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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 167 207
Rank change year-on-year -26 +40 +1
Contract jobs citing RESTful 568 398 420
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.65% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.06% 7.33% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 275 291
10th Percentile £353 £356 £369
25th Percentile £413 £406 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £622
90th Percentile £658 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 7
10th Percentile £54.25 £51.50 £47.70
25th Percentile £58.75 £53.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £85.00
90th Percentile £82.75 - £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +10.34%

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 8,051 5,428 7,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.19% 22.54% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,310 3,752 5,401
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £635 £659 £675
90th Percentile £738 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £536
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.94% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 106 239
10th Percentile £31.18 £31.28 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.13 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -2 314 £500 -2.91% 124
North of England -28 106 £463 +12.12% 79
South East -33 67 £525 +5.53% 43
North West -19 53 £450 +12.50% 43
Midlands -59 44 £488 +5.41% 17
Yorkshire -25 39 £525 +13.51% 24
West Midlands -59 26 £488 -2.50% 8
South West -26 23 £440 -21.78% 28
East Midlands -30 16 £446 +10.95% 9
North East -20 14 £450 -7.69% 12
East of England -32 9 £500 -6.98% 17
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 24 (4.23%) Confluence
2 10 (1.76%) Ethereum
2 10 (1.76%) Hyperledger
3 9 (1.58%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.41%) Appian
5 7 (1.23%) CICS
6 6 (1.06%) CMS
7 5 (0.88%) Camunda
7 5 (0.88%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.53%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.35%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.35%) IIS
9 2 (0.35%) Mule
9 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.18%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 8 (1.41%) Adobe XD
2 6 (1.06%) CPLEX
3 5 (0.88%) Sketch
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.88%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.70%) Quorum
2 4 (0.70%) Ripple
3 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.18%) Maximo
5 1 (0.18%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 227 (39.96%) AWS
2 192 (33.80%) Azure
3 92 (16.20%) GitHub
3 92 (16.20%) Serverless
4 69 (12.15%) AWS Lambda
5 65 (11.44%) GitHub Actions
6 56 (9.86%) GCP
7 54 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (9.33%) Amazon S3
9 38 (6.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (5.46%) Amazon SQS
12 28 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (4.75%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (3.52%) Power Automate
16 19 (3.35%) Route 53
17 18 (3.17%) Entra ID
18 16 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
19 15 (2.64%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.29%) HTTP
2 5 (0.88%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.70%) DNS
4 3 (0.53%) MQTT
4 3 (0.53%) Network Security
5 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.35%) SSL
6 1 (0.18%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.18%) 4G
6 1 (0.18%) 5G
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.18%) SMS
6 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (20.07%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (15.32%) NoSQL
3 63 (11.09%) SQL Server
4 57 (10.04%) Relational Database
5 47 (8.27%) MongoDB
6 45 (7.92%) DynamoDB
7 34 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (5.11%) Amazon Aurora
8 29 (5.11%) MySQL
9 18 (3.17%) Redis
10 11 (1.94%) Db2
11 9 (1.58%) Pinecone
12 7 (1.23%) Power BI
13 6 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.06%) DocumentDB
13 6 (1.06%) Flink
14 5 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.70%) GIS
16 3 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
16 3 (0.53%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 128 (22.54%) Git
2 92 (16.20%) Jenkins
3 61 (10.74%) GitLab
4 51 (8.98%) JUnit
5 42 (7.39%) JIRA
6 34 (5.99%) Mockito
7 26 (4.58%) Postman
8 25 (4.40%) SonarQube
9 22 (3.87%) Maven
10 21 (3.70%) Cucumber
11 20 (3.52%) Gradle
12 14 (2.46%) Visual Studio
13 12 (2.11%) DbUnit
13 12 (2.11%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.94%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (1.94%) jMock
15 9 (1.58%) Selenium
16 8 (1.41%) JMeter
16 8 (1.41%) Liquibase
16 8 (1.41%) MLflow
General
1 125 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 121 (21.30%) Finance
3 85 (14.96%) Public Sector
4 63 (11.09%) Banking
5 60 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.94%) Front Office
8 10 (1.76%) Retail
9 9 (1.58%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.06%) Legal
10 6 (1.06%) Marketing
11 5 (0.88%) Law
11 5 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.70%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.53%) Automotive
13 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.53%) Local Government
13 3 (0.53%) Police
13 3 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 351 (61.80%) Developer
2 110 (19.37%) Java Developer
3 108 (19.01%) Senior
4 68 (11.97%) Senior Developer
5 62 (10.92%) Full-Stack Developer
6 46 (8.10%) Python Developer
7 39 (6.87%) Software Engineer
8 35 (6.16%) .NET Developer
8 35 (6.16%) Architect
9 30 (5.28%) React Developer
9 30 (5.28%) Senior Java Developer
10 26 (4.58%) C# Developer
11 22 (3.87%) Backend Developer
11 22 (3.87%) Software Developer
12 21 (3.70%) Lead
13 19 (3.35%) AWS Developer
13 19 (3.35%) Java Engineer
14 16 (2.82%) Senior Software Engineer
15 15 (2.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 12 (2.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (27.64%) Spring
2 153 (26.94%) Spring Boot
3 143 (25.18%) REST
4 126 (22.18%) React
5 105 (18.49%) Kafka
6 104 (18.31%) .NET
7 76 (13.38%) AngularJS
8 69 (12.15%) CSS
9 68 (11.97%) HTML
10 67 (11.80%) Node.js
11 59 (10.39%) OAuth
12 49 (8.63%) Web Services
13 40 (7.04%) OAuth2
14 39 (6.87%) Swagger
15 38 (6.69%) Django
16 36 (6.34%) FastAPI
16 36 (6.34%) JSON
17 35 (6.16%) JWT
17 35 (6.16%) OpenAPI
18 34 (5.99%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 88 (15.49%) Cloud Native
2 85 (14.96%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (13.73%) Product Ownership
4 29 (5.11%) Mobile App
5 21 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.64%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.29%) Low-Code
9 12 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.58%) Hedge funds
10 9 (1.58%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.41%) Derivative
12 7 (1.23%) DataPower
12 7 (1.23%) Equities
12 7 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.23%) Mainframe
12 7 (1.23%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.06%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.06%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.22%) Linux
2 21 (3.70%) Unix
3 16 (2.82%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.11%) Android
5 7 (1.23%) Windows
5 7 (1.23%) zOS
6 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (59.68%) CI/CD
2 294 (51.76%) Microservices
3 292 (51.41%) Agile
4 196 (34.51%) DevOps
5 164 (28.87%) Containerisation
6 129 (22.71%) Test Automation
7 119 (20.95%) Event-Driven
8 113 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
9 109 (19.19%) Full-Stack Development
10 106 (18.66%) Scrum
11 105 (18.49%) Software Engineering
12 80 (14.08%) API Development
12 80 (14.08%) Clean Code
13 79 (13.91%) Code Quality
14 76 (13.38%) TDD
15 75 (13.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 70 (12.32%) API Design
16 70 (12.32%) Infrastructure as Code
17 61 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (10.74%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 239 (42.08%) Java
2 181 (31.87%) SQL
3 144 (25.35%) Python
4 124 (21.83%) C#
5 121 (21.30%) JavaScript
6 97 (17.08%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.23%) Go
7 24 (4.23%) Shell Script
8 20 (3.52%) Kotlin
9 14 (2.46%) Swift
10 11 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.58%) Bicep
11 9 (1.58%) Scala
12 6 (1.06%) JCL
12 6 (1.06%) Objective-C
12 6 (1.06%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.06%) Rust
12 6 (1.06%) X++
13 5 (0.88%) Ruby
13 5 (0.88%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 131 (23.06%) Security Cleared
2 97 (17.08%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.87%) Degree
4 26 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.64%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.64%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.58%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (1.41%) CCSP
8 8 (1.41%) CEH
8 8 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.41%) CISM
8 8 (1.41%) CISSP
8 8 (1.41%) OSCP
9 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.70%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.53%) MBA
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (14.26%) QA
2 51 (8.98%) Accessibility
3 30 (5.28%) WCAG
4 13 (2.29%) NIST
5 12 (2.11%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.94%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.41%) COBIT
7 8 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.06%) GDPR
9 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.35%) HL7
9 2 (0.35%) SLA
9 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) Basel III
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.18%) EMIR
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
10 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 199 (35.04%) Docker
2 9 (1.58%) Postfix
3 5 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.18%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 166 (29.23%) Kubernetes
2 63 (11.09%) Terraform
3 37 (6.51%) Grafana
4 32 (5.63%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.11%) Ansible
6 6 (1.06%) Kibana
7 3 (0.53%) Podman
7 3 (0.53%) Puppet
7 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.35%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.35%) Consul
8 2 (0.35%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 38 (6.69%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.58%) Oracle
3 19 (3.35%) Adobe
4 16 (2.82%) Google
5 13 (2.29%) Atlassian
6 12 (2.11%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (1.76%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.76%) Splunk
9 9 (1.58%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.41%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.41%) Sybase
10 8 (1.41%) UiPath
10 8 (1.41%) Veracode
11 7 (1.23%) Databricks
11 7 (1.23%) Okta
12 6 (1.06%) Apple
12 6 (1.06%) New Relic
12 6 (1.06%) ServiceNow