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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 58 88
Rank change year-on-year -14 +30 +12
Contract jobs citing RESTful 63 21 17
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.20% 2.20% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.07% 11.41% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 12 16
10th Percentile £411 £450 £404
25th Percentile £450 £488 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +18.56% -21.05%
75th Percentile £537 £681 £538
90th Percentile £637 £780 £541
England median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -12.50%

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 482 184 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.50% 19.25% 21.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 114 275
10th Percentile £369 £425 £375
25th Percentile £447 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% -6.98%
75th Percentile £568 £622 £588
90th Percentile £675 £725 £665
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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -21 33 £525 -1.69% 7
West Yorkshire -8 29 £500 - 15
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 (6.35%) CMS
2 3 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (66.67%) GCP
2 38 (60.32%) AWS
3 32 (50.79%) Serverless
4 23 (36.51%) Azure
5 6 (9.52%) AWS KMS
6 4 (6.35%) Azure AKS
6 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.35%) Figma
6 4 (6.35%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 3 (4.76%) Azure Functions
7 3 (4.76%) GitHub
7 3 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.17%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (3.17%) Cloud Run
8 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.59%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (52.38%) NoSQL
2 18 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.17%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.17%) Cloud Spanner
4 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 25 (39.68%) GitLab
3 17 (26.98%) Git
4 16 (25.40%) Liquibase
5 4 (6.35%) Storybook
6 3 (4.76%) Gradle
6 3 (4.76%) JIRA
6 3 (4.76%) JUnit
6 3 (4.76%) Mockito
7 2 (3.17%) Log4j
7 2 (3.17%) Maven
7 2 (3.17%) Subversion
8 1 (1.59%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.59%) Vite
8 1 (1.59%) webpack
General
1 35 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 29 (46.03%) Finance
3 24 (38.10%) Banking
4 19 (30.16%) Financial Institution
5 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.35%) Health Technology
6 4 (6.35%) Retail
7 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (38.10%) Software Engineer
2 18 (28.57%) Senior
3 15 (23.81%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (23.81%) Developer
4 14 (22.22%) GCP Engineer
4 14 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (11.11%) AWS Software Engineer
6 7 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) Java Developer
8 5 (7.94%) Lead
9 4 (6.35%) .NET Software Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Android Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.35%) GCP Software Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (6.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (39.68%) REST
2 24 (38.10%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (33.33%) React
4 14 (22.22%) Node.js
5 8 (12.70%) CSS
5 8 (12.70%) CSS3
5 8 (12.70%) HTML
5 8 (12.70%) HTML5
6 7 (11.11%) Spring
6 7 (11.11%) Spring Boot
7 6 (9.52%) Redux
8 5 (7.94%) .NET
8 5 (7.94%) Web Services
9 4 (6.35%) .NET Core
9 4 (6.35%) AngularJS
9 4 (6.35%) Bootstrap
9 4 (6.35%) Express.js
9 4 (6.35%) FHIR
9 4 (6.35%) Next.js
10 3 (4.76%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 26 (41.27%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (38.10%) Public Cloud
3 22 (34.92%) Cloud Native
4 7 (11.11%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.35%) NHS
6 3 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (4.76%) Mobile App
7 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 25 (39.68%) Linux
2 4 (6.35%) Android
3 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (74.60%) CI/CD
2 44 (69.84%) Microservices
3 41 (65.08%) Agile
4 40 (63.49%) Containerisation
5 38 (60.32%) DevOps
6 31 (49.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (46.03%) Software Engineering
8 26 (41.27%) Computer Science
8 26 (41.27%) Root Cause Analysis
9 24 (38.10%) Cryptography
10 23 (36.51%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (34.92%) Continuous Delivery
11 22 (34.92%) Non-Functional Testing
12 20 (31.75%) High Availability
13 18 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
13 18 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (28.57%) Data Encryption
13 18 (28.57%) Data Security
14 15 (23.81%) Change Management
15 14 (22.22%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 32 (50.79%) Python
2 26 (41.27%) Go
3 19 (30.16%) Java
4 8 (12.70%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.70%) SQL
5 7 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.35%) Bash
6 4 (6.35%) C#
6 4 (6.35%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.17%) Swift
8 1 (1.59%) Bicep
8 1 (1.59%) C++
8 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (41.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 26 (41.27%) Degree
2 23 (36.51%) Master's Degree
3 8 (12.70%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.94%) Security Cleared
5 4 (6.35%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (6.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) HL7
2 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.17%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.17%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (52.38%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (60.32%) Kubernetes
2 32 (50.79%) Terraform
3 27 (42.86%) Ansible
4 25 (39.68%) Prometheus
5 24 (38.10%) Grafana
6 1 (1.59%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 24 (38.10%) Splunk
2 21 (33.33%) Google
3 9 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.35%) Brio
4 4 (6.35%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.76%) Okta
5 3 (4.76%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.17%) Ping Identity
6 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.59%) Commvault
7 1 (1.59%) SAP
7 1 (1.59%) Veritas