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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 140 170
Rank change year-on-year -69 +30 +59
Contract jobs citing RESTful 623 553 484
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.98% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.29% 7.75% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 404 303
10th Percentile £349 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £478 £514
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -7.00% -6.55%
75th Percentile £571 £584 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £760
UK median daily rate £480 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 7
10th Percentile £53.50 £49.63 £47.70
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.91 £65.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -31.25% +4.53%
75th Percentile £77.50 £61.78 £85.00
90th Percentile - £95.00 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +20.45% -31.25% +4.53%

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 9,900 7,138 8,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.55% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,515 4,847 5,356
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £446 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 173 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.60% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% +2.67%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -37 344 £508 -2.40% 397
North of England -94 91 £450 - 146
South East -56 71 £475 +4.05% 76
Midlands -53 49 £447 +1.22% 42
Yorkshire -55 45 £488 +9.55% 45
West Midlands -33 36 £478 -4.45% 20
South West -19 34 £425 -10.53% 40
North West -70 28 £500 +11.11% 81
East of England -33 19 £463 +8.82% 46
North East -27 18 £450 -10.00% 23
East Midlands -36 12 £425 +5.72% 22
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 37 (5.94%) Confluence
2 5 (0.80%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.80%) CMS
3 4 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.64%) Camunda
3 4 (0.64%) Ethereum
3 4 (0.64%) Hyperledger
3 4 (0.64%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.64%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
4 3 (0.48%) CICS
4 3 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.32%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.32%) Apache
5 2 (0.32%) Mule
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.96%) 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 (0.64%) Quorum
1 4 (0.64%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.64%) Ripple
2 3 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.16%) Maximo
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
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
1 258 (41.41%) AWS
2 225 (36.12%) Azure
3 144 (23.11%) GitHub
4 89 (14.29%) GCP
4 89 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 87 (13.96%) Serverless
6 77 (12.36%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (10.27%) AWS Lambda
8 49 (7.87%) Amazon S3
9 44 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (6.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (4.01%) Amazon SQS
13 22 (3.53%) GitHub Copilot
14 21 (3.37%) Entra ID
15 16 (2.57%) Azure AKS
16 15 (2.41%) Power Platform
17 14 (2.25%) Azure Functions
18 13 (2.09%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.57%) HTTP
2 7 (1.12%) SSH
3 6 (0.96%) DNS
3 6 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.80%) 5G
4 5 (0.80%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.64%) 4G
5 4 (0.64%) MQTT
5 4 (0.64%) Network Security
5 4 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.16%) Broadband
6 1 (0.16%) NFC
6 1 (0.16%) SNMP
6 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (22.63%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (14.61%) Relational Database
3 74 (11.88%) NoSQL
4 62 (9.95%) MongoDB
5 51 (8.19%) MySQL
6 48 (7.70%) SQL Server
7 32 (5.14%) DynamoDB
8 29 (4.65%) Redis
9 20 (3.21%) Amazon Aurora
9 20 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.09%) Geospatial Data
11 9 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.12%) Power BI
14 6 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.96%) Metadata
14 6 (0.96%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.64%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.64%) Oracle Database
15 4 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 187 (30.02%) Git
2 123 (19.74%) Jenkins
3 62 (9.95%) GitLab
4 58 (9.31%) JUnit
5 55 (8.83%) JIRA
6 40 (6.42%) Mockito
7 36 (5.78%) Maven
8 29 (4.65%) Gradle
9 27 (4.33%) SonarQube
10 22 (3.53%) Cucumber
11 20 (3.21%) Cypress.io
12 16 (2.57%) Selenium
13 14 (2.25%) Visual Studio
14 13 (2.09%) Postman
15 12 (1.93%) REST Assured
16 11 (1.77%) MSI
17 10 (1.61%) CircleCI
18 9 (1.44%) Storybook
19 8 (1.28%) Bitbucket
19 8 (1.28%) fastlane
General
1 165 (26.48%) Social Skills
2 120 (19.26%) Finance
3 104 (16.69%) Public Sector
4 100 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (7.87%) Banking
6 37 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.37%) Retail
8 16 (2.57%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.93%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.28%) Marketing
10 8 (1.28%) Publishing
11 7 (1.12%) Local Government
12 6 (0.96%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.96%) Front Office
12 6 (0.96%) Law
12 6 (0.96%) Legal
12 6 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.48%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 379 (60.83%) Developer
2 126 (20.22%) Senior
3 110 (17.66%) Java Developer
4 86 (13.80%) Senior Developer
5 76 (12.20%) Full-Stack Developer
6 48 (7.70%) Python Developer
7 43 (6.90%) Software Engineer
8 37 (5.94%) Architect
9 36 (5.78%) .NET Developer
9 36 (5.78%) Senior Java Developer
10 31 (4.98%) Lead
11 26 (4.17%) Software Developer
12 25 (4.01%) React Developer
13 24 (3.85%) C# Developer
13 24 (3.85%) Java Engineer
14 22 (3.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (3.05%) C# .NET Developer
16 18 (2.89%) Backend Developer
16 18 (2.89%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 17 (2.73%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (30.50%) REST
2 156 (25.04%) Spring
3 151 (24.24%) Spring Boot
4 126 (20.22%) React
5 121 (19.42%) Kafka
6 105 (16.85%) .NET
7 101 (16.21%) Terraform
8 98 (15.73%) CSS
9 97 (15.57%) HTML
10 68 (10.91%) OAuth
10 68 (10.91%) Web Services
11 65 (10.43%) AngularJS
12 64 (10.27%) Node.js
13 60 (9.63%) OAuth2
14 53 (8.51%) JSON
15 52 (8.35%) .NET Core
16 51 (8.19%) HTML5
17 48 (7.70%) Swagger
18 46 (7.38%) CSS3
19 45 (7.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 173 (27.77%) Cloud Native
2 112 (17.98%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (14.13%) Product Ownership
4 46 (7.38%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (5.94%) Mobile App
6 28 (4.49%) Onboarding
7 22 (3.53%) AI Agents
8 21 (3.37%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.61%) NHS
10 10 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.44%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.96%) Life Science
14 5 (0.80%) Hedge funds
14 5 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
14 5 (0.80%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (8.67%) Linux
2 35 (5.62%) Unix
3 21 (3.37%) Apple iOS
4 20 (3.21%) Android
5 17 (2.73%) Windows
6 3 (0.48%) zOS
7 2 (0.32%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (66.13%) CI/CD
2 358 (57.46%) Agile
3 322 (51.69%) Microservices
4 275 (44.14%) DevOps
5 213 (34.19%) Test Automation
6 182 (29.21%) Containerisation
7 153 (24.56%) Software Engineering
8 152 (24.40%) Event-Driven
9 150 (24.08%) Problem-Solving
10 145 (23.27%) Scrum
11 138 (22.15%) Full-Stack Development
12 129 (20.71%) Code Quality
12 129 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (18.62%) Infrastructure as Code
14 104 (16.69%) API Development
15 99 (15.89%) API Design
16 96 (15.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 95 (15.25%) AI
18 93 (14.93%) Observability
19 87 (13.96%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 249 (39.97%) Java
2 168 (26.97%) Python
3 162 (26.00%) SQL
4 160 (25.68%) JavaScript
5 129 (20.71%) TypeScript
6 124 (19.90%) C#
7 35 (5.62%) Kotlin
8 31 (4.98%) Shell Script
9 27 (4.33%) Bicep
10 20 (3.21%) Swift
11 19 (3.05%) Go
12 18 (2.89%) Bash
13 14 (2.25%) Ruby
13 14 (2.25%) Scala
14 10 (1.61%) Rust
15 9 (1.44%) Objective-C
16 8 (1.28%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.28%) X++
17 6 (0.96%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.80%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 159 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 135 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.87%) Degree
4 37 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 20 (3.21%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.41%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.80%) CCSP
10 5 (0.80%) CEH
10 5 (0.80%) CISM
10 5 (0.80%) CISSP
10 5 (0.80%) OSCP
11 4 (0.64%) PhD
12 3 (0.48%) MBA
12 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (18.94%) QA
2 64 (10.27%) Accessibility
3 37 (5.94%) WCAG
4 13 (2.09%) NCSC
5 8 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.28%) HL7
6 7 (1.12%) NIST
7 6 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.80%) COBIT
8 5 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.64%) GDPR
9 4 (0.64%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.64%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.32%) Basel III
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.16%) SLA
11 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 242 (38.84%) Docker
2 7 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 4 (0.64%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 193 (30.98%) Kubernetes
2 55 (8.83%) Grafana
3 45 (7.22%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.77%) Ansible
4 11 (1.77%) Kibana
5 5 (0.80%) Argo
6 4 (0.64%) Bosun
6 4 (0.64%) Podman
6 4 (0.64%) Puppet
7 3 (0.48%) Istio
8 2 (0.32%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.32%) Consul
8 2 (0.32%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.16%) linkerd
9 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (12.52%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.94%) Google
3 36 (5.78%) Oracle
4 21 (3.37%) Dynatrace
4 21 (3.37%) Splunk
5 12 (1.93%) New Relic
5 12 (1.93%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.44%) Okta
7 7 (1.12%) Databricks
7 7 (1.12%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.12%) ServiceNow
8 6 (0.96%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.96%) IBM
9 5 (0.80%) Apple
9 5 (0.80%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.80%) SAP
10 4 (0.64%) NVIDIA
10 4 (0.64%) Ping Identity
10 4 (0.64%) Sybase