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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 60 89
Rank change year-on-year -17 +29 +7
Contract jobs citing RESTful 61 19 18
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.07% 2.04% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.50% 10.56% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 11 17
10th Percentile £410 £450 £405
25th Percentile £450 £500 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +18.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £537 £713 £538
90th Percentile £665 £780 £546
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 488 180 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.58% 19.35% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 111 277
10th Percentile £369 £406 £358
25th Percentile £447 £454 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £571 £623 £588
90th Percentile £675 £725 £650
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £54.63 £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 £60.69 - £53.20
90th Percentile £68.75 - £62.88
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 9 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 9 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 -31 32 £525 -1.69% 9
West Yorkshire -12 28 £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 4 (6.56%) CMS
2 2 (3.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (68.85%) GCP
2 37 (60.66%) AWS
3 32 (52.46%) Serverless
4 22 (36.07%) Azure
5 6 (9.84%) AWS KMS
6 4 (6.56%) Azure AKS
6 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.56%) Figma
6 4 (6.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 3 (4.92%) Azure Functions
7 3 (4.92%) GitHub
7 3 (4.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.28%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (3.28%) Cloud Run
8 2 (3.28%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (52.46%) NoSQL
2 18 (29.51%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.20%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.28%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.28%) Cloud Spanner
4 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (40.98%) Jenkins
2 24 (39.34%) GitLab
3 16 (26.23%) Liquibase
4 15 (24.59%) Git
5 4 (6.56%) Storybook
6 3 (4.92%) JUnit
6 3 (4.92%) Mockito
7 2 (3.28%) Gradle
7 2 (3.28%) JIRA
7 2 (3.28%) Log4j
7 2 (3.28%) Maven
7 2 (3.28%) Subversion
8 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.64%) Vite
8 1 (1.64%) webpack
General
1 34 (55.74%) Social Skills
2 30 (49.18%) Finance
3 25 (40.98%) Banking
4 19 (31.15%) Financial Institution
5 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.56%) Health Technology
6 4 (6.56%) Retail
7 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (39.34%) Software Engineer
2 18 (29.51%) Senior
3 15 (24.59%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (24.59%) Developer
4 14 (22.95%) GCP Engineer
4 14 (22.95%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) AWS Software Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Java Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Lead
9 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (6.56%) GCP DevOps
9 4 (6.56%) GCP Software Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (40.98%) REST
2 24 (39.34%) Elastic Stack
3 22 (36.07%) React
4 14 (22.95%) Node.js
5 8 (13.11%) CSS
5 8 (13.11%) CSS3
5 8 (13.11%) HTML
5 8 (13.11%) HTML5
6 7 (11.48%) Spring
6 7 (11.48%) Spring Boot
7 6 (9.84%) Redux
8 5 (8.20%) .NET
8 5 (8.20%) Web Services
9 4 (6.56%) .NET Core
9 4 (6.56%) AngularJS
9 4 (6.56%) Bootstrap
9 4 (6.56%) Express.js
9 4 (6.56%) FHIR
9 4 (6.56%) Next.js
10 3 (4.92%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 26 (42.62%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (39.34%) Public Cloud
3 22 (36.07%) Cloud Native
4 5 (8.20%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.56%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (6.56%) NHS
6 2 (3.28%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 25 (40.98%) Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Android
3 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (73.77%) CI/CD
2 44 (72.13%) Microservices
3 39 (63.93%) Agile
3 39 (63.93%) Containerisation
4 36 (59.02%) DevOps
5 31 (50.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (49.18%) Software Engineering
7 26 (42.62%) Computer Science
7 26 (42.62%) Root Cause Analysis
8 24 (39.34%) Cryptography
9 23 (37.70%) Continuous Integration
10 22 (36.07%) Continuous Delivery
10 22 (36.07%) Non-Functional Testing
11 20 (32.79%) High Availability
12 18 (29.51%) Cost Optimisation
12 18 (29.51%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (29.51%) Data Encryption
12 18 (29.51%) Data Security
13 15 (24.59%) Change Management
14 14 (22.95%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (49.18%) Python
2 26 (42.62%) Go
3 19 (31.15%) Java
4 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
4 8 (13.11%) SQL
5 7 (11.48%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.56%) C#
7 3 (4.92%) Bash
7 3 (4.92%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.28%) Swift
9 1 (1.64%) Bicep
9 1 (1.64%) C++
9 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (42.62%) Computer Science Degree
1 26 (42.62%) Degree
2 23 (37.70%) Master's Degree
3 8 (13.11%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.56%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (6.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) HL7
2 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.28%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.28%) QA
2 2 (3.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (54.10%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (62.30%) Kubernetes
2 32 (52.46%) Terraform
3 26 (42.62%) Ansible
4 25 (40.98%) Prometheus
5 24 (39.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (39.34%) Splunk
2 21 (34.43%) Google
3 8 (13.11%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.56%) Brio
4 4 (6.56%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.92%) Okta
6 2 (3.28%) Ping Identity
6 2 (3.28%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.64%) SAP