REST Contracts in England

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 119 118
Rank change year-on-year +20 -1 -33
Contract jobs citing REST 665 723 1,067
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.61% 1.95% 2.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.63% 9.16% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 505 764
10th Percentile £358 £377 £422
25th Percentile £410 £438 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £607 £625 £688
90th Percentile £695 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £509 £550
% change year-on-year -1.72% -7.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 11
10th Percentile £49.25 £27.00 £50.00
25th Percentile - £36.00 £50.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £70.38
90th Percentile £60.59 £85.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +27.27% -21.43%

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 5,718 7,891 10,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.41% 21.25% 22.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,947 5,493 7,915
10th Percentile £357 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £432 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 266 138
10th Percentile £30.25 £23.80 £30.53
25th Percentile £46.25 £43.00 £50.31
Median hourly rate £60.00 £58.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -10.54% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.47 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for REST in England

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in England.

Daily rate trend for REST in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in England.

Hourly rate trend for REST in England

REST
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in England

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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 30 June 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
London 0 373 £547 +4.24% 1,416
South East +55 88 £488 -17.89% 511
North of England +21 83 £434 -17.38% 374
Midlands +42 58 £420 -12.73% 189
North West +25 55 £405 -22.86% 225
East Midlands +23 29 £372 -23.79% 81
West Midlands +16 28 £475 - 108
South West +11 25 £575 +15.00% 175
East of England +25 24 £513 +22.02% 173
Yorkshire +3 24 £500 +5.26% 124
North East +1 4 £423 -11.85% 25
REST
UK

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 44 (6.62%) Confluence
2 28 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 21 (3.16%) Tomcat
4 19 (2.86%) JBoss
5 7 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (1.05%) WebLogic
5 7 (1.05%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.90%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.90%) CMS
7 5 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.75%) Camunda
7 5 (0.75%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.75%) Oracle Service Bus
8 4 (0.60%) Apache
8 4 (0.60%) Mule
9 3 (0.45%) Alfresco
9 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.45%) nginx
9 3 (0.45%) Oracle Application Server
9 3 (0.45%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.05%) Kondor
3 7 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.45%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.30%) assyst
6 2 (0.30%) Magento
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.30%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.30%) Shopify
7 1 (0.15%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.15%) Maximo
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 215 (32.33%) AWS
2 166 (24.96%) Azure
3 76 (11.43%) GitHub
4 44 (6.62%) GCP
5 41 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 32 (4.81%) Power Platform
8 30 (4.51%) Serverless
9 27 (4.06%) Power Automate
10 25 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (3.61%) Entra ID
11 24 (3.61%) PowerApps
12 23 (3.46%) SaaS
13 21 (3.16%) Azure AKS
13 21 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
13 21 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
15 19 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (2.56%) OpenShift
17 16 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.02%) HTTP
2 26 (3.91%) SSL
3 18 (2.71%) HTTPS
4 17 (2.56%) Firewall
5 12 (1.80%) DNS
6 10 (1.50%) SMTP
6 10 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.20%) Wireless
8 7 (1.05%) SAN
8 7 (1.05%) VPN
9 5 (0.75%) NFC
9 5 (0.75%) PPP
10 4 (0.60%) BGP
10 4 (0.60%) NAS
10 4 (0.60%) Network Security
11 3 (0.45%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.30%) 3GPP
12 2 (0.30%) MPLS
12 2 (0.30%) POP3
12 2 (0.30%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (7.82%) Relational Database
3 48 (7.22%) SQL Server
4 27 (4.06%) MySQL
5 23 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (3.16%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.71%) Amazon Aurora
7 18 (2.71%) DynamoDB
8 17 (2.56%) MongoDB
9 14 (2.11%) Power BI
10 12 (1.80%) RDBMS
11 9 (1.35%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.20%) Big Data
12 8 (1.20%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.05%) Redis
14 6 (0.90%) DB2
14 6 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 175 (26.32%) Git
2 135 (20.30%) JIRA
3 128 (19.25%) Jenkins
4 57 (8.57%) JUnit
5 46 (6.92%) GitLab
6 45 (6.77%) Selenium
7 38 (5.71%) Maven
7 38 (5.71%) SonarQube
8 37 (5.56%) Bitbucket
9 36 (5.41%) Cucumber
10 35 (5.26%) REST Assured
11 27 (4.06%) Postman
12 25 (3.76%) Subversion
13 22 (3.31%) Mockito
14 20 (3.01%) Cypress.io
15 13 (1.95%) Gradle
16 11 (1.65%) Mocha
16 11 (1.65%) webpack
17 10 (1.50%) Eclipse
17 10 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 157 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 143 (21.50%) Finance
3 104 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (8.42%) Banking
5 51 (7.67%) Public Sector
6 17 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 13 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.65%) Front Office
8 11 (1.65%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.50%) Law
9 10 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.35%) Marketing
10 9 (1.35%) Retail
11 8 (1.20%) Billing
12 7 (1.05%) Automotive
13 6 (0.90%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.75%) Back Office
15 4 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 310 (46.62%) Developer
2 77 (11.58%) Architect
2 77 (11.58%) Java Developer
3 71 (10.68%) Senior
4 53 (7.97%) Lead
4 53 (7.97%) Software Engineer
5 31 (4.66%) Full-Stack Developer
6 28 (4.21%) Java Engineer
6 28 (4.21%) Senior Developer
7 27 (4.06%) Angular Developer
8 25 (3.76%) Python Developer
9 23 (3.46%) Python Engineer
9 23 (3.46%) React Developer
10 22 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
11 21 (3.16%) Test Engineer
12 20 (3.01%) Java Software Engineer
12 20 (3.01%) Lead Developer
13 19 (2.86%) Consultant
13 19 (2.86%) ServiceNow Developer
14 18 (2.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (30.38%) SOAP
2 140 (21.05%) Web Services
3 107 (16.09%) React
4 106 (15.94%) HTML
5 100 (15.04%) AngularJS
6 92 (13.83%) Spring
7 86 (12.93%) CSS
7 86 (12.93%) Spring Boot
8 77 (11.58%) JSON
9 72 (10.83%) .NET
10 69 (10.38%) RESTful
11 64 (9.62%) Kafka
12 59 (8.87%) XML
13 47 (7.07%) Node.js
14 41 (6.17%) GraphQL
15 39 (5.86%) OAuth
16 37 (5.56%) Hibernate
16 37 (5.56%) HTML5
17 35 (5.26%) LDAP
18 32 (4.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 37 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 36 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (3.31%) Mobile App
4 20 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 19 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (2.56%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.41%) CMDB
8 15 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (2.11%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.50%) Clustering
11 10 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.50%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.50%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.35%) Derivative
12 9 (1.35%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.90%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.90%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 74 (11.13%) Linux
2 28 (4.21%) Windows
3 25 (3.76%) Unix
4 18 (2.71%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.95%) Android
6 11 (1.65%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.90%) Solaris
8 5 (0.75%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.45%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.30%) CentOS
10 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (43.46%) Agile
2 193 (29.02%) CI/CD
3 169 (25.41%) DevOps
4 156 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
5 149 (22.41%) Microservices
6 132 (19.85%) Scrum
7 116 (17.44%) Test Automation
8 107 (16.09%) Software Engineering
9 91 (13.68%) TDD
10 86 (12.93%) SDLC
11 67 (10.08%) Full-Stack Development
12 64 (9.62%) Containerisation
13 57 (8.57%) API Development
14 55 (8.27%) Front End Development
15 53 (7.97%) Continuous Integration
16 48 (7.22%) Design Patterns
17 46 (6.92%) API Integration
18 44 (6.62%) Technical Leadership
19 43 (6.47%) Computer Science
20 42 (6.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 228 (34.29%) Java
2 188 (28.27%) Python
3 187 (28.12%) JavaScript
4 139 (20.90%) SQL
5 90 (13.53%) C#
6 78 (11.73%) TypeScript
7 49 (7.37%) PowerShell
8 29 (4.36%) Bash
9 23 (3.46%) Apex Code
10 18 (2.71%) Go
11 16 (2.41%) Shell Script
12 15 (2.26%) C++
13 14 (2.11%) Groovy
13 14 (2.11%) PHP
14 12 (1.80%) PL/SQL
15 11 (1.65%) Scala
16 9 (1.35%) ABAP
17 8 (1.20%) Rust
17 8 (1.20%) T-SQL
18 7 (1.05%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 121 (18.20%) Security Cleared
2 94 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.97%) Degree
4 29 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.26%) CCNP
5 15 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (2.26%) Oracle Certification
6 13 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.65%) OCA
7 11 (1.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (1.50%) RHCA
8 10 (1.50%) RHCE
9 9 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.20%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.05%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.75%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.75%) GIAC
12 5 (0.75%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.82%) QA
2 15 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 13 (1.95%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.35%) GDPR
6 8 (1.20%) MiFID
7 7 (1.05%) Basel III
8 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.60%) WCAG
10 3 (0.45%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.45%) HL7
11 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.30%) SLA
12 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.15%) EMIR
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 106 (15.94%) Docker
2 35 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.35%) Postfix
4 9 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 4 (0.60%) OpenAM
6 4 (0.60%) OpenDJ
6 4 (0.60%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.30%) Firmware
7 2 (0.30%) NFS
7 2 (0.30%) Veritas File System
7 2 (0.30%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 99 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 64 (9.62%) Ansible
3 56 (8.42%) Terraform
4 25 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (3.16%) Grafana
6 20 (3.01%) Prometheus
7 16 (2.41%) Puppet
8 15 (2.26%) vCenter Server
9 13 (1.95%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
10 10 (1.50%) Podman
11 6 (0.90%) CloudHub
11 6 (0.90%) QRadar
11 6 (0.90%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.90%) Tivoli
12 4 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (0.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 3 (0.45%) Kibana
13 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 89 (13.38%) Oracle
2 74 (11.13%) Microsoft
3 68 (10.23%) ServiceNow
4 40 (6.02%) Salesforce
5 26 (3.91%) MuleSoft
5 26 (3.91%) SAP
6 24 (3.61%) VMware
7 19 (2.86%) Atlassian
7 19 (2.86%) Cisco
7 19 (2.86%) Splunk
8 16 (2.41%) Google
9 11 (1.65%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.50%) CA Agile Central
10 10 (1.50%) ForgeRock
10 10 (1.50%) IBM
10 10 (1.50%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (1.35%) Adobe
12 8 (1.20%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.05%) Qualys
13 7 (1.05%) Sybase