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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 171 205
Rank change year-on-year -25 +34 -6
Contract jobs citing RESTful 583 400 445
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.62% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.12% 7.19% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 283 306
10th Percentile £350 £327 £364
25th Percentile £413 £400 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £511
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.00% -14.88%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 7
10th Percentile £54.25 £47.75 £47.70
25th Percentile £58.75 £50.00 £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 £82.75 - £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 8,184 5,562 7,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.14% 22.55% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,403 3,861 5,487
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £535
% change year-on-year +1.32% -3.14% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 108 254
10th Percentile £30.40 £31.69 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.06 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £81.11 £74.85
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £51.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% +13.24% -21.54%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -3 318 £500 - 72
North of England -16 111 £450 +7.46% 60
South East -28 71 £525 +5.53% 36
North West -27 52 £450 +12.50% 32
Yorkshire -21 42 £513 +10.81% 21
Midlands -67 40 £488 +5.41% 6
South West -20 27 £458 -12.86% 21
West Midlands -61 21 £500 - 3
North East -22 17 £450 -10.00% 7
East Midlands -28 17 £445 +10.70% 3
East of England -30 9 £500 -13.04% 13
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 (4.80%) Confluence
2 10 (1.72%) Ethereum
2 10 (1.72%) Hyperledger
3 9 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.37%) Appian
5 7 (1.20%) CICS
6 6 (1.03%) CMS
7 5 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.86%) Camunda
7 5 (0.86%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.51%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.34%) IIS
9 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) Mule
10 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (1.20%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.51%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.86%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.69%) Quorum
2 4 (0.69%) Ripple
3 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.17%) Maximo
5 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.17%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 232 (39.79%) AWS
2 201 (34.48%) Azure
3 97 (16.64%) GitHub
4 95 (16.30%) Serverless
5 70 (12.01%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (12.01%) GitHub Actions
6 61 (10.46%) GCP
7 57 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (8.92%) Amazon S3
9 38 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (5.32%) Amazon SQS
12 28 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (3.26%) Power Automate
15 19 (3.26%) Route 53
16 18 (3.09%) Entra ID
17 16 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
18 15 (2.57%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.23%) HTTP
2 4 (0.69%) DNS
2 4 (0.69%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.69%) MQTT
2 4 (0.69%) Network Security
3 2 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.34%) SSL
4 1 (0.17%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.17%) 4G
4 1 (0.17%) 5G
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
4 1 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (20.93%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (15.27%) NoSQL
3 63 (10.81%) SQL Server
4 60 (10.29%) Relational Database
5 51 (8.75%) MongoDB
6 44 (7.55%) DynamoDB
7 34 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (5.32%) MySQL
9 29 (4.97%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (3.60%) Redis
11 11 (1.89%) Db2
12 9 (1.54%) Pinecone
13 7 (1.20%) Power BI
14 6 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.03%) DocumentDB
14 6 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.03%) Flink
15 5 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.69%) GIS
16 4 (0.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 134 (22.98%) Git
2 99 (16.98%) Jenkins
3 67 (11.49%) GitLab
4 51 (8.75%) JUnit
5 46 (7.89%) JIRA
6 35 (6.00%) Mockito
7 26 (4.46%) SonarQube
8 25 (4.29%) Postman
9 22 (3.77%) Maven
10 21 (3.60%) Gradle
11 20 (3.43%) Cucumber
12 14 (2.40%) Visual Studio
13 12 (2.06%) DbUnit
13 12 (2.06%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.89%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (1.89%) jMock
15 10 (1.72%) fastlane
16 8 (1.37%) Liquibase
16 8 (1.37%) MLflow
16 8 (1.37%) Selenium
General
1 122 (20.93%) Finance
2 121 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 92 (15.78%) Public Sector
4 66 (11.32%) Banking
5 61 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.06%) Retail
8 9 (1.54%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.37%) Front Office
9 8 (1.37%) Law
9 8 (1.37%) Marketing
10 6 (1.03%) Legal
11 5 (0.86%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.86%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.69%) Police
13 3 (0.51%) Automotive
13 3 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.51%) Local Government
13 3 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 365 (62.61%) Developer
2 115 (19.73%) Senior
3 114 (19.55%) Java Developer
4 75 (12.86%) Senior Developer
5 65 (11.15%) Full-Stack Developer
6 49 (8.40%) Python Developer
7 40 (6.86%) Software Engineer
8 38 (6.52%) Architect
9 36 (6.17%) .NET Developer
10 32 (5.49%) Senior Java Developer
11 31 (5.32%) React Developer
12 25 (4.29%) C# Developer
13 24 (4.12%) Backend Developer
14 23 (3.95%) Software Developer
15 19 (3.26%) Java Engineer
15 19 (3.26%) Lead
16 18 (3.09%) AWS Developer
17 16 (2.74%) Senior Software Engineer
18 15 (2.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 14 (2.40%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (27.79%) Spring
2 158 (27.10%) Spring Boot
3 151 (25.90%) REST
4 121 (20.75%) React
5 112 (19.21%) Kafka
6 107 (18.35%) .NET
7 68 (11.66%) AngularJS
8 67 (11.49%) Node.js
9 66 (11.32%) CSS
10 64 (10.98%) HTML
11 58 (9.95%) OAuth
12 49 (8.40%) Web Services
13 41 (7.03%) Swagger
14 40 (6.86%) Django
15 39 (6.69%) OAuth2
16 37 (6.35%) FastAPI
16 37 (6.35%) JSON
16 37 (6.35%) OpenAPI
17 36 (6.17%) .NET Core
18 35 (6.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 97 (16.64%) Cloud Native
2 91 (15.61%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (14.75%) Product Ownership
4 30 (5.15%) Mobile App
5 23 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (3.09%) Data Structures
6 18 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.23%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.54%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.37%) Derivative
10 8 (1.37%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.20%) DataPower
11 7 (1.20%) Mainframe
12 6 (1.03%) Equities
12 6 (1.03%) NHS
12 6 (1.03%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.20%) Linux
2 21 (3.60%) Unix
3 19 (3.26%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.23%) Android
5 10 (1.72%) Windows
6 7 (1.20%) zOS
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (60.03%) CI/CD
2 306 (52.49%) Microservices
3 298 (51.11%) Agile
4 209 (35.85%) DevOps
5 171 (29.33%) Containerisation
6 131 (22.47%) Test Automation
7 124 (21.27%) Event-Driven
8 114 (19.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 114 (19.55%) Scrum
9 110 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
10 108 (18.52%) Software Engineering
11 86 (14.75%) API Development
12 85 (14.58%) Clean Code
13 81 (13.89%) Code Quality
14 78 (13.38%) TDD
15 77 (13.21%) API Design
15 77 (13.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 76 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
17 66 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
17 66 (11.32%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 246 (42.20%) Java
2 183 (31.39%) SQL
3 156 (26.76%) Python
4 128 (21.96%) C#
5 121 (20.75%) JavaScript
6 101 (17.32%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.29%) Shell Script
8 24 (4.12%) Go
9 21 (3.60%) Kotlin
10 17 (2.92%) Swift
11 13 (2.23%) Bicep
12 11 (1.89%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.54%) Scala
14 7 (1.20%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.20%) Rust
15 6 (1.03%) JCL
15 6 (1.03%) Objective-C
15 6 (1.03%) X++
16 5 (0.86%) Ruby
16 5 (0.86%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 138 (23.67%) Security Cleared
2 102 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.83%) Degree
4 24 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (1.37%) CCSP
8 8 (1.37%) CEH
8 8 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.37%) CISM
8 8 (1.37%) CISSP
8 8 (1.37%) OSCP
9 5 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.69%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.51%) MBA
12 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (14.41%) QA
2 54 (9.26%) Accessibility
3 34 (5.83%) WCAG
4 13 (2.23%) NIST
5 12 (2.06%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.89%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.37%) COBIT
7 8 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.03%) GDPR
9 4 (0.69%) NCSC
10 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.34%) HL7
10 2 (0.34%) SLA
10 2 (0.34%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.17%) Basel III
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) MiFID
11 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 208 (35.68%) Docker
2 9 (1.54%) Postfix
3 5 (0.86%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 174 (29.85%) Kubernetes
2 69 (11.84%) Terraform
3 39 (6.69%) Grafana
4 33 (5.66%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.40%) Ansible
6 6 (1.03%) Kibana
7 4 (0.69%) Podman
7 4 (0.69%) Puppet
8 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.34%) Consul
9 2 (0.34%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 40 (6.86%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.32%) Oracle
3 17 (2.92%) Google
4 16 (2.74%) Dynatrace
5 13 (2.23%) Atlassian
6 12 (2.06%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.89%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (1.72%) Adobe
8 10 (1.72%) Splunk
9 9 (1.54%) Apple
10 8 (1.37%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.37%) Sybase
10 8 (1.37%) UiPath
10 8 (1.37%) Veracode
11 7 (1.20%) Databricks
11 7 (1.20%) New Relic
11 7 (1.20%) Okta
12 6 (1.03%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.69%) NVIDIA