RESTful Contract Job Trends in the East of England

RESTful
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring RESTful skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 65 91
Rank change year-on-year -12 +26 +25
Contract jobs citing RESTful 28 20 19
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.76% 1.76% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.69% 11.76% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 13
10th Percentile £392 - £433
25th Percentile £413 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £300 £500
Median % change year-on-year +81.67% -40.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £565 £319 -
90th Percentile £635 £424 £525
England median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.55 - -
Median hourly rate £54.70 - -
75th Percentile £55.85 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £39.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +58.23% -48.39% +13.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 262 170 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.50% 14.94% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 93 115
10th Percentile £393 £298 £300
25th Percentile £425 £315 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -16.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £525 £563
90th Percentile £776 £645 £645
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 8 10
10th Percentile £33.15 £49.75 £15.52
25th Percentile £43.00 £64.38 £41.20
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.13
Median % change year-on-year - +29.68% -23.18%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.63 £55.55
90th Percentile £76.00 £69.38 £69.58
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RESTful relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

RESTful job vacancy trend in the East of England

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing RESTful.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing RESTful

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the East of England

RESTful
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing RESTful.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing RESTful

RESTful
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire +2 19 £550 +83.33% 2
Suffolk +4 5 £425 +41.67% 2
Norfolk - 3 £545 -
Hertfordshire -20 1 £413 +32.00% 5
RESTful
England

RESTful
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 12 (42.86%) Azure AKS
2 12 (42.86%) PaaS
3 11 (39.29%) Serverless
4 10 (35.71%) Azure Functions
4 10 (35.71%) GitHub
4 10 (35.71%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (7.14%) Azure API Management
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) AWS
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) HTTP
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) MySQL
2 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.57%) Redis
2 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Multimedia
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Wearables
4 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) Senior
3 5 (17.86%) .NET Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Python Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Data Science Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Data Scientist
7 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Lead
7 1 (3.57%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (53.57%) .NET
2 10 (35.71%) PyTorch
2 10 (35.71%) Semantic Kernel
2 10 (35.71%) TensorFlow
3 6 (21.43%) React
4 4 (14.29%) FastAPI
5 3 (10.71%) REST
5 3 (10.71%) SOAP
6 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
6 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
6 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (7.14%) JSON
6 2 (7.14%) LINQ
6 2 (7.14%) Middleware
6 2 (7.14%) Web Services
7 1 (3.57%) Immutable.js
7 1 (3.57%) Jest
7 1 (3.57%) JWT
7 1 (3.57%) Next.js
7 1 (3.57%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Cloud Native
2 10 (35.71%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Windows
3 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 15 (53.57%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (50.00%) Agile
4 13 (46.43%) AI
4 13 (46.43%) Data Privacy
4 13 (46.43%) Machine Learning
5 12 (42.86%) API Management
6 11 (39.29%) Test Automation
7 10 (35.71%) LLM
7 10 (35.71%) Prompt Engineering
7 10 (35.71%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 9 (32.14%) API Design
8 9 (32.14%) Deep Learning
9 8 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (28.57%) Validation
10 5 (17.86%) Data Collection
10 5 (17.86%) Scrum
11 4 (14.29%) API Development
11 4 (14.29%) Configuration Management
11 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.86%) Shell Script
4 4 (14.29%) SQL
5 3 (10.71%) C#
6 2 (7.14%) Java
7 1 (3.57%) Bourne shell
7 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) MCP
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) EU AI Act
2 9 (32.14%) NIST
3 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Consul
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Nagios
3 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.57%) Puppet
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (35.71%) Foundry
3 2 (7.14%) Workday
4 1 (3.57%) SaltStack
4 1 (3.57%) Virgin Media