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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 151 182
Rank change year-on-year -49 +31 +51
Contract jobs citing RESTful 613 508 460
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.84% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.22% 8.25% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 377 313
10th Percentile £356 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £390 £419
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 £675 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £48.50 £47.70
25th Percentile £56.25 £52.50 £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 £59.38 £85.00
90th Percentile - £76.25 £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 8,486 6,154 7,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.60% 22.31% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,559 4,231 5,050
10th Percentile £365 £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 £643 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 151 228
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £23.94
25th Percentile £47.60 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -1.12% -11.00%
75th Percentile £73.34 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £51.25
% change year-on-year +18.45% +7.07% -14.58%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -25 330 £500 -0.99% 189
North of England -79 92 £500 +13.64% 70
South East -31 89 £475 +4.05% 44
Yorkshire -46 41 £538 +30.30% 25
Midlands -71 41 £481 +5.48% 22
South West -11 35 £450 -16.28% 25
North West -60 31 £574 +26.18% 40
West Midlands -58 27 £481 -3.75% 17
North East -28 20 £450 -10.00% 5
East of England -16 15 £425 -22.02% 18
East Midlands -34 13 £472 +17.29% 5
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 (4.57%) Confluence
2 7 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.98%) CICS
3 6 (0.98%) CMS
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%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.49%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.33%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.33%) Camunda
6 2 (0.33%) Mule
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) Appian
7 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (1.31%) CPLEX
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) 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 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.33%) 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
1 240 (39.15%) AWS
2 228 (37.19%) Azure
3 127 (20.72%) GitHub
4 96 (15.66%) Serverless
5 84 (13.70%) GitHub Actions
6 80 (13.05%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (11.75%) AWS Lambda
7 72 (11.75%) GCP
8 52 (8.48%) Amazon S3
9 45 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 41 (6.69%) Amazon EC2
11 34 (5.55%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (4.89%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (3.26%) Entra ID
14 17 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (2.77%) GitHub Copilot
15 16 (2.61%) Azure AKS
15 16 (2.61%) Azure Key Vault
15 16 (2.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.12%) HTTP
2 6 (0.98%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.65%) 5G
4 4 (0.65%) DNS
4 4 (0.65%) MQTT
4 4 (0.65%) Network Security
4 4 (0.65%) SSH
5 3 (0.49%) 4G
6 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.16%) LTE
6 1 (0.16%) NFC
6 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (22.35%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (12.89%) NoSQL
3 74 (12.07%) Relational Database
4 55 (8.97%) SQL Server
5 53 (8.65%) MongoDB
6 44 (7.18%) DynamoDB
7 38 (6.20%) MySQL
8 28 (4.57%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (3.43%) Redis
11 13 (2.12%) Geospatial Data
12 11 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.31%) Db2
15 7 (1.14%) Power BI
16 5 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.82%) Metadata
17 4 (0.65%) Flink
17 4 (0.65%) RDBMS
17 4 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 176 (28.71%) Git
2 107 (17.46%) Jenkins
3 49 (7.99%) GitLab
3 49 (7.99%) JUnit
4 45 (7.34%) JIRA
5 37 (6.04%) Mockito
6 27 (4.40%) Maven
7 25 (4.08%) Gradle
8 21 (3.43%) SonarQube
9 19 (3.10%) Cucumber
9 19 (3.10%) Cypress.io
9 19 (3.10%) Postman
10 15 (2.45%) Visual Studio
11 13 (2.12%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.96%) DbUnit
13 11 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
13 11 (1.79%) jMock
13 11 (1.79%) MSI
14 10 (1.63%) fastlane
14 10 (1.63%) Selenium
General
1 129 (21.04%) Social Skills
2 114 (18.60%) Finance
3 108 (17.62%) Public Sector
4 80 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (8.16%) Banking
6 31 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.94%) Retail
8 13 (2.12%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.12%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.47%) Marketing
10 8 (1.31%) Law
11 7 (1.14%) Local Government
12 6 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.98%) Front Office
13 5 (0.82%) Legal
13 5 (0.82%) Police
14 4 (0.65%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.65%) Publishing
14 4 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 387 (63.13%) Developer
2 133 (21.70%) Senior
3 117 (19.09%) Java Developer
4 97 (15.82%) Senior Developer
5 75 (12.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (7.67%) Python Developer
7 46 (7.50%) .NET Developer
8 41 (6.69%) Architect
9 39 (6.36%) Senior Java Developer
10 37 (6.04%) Software Engineer
11 28 (4.57%) C# Developer
11 28 (4.57%) React Developer
12 24 (3.92%) Software Developer
13 21 (3.43%) Backend Developer
13 21 (3.43%) Java Engineer
13 21 (3.43%) Lead
14 19 (3.10%) AWS Developer
14 19 (3.10%) C# .NET Developer
15 18 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 18 (2.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (29.69%) REST
2 153 (24.96%) Spring
3 146 (23.82%) Spring Boot
4 122 (19.90%) React
5 120 (19.58%) .NET
6 115 (18.76%) Kafka
7 88 (14.36%) CSS
8 82 (13.38%) HTML
9 64 (10.44%) Node.js
10 63 (10.28%) AngularJS
11 60 (9.79%) OAuth
12 48 (7.83%) OAuth2
13 47 (7.67%) .NET Core
13 47 (7.67%) Web Services
14 43 (7.01%) HTML5
15 42 (6.85%) JSON
16 40 (6.53%) CSS3
17 38 (6.20%) .NET Framework
17 38 (6.20%) RabbitMQ
17 38 (6.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 135 (22.02%) Cloud Native
2 113 (18.43%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (12.89%) Product Ownership
4 35 (5.71%) Mobile App
5 31 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (3.75%) Data Structures
7 22 (3.59%) Onboarding
8 21 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.96%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.63%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.63%) NHS
12 9 (1.47%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.31%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.14%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.98%) DataPower
15 6 (0.98%) Life Science
15 6 (0.98%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.99%) Linux
2 29 (4.73%) Unix
3 21 (3.43%) Android
3 21 (3.43%) Apple iOS
4 17 (2.77%) Windows
5 6 (0.98%) zOS
6 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (62.64%) CI/CD
2 334 (54.49%) Agile
3 321 (52.37%) Microservices
4 260 (42.41%) DevOps
5 188 (30.67%) Containerisation
6 181 (29.53%) Test Automation
7 135 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
8 134 (21.86%) Full-Stack Development
9 133 (21.70%) Event-Driven
10 129 (21.04%) Scrum
11 115 (18.76%) Software Engineering
12 108 (17.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 107 (17.46%) Code Quality
14 104 (16.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 91 (14.85%) API Design
16 85 (13.87%) Clean Code
17 80 (13.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 79 (12.89%) API Development
19 74 (12.07%) AI
20 72 (11.75%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 244 (39.80%) Java
2 181 (29.53%) SQL
3 165 (26.92%) Python
4 148 (24.14%) JavaScript
5 139 (22.68%) C#
6 117 (19.09%) TypeScript
7 36 (5.87%) Kotlin
8 29 (4.73%) Shell Script
9 26 (4.24%) Bicep
10 20 (3.26%) Swift
11 15 (2.45%) Go
12 11 (1.79%) Ruby
13 10 (1.63%) Bash
13 10 (1.63%) Scala
14 9 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.31%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.31%) Rust
15 8 (1.31%) X++
16 7 (1.14%) Objective-C
17 6 (0.98%) JCL
Qualifications
1 171 (27.90%) Security Cleared
2 144 (23.49%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.04%) Degree
4 26 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.94%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.79%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (1.31%) CCSP
10 8 (1.31%) CEH
10 8 (1.31%) CISM
10 8 (1.31%) CISSP
10 8 (1.31%) OSCP
11 6 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.49%) MBA
13 2 (0.33%) PhD
14 1 (0.16%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (15.66%) QA
2 72 (11.75%) Accessibility
3 46 (7.50%) WCAG
4 13 (2.12%) NCSC
5 9 (1.47%) NIST
6 8 (1.31%) COBIT
6 8 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.14%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.82%) GDPR
9 3 (0.49%) HL7
10 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.33%) SLA
11 1 (0.16%) Basel III
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 241 (39.31%) Docker
2 9 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.47%) Postfix
3 4 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 187 (30.51%) Kubernetes
2 90 (14.68%) Terraform
3 45 (7.34%) Grafana
4 38 (6.20%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.28%) Ansible
6 9 (1.47%) Kibana
7 4 (0.65%) Podman
7 4 (0.65%) Puppet
8 3 (0.49%) Argo
8 3 (0.49%) Bosun
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%) Istio
10 1 (0.16%) linkerd
Vendors
1 66 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.87%) Oracle
3 29 (4.73%) Google
4 20 (3.26%) Dynatrace
5 12 (1.96%) Atlassian
5 12 (1.96%) New Relic
5 12 (1.96%) Splunk
6 11 (1.79%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (1.47%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.31%) Databricks
9 7 (1.14%) Apple
10 6 (0.98%) IBM
10 6 (0.98%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.98%) Sybase
11 5 (0.82%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.82%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.65%) Adobe
12 4 (0.65%) Citrix
12 4 (0.65%) NVIDIA
12 4 (0.65%) SAP