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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 99 120
Rank change year-on-year +16 +21 -5
Contract jobs citing REST 1,322 714 724
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.95% 2.62% 1.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.55% 11.74% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 522 500
10th Percentile £363 £356 £375
25th Percentile £415 £407 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -2.68% -6.59%
75th Percentile £625 £605 £625
90th Percentile £713 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 17
10th Percentile £54.00 £49.63 £27.00
25th Percentile £56.25 - £36.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -28.57% +27.27%
75th Percentile £75.00 £55.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £91.25 £57.80 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +35.00% -28.57% +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 8,501 6,080 7,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.96% 22.28% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,604 4,178 5,453
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £430 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 141 259
10th Percentile £30.30 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -7.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.09
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% +1.82% -12.00%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +21 720 £525 -4.55% 312
North of England +3 196 £463 +4.64% 66
South East -19 167 £525 +10.53% 92
Yorkshire +11 103 £454 -1.58% 21
Midlands -16 98 £478 +19.50% 49
South West +20 81 £500 -13.04% 54
North West -30 76 £538 +29.52% 36
West Midlands -27 67 £481 +13.21% 29
East of England -10 37 £600 +20.00% 13
East Midlands -14 29 £455 +22.48% 20
North East -22 17 £450 - 9
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 61 (4.61%) Confluence
2 30 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.36%) Apache
4 15 (1.13%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.98%) Camunda
5 13 (0.98%) IIS
5 13 (0.98%) OpenStack
6 12 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.76%) Anypoint
7 10 (0.76%) Ethereum
7 10 (0.76%) Hyperledger
8 9 (0.68%) Appian
9 8 (0.61%) CMS
9 8 (0.61%) Mule
9 8 (0.61%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.61%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.45%) Documentum
11 6 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.076%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.076%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.076%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.076%) InDesign
5 1 (0.076%) Maya
5 1 (0.076%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.076%) Sketch
5 1 (0.076%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.76%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.53%) Elite 3E
5 7 (0.53%) Shopify
6 6 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.45%) Remedy AR System
6 6 (0.45%) SAP PSCD
7 5 (0.38%) R3 Corda
8 4 (0.30%) Maximo
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.30%) Quorum
8 4 (0.30%) Ripple
9 3 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
9 3 (0.23%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 464 (35.10%) Azure
2 397 (30.03%) AWS
3 176 (13.31%) GitHub
4 154 (11.65%) Azure DevOps
5 145 (10.97%) GCP
6 112 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
7 98 (7.41%) Serverless
8 81 (6.13%) Entra ID
9 74 (5.60%) Power Platform
10 62 (4.69%) Amazon S3
11 49 (3.71%) Amazon SQS
12 47 (3.56%) SaaS
13 43 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
15 35 (2.65%) OCI
16 31 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 31 (2.34%) Azure Functions
16 31 (2.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 29 (2.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.65%) HTTP
2 19 (1.44%) SNMP
3 15 (1.13%) WAN
4 13 (0.98%) BGP
5 11 (0.83%) HTTPS
5 11 (0.83%) MPLS
5 11 (0.83%) Network Security
6 10 (0.76%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.61%) DNS
7 8 (0.61%) FTP
7 8 (0.61%) LAN
8 7 (0.53%) Firewall
9 5 (0.38%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.38%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.30%) OSPF
10 4 (0.30%) VLAN
11 3 (0.23%) DHCP
11 3 (0.23%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (12.41%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 123 (9.30%) Relational Database
4 63 (4.77%) NoSQL
5 52 (3.93%) Power BI
6 40 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 33 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (2.34%) Redis
9 27 (2.04%) DynamoDB
10 24 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (1.82%) MySQL
11 22 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (1.59%) Metadata
13 20 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
14 19 (1.44%) Big Data
15 16 (1.21%) Data Lake
16 15 (1.13%) Oracle Database
17 13 (0.98%) BigQuery
18 11 (0.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 239 (18.08%) Git
2 148 (11.20%) Jenkins
3 124 (9.38%) JIRA
4 89 (6.73%) GitLab
5 76 (5.75%) JUnit
6 59 (4.46%) Postman
7 42 (3.18%) Selenium
8 40 (3.03%) Maven
9 39 (2.95%) Cucumber
10 35 (2.65%) Mockito
11 33 (2.50%) Cypress.io
12 32 (2.42%) REST Assured
13 27 (2.04%) Gradle
14 24 (1.82%) JMeter
15 20 (1.51%) SonarQube
16 16 (1.21%) Gatling
17 14 (1.06%) CircleCI
18 13 (0.98%) DbUnit
18 13 (0.98%) jMock
19 11 (0.83%) Eclipse
General
1 300 (22.69%) Social Skills
2 268 (20.27%) Finance
3 161 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 101 (7.64%) Banking
6 56 (4.24%) Retail
7 36 (2.72%) Telecoms
8 21 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (1.59%) Marketing
9 20 (1.51%) Publishing
10 16 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.06%) Law
12 13 (0.98%) Legal
13 12 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 12 (0.91%) Front Office
14 10 (0.76%) Billing
14 10 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.68%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 499 (37.75%) Developer
2 232 (17.55%) Architect
3 186 (14.07%) Senior
4 103 (7.79%) Java Developer
5 83 (6.28%) Senior Developer
6 79 (5.98%) Lead
7 75 (5.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 69 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
9 67 (5.07%) Software Engineer
10 65 (4.92%) Consultant
11 49 (3.71%) Python Developer
12 40 (3.03%) ServiceNow Architect
13 39 (2.95%) .NET Developer
14 35 (2.65%) Technical Architect
15 32 (2.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 32 (2.42%) Test Engineer
16 31 (2.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 30 (2.27%) Java Engineer
18 29 (2.19%) React Developer
19 28 (2.12%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 351 (26.55%) SOAP
2 185 (13.99%) React
3 180 (13.62%) Spring
4 169 (12.78%) .NET
5 168 (12.71%) RESTful
6 165 (12.48%) JSON
6 165 (12.48%) Spring Boot
7 136 (10.29%) Web Services
8 131 (9.91%) Kafka
9 130 (9.83%) Node.js
10 119 (9.00%) AngularJS
10 119 (9.00%) HTML
10 119 (9.00%) OAuth
11 113 (8.55%) CSS
12 102 (7.72%) XML
13 89 (6.73%) GraphQL
14 87 (6.58%) Middleware
15 56 (4.24%) OAuth2
16 52 (3.93%) Swagger
17 48 (3.63%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 184 (13.92%) Cloud Native
2 119 (9.00%) Product Ownership
3 101 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
4 73 (5.52%) CMDB
5 53 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
6 52 (3.93%) Onboarding
7 44 (3.33%) Mobile App
8 41 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
9 35 (2.65%) Management Information System
10 32 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
11 31 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.97%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.97%) Low-Code
12 26 (1.97%) Virtual Team
13 25 (1.89%) Data Structures
14 21 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
15 17 (1.29%) Security Posture
16 13 (0.98%) Equities
16 13 (0.98%) PKI
16 13 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 90 (6.81%) Windows
2 82 (6.20%) Linux
3 28 (2.12%) Unix
4 23 (1.74%) Android
5 18 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.21%) AIX
7 11 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.68%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.61%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.53%) zOS
11 3 (0.23%) VMS
12 1 (0.076%) CentOS
12 1 (0.076%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.076%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 559 (42.28%) CI/CD
2 515 (38.96%) Agile
3 457 (34.57%) DevOps
4 342 (25.87%) Microservices
5 269 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
6 218 (16.49%) Test Automation
7 192 (14.52%) AI
7 192 (14.52%) Scrum
8 189 (14.30%) Containerisation
9 188 (14.22%) Event-Driven
10 171 (12.93%) Software Engineering
11 170 (12.86%) Data Modelling
11 170 (12.86%) Integration Patterns
12 153 (11.57%) Full-Stack Development
13 141 (10.67%) ITSM
14 137 (10.36%) Observability
15 133 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
16 131 (9.91%) Workflow
17 127 (9.61%) Technical Leadership
18 126 (9.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 396 (29.95%) Java
2 349 (26.40%) Python
3 347 (26.25%) SQL
4 282 (21.33%) JavaScript
5 194 (14.67%) TypeScript
6 169 (12.78%) C#
7 111 (8.40%) PowerShell
8 43 (3.25%) Kotlin
9 33 (2.50%) Apex Code
10 32 (2.42%) Bash
11 29 (2.19%) Go
12 26 (1.97%) Bicep
13 22 (1.66%) PL/SQL
14 20 (1.51%) Groovy
15 19 (1.44%) Search Processing Language
16 16 (1.21%) SOQL
17 15 (1.13%) T-SQL
18 11 (0.83%) ABAP
18 11 (0.83%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.83%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 331 (25.04%) Security Cleared
2 248 (18.76%) SC Cleared
3 88 (6.66%) Degree
4 63 (4.77%) DV Cleared
5 47 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (1.82%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.66%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.83%) CISSP
12 10 (0.76%) CISM
13 9 (0.68%) CCIE
14 7 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.53%) JNCIE
14 7 (0.53%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.53%) PMP
14 7 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.38%) MBA
15 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (9.15%) QA
2 62 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 41 (3.10%) Data Quality
4 38 (2.87%) GDPR
5 30 (2.27%) WCAG
6 21 (1.59%) GRC
7 17 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (0.91%) NCSC
10 11 (0.83%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.68%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.68%) SLA
12 8 (0.61%) NIST
12 8 (0.61%) SEPA
13 6 (0.45%) HL7
13 6 (0.45%) PSD2
14 5 (0.38%) PMO
15 4 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.30%) IFRS
System Software
1 236 (17.85%) Docker
2 58 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.83%) Postfix
3 11 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 3 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.15%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.15%) vSphere
8 1 (0.076%) Ceph
8 1 (0.076%) Firmware
8 1 (0.076%) IAG
8 1 (0.076%) RACF
8 1 (0.076%) Snort
8 1 (0.076%) UAG
8 1 (0.076%) Varnish
8 1 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 237 (17.93%) Kubernetes
2 127 (9.61%) Terraform
3 76 (5.75%) Ansible
4 65 (4.92%) Grafana
5 33 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.29%) Nagios
7 17 (1.29%) ZABBIX
8 16 (1.21%) Netcool
9 15 (1.13%) Tivoli
10 13 (0.98%) OpenView
10 13 (0.98%) Tivoli Monitoring
11 6 (0.45%) Control-M
12 5 (0.38%) Istio
13 4 (0.30%) Puppet
13 4 (0.30%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.23%) Kibana
14 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.23%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 189 (14.30%) Microsoft
2 187 (14.15%) ServiceNow
3 153 (11.57%) Oracle
4 81 (6.13%) Salesforce
5 63 (4.77%) Google
6 55 (4.16%) Splunk
7 49 (3.71%) SAP
8 38 (2.87%) BMC
8 38 (2.87%) MuleSoft
9 35 (2.65%) IBM
10 24 (1.82%) Workday
11 21 (1.59%) OpenAI
12 20 (1.51%) Atlassian
13 19 (1.44%) Databricks
13 19 (1.44%) SolarWinds
14 18 (1.36%) HP
14 18 (1.36%) Remedy
15 17 (1.29%) Jaspersoft
16 16 (1.21%) Dynatrace
17 15 (1.13%) CyberArk