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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 78 90
Rank change year-on-year -26 +12 +4
Contract jobs citing RESTful 40 13 14
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.53% 1.24% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.79% 6.88% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 8 11
10th Percentile £400 £346 £400
25th Percentile £471 £406 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £505
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -8.42% -13.68%
75th Percentile £586 £513 £538
90th Percentile £654 £591 £550
England median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.72% -14.33%

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 589 189 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.59% 18.02% 21.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 122 239
10th Percentile £365 £358 £375
25th Percentile £442 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -
75th Percentile £565 £555 £600
90th Percentile £627 £636 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 7
10th Percentile £37.50 - £13.37
25th Percentile £55.75 £84.83 £13.87
Median hourly rate £62.75 £91.69 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.56% +307.51% -67.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -40 21 £533 +21.71% 4
West Yorkshire -20 18 £500 - 11
North Yorkshire -6 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 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) GCP
2 12 (30.00%) AWS
3 9 (22.50%) Azure
4 5 (12.50%) GitHub
5 4 (10.00%) Serverless
6 3 (7.50%) Cloud Run
6 3 (7.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.50%) Apigee
8 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.50%) BrowserStack
8 1 (2.50%) Datadog
8 1 (2.50%) npm
8 1 (2.50%) PaaS
8 1 (2.50%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) HTTP
1 2 (5.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Git
2 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.00%) GitLab
4 3 (7.50%) Liquibase
5 2 (5.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.00%) Flyway
5 2 (5.00%) git-flow
5 2 (5.00%) JIRA
5 2 (5.00%) JUnit
5 2 (5.00%) Mockito
6 1 (2.50%) Appium
6 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.50%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (35.00%) Finance
2 11 (27.50%) Banking
3 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.00%) Law
6 1 (2.50%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 26 (65.00%) Developer
2 12 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (27.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (17.50%) Senior
5 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) IAM Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Consultant
8 3 (7.50%) Lead
8 3 (7.50%) React Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Security Consultant
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Software Developer
9 2 (5.00%) .NET Developer
9 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Lead Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (32.50%) React
2 10 (25.00%) OAuth
3 9 (22.50%) JWT
3 9 (22.50%) OAuth2
4 8 (20.00%) OpenID
5 7 (17.50%) SAML
6 6 (15.00%) Node.js
7 5 (12.50%) .NET
7 5 (12.50%) REST
7 5 (12.50%) Spring
7 5 (12.50%) Spring Boot
8 3 (7.50%) JPA
8 3 (7.50%) Kafka
8 3 (7.50%) OpenAPI
8 3 (7.50%) Redux
8 3 (7.50%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (7.50%) Swagger
9 2 (5.00%) Jest
9 2 (5.00%) Next.js
9 2 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (22.50%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (10.00%) Private Cloud
4 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.00%) NHS
5 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) Android
3 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (67.50%) Microservices
2 23 (57.50%) CI/CD
3 21 (52.50%) Agile
4 17 (42.50%) Containerisation
5 16 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (35.00%) Event-Driven
6 14 (35.00%) Software Engineering
7 13 (32.50%) API Development
8 12 (30.00%) DevOps
9 11 (27.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (22.50%) Test Automation
12 7 (17.50%) API Design
12 7 (17.50%) Clean Code
12 7 (17.50%) Observability
13 6 (15.00%) Data Ingestion
13 6 (15.00%) OWASP
13 6 (15.00%) Validation
14 5 (12.50%) Cryptography
14 5 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 21 (52.50%) Java
2 10 (25.00%) Python
2 10 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.50%) C#
5 4 (10.00%) Go
5 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.50%) Kotlin
7 2 (5.00%) Bash
7 2 (5.00%) PromQL
7 2 (5.00%) Scala
7 2 (5.00%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.50%) Bicep
8 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (10.00%) CCSP
2 4 (10.00%) CEH
2 4 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (10.00%) CISM
2 4 (10.00%) CISSP
2 4 (10.00%) OSCP
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) COBIT
1 4 (10.00%) NIST
1 4 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.50%) HL7
3 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (55.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (32.50%) Terraform
3 4 (10.00%) Ansible
3 4 (10.00%) Grafana
3 4 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.00%) Consul
4 2 (5.00%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Okta
2 5 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Ping Identity
3 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.00%) Solace
3 2 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (2.50%) Brio
4 1 (2.50%) New Relic
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.50%) Sitecore