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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 148 168
Rank change year-on-year -62 +20 +53
Contract jobs citing RESTful 616 507 468
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.84% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.27% 7.41% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 380 315
10th Percentile £363 £325 £327
25th Percentile £418 £385 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £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 20 8 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £48.88 £47.70
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.75 £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 £71.56 £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 9,820 6,845 8,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.51% 24.80% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 4,713 5,613
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 266 162 213
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £24.04
25th Percentile £50.88 £41.82 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -6.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.91 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -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 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 20 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 20 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 -22 340 £500 -3.85% 120
North of England -68 89 £500 +13.64% 67
South East -33 84 £475 +2.59% 42
Midlands -64 43 £447 +1.22% 20
Yorkshire -50 39 £550 +32.13% 23
South West -17 32 £450 - 16
North West -56 30 £570 +25.41% 35
West Midlands -47 26 £488 -2.50% 12
North East -24 20 £450 -10.00% 9
East of England -13 16 £463 -15.14% 20
East Midlands -35 16 £435 +8.21% 7
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 (4.55%) Confluence
2 6 (0.97%) CICS
2 6 (0.97%) CMS
3 5 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.65%) Camunda
4 4 (0.65%) Ethereum
4 4 (0.65%) Hyperledger
4 4 (0.65%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.49%) 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 (1.30%) 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 (0.65%) Quorum
1 4 (0.65%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.65%) Ripple
2 3 (0.49%) 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
1 253 (41.07%) AWS
2 231 (37.50%) Azure
3 134 (21.75%) GitHub
4 90 (14.61%) Serverless
5 87 (14.12%) GitHub Actions
6 80 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
6 80 (12.99%) GCP
7 67 (10.88%) AWS Lambda
8 45 (7.31%) Amazon S3
9 40 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
11 32 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
14 21 (3.41%) GitHub Copilot
15 16 (2.60%) Entra ID
15 16 (2.60%) Power Platform
16 15 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (2.27%) Azure AKS
17 14 (2.27%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.11%) HTTP
2 4 (0.65%) 5G
2 4 (0.65%) DNS
2 4 (0.65%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.65%) MQTT
2 4 (0.65%) Network Security
2 4 (0.65%) SSH
2 4 (0.65%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.49%) 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
1 138 (22.40%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (13.31%) NoSQL
3 80 (12.99%) Relational Database
4 57 (9.25%) MongoDB
5 56 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 41 (6.66%) DynamoDB
7 39 (6.33%) MySQL
8 25 (4.06%) Redis
9 24 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 24 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.11%) Geospatial Data
11 10 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.14%) Power BI
13 6 (0.97%) Db2
13 6 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.97%) Metadata
14 5 (0.81%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 179 (29.06%) Git
2 113 (18.34%) Jenkins
3 56 (9.09%) GitLab
4 48 (7.79%) JUnit
5 45 (7.31%) JIRA
6 36 (5.84%) Mockito
7 28 (4.55%) Gradle
7 28 (4.55%) Maven
8 20 (3.25%) Cypress.io
9 19 (3.08%) SonarQube
10 18 (2.92%) Cucumber
10 18 (2.92%) Postman
11 15 (2.44%) Visual Studio
12 13 (2.11%) REST Assured
13 11 (1.79%) MSI
14 10 (1.62%) fastlane
14 10 (1.62%) Selenium
15 9 (1.46%) CircleCI
15 9 (1.46%) DbUnit
15 9 (1.46%) Xcode
General
1 152 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 116 (18.83%) Finance
3 108 (17.53%) Public Sector
4 86 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (7.79%) Banking
6 34 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.92%) Retail
8 14 (2.27%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.11%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.46%) Marketing
11 8 (1.30%) Law
12 7 (1.14%) Local Government
12 7 (1.14%) Publishing
13 6 (0.97%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.97%) Front Office
13 6 (0.97%) Legal
14 5 (0.81%) Police
15 4 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.65%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.49%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 387 (62.82%) Developer
2 127 (20.62%) Senior
3 117 (18.99%) Java Developer
4 93 (15.10%) Senior Developer
5 78 (12.66%) Full-Stack Developer
6 48 (7.79%) Python Developer
7 45 (7.31%) .NET Developer
8 40 (6.49%) Architect
9 39 (6.33%) Senior Java Developer
10 34 (5.52%) Software Engineer
11 28 (4.55%) C# Developer
12 27 (4.38%) React Developer
13 24 (3.90%) Software Developer
14 23 (3.73%) Lead
15 20 (3.25%) Java Engineer
16 19 (3.08%) AWS Developer
16 19 (3.08%) C# .NET Developer
17 18 (2.92%) Backend Developer
17 18 (2.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 18 (2.92%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (30.03%) REST
2 156 (25.32%) Spring
3 149 (24.19%) Spring Boot
4 126 (20.45%) React
5 119 (19.32%) Kafka
6 117 (18.99%) .NET
7 94 (15.26%) CSS
8 90 (14.61%) Terraform
9 89 (14.45%) HTML
10 65 (10.55%) AngularJS
11 62 (10.06%) Node.js
12 59 (9.58%) OAuth
13 51 (8.28%) .NET Core
14 50 (8.12%) OAuth2
15 47 (7.63%) Web Services
16 45 (7.31%) HTML5
16 45 (7.31%) JSON
17 42 (6.82%) CSS3
17 42 (6.82%) RabbitMQ
18 38 (6.17%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 147 (23.86%) Cloud Native
2 109 (17.69%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (13.15%) Product Ownership
4 39 (6.33%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (6.01%) Mobile App
6 23 (3.73%) Data Structures
6 23 (3.73%) Onboarding
7 19 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.95%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.95%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.62%) NHS
9 10 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.62%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.46%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.30%) Hedge funds
12 6 (0.97%) DataPower
12 6 (0.97%) Life Science
12 6 (0.97%) Mainframe
12 6 (0.97%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 54 (8.77%) Linux
2 36 (5.84%) Unix
3 23 (3.73%) Apple iOS
4 20 (3.25%) Android
5 17 (2.76%) Windows
6 6 (0.97%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (62.82%) CI/CD
2 340 (55.19%) Agile
3 322 (52.27%) Microservices
4 267 (43.34%) DevOps
5 185 (30.03%) Containerisation
5 185 (30.03%) Test Automation
6 148 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
7 138 (22.40%) Event-Driven
8 137 (22.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 127 (20.62%) Scrum
10 125 (20.29%) Software Engineering
11 114 (18.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 110 (17.86%) Code Quality
13 109 (17.69%) Infrastructure as Code
14 91 (14.77%) API Design
15 89 (14.45%) API Development
16 86 (13.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 84 (13.64%) Clean Code
18 83 (13.47%) AI
19 79 (12.82%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 243 (39.45%) Java
2 182 (29.55%) SQL
3 162 (26.30%) Python
4 151 (24.51%) JavaScript
5 137 (22.24%) C#
6 117 (18.99%) TypeScript
7 35 (5.68%) Kotlin
8 32 (5.19%) Shell Script
9 24 (3.90%) Bicep
10 22 (3.57%) Swift
11 14 (2.27%) Bash
12 12 (1.95%) Go
12 12 (1.95%) Ruby
13 11 (1.79%) Scala
14 9 (1.46%) Objective-C
14 9 (1.46%) Rust
15 8 (1.30%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.30%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.30%) X++
16 6 (0.97%) JCL
Qualifications
1 172 (27.92%) Security Cleared
2 141 (22.89%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.66%) Degree
4 29 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.76%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.62%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (1.30%) CCSP
10 8 (1.30%) CEH
10 8 (1.30%) CISM
10 8 (1.30%) CISSP
10 8 (1.30%) OSCP
11 5 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.49%) MBA
13 2 (0.32%) PhD
14 1 (0.16%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (16.72%) QA
2 73 (11.85%) Accessibility
3 45 (7.31%) WCAG
4 13 (2.11%) NCSC
5 9 (1.46%) NIST
6 8 (1.30%) COBIT
6 8 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.97%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.81%) GDPR
8 5 (0.81%) HL7
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 (38.96%) Docker
2 7 (1.14%) Postfix
3 6 (0.97%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 190 (30.84%) Kubernetes
2 45 (7.31%) Grafana
3 37 (6.01%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.95%) Ansible
5 10 (1.62%) Kibana
6 4 (0.65%) Argo
6 4 (0.65%) Podman
6 4 (0.65%) Puppet
7 3 (0.49%) Bosun
7 3 (0.49%) Istio
8 2 (0.32%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.32%) Consul
8 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.32%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.16%) linkerd
Vendors
1 67 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.49%) Oracle
3 30 (4.87%) Google
4 20 (3.25%) Dynatrace
5 14 (2.27%) Splunk
6 12 (1.95%) New Relic
7 11 (1.79%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.46%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.30%) Jaspersoft
10 7 (1.14%) Apple
11 6 (0.97%) Databricks
11 6 (0.97%) IBM
11 6 (0.97%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.81%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.65%) Adobe
13 4 (0.65%) Citrix
13 4 (0.65%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.65%) Okta
13 4 (0.65%) SAP
13 4 (0.65%) Sybase