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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 59 83
Rank change year-on-year -55 +24 +31
Contract jobs citing RESTful 44 60 18
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.52% 3.90% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.14% 13.92% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 40 13
10th Percentile £383 £319 £344
25th Percentile £413 £366 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £445 £507
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -12.23% +16.55%
75th Percentile £569 £516 £579
90th Percentile £638 £615 £644
England median daily rate £488 £476 £513
% change year-on-year +2.52% -7.22% -6.82%

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 717 431 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.72% 28.01% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 276 275
10th Percentile £381 £361 £381
25th Percentile £426 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -7.82%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £592
90th Percentile £638 £675 £653
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £34.50 - £16.19
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.54%
75th Percentile £50.94 - £63.75
90th Percentile £61.63 - -
England median hourly rate £66.66 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.20% -15.38% +8.33%

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 29 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 29 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 -27 22 £450 -5.26% 28
South Yorkshire -42 21 £475 +9.20% 5
East Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 3
North Yorkshire - 1 £440 - 3
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 15 (34.09%) GCP
2 9 (20.45%) Azure
3 8 (18.18%) Cloud Run
4 7 (15.91%) GitHub
5 6 (13.64%) AWS
6 5 (11.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (11.36%) Serverless
7 4 (9.09%) Entra ID
8 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.55%) Google Analytics
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.27%) Apigee
10 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.27%) BrowserStack
10 1 (2.27%) Google Play
10 1 (2.27%) npm
10 1 (2.27%) PaaS
10 1 (2.27%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.55%) Redis
2 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (2.27%) Hazelcast
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (29.55%) Git
2 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.82%) Cypress.io
3 3 (6.82%) GitLab
3 3 (6.82%) JIRA
3 3 (6.82%) Liquibase
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%) 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 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Banking
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 12 (27.27%) Java Developer
2 12 (27.27%) Senior
3 9 (20.45%) Senior Developer
4 6 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (11.36%) IAM Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Python Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Applications Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Backend Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Java Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) React Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Backend Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Python Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.09%) React
1 15 (34.09%) Terraform
2 12 (27.27%) OAuth
3 11 (25.00%) JWT
3 11 (25.00%) OAuth2
4 10 (22.73%) REST
5 9 (20.45%) OpenID
6 8 (18.18%) SAML
6 8 (18.18%) Spring
6 8 (18.18%) Spring Boot
7 7 (15.91%) Middleware
8 6 (13.64%) JPA
8 6 (13.64%) Node.js
9 5 (11.36%) FHIR
9 5 (11.36%) OpenAPI
9 5 (11.36%) Swagger
9 5 (11.36%) Web Services
10 4 (9.09%) CSS
10 4 (9.09%) Kafka
10 4 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.82%) Cloud Native
2 10 (22.73%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.55%) NHS
4 2 (4.55%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.27%) PKI
5 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Android
1 2 (4.55%) Apple iOS
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
1 2 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (79.55%) CI/CD
2 27 (61.36%) Agile
2 27 (61.36%) Microservices
3 19 (43.18%) DevOps
3 19 (43.18%) Test Automation
4 18 (40.91%) Containerisation
5 16 (36.36%) Event-Driven
6 14 (31.82%) API Development
6 14 (31.82%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (27.27%) Software Engineering
8 11 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 11 (25.00%) Validation
9 9 (20.45%) Observability
10 8 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
10 8 (18.18%) Secrets Management
11 7 (15.91%) API Design
11 7 (15.91%) Computer Science
11 7 (15.91%) Event-Driven Programming
11 7 (15.91%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (43.18%) Java
2 11 (25.00%) Python
3 9 (20.45%) JavaScript
4 8 (18.18%) SQL
5 5 (11.36%) Go
5 5 (11.36%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.82%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.55%) C#
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
8 1 (2.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (15.91%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (4.55%) CCSP
2 2 (4.55%) CEH
2 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.55%) CISM
2 2 (4.55%) CISSP
2 2 (4.55%) OSCP
2 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
2 5 (11.36%) HL7
3 4 (9.09%) HIPAA
3 4 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (9.09%) SOC 2
4 3 (6.82%) Accessibility
5 2 (4.55%) COBIT
5 2 (4.55%) NIST
5 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
5 2 (4.55%) WCAG
6 1 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (50.00%) 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 8 (18.18%) Okta
2 7 (15.91%) Google
3 4 (9.09%) Ping Identity
3 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.55%) Solace
4 2 (4.55%) Splunk
5 1 (2.27%) Adobe
5 1 (2.27%) Apple
5 1 (2.27%) New Relic
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle
5 1 (2.27%) Sitecore