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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 64 87
Rank change year-on-year -50 +23 +26
Contract jobs citing RESTful 44 60 17
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.52% 3.86% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.06% 14.22% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 41 12
10th Percentile £399 £319 £334
25th Percentile £419 £368 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £506
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -11.07% +16.32%
75th Percentile £620 £523 £584
90th Percentile £663 £609 £650
England median daily rate £489 £476 £525
% change year-on-year +2.79% -9.43% -4.55%

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 726 422 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 25.02% 27.17% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 267 274
10th Percentile £381 £360 £381
25th Percentile £428 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £598
90th Percentile £638 £675 £655
England median daily rate £534 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.99% -5.73% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £16.19
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.54%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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
West Yorkshire -28 24 £500 +5.26% 30
South Yorkshire -42 18 £525 +16.67% 9
North Yorkshire - 2 £495 - 2
East Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 5
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 1 (2.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (2.27%) CMS
1 1 (2.27%) Headless CMS
1 1 (2.27%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) GCP
2 9 (20.45%) AWS
2 9 (20.45%) Azure
2 9 (20.45%) GitHub
3 6 (13.64%) Cloud Run
4 5 (11.36%) Serverless
5 4 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.55%) Apigee
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.55%) Google Analytics
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.27%) BrowserStack
8 1 (2.27%) Datadog
8 1 (2.27%) npm
8 1 (2.27%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) HTTP
1 2 (4.55%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.82%) Redis
2 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (2.27%) Hazelcast
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (34.09%) Git
2 4 (9.09%) GitLab
2 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.82%) Cypress.io
3 3 (6.82%) JIRA
4 2 (4.55%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.55%) Flyway
4 2 (4.55%) git-flow
4 2 (4.55%) JUnit
4 2 (4.55%) Liquibase
4 2 (4.55%) Mockito
4 2 (4.55%) Selenium
5 1 (2.27%) Appium
5 1 (2.27%) Gradle
5 1 (2.27%) Maven
5 1 (2.27%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (25.00%) Finance
2 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 5 (11.36%) Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.55%) Law
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (61.36%) Developer
2 13 (29.55%) Java Developer
2 13 (29.55%) Senior
3 9 (20.45%) Senior Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (11.36%) IAM Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Python Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Backend Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Consultant
7 3 (6.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Lead
7 3 (6.82%) React Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Security Consultant
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Backend Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Python Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.09%) React
2 14 (31.82%) Terraform
3 10 (22.73%) OAuth
4 9 (20.45%) JWT
4 9 (20.45%) OAuth2
4 9 (20.45%) REST
5 8 (18.18%) Spring
5 8 (18.18%) Spring Boot
6 7 (15.91%) OpenID
7 6 (13.64%) JPA
7 6 (13.64%) SAML
8 5 (11.36%) FHIR
8 5 (11.36%) Kafka
8 5 (11.36%) Middleware
8 5 (11.36%) Node.js
8 5 (11.36%) OpenAPI
8 5 (11.36%) Swagger
8 5 (11.36%) Web Services
9 4 (9.09%) Jest
9 4 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.82%) Cloud Native
2 8 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.82%) NHS
3 3 (6.82%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.27%) PKI
5 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Unix
2 1 (2.27%) Android
2 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (79.55%) CI/CD
2 27 (61.36%) Agile
3 26 (59.09%) Microservices
4 19 (43.18%) Test Automation
5 18 (40.91%) DevOps
6 17 (38.64%) Containerisation
7 16 (36.36%) Event-Driven
8 14 (31.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (29.55%) API Development
9 13 (29.55%) Software Engineering
10 12 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 9 (20.45%) Observability
12 9 (20.45%) Validation
13 7 (15.91%) API Design
14 6 (13.64%) Clean Code
14 6 (13.64%) Code Quality
14 6 (13.64%) Data Ingestion
14 6 (13.64%) Event-Driven Programming
14 6 (13.64%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (43.18%) Java
2 11 (25.00%) Python
3 10 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.45%) SQL
5 7 (15.91%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.82%) C#
6 3 (6.82%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.55%) Go
7 2 (4.55%) PromQL
7 2 (4.55%) Scala
8 1 (2.27%) Bash
8 1 (2.27%) Bicep
8 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (9.09%) Degree
2 3 (6.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (6.82%) CCSP
2 3 (6.82%) CEH
2 3 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (6.82%) CISM
2 3 (6.82%) CISSP
2 3 (6.82%) OSCP
2 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) HL7
1 5 (11.36%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.82%) COBIT
2 3 (6.82%) NIST
2 3 (6.82%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.55%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.55%) SOC 2
3 2 (4.55%) WCAG
4 1 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (47.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.36%) Prometheus
3 4 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (4.55%) Ansible
4 2 (4.55%) Consul
4 2 (4.55%) Zipkin
5 1 (2.27%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Okta
2 5 (11.36%) Google
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle
3 2 (4.55%) Ping Identity
3 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.55%) Solace
4 1 (2.27%) Adobe
4 1 (2.27%) New Relic
4 1 (2.27%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.27%) Splunk