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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 156 186
Rank change year-on-year -49 +30 +41
Contract jobs citing RESTful 610 491 465
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.78% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.18% 8.03% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 371 321
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £386 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -10.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £675 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 6 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £48.13 £47.70
25th Percentile £55.31 £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 £77.38 - £85.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £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 8,492 6,113 7,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.74% 22.21% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,562 4,223 5,101
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £503 £550
% change year-on-year +4.48% -8.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 145 233
10th Percentile £28.93 £31.25 £24.04
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.47 £79.48 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -25 328 £500 - 107
North of England -66 94 £500 +16.96% 60
South East -21 88 £475 +4.40% 45
Midlands -68 42 £498 +7.68% 18
Yorkshire -55 41 £525 +27.27% 22
South West -21 34 £450 -16.28% 19
North West -58 34 £572 +35.38% 33
West Midlands -57 27 £500 - 14
North East -30 19 £450 -10.00% 6
East Midlands -33 14 £472 +17.29% 4
East of England -17 13 £500 -8.26% 18
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 (4.59%) Confluence
2 8 (1.31%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.15%) CICS
4 6 (0.98%) CMS
5 4 (0.66%) Ethereum
5 4 (0.66%) Hyperledger
5 4 (0.66%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.33%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.33%) Appian
7 2 (0.33%) Camunda
7 2 (0.33%) Mule
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.16%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.48%) CPLEX
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Quorum
1 4 (0.66%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.66%) Ripple
2 3 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
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
Cloud Services
1 235 (38.52%) AWS
2 226 (37.05%) Azure
3 124 (20.33%) GitHub
4 95 (15.57%) Serverless
5 84 (13.77%) GitHub Actions
6 81 (13.28%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (11.80%) AWS Lambda
8 65 (10.66%) GCP
9 50 (8.20%) Amazon S3
10 43 (7.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (6.72%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (4.75%) Amazon SQS
14 28 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (3.11%) Entra ID
16 18 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (2.95%) Azure AKS
17 16 (2.62%) Azure Key Vault
17 16 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
17 16 (2.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.80%) HTTP
2 7 (1.15%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.66%) MQTT
3 4 (0.66%) Network Security
4 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.16%) 4G
5 1 (0.16%) 5G
5 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.16%) DNS
5 1 (0.16%) LTE
5 1 (0.16%) NFC
5 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.16%) SNMP
5 1 (0.16%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (22.13%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (12.95%) NoSQL
3 73 (11.97%) Relational Database
4 58 (9.51%) SQL Server
5 49 (8.03%) MongoDB
6 44 (7.21%) DynamoDB
7 35 (5.74%) MySQL
8 28 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (4.43%) Amazon Aurora
10 18 (2.95%) Redis
11 11 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.80%) Geospatial Data
12 10 (1.64%) Db2
13 9 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.15%) Power BI
15 5 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.82%) Flink
16 4 (0.66%) Metadata
16 4 (0.66%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 168 (27.54%) Git
2 106 (17.38%) Jenkins
3 50 (8.20%) JUnit
4 48 (7.87%) GitLab
5 45 (7.38%) JIRA
6 37 (6.07%) Mockito
7 28 (4.59%) Maven
8 26 (4.26%) Gradle
9 21 (3.44%) Cucumber
9 21 (3.44%) SonarQube
10 19 (3.11%) Postman
11 17 (2.79%) Cypress.io
12 16 (2.62%) Visual Studio
13 14 (2.30%) REST Assured
14 12 (1.97%) DbUnit
15 11 (1.80%) Bitbucket Server
15 11 (1.80%) jMock
16 10 (1.64%) fastlane
17 9 (1.48%) MSI
17 9 (1.48%) Xcode
General
1 124 (20.33%) Social Skills
2 118 (19.34%) Finance
3 103 (16.89%) Public Sector
4 79 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (8.85%) Banking
6 28 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.95%) Retail
8 14 (2.30%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.31%) Law
9 8 (1.31%) Marketing
9 8 (1.31%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.98%) Front Office
11 6 (0.98%) Local Government
12 5 (0.82%) Legal
12 5 (0.82%) Police
13 4 (0.66%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.66%) Publishing
13 4 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 387 (63.44%) Developer
2 134 (21.97%) Senior
3 125 (20.49%) Java Developer
4 95 (15.57%) Senior Developer
5 76 (12.46%) Full-Stack Developer
6 45 (7.38%) .NET Developer
7 43 (7.05%) Python Developer
8 41 (6.72%) Software Engineer
9 39 (6.39%) Senior Java Developer
10 37 (6.07%) Architect
11 29 (4.75%) React Developer
12 28 (4.59%) C# Developer
13 24 (3.93%) Software Developer
14 22 (3.61%) Backend Developer
14 22 (3.61%) Java Engineer
15 20 (3.28%) Lead
16 19 (3.11%) C# .NET Developer
17 18 (2.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 18 (2.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 17 (2.79%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (29.67%) REST
2 160 (26.23%) Spring
3 156 (25.57%) Spring Boot
4 121 (19.84%) React
5 117 (19.18%) .NET
6 113 (18.52%) Kafka
7 85 (13.93%) CSS
8 79 (12.95%) HTML
9 66 (10.82%) AngularJS
10 65 (10.66%) Node.js
11 58 (9.51%) OAuth
12 49 (8.03%) Web Services
13 45 (7.38%) JSON
14 44 (7.21%) OAuth2
15 43 (7.05%) .NET Core
15 43 (7.05%) HTML5
16 40 (6.56%) CSS3
17 39 (6.39%) RabbitMQ
17 39 (6.39%) SOAP
17 39 (6.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 129 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 112 (18.36%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (12.79%) Product Ownership
4 34 (5.57%) Mobile App
5 30 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (4.26%) Data Structures
7 21 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (3.11%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.13%) Algorithms
9 13 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.64%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.64%) NHS
12 9 (1.48%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.31%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.31%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.15%) DataPower
14 7 (1.15%) Mainframe
15 6 (0.98%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.05%) Linux
2 26 (4.26%) Unix
3 21 (3.44%) Android
4 20 (3.28%) Apple iOS
5 16 (2.62%) Windows
6 7 (1.15%) zOS
7 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (62.13%) CI/CD
2 334 (54.75%) Agile
3 322 (52.79%) Microservices
4 252 (41.31%) DevOps
5 185 (30.33%) Containerisation
6 168 (27.54%) Test Automation
7 135 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
8 132 (21.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 128 (20.98%) Scrum
10 127 (20.82%) Event-Driven
11 119 (19.51%) Software Engineering
12 105 (17.21%) Code Quality
13 102 (16.72%) Infrastructure as Code
14 99 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 88 (14.43%) API Design
16 86 (14.10%) Clean Code
17 78 (12.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 77 (12.62%) API Development
19 73 (11.97%) AI
19 73 (11.97%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 255 (41.80%) Java
2 181 (29.67%) SQL
3 161 (26.39%) Python
4 145 (23.77%) JavaScript
5 136 (22.30%) C#
6 114 (18.69%) TypeScript
7 37 (6.07%) Kotlin
8 26 (4.26%) Shell Script
9 24 (3.93%) Bicep
10 19 (3.11%) Swift
11 15 (2.46%) Go
12 10 (1.64%) Ruby
12 10 (1.64%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.48%) Scala
14 8 (1.31%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.31%) Rust
14 8 (1.31%) X++
15 7 (1.15%) Objective-C
16 6 (0.98%) JCL
17 5 (0.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 164 (26.89%) Security Cleared
2 139 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.41%) Degree
4 21 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.62%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.64%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (1.31%) CCSP
9 8 (1.31%) CEH
9 8 (1.31%) CISM
9 8 (1.31%) CISSP
9 8 (1.31%) OSCP
10 5 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.49%) MBA
12 2 (0.33%) PhD
13 1 (0.16%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (14.75%) QA
2 71 (11.64%) Accessibility
3 45 (7.38%) WCAG
4 11 (1.80%) NCSC
5 9 (1.48%) NIST
6 8 (1.31%) COBIT
6 8 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.82%) GDPR
8 3 (0.49%) HL7
9 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.33%) SLA
10 1 (0.16%) Basel III
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
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
1 235 (38.52%) Docker
2 9 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.48%) Postfix
3 4 (0.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 184 (30.16%) Kubernetes
2 85 (13.93%) Terraform
3 40 (6.56%) Grafana
4 34 (5.57%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.30%) Ansible
6 7 (1.15%) Kibana
7 4 (0.66%) Podman
7 4 (0.66%) Puppet
8 3 (0.49%) Argo
8 3 (0.49%) Bosun
9 2 (0.33%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.33%) Consul
9 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.33%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 66 (10.82%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.90%) Oracle
3 25 (4.10%) Google
4 19 (3.11%) Dynatrace
5 13 (2.13%) Atlassian
6 12 (1.97%) New Relic
6 12 (1.97%) Splunk
7 11 (1.80%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.48%) Databricks
10 7 (1.15%) Apple
10 7 (1.15%) Sybase
11 6 (0.98%) IBM
11 6 (0.98%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.82%) Adobe
12 5 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.66%) Citrix
13 4 (0.66%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.66%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.66%) SAP