REST Contract Job Trends in England

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 109 119
Rank change year-on-year +25 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing REST 1,236 611 712
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.93% 2.53% 1.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.24% 11.20% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 825 428 497
10th Percentile £358 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £410 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £750 £692 £744
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 13
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £61.75 £50.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £79.75 - £77.50
90th Percentile £87.00 £66.18 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +27.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

REST 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,108 5,455 7,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.22% 22.56% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,343 3,782 5,423
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £414 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £633 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 105 244
10th Percentile £31.62 £31.07 £22.58
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £79.60 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

REST job vacancy trend in England

REST
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in England over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in England

REST
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing REST.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing REST

REST
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST in England over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in England

REST
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the England region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
London +28 679 £538 +0.05% 251
North of England +16 190 £475 +5.56% 100
South East -6 152 £525 +5.00% 81
Yorkshire -2 92 £469 -6.20% 29
Midlands -27 92 £500 +19.05% 42
North West -5 81 £500 +23.92% 65
South West +14 65 £500 -13.04% 30
West Midlands -28 62 £500 +5.26% 24
East of England -13 33 £600 +21.21% 16
East Midlands -24 28 £463 +24.50% 18
North East -13 17 £450 +6.36% 7
REST
UK

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 41 (3.32%) Confluence
2 25 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.70%) Apache
4 14 (1.13%) IIS
5 13 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.05%) Camunda
6 12 (0.97%) Appian
7 11 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.81%) Ethereum
8 10 (0.81%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 9 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
10 8 (0.65%) CMS
10 8 (0.65%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
11 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.49%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.40%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.081%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.081%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.081%) InDesign
4 1 (0.081%) Maya
4 1 (0.081%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.081%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (1.29%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
3 11 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
3 11 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.65%) Shopify
5 5 (0.40%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.32%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.32%) Maximo
6 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.32%) Quorum
6 4 (0.32%) Ripple
7 3 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
7 3 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 433 (35.03%) Azure
2 388 (31.39%) AWS
3 163 (13.19%) GCP
4 144 (11.65%) GitHub
5 112 (9.06%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
6 102 (8.25%) Serverless
7 82 (6.63%) Power Platform
8 61 (4.94%) Entra ID
9 58 (4.69%) Amazon S3
10 43 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
10 43 (3.48%) OCI
11 41 (3.32%) Amazon SQS
12 37 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (2.99%) Azure Functions
13 36 (2.91%) SaaS
14 35 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
15 32 (2.59%) PaaS
16 31 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 28 (2.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.51%) HTTP
2 19 (1.54%) SNMP
3 11 (0.89%) BGP
3 11 (0.89%) WAN
4 9 (0.73%) DNS
4 9 (0.73%) HTTPS
4 9 (0.73%) MPLS
4 9 (0.73%) SMS
5 8 (0.65%) Firewall
5 8 (0.65%) Network Security
6 7 (0.57%) FTP
6 7 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.49%) LAN
8 5 (0.40%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.32%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (0.32%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.32%) OSPF
9 4 (0.32%) VLAN
10 3 (0.24%) DHCP
10 3 (0.24%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (9.47%) SQL Server
3 108 (8.74%) Relational Database
4 64 (5.18%) NoSQL
5 51 (4.13%) Power BI
6 33 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
6 33 (2.67%) MongoDB
7 32 (2.59%) DynamoDB
8 25 (2.02%) MySQL
9 23 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 22 (1.78%) Data Lake
10 22 (1.78%) Redis
11 21 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
12 20 (1.62%) Metadata
13 18 (1.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 15 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (1.13%) Big Data
16 13 (1.05%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 196 (15.86%) Git
2 130 (10.52%) Jenkins
3 105 (8.50%) JIRA
4 102 (8.25%) GitLab
5 73 (5.91%) JUnit
6 68 (5.50%) Postman
7 47 (3.80%) Selenium
8 42 (3.40%) Cucumber
9 39 (3.16%) REST Assured
10 35 (2.83%) Maven
11 34 (2.75%) Cypress.io
12 31 (2.51%) Mockito
13 28 (2.27%) Gradle
14 24 (1.94%) SonarQube
15 21 (1.70%) CircleCI
16 18 (1.46%) JMeter
17 13 (1.05%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.05%) jMock
17 13 (1.05%) SoapUI
18 11 (0.89%) Mocha
General
1 307 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 235 (19.01%) Finance
3 136 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (10.36%) Public Sector
5 84 (6.80%) Banking
6 29 (2.35%) Marketing
6 29 (2.35%) Retail
6 29 (2.35%) Telecoms
7 26 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (1.29%) Publishing
9 14 (1.13%) Front Office
10 13 (1.05%) Financial Institution
11 12 (0.97%) Billing
11 12 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 10 (0.81%) Legal
12 10 (0.81%) Military
12 10 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.73%) Law
14 8 (0.65%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 435 (35.19%) Developer
2 229 (18.53%) Architect
3 144 (11.65%) Senior
4 88 (7.12%) Java Developer
5 74 (5.99%) Lead
6 73 (5.91%) Software Engineer
7 63 (5.10%) Senior Developer
8 62 (5.02%) Consultant
8 62 (5.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 59 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
10 38 (3.07%) Python Developer
11 36 (2.91%) CyberArk Architect
11 36 (2.91%) ServiceNow Architect
12 30 (2.43%) Automation Engineer
12 30 (2.43%) Test Engineer
13 29 (2.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 29 (2.35%) Technical Architect
14 28 (2.27%) .NET Developer
14 28 (2.27%) Java Engineer
15 27 (2.18%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (26.94%) SOAP
2 168 (13.59%) Spring
3 155 (12.54%) Spring Boot
4 154 (12.46%) JSON
4 154 (12.46%) React
5 144 (11.65%) .NET
5 144 (11.65%) RESTful
6 133 (10.76%) Web Services
7 121 (9.79%) Kafka
8 118 (9.55%) AngularJS
9 114 (9.22%) Node.js
10 106 (8.58%) OAuth
11 101 (8.17%) HTML
12 100 (8.09%) CSS
13 85 (6.88%) XML
14 83 (6.72%) GraphQL
15 74 (5.99%) Middleware
16 67 (5.42%) LDAP
17 52 (4.21%) Swagger
18 46 (3.72%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 133 (10.76%) Cloud Native
2 110 (8.90%) Product Ownership
3 86 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (5.74%) Enterprise Software
5 50 (4.05%) CMDB
6 45 (3.64%) Security Posture
7 34 (2.75%) Management Information System
8 33 (2.67%) Onboarding
9 32 (2.59%) Mobile App
10 28 (2.27%) Low-Code
11 26 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (1.70%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.70%) Virtual Team
14 19 (1.54%) Public Cloud
15 17 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
16 15 (1.21%) AI Agents
16 15 (1.21%) Equities
17 12 (0.97%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 75 (6.07%) Windows
2 72 (5.83%) Linux
3 19 (1.54%) Android
3 19 (1.54%) Unix
4 18 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 16 (1.29%) AIX
6 10 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.57%) zOS
8 5 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.24%) VMS
10 1 (0.081%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.081%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (38.03%) CI/CD
2 440 (35.60%) Agile
3 408 (33.01%) DevOps
4 285 (23.06%) Microservices
5 255 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
6 200 (16.18%) Test Automation
7 187 (15.13%) Integration Patterns
8 162 (13.11%) Event-Driven
9 161 (13.03%) Scrum
10 159 (12.86%) Software Engineering
11 157 (12.70%) Containerisation
12 152 (12.30%) Data Modelling
13 142 (11.49%) AI
14 134 (10.84%) ITSM
15 127 (10.28%) Observability
15 127 (10.28%) Technical Leadership
16 118 (9.55%) Full-Stack Development
17 116 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
18 113 (9.14%) Analytics
19 112 (9.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 360 (29.13%) Java
2 347 (28.07%) Python
3 341 (27.59%) SQL
4 255 (20.63%) JavaScript
5 155 (12.54%) C#
5 155 (12.54%) TypeScript
6 143 (11.57%) PowerShell
7 33 (2.67%) Kotlin
8 28 (2.27%) Bash
9 25 (2.02%) Go
10 24 (1.94%) Apex Code
11 19 (1.54%) Search Processing Language
12 17 (1.38%) Bicep
13 16 (1.29%) PL/SQL
14 14 (1.13%) PHP
15 13 (1.05%) Groovy
15 13 (1.05%) SOQL
16 12 (0.97%) T-SQL
17 10 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.73%) Rust
Qualifications
1 299 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 226 (18.28%) SC Cleared
3 98 (7.93%) Degree
4 57 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (3.96%) DV Cleared
6 28 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (1.62%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.38%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.89%) CISSP
12 8 (0.65%) CISM
13 7 (0.57%) CCIE
13 7 (0.57%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.57%) PMP
13 7 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.49%) CCNP
15 5 (0.40%) JNCIE
15 5 (0.40%) MBA
16 4 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (9.30%) QA
2 47 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 46 (3.72%) GDPR
4 44 (3.56%) Data Quality
5 27 (2.18%) WCAG
6 20 (1.62%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.29%) GRC
7 16 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.05%) NIST
8 13 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.89%) SLA
10 10 (0.81%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.65%) PSD2
12 7 (0.57%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.49%) SEPA
14 5 (0.40%) HL7
14 5 (0.40%) ISO 8583
15 4 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.32%) IFRS
15 4 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 201 (16.26%) Docker
2 77 (6.23%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.89%) Postfix
3 11 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.49%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 3 (0.24%) vSphere
8 2 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.081%) Firmware
9 1 (0.081%) IAG
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.081%) RACF
9 1 (0.081%) Snort
9 1 (0.081%) UAG
9 1 (0.081%) Varnish
9 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 199 (16.10%) Kubernetes
2 101 (8.17%) Terraform
3 64 (5.18%) Grafana
4 63 (5.10%) Ansible
5 33 (2.67%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.38%) Nagios
6 17 (1.38%) ZABBIX
7 16 (1.29%) Netcool
8 15 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.21%) Tivoli
9 13 (1.05%) OpenView
9 13 (1.05%) Tivoli Monitoring
10 7 (0.57%) Puppet
11 6 (0.49%) Istio
12 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.24%) Kibana
12 3 (0.24%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.24%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.16%) Control-M
13 2 (0.16%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 172 (13.92%) ServiceNow
2 152 (12.30%) Microsoft
3 146 (11.81%) Oracle
4 53 (4.29%) Salesforce
5 43 (3.48%) Splunk
6 42 (3.40%) Google
7 41 (3.32%) CyberArk
8 36 (2.91%) BeyondTrust
8 36 (2.91%) SAP
9 34 (2.75%) Centrify
10 31 (2.51%) BMC
11 30 (2.43%) IBM
12 26 (2.10%) Databricks
12 26 (2.10%) OpenAI
13 25 (2.02%) MuleSoft
14 22 (1.78%) Workday
15 20 (1.62%) SolarWinds
16 19 (1.54%) Atlassian
16 19 (1.54%) HP
17 18 (1.46%) Dynatrace