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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 57 86
Rank change year-on-year -53 +29 +29
Contract jobs citing RESTful 44 65 18
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.51% 4.10% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.14% 14.35% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 44 13
10th Percentile £383 £327 £344
25th Percentile £413 £373 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -11.24% +16.55%
75th Percentile £569 £516 £579
90th Percentile £638 £655 £644
England median daily rate £488 £486 £513
% change year-on-year +0.26% -5.12% -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 717 453 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.59% 28.56% 25.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 289 274
10th Percentile £388 £362 £381
25th Percentile £438 £406 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -7.82%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £589
90th Percentile £638 £675 £654
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £16.19
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.54%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £63.75
90th Percentile £41.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.83 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.69% -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -34 22 £450 -5.26% 37
South Yorkshire -43 21 £475 +5.56% 7
East Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 5
North Yorkshire - 1 £440 - 4
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%) Confluence
1 1 (2.27%) Headless CMS
1 1 (2.27%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) GCP
2 9 (20.45%) Azure
3 8 (18.18%) Cloud Run
3 8 (18.18%) GitHub
4 6 (13.64%) AWS
5 5 (11.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (11.36%) Serverless
6 4 (9.09%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.55%) Google Analytics
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.27%) BrowserStack
9 1 (2.27%) Google Play
9 1 (2.27%) Kong
9 1 (2.27%) npm
9 1 (2.27%) PaaS
9 1 (2.27%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) 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%) Neo4j
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
2 4 (9.09%) JIRA
3 3 (6.82%) Cucumber
3 3 (6.82%) Cypress.io
3 3 (6.82%) GitLab
3 3 (6.82%) JUnit
3 3 (6.82%) Liquibase
3 3 (6.82%) Mockito
4 2 (4.55%) Flyway
4 2 (4.55%) git-flow
4 2 (4.55%) Maven
4 2 (4.55%) Selenium
5 1 (2.27%) Appium
5 1 (2.27%) Gradle
5 1 (2.27%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
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 4 (9.09%) IAM Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Python Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Applications Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Backend Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Java Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) React Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Backend Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Python Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.09%) React
2 14 (31.82%) Terraform
3 11 (25.00%) OAuth
3 11 (25.00%) REST
4 10 (22.73%) JWT
4 10 (22.73%) OAuth2
5 8 (18.18%) OpenID
5 8 (18.18%) Spring
5 8 (18.18%) Spring Boot
6 7 (15.91%) Middleware
6 7 (15.91%) SAML
7 6 (13.64%) JPA
7 6 (13.64%) Node.js
8 5 (11.36%) FHIR
8 5 (11.36%) HTML
8 5 (11.36%) OpenAPI
8 5 (11.36%) Swagger
8 5 (11.36%) Web Services
9 4 (9.09%) CSS
9 4 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Cloud Native
2 9 (20.45%) 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 28 (63.64%) Agile
3 27 (61.36%) Microservices
4 20 (45.45%) Test Automation
5 19 (43.18%) DevOps
6 17 (38.64%) Containerisation
7 15 (34.09%) Event-Driven
8 14 (31.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (29.55%) API Development
9 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (27.27%) Software Engineering
11 11 (25.00%) Validation
12 10 (22.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 9 (20.45%) Observability
14 8 (18.18%) API Design
14 8 (18.18%) Secrets Management
15 7 (15.91%) Computer Science
15 7 (15.91%) Data Ingestion
15 7 (15.91%) Workflow
16 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (43.18%) Java
2 11 (25.00%) Python
3 10 (22.73%) 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 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 7 (15.91%) Google
1 7 (15.91%) Okta
2 4 (9.09%) Ping Identity
2 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) Solace
3 2 (4.55%) Splunk
4 1 (2.27%) Adobe
4 1 (2.27%) Apple
4 1 (2.27%) New Relic
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle
4 1 (2.27%) Sitecore