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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 60 90
Rank change year-on-year -18 +30 +6
Contract jobs citing RESTful 59 21 16
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.85% 2.32% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.71% 11.48% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 12 15
10th Percentile £400 - £403
25th Percentile £450 £450 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% +8.74% -20.83%
75th Percentile £538 £681 £538
90th Percentile £650 £780 £548
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -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 504 183 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.32% 20.18% 21.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 111 277
10th Percentile £371 £400 £356
25th Percentile £447 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £571 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £55.00 £87.75 £16.94
25th Percentile £55.75 £93.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £102.00 £24.64
Median % change year-on-year -44.61% +313.96% -64.80%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £53.20
90th Percentile - - £62.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -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 23 February 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 February 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 -30 34 £525 -1.50% 5
West Yorkshire -14 24 £500 -20.00% 12
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 (3.39%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 44 (74.58%) GCP
2 37 (62.71%) AWS
3 29 (49.15%) Serverless
4 18 (30.51%) Azure
5 6 (10.17%) AWS KMS
6 4 (6.78%) Azure AKS
6 4 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Functions
7 3 (5.08%) Cloud Run
7 3 (5.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.39%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.39%) GitHub
9 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (54.24%) NoSQL
2 20 (33.90%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.78%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.39%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.39%) Cloud Spanner
4 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (42.37%) Jenkins
2 24 (40.68%) GitLab
3 16 (27.12%) Git
3 16 (27.12%) Liquibase
4 3 (5.08%) JUnit
4 3 (5.08%) Mockito
5 2 (3.39%) Gradle
5 2 (3.39%) JIRA
5 2 (3.39%) Log4j
5 2 (3.39%) Maven
5 2 (3.39%) Subversion
6 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.69%) Vite
6 1 (1.69%) webpack
General
1 33 (55.93%) Social Skills
2 31 (52.54%) Finance
3 27 (45.76%) Banking
4 19 (32.20%) Financial Institution
5 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.78%) Health Technology
7 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (38.98%) Software Engineer
2 19 (32.20%) Senior
3 18 (30.51%) Developer
4 15 (25.42%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (23.73%) GCP Engineer
5 14 (23.73%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (15.25%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (11.86%) AWS Software Engineer
7 7 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (11.86%) Java Developer
8 6 (10.17%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.78%) .NET Software Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (6.78%) GCP DevOps
9 4 (6.78%) GCP Software Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Senior Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (6.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (44.07%) REST
2 24 (40.68%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (32.20%) React
4 10 (16.95%) Node.js
5 6 (10.17%) Spring
5 6 (10.17%) Spring Boot
6 5 (8.47%) Web Services
7 4 (6.78%) .NET
7 4 (6.78%) .NET Core
7 4 (6.78%) AngularJS
7 4 (6.78%) CSS
7 4 (6.78%) CSS3
7 4 (6.78%) FHIR
7 4 (6.78%) HTML
7 4 (6.78%) HTML5
8 3 (5.08%) Jetpack Compose
8 3 (5.08%) OAuth
8 3 (5.08%) OAuth2
8 3 (5.08%) OpenID
8 3 (5.08%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 26 (44.07%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (40.68%) Public Cloud
3 22 (37.29%) Cloud Native
4 5 (8.47%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (6.78%) NHS
6 2 (3.39%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 25 (42.37%) Linux
2 3 (5.08%) Android
3 2 (3.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (77.97%) Microservices
2 45 (76.27%) CI/CD
3 40 (67.80%) Containerisation
4 39 (66.10%) Agile
5 36 (61.02%) DevOps
6 31 (52.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (52.54%) Software Engineering
7 26 (44.07%) Root Cause Analysis
8 25 (42.37%) Computer Science
9 24 (40.68%) Cryptography
10 23 (38.98%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (37.29%) Continuous Delivery
11 22 (37.29%) Non-Functional Testing
12 20 (33.90%) High Availability
13 18 (30.51%) Cost Optimisation
13 18 (30.51%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (30.51%) Data Encryption
13 18 (30.51%) Data Security
14 15 (25.42%) Change Management
15 14 (23.73%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 31 (52.54%) Python
2 26 (44.07%) Go
3 20 (33.90%) Java
4 10 (16.95%) SQL
5 7 (11.86%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.86%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.78%) C#
7 3 (5.08%) Bash
7 3 (5.08%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.39%) Swift
9 1 (1.69%) Bicep
9 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (42.37%) Computer Science Degree
1 25 (42.37%) Degree
2 23 (38.98%) Master's Degree
3 8 (13.56%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.78%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (6.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) HL7
2 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.39%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.39%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (61.02%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (69.49%) Kubernetes
2 32 (54.24%) Terraform
3 26 (44.07%) Ansible
4 25 (42.37%) Prometheus
5 24 (40.68%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (40.68%) Splunk
2 21 (35.59%) Google
3 4 (6.78%) Brio
3 4 (6.78%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.08%) Okta
5 2 (3.39%) Ping Identity
5 2 (3.39%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.69%) SAP