RESTful Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

RESTful
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring RESTful skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 66 85
Rank change year-on-year -25 +19 +10
Contract jobs citing RESTful 51 23 15
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.28% 2.50% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.66% 12.37% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 14 14
10th Percentile £400 £393 £402
25th Percentile £465 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% +5.95% -14.47%
75th Percentile £532 £625 £538
90th Percentile £606 £779 £548
England median daily rate £486 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.75% - -16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Yorkshire

RESTful 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 528 186 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.56% 20.24% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 114 245
10th Percentile £371 £365 £333
25th Percentile £444 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £738 £650
England median daily rate £525 £537 £540
% change year-on-year -2.28% -0.51% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 5
10th Percentile - £84.38 £16.08
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.67 £21.25
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 £62.00
90th Percentile - - £63.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RESTful relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

RESTful job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing RESTful.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing RESTful

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in Yorkshire

RESTful
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing RESTful.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing RESTful

RESTful
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 RESTful within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 March 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 -33 28 £525 -1.50% 7
West Yorkshire -16 22 £500 -20.00% 12
North Yorkshire -9 1 £550 +109.52% 1
RESTful
England

RESTful
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 2 (3.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 36 (70.59%) GCP
2 30 (58.82%) AWS
3 22 (43.14%) Serverless
4 16 (31.37%) Azure
5 6 (11.76%) AWS KMS
6 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.88%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Functions
7 3 (5.88%) Cloud Run
7 3 (5.88%) GitHub
7 3 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.92%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (3.92%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.96%) Datadog
9 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (45.10%) NoSQL
2 21 (41.18%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.92%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.92%) Cloud Spanner
4 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (37.25%) Jenkins
2 18 (35.29%) GitLab
3 11 (21.57%) Git
4 9 (17.65%) Liquibase
5 2 (3.92%) JIRA
6 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.96%) JUnit
6 1 (1.96%) Mockito
6 1 (1.96%) Vite
6 1 (1.96%) webpack
General
1 25 (49.02%) Social Skills
2 23 (45.10%) Finance
3 20 (39.22%) Banking
4 12 (23.53%) Financial Institution
5 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.84%) Health Technology
7 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Developer
1 17 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) GCP Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) Senior Software Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (11.76%) Java Developer
6 5 (9.80%) AWS Software Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (7.84%) .NET Software Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) GCP DevOps
8 3 (5.88%) GCP Software Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (37.25%) REST
2 18 (35.29%) React
3 17 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (17.65%) Node.js
5 7 (13.73%) .NET
6 5 (9.80%) Spring
6 5 (9.80%) Spring Boot
7 4 (7.84%) .NET Core
7 4 (7.84%) AngularJS
7 4 (7.84%) FHIR
8 3 (5.88%) CSS
8 3 (5.88%) CSS3
8 3 (5.88%) HTML
8 3 (5.88%) HTML5
8 3 (5.88%) JWT
8 3 (5.88%) OAuth
8 3 (5.88%) OAuth2
8 3 (5.88%) OpenID
8 3 (5.88%) SAML
9 2 (3.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (39.22%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (35.29%) Public Cloud
3 17 (33.33%) Cloud Native
4 5 (9.80%) NHS
4 5 (9.80%) Product Ownership
5 4 (7.84%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (35.29%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Android
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (74.51%) Microservices
2 36 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 32 (62.75%) Agile
3 32 (62.75%) Containerisation
4 29 (56.86%) DevOps
5 25 (49.02%) Software Engineering
6 24 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (37.25%) Root Cause Analysis
8 18 (35.29%) Computer Science
8 18 (35.29%) Cryptography
9 16 (31.37%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (29.41%) Continuous Delivery
10 15 (29.41%) Non-Functional Testing
11 14 (27.45%) Data Encryption
11 14 (27.45%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (27.45%) High Availability
12 13 (25.49%) Clean Code
13 12 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (21.57%) Cost Optimisation
14 11 (21.57%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 24 (47.06%) Python
2 19 (37.25%) Go
3 15 (29.41%) Java
4 9 (17.65%) SQL
5 8 (15.69%) TypeScript
6 7 (13.73%) C#
6 7 (13.73%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.88%) Bash
7 3 (5.88%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 18 (35.29%) Degree
2 16 (31.37%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.96%) CCSP
5 1 (1.96%) CEH
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.96%) CISM
5 1 (1.96%) CISSP
5 1 (1.96%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) HL7
2 2 (3.92%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.92%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.96%) COBIT
3 1 (1.96%) NIST
3 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (56.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 25 (49.02%) Terraform
3 19 (37.25%) Ansible
4 18 (35.29%) Grafana
4 18 (35.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (33.33%) Splunk
2 15 (29.41%) Google
3 4 (7.84%) Brio
4 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.88%) Okta
5 2 (3.92%) Ping Identity
5 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle