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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 165 184
Rank change year-on-year -33 +19 +26
Contract jobs citing RESTful 614 462 480
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.37% 1.70% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.24% 7.64% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 332 330
10th Percentile £350 £321 £363
25th Percentile £413 £391 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £650
90th Percentile £650 £687 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 7
10th Percentile £54.75 £48.13 £47.70
25th Percentile £63.75 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £85.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £59.38 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +6.67%

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 8,486 6,048 7,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.96% 22.25% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,581 4,154 5,423
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 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.70% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 140 256
10th Percentile £30.20 £31.20 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.94 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.13
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +9.41% -10.04%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 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 -13 323 £500 -2.72% 59
North of England -45 108 £463 +3.93% 44
South East -27 81 £508 +11.54% 43
North West -39 49 £463 +12.80% 25
Midlands -73 45 £488 +5.41% 12
Yorkshire -36 42 £500 +12.36% 13
South West -8 35 £445 -17.21% 15
West Midlands -57 26 £500 - 8
East Midlands -26 17 £445 +10.70% 4
North East -27 17 £450 -10.00% 6
East of England -21 13 £500 -8.26% 10
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 33 (5.37%) Confluence
2 10 (1.63%) Ethereum
2 10 (1.63%) Hyperledger
3 9 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.30%) CMS
5 7 (1.14%) CICS
6 5 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.81%) Camunda
6 5 (0.81%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.65%) Appian
7 4 (0.65%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.33%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.33%) IIS
9 2 (0.33%) Mule
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.47%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.81%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.65%) Quorum
2 4 (0.65%) Ripple
3 3 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.16%) Maximo
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.16%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 232 (37.79%) AWS
2 218 (35.50%) Azure
3 112 (18.24%) GitHub
4 93 (15.15%) Serverless
5 79 (12.87%) GitHub Actions
6 74 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (11.07%) AWS Lambda
8 65 (10.59%) GCP
9 49 (7.98%) Amazon S3
10 38 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (4.56%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (2.93%) Entra ID
15 15 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (2.44%) Route 53
16 14 (2.28%) Azure AKS
16 14 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
16 14 (2.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.77%) HTTP
2 4 (0.65%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.65%) MQTT
2 4 (0.65%) Network Security
3 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.16%) 4G
4 1 (0.16%) 5G
4 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.16%) DNS
4 1 (0.16%) LTE
4 1 (0.16%) NFC
4 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.16%) SNMP
4 1 (0.16%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (20.52%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (13.52%) NoSQL
3 72 (11.73%) Relational Database
4 60 (9.77%) SQL Server
5 54 (8.79%) MongoDB
6 41 (6.68%) DynamoDB
7 34 (5.54%) MySQL
8 28 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (4.23%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (2.77%) Redis
11 10 (1.63%) Db2
11 10 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
12 8 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.14%) Power BI
14 6 (0.98%) Flink
15 5 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.81%) Pinecone
16 4 (0.65%) Metadata
16 4 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 163 (26.55%) Git
2 103 (16.78%) Jenkins
3 61 (9.93%) GitLab
4 56 (9.12%) JUnit
5 53 (8.63%) JIRA
6 38 (6.19%) Mockito
7 29 (4.72%) Maven
8 28 (4.56%) Gradle
8 28 (4.56%) SonarQube
9 23 (3.75%) Postman
10 20 (3.26%) Cucumber
11 16 (2.61%) Visual Studio
12 12 (1.95%) Cypress.io
12 12 (1.95%) DbUnit
12 12 (1.95%) REST Assured
13 11 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
13 11 (1.79%) jMock
14 10 (1.63%) fastlane
14 10 (1.63%) Selenium
15 9 (1.47%) Xcode
General
1 129 (21.01%) Social Skills
2 119 (19.38%) Finance
3 102 (16.61%) Public Sector
4 75 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (10.10%) Banking
6 27 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.44%) Retail
8 12 (1.95%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.63%) Marketing
10 8 (1.30%) Front Office
10 8 (1.30%) Law
11 7 (1.14%) Legal
11 7 (1.14%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.65%) Local Government
13 4 (0.65%) Police
13 4 (0.65%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.49%) Automotive
14 3 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 392 (63.84%) Developer
2 130 (21.17%) Senior
3 125 (20.36%) Java Developer
4 86 (14.01%) Senior Developer
5 72 (11.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (7.65%) Python Developer
7 42 (6.84%) .NET Developer
8 39 (6.35%) Architect
8 39 (6.35%) Software Engineer
9 35 (5.70%) Senior Java Developer
10 33 (5.37%) React Developer
11 25 (4.07%) C# Developer
12 24 (3.91%) Backend Developer
12 24 (3.91%) Software Developer
13 19 (3.09%) AWS Developer
14 18 (2.93%) Java Engineer
14 18 (2.93%) Lead
15 17 (2.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 16 (2.61%) Senior Software Engineer
17 15 (2.44%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (27.85%) REST
2 158 (25.73%) Spring
3 153 (24.92%) Spring Boot
4 126 (20.52%) React
5 117 (19.06%) .NET
6 112 (18.24%) Kafka
7 84 (13.68%) CSS
8 79 (12.87%) HTML
9 71 (11.56%) AngularJS
10 63 (10.26%) Node.js
11 57 (9.28%) OAuth
12 49 (7.98%) Web Services
13 47 (7.65%) Swagger
14 46 (7.49%) JSON
15 42 (6.84%) .NET Core
15 42 (6.84%) OAuth2
16 40 (6.51%) HTML5
16 40 (6.51%) OpenAPI
16 40 (6.51%) SOAP
17 38 (6.19%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 114 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 97 (15.80%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (14.33%) Product Ownership
4 36 (5.86%) Mobile App
5 29 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (3.75%) Data Structures
7 20 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.77%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.12%) Algorithms
9 13 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.47%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.30%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.30%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.14%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.14%) DataPower
13 7 (1.14%) Mainframe
13 7 (1.14%) NHS
13 7 (1.14%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.98%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.68%) Linux
2 25 (4.07%) Unix
3 21 (3.42%) Apple iOS
4 20 (3.26%) Android
5 17 (2.77%) Windows
6 7 (1.14%) zOS
7 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (61.24%) CI/CD
2 330 (53.75%) Agile
3 316 (51.47%) Microservices
4 235 (38.27%) DevOps
5 178 (28.99%) Containerisation
6 152 (24.76%) Test Automation
7 132 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
8 129 (21.01%) Scrum
9 126 (20.52%) Event-Driven
10 125 (20.36%) Full-Stack Development
11 111 (18.08%) Software Engineering
12 100 (16.29%) Code Quality
13 95 (15.47%) API Design
14 90 (14.66%) Infrastructure as Code
15 88 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 85 (13.84%) API Development
17 84 (13.68%) Clean Code
17 84 (13.68%) TDD
18 76 (12.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 69 (11.24%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 262 (42.67%) Java
2 181 (29.48%) SQL
3 163 (26.55%) Python
4 139 (22.64%) JavaScript
5 136 (22.15%) C#
6 112 (18.24%) TypeScript
7 34 (5.54%) Kotlin
8 26 (4.23%) Shell Script
9 25 (4.07%) Go
10 20 (3.26%) Bicep
11 19 (3.09%) Swift
12 11 (1.79%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.47%) Ruby
13 9 (1.47%) Scala
14 8 (1.30%) Objective-C
14 8 (1.30%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.30%) Rust
15 6 (0.98%) Bash
15 6 (0.98%) JCL
15 6 (0.98%) X++
Qualifications
1 161 (26.22%) Security Cleared
2 129 (21.01%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.03%) Degree
4 27 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.77%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.12%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.12%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (1.30%) CCSP
9 8 (1.30%) CEH
9 8 (1.30%) CISM
9 8 (1.30%) CISSP
9 8 (1.30%) OSCP
10 5 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.81%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.49%) MBA
12 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (14.01%) QA
2 64 (10.42%) Accessibility
3 41 (6.68%) WCAG
4 10 (1.63%) NCSC
5 9 (1.47%) NIST
6 8 (1.30%) COBIT
6 8 (1.30%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.98%) GDPR
8 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.49%) SLA
9 2 (0.33%) HL7
10 1 (0.16%) Basel III
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 222 (36.16%) Docker
2 9 (1.47%) Postfix
3 6 (0.98%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 182 (29.64%) Kubernetes
2 77 (12.54%) Terraform
3 41 (6.68%) Grafana
4 35 (5.70%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.61%) Ansible
6 7 (1.14%) Kibana
7 4 (0.65%) Podman
7 4 (0.65%) Puppet
8 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.33%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.33%) Consul
9 2 (0.33%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 56 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.19%) Oracle
3 21 (3.42%) Google
4 18 (2.93%) Dynatrace
5 14 (2.28%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.12%) Atlassian
6 13 (2.12%) Splunk
7 11 (1.79%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (1.63%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.47%) New Relic
10 8 (1.30%) Veracode
11 7 (1.14%) Adobe
11 7 (1.14%) Apple
11 7 (1.14%) Databricks
11 7 (1.14%) Sybase
12 6 (0.98%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.81%) IBM
13 5 (0.81%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.81%) Okta
13 5 (0.81%) UiPath