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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 62 94
Rank change year-on-year 0 +32 +3
Contract jobs citing RESTful 73 22 13
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.74% 2.20% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.08% 11.11% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 13 13
10th Percentile £345 - £408
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £533 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% +12.21% -16.67%
75th Percentile £525 £650 £538
90th Percentile £578 £779 £543
England median daily rate £475 £498 £525
% change year-on-year -4.52% -5.24% -12.50%

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 484 198 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.78% 19.82% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 126 279
10th Percentile £366 £416 £375
25th Percentile £444 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +0.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £622 £600
90th Percentile £675 £738 £650
England median daily rate £518 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £54.25 £87.75 £16.08
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £102.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.61% +353.33% -67.86%
75th Percentile £57.63 - £26.78
90th Percentile £62.30 - £47.91
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £54.56
% change year-on-year - +14.55% -16.06%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -16 41 £476 -10.86% 10
West Yorkshire -9 30 £500 - 18
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 4 (5.48%) CMS
2 2 (2.74%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (60.27%) GCP
2 43 (58.90%) AWS
3 34 (46.58%) Serverless
4 26 (35.62%) Azure
5 6 (8.22%) AWS KMS
6 4 (5.48%) Azure AKS
6 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.48%) Figma
6 4 (5.48%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 3 (4.11%) Azure Functions
7 3 (4.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.74%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (2.74%) Cloud Run
8 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.74%) GitHub
9 1 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.37%) CloudBees
9 1 (1.37%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (47.95%) NoSQL
2 18 (24.66%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.22%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.74%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.74%) Cloud Spanner
4 2 (2.74%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (35.62%) Jenkins
2 25 (34.25%) Git
2 25 (34.25%) GitLab
3 18 (24.66%) Liquibase
4 6 (8.22%) JUnit
5 5 (6.85%) Gradle
6 4 (5.48%) Storybook
7 3 (4.11%) Android Studio
7 3 (4.11%) Mockito
7 3 (4.11%) Selenium
7 3 (4.11%) TestNG
8 2 (2.74%) CocoaPods
8 2 (2.74%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.74%) JIRA
8 2 (2.74%) Log4j
8 2 (2.74%) Maven
8 2 (2.74%) Subversion
8 2 (2.74%) Xcode
9 1 (1.37%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.37%) webpack
General
1 34 (46.58%) Social Skills
2 31 (42.47%) Finance
3 24 (32.88%) Banking
4 21 (28.77%) Financial Institution
5 8 (10.96%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.48%) Health Technology
6 4 (5.48%) Retail
7 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (32.88%) Software Engineer
2 20 (27.40%) Developer
3 18 (24.66%) Senior
4 15 (20.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (19.18%) Senior Software Engineer
6 13 (17.81%) GCP Engineer
7 8 (10.96%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (9.59%) Android Developer
8 7 (9.59%) AWS Software Engineer
9 6 (8.22%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 5 (6.85%) Java Developer
10 5 (6.85%) Lead
11 4 (5.48%) .NET Software Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (5.48%) GCP Software Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (5.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (35.62%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (34.25%) REST
3 21 (28.77%) React
4 14 (19.18%) Node.js
5 10 (13.70%) Spring
6 9 (12.33%) CSS
6 9 (12.33%) HTML
7 8 (10.96%) CSS3
7 8 (10.96%) HTML5
8 7 (9.59%) Spring Boot
9 6 (8.22%) .NET
9 6 (8.22%) Redux
10 5 (6.85%) JSON
10 5 (6.85%) Web Services
11 4 (5.48%) .NET Core
11 4 (5.48%) Android Jetpack
11 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
11 4 (5.48%) Bootstrap
11 4 (5.48%) Express.js
11 4 (5.48%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (35.62%) Distributed Systems
1 26 (35.62%) Public Cloud
2 24 (32.88%) Cloud Native
3 9 (12.33%) Product Ownership
4 8 (10.96%) Mobile App
5 4 (5.48%) NHS
6 3 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (35.62%) Linux
2 7 (9.59%) Android
3 4 (5.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (71.23%) CI/CD
2 48 (65.75%) Agile
2 48 (65.75%) Microservices
3 46 (63.01%) DevOps
4 43 (58.90%) Containerisation
5 31 (42.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (42.47%) Software Engineering
6 27 (36.99%) Root Cause Analysis
7 26 (35.62%) Computer Science
8 25 (34.25%) Continuous Integration
9 24 (32.88%) Continuous Delivery
9 24 (32.88%) Non-Functional Testing
10 23 (31.51%) Cryptography
11 21 (28.77%) High Availability
12 19 (26.03%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (26.03%) Data Security
13 18 (24.66%) Cost Optimisation
14 17 (23.29%) Data Encryption
15 16 (21.92%) Clean Code
16 15 (20.55%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (45.21%) Python
2 28 (38.36%) Go
3 27 (36.99%) Java
4 9 (12.33%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.96%) SQL
6 7 (9.59%) Kotlin
6 7 (9.59%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.85%) C#
8 4 (5.48%) Swift
9 2 (2.74%) Bash
9 2 (2.74%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.37%) Bicep
10 1 (1.37%) C++
Qualifications
1 26 (35.62%) Computer Science Degree
1 26 (35.62%) Degree
2 23 (31.51%) Master's Degree
3 7 (9.59%) AWS Certification
4 6 (8.22%) Security Cleared
5 4 (5.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.74%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) QA
2 4 (5.48%) HL7
3 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.74%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (47.95%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (56.16%) Kubernetes
2 34 (46.58%) Terraform
3 28 (38.36%) Ansible
4 27 (36.99%) Prometheus
5 26 (35.62%) Grafana
6 1 (1.37%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 26 (35.62%) Splunk
2 22 (30.14%) Google
3 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.48%) Brio
4 4 (5.48%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.11%) Okta
6 2 (2.74%) Ping Identity
6 2 (2.74%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.37%) Commvault
7 1 (1.37%) GoldenSource
7 1 (1.37%) SAP
7 1 (1.37%) Veritas