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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 159 181
Rank change year-on-year -41 +22 +36
Contract jobs citing RESTful 619 468 486
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.38% 1.71% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.31% 7.66% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 338 334
10th Percentile £350 £325 £357
25th Percentile £415 £395 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £686 £750
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 £56.25 £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 £93.25 £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 8,465 6,107 7,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.27% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,558 4,200 5,303
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -5.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £746 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 135 248
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -6.96%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -22 324 £500 -2.72% 83
North of England -41 109 £461 +6.03% 38
South East -33 83 £508 +12.15% 47
North West -38 48 £455 +10.91% 23
Yorkshire -39 44 £500 +15.61% 13
Midlands -59 44 £488 +5.41% 11
South West -16 35 £445 -17.21% 17
West Midlands -62 26 £513 +2.50% 8
North East -25 17 £450 -10.00% 2
East Midlands -29 17 £445 +10.70% 3
East of England -14 14 £500 -8.26% 12
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 (5.33%) Confluence
2 10 (1.62%) Ethereum
2 10 (1.62%) Hyperledger
3 9 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.29%) CMS
5 7 (1.13%) CICS
6 5 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.81%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.65%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.48%) Appian
8 3 (0.48%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.32%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.32%) Camunda
9 2 (0.32%) IIS
9 2 (0.32%) Mule
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.45%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.81%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.65%) Quorum
2 4 (0.65%) Ripple
3 3 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.32%) 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
1 231 (37.32%) AWS
2 220 (35.54%) Azure
3 117 (18.90%) GitHub
4 94 (15.19%) Serverless
5 82 (13.25%) GitHub Actions
6 75 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (10.99%) AWS Lambda
8 64 (10.34%) GCP
9 49 (7.92%) Amazon S3
10 38 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 38 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
11 27 (4.36%) Amazon SQS
12 25 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (2.91%) Entra ID
15 15 (2.42%) Power Platform
15 15 (2.42%) Route 53
16 14 (2.26%) Azure Functions
16 14 (2.26%) Azure Key Vault
16 14 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.75%) HTTP
2 6 (0.97%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.65%) MQTT
3 4 (0.65%) Network Security
4 2 (0.32%) 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%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.16%) SNMP
5 1 (0.16%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (20.36%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (13.25%) NoSQL
3 74 (11.95%) Relational Database
4 60 (9.69%) SQL Server
5 53 (8.56%) MongoDB
6 40 (6.46%) DynamoDB
7 35 (5.65%) MySQL
8 28 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (4.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 16 (2.58%) Redis
11 10 (1.62%) Db2
11 10 (1.62%) Geospatial Data
12 9 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.13%) Power BI
14 6 (0.97%) Flink
15 5 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.65%) Metadata
16 4 (0.65%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 164 (26.49%) Git
2 104 (16.80%) Jenkins
3 61 (9.85%) GitLab
4 56 (9.05%) JIRA
4 56 (9.05%) JUnit
5 38 (6.14%) Mockito
6 29 (4.68%) Maven
7 28 (4.52%) Gradle
7 28 (4.52%) SonarQube
8 23 (3.72%) Postman
9 20 (3.23%) Cucumber
10 17 (2.75%) Visual Studio
11 13 (2.10%) Cypress.io
12 12 (1.94%) DbUnit
12 12 (1.94%) REST Assured
13 11 (1.78%) Bitbucket Server
13 11 (1.78%) jMock
14 10 (1.62%) fastlane
14 10 (1.62%) Selenium
15 9 (1.45%) Xcode
General
1 128 (20.68%) Social Skills
2 118 (19.06%) Finance
3 104 (16.80%) Public Sector
4 77 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (9.85%) Banking
6 27 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.42%) Retail
8 12 (1.94%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.62%) Marketing
10 8 (1.29%) Law
11 7 (1.13%) Legal
11 7 (1.13%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.97%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.97%) Front Office
13 5 (0.81%) Local Government
13 5 (0.81%) Police
14 4 (0.65%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.48%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.48%) Automotive
15 3 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 396 (63.97%) Developer
2 133 (21.49%) Senior
3 127 (20.52%) Java Developer
4 90 (14.54%) Senior Developer
5 75 (12.12%) Full-Stack Developer
6 45 (7.27%) Python Developer
7 42 (6.79%) .NET Developer
8 39 (6.30%) Architect
8 39 (6.30%) Software Engineer
9 37 (5.98%) Senior Java Developer
10 35 (5.65%) React Developer
11 26 (4.20%) C# Developer
12 25 (4.04%) Backend Developer
13 23 (3.72%) Software Developer
14 19 (3.07%) AWS Developer
14 19 (3.07%) Lead
15 18 (2.91%) Java Engineer
16 17 (2.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 16 (2.58%) C# .NET Developer
17 16 (2.58%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (27.79%) REST
2 160 (25.85%) Spring
3 155 (25.04%) Spring Boot
4 124 (20.03%) React
5 118 (19.06%) .NET
6 111 (17.93%) Kafka
7 88 (14.22%) CSS
8 81 (13.09%) HTML
9 69 (11.15%) AngularJS
10 63 (10.18%) Node.js
11 56 (9.05%) OAuth
12 50 (8.08%) Web Services
13 46 (7.43%) JSON
13 46 (7.43%) Swagger
14 43 (6.95%) OAuth2
15 42 (6.79%) .NET Core
15 42 (6.79%) HTML5
16 40 (6.46%) SOAP
17 39 (6.30%) OpenAPI
17 39 (6.30%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 115 (18.58%) Cloud Native
2 100 (16.16%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (14.70%) Product Ownership
4 37 (5.98%) Mobile App
5 30 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (3.88%) Data Structures
7 21 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.75%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.10%) Algorithms
9 13 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.45%) NHS
11 9 (1.45%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.29%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.29%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.29%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.13%) DataPower
13 7 (1.13%) Mainframe
13 7 (1.13%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.97%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.62%) Linux
2 24 (3.88%) Unix
3 21 (3.39%) Android
3 21 (3.39%) Apple iOS
4 17 (2.75%) Windows
5 7 (1.13%) zOS
6 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (61.87%) CI/CD
2 336 (54.28%) Agile
3 320 (51.70%) Microservices
4 238 (38.45%) DevOps
5 180 (29.08%) Containerisation
6 157 (25.36%) Test Automation
7 133 (21.49%) Scrum
8 132 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
9 128 (20.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 122 (19.71%) Event-Driven
11 113 (18.26%) Software Engineering
12 103 (16.64%) Code Quality
13 96 (15.51%) API Design
14 90 (14.54%) Infrastructure as Code
15 88 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 85 (13.73%) API Development
16 85 (13.73%) TDD
17 83 (13.41%) Clean Code
18 76 (12.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 70 (11.31%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 267 (43.13%) Java
2 182 (29.40%) SQL
3 158 (25.53%) Python
4 143 (23.10%) JavaScript
5 138 (22.29%) C#
6 116 (18.74%) TypeScript
7 35 (5.65%) Kotlin
8 25 (4.04%) Shell Script
9 24 (3.88%) Go
10 20 (3.23%) Bicep
11 19 (3.07%) Swift
12 11 (1.78%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.62%) Ruby
14 9 (1.45%) Scala
15 8 (1.29%) Objective-C
15 8 (1.29%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.29%) Rust
16 7 (1.13%) X++
17 6 (0.97%) Bash
17 6 (0.97%) JCL
Qualifications
1 164 (26.49%) Security Cleared
2 134 (21.65%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.65%) Degree
4 24 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.26%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.94%) Master's Degree
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 6 (0.97%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.48%) MBA
14 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (13.89%) QA
2 67 (10.82%) Accessibility
3 43 (6.95%) WCAG
4 10 (1.62%) NCSC
5 9 (1.45%) NIST
6 8 (1.29%) COBIT
6 8 (1.29%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.29%) GDPR
6 8 (1.29%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.48%) HL7
7 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.48%) SLA
8 1 (0.16%) Basel III
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.16%) GRC
8 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 221 (35.70%) Docker
2 9 (1.45%) Postfix
3 6 (0.97%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 180 (29.08%) Kubernetes
2 76 (12.28%) Terraform
3 42 (6.79%) Grafana
4 37 (5.98%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.58%) Ansible
6 7 (1.13%) Kibana
7 4 (0.65%) Podman
7 4 (0.65%) Puppet
8 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.32%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.32%) Consul
9 2 (0.32%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.16%) Argo
10 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 57 (9.21%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.14%) Oracle
3 22 (3.55%) Google
4 18 (2.91%) Dynatrace
5 14 (2.26%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.10%) Atlassian
6 13 (2.10%) Splunk
7 11 (1.78%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (1.62%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.45%) New Relic
10 8 (1.29%) Adobe
10 8 (1.29%) Databricks
10 8 (1.29%) Veracode
11 7 (1.13%) Apple
11 7 (1.13%) Sybase
12 6 (0.97%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.81%) IBM
13 5 (0.81%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.81%) Okta
14 4 (0.65%) UiPath