RESTful Contract Job Trends in England

RESTful
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring RESTful skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 154 177
Rank change year-on-year -50 +23 +45
Contract jobs citing RESTful 621 512 468
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.86% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.29% 7.46% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 379 313
10th Percentile £363 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £49.25 £47.70
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.55 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% -3.39%
75th Percentile £77.50 £63.75 £85.00
90th Percentile - £95.00 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% -3.39%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,865 6,864 8,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.51% 24.88% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,497 4,717 5,610
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 165 197
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £26.36
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% -3.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £77.22 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +20.37% -8.33% -5.75%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in England

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RESTful

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in England over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in England

RESTful
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RESTful

RESTful
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing RESTful in England over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for RESTful in England

RESTful
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 RESTful within the England region over the 6 months to 22 August 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 -23 341 £500 -3.85% 201
North of England -75 93 £475 +7.95% 80
South East -44 83 £475 +4.05% 48
Midlands -61 44 £447 +1.22% 31
Yorkshire -44 42 £525 +26.13% 20
South West -20 32 £450 - 30
North West -69 30 £570 +26.04% 46
West Midlands -44 25 £488 -2.50% 20
North East -28 21 £450 -10.00% 14
East Midlands -33 18 £435 +8.21% 10
East of England -17 16 £463 -15.14% 24
RESTful
UK

RESTful
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 28 (4.51%) Confluence
2 6 (0.97%) CICS
2 6 (0.97%) CMS
3 5 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.64%) Camunda
4 4 (0.64%) Ethereum
4 4 (0.64%) Hyperledger
4 4 (0.64%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.32%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.32%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.32%) Mule
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) Apache
7 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.16%) IIS
7 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (1.29%) CPLEX
2 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Quorum
1 4 (0.64%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.64%) Ripple
2 3 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.16%) Maximo
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.16%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 255 (41.06%) AWS
2 229 (36.88%) Azure
3 136 (21.90%) GitHub
4 91 (14.65%) Serverless
5 89 (14.33%) GitHub Actions
6 79 (12.72%) Azure DevOps
6 79 (12.72%) GCP
7 68 (10.95%) AWS Lambda
8 45 (7.25%) Amazon S3
9 39 (6.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (4.03%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
14 21 (3.38%) GitHub Copilot
15 16 (2.58%) Entra ID
15 16 (2.58%) Power Platform
16 15 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (2.42%) Azure AKS
17 14 (2.25%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.09%) HTTP
2 4 (0.64%) 5G
2 4 (0.64%) DNS
2 4 (0.64%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.64%) MQTT
2 4 (0.64%) Network Security
2 4 (0.64%) SSH
2 4 (0.64%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.48%) 4G
4 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.16%) LTE
4 1 (0.16%) NFC
4 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (22.06%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (13.37%) Relational Database
3 82 (13.20%) NoSQL
4 58 (9.34%) MongoDB
5 54 (8.70%) SQL Server
6 41 (6.60%) DynamoDB
7 40 (6.44%) MySQL
8 25 (4.03%) Redis
9 23 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
9 23 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.09%) Geospatial Data
11 10 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.13%) Power BI
13 6 (0.97%) Db2
13 6 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.97%) Metadata
13 6 (0.97%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (0.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 177 (28.50%) Git
2 114 (18.36%) Jenkins
3 58 (9.34%) GitLab
4 47 (7.57%) JUnit
5 46 (7.41%) JIRA
6 35 (5.64%) Mockito
7 29 (4.67%) Gradle
8 28 (4.51%) Maven
9 21 (3.38%) Cypress.io
10 19 (3.06%) SonarQube
11 18 (2.90%) Cucumber
11 18 (2.90%) Postman
12 15 (2.42%) Visual Studio
13 13 (2.09%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.77%) MSI
14 11 (1.77%) Selenium
15 10 (1.61%) fastlane
16 9 (1.45%) CircleCI
16 9 (1.45%) Xcode
17 8 (1.29%) DbUnit
General
1 152 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 118 (19.00%) Finance
3 107 (17.23%) Public Sector
4 84 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (7.73%) Banking
6 35 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.90%) Retail
8 14 (2.25%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.93%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.45%) Marketing
11 8 (1.29%) Law
11 8 (1.29%) Publishing
12 7 (1.13%) Local Government
13 6 (0.97%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.97%) Legal
14 5 (0.81%) Front Office
14 5 (0.81%) Police
15 4 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.64%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.48%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 385 (62.00%) Developer
2 128 (20.61%) Senior
3 116 (18.68%) Java Developer
4 92 (14.81%) Senior Developer
5 79 (12.72%) Full-Stack Developer
6 49 (7.89%) Python Developer
7 44 (7.09%) .NET Developer
8 40 (6.44%) Architect
9 39 (6.28%) Senior Java Developer
10 36 (5.80%) Software Engineer
11 27 (4.35%) C# Developer
12 26 (4.19%) React Developer
13 25 (4.03%) Software Developer
14 23 (3.70%) Lead
15 22 (3.54%) Java Engineer
16 20 (3.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 19 (3.06%) AWS Developer
17 19 (3.06%) C# .NET Developer
18 18 (2.90%) Backend Developer
18 18 (2.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (29.47%) REST
2 158 (25.44%) Spring
3 151 (24.32%) Spring Boot
4 127 (20.45%) React
5 120 (19.32%) Kafka
6 114 (18.36%) .NET
7 94 (15.14%) CSS
8 90 (14.49%) Terraform
9 89 (14.33%) HTML
10 64 (10.31%) AngularJS
11 61 (9.82%) Node.js
12 60 (9.66%) OAuth
13 51 (8.21%) OAuth2
14 50 (8.05%) .NET Core
15 49 (7.89%) Web Services
16 46 (7.41%) JSON
17 45 (7.25%) HTML5
18 42 (6.76%) CSS3
19 40 (6.44%) RabbitMQ
20 38 (6.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 150 (24.15%) Cloud Native
2 109 (17.55%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (13.37%) Product Ownership
4 42 (6.76%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (5.96%) Mobile App
6 23 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 22 (3.54%) Data Structures
8 19 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.93%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.93%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.61%) NHS
10 10 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.61%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.45%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.13%) Hedge funds
13 6 (0.97%) DataPower
13 6 (0.97%) Life Science
13 6 (0.97%) Mainframe
13 6 (0.97%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 53 (8.53%) Linux
2 36 (5.80%) Unix
3 23 (3.70%) Apple iOS
4 20 (3.22%) Android
5 17 (2.74%) Windows
6 6 (0.97%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (63.12%) CI/CD
2 346 (55.72%) Agile
3 322 (51.85%) Microservices
4 268 (43.16%) DevOps
5 189 (30.43%) Test Automation
6 186 (29.95%) Containerisation
7 148 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
8 142 (22.87%) Event-Driven
9 140 (22.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 129 (20.77%) Scrum
11 128 (20.61%) Software Engineering
12 115 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (17.71%) Code Quality
14 108 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
15 92 (14.81%) API Development
16 91 (14.65%) API Design
17 88 (14.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 83 (13.37%) AI
18 83 (13.37%) Clean Code
19 78 (12.56%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 245 (39.45%) Java
2 184 (29.63%) SQL
3 162 (26.09%) Python
4 153 (24.64%) JavaScript
5 134 (21.58%) C#
6 118 (19.00%) TypeScript
7 36 (5.80%) Kotlin
8 32 (5.15%) Shell Script
9 24 (3.86%) Bicep
10 22 (3.54%) Swift
11 14 (2.25%) Bash
12 12 (1.93%) Ruby
12 12 (1.93%) Scala
13 11 (1.77%) Go
14 9 (1.45%) Objective-C
14 9 (1.45%) Rust
15 8 (1.29%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.29%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.29%) X++
16 6 (0.97%) JCL
Qualifications
1 171 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 139 (22.38%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.44%) Degree
4 28 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.58%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.61%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (1.29%) CCSP
10 8 (1.29%) CEH
10 8 (1.29%) CISM
10 8 (1.29%) CISSP
10 8 (1.29%) OSCP
11 5 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.48%) MBA
13 2 (0.32%) PhD
14 1 (0.16%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (17.07%) QA
2 73 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 45 (7.25%) WCAG
4 13 (2.09%) NCSC
5 9 (1.45%) NIST
6 8 (1.29%) COBIT
6 8 (1.29%) HL7
6 8 (1.29%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.97%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.81%) GDPR
9 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.32%) SLA
10 1 (0.16%) Basel III
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 240 (38.65%) Docker
2 6 (0.97%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.97%) Postfix
3 4 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 192 (30.92%) Kubernetes
2 45 (7.25%) Grafana
3 37 (5.96%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.93%) Ansible
5 10 (1.61%) Kibana
6 5 (0.81%) Argo
7 4 (0.64%) Podman
7 4 (0.64%) Puppet
8 3 (0.48%) Bosun
8 3 (0.48%) Istio
9 2 (0.32%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.32%) Consul
9 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.32%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.16%) linkerd
Vendors
1 68 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.60%) Oracle
3 30 (4.83%) Google
4 20 (3.22%) Dynatrace
5 15 (2.42%) Splunk
6 12 (1.93%) New Relic
7 11 (1.77%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.29%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.13%) Apple
9 7 (1.13%) Databricks
9 7 (1.13%) Jaspersoft
10 6 (0.97%) IBM
10 6 (0.97%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.81%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.64%) Adobe
12 4 (0.64%) Citrix
12 4 (0.64%) NVIDIA
12 4 (0.64%) SAP
12 4 (0.64%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.64%) Sybase