69%) EMC
4 2 (7.69%) HP
4 2 (7.69%) VMware