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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 174 209
Rank change year-on-year -24 +35 -9
Contract jobs citing RESTful 566 391 411
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.64% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.05% 7.33% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 272 290
10th Percentile £350 £356 £374
25th Percentile £410 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year - -1.19% -15.67%
75th Percentile £575 £620 £619
90th Percentile £650 £732 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 7
10th Percentile £54.00 £51.00 £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% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £85.00
90th Percentile £84.50 - £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 8,025 5,331 7,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.22% 22.37% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,295 3,694 5,379
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £420 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £789 £789
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 95 235
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.54 £22.60
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +2 312 £500 -4.76% 96
North of England -23 107 £463 +13.85% 62
South East -25 65 £515 +3.52% 43
North West -20 54 £450 +12.50% 36
Midlands -63 44 £488 +4.00% 15
Yorkshire -31 40 £525 +13.51% 19
West Midlands -62 26 £488 -2.50% 8
South West -20 23 £525 -12.50% 16
East Midlands -28 16 £447 +4.20% 7
North East -20 13 £450 -2.17% 7
East of England -31 9 £500 -6.98% 12
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 25 (4.42%) Confluence
2 9 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 9 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.59%) Ethereum
2 9 (1.59%) Hyperledger
3 8 (1.41%) Appian
4 7 (1.24%) CICS
5 6 (1.06%) CMS
6 5 (0.88%) Camunda
6 5 (0.88%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.53%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.35%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.35%) IIS
8 2 (0.35%) Mule
8 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (1.41%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.88%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.88%) Sketch
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) R3 Corda
2 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.53%) Quorum
2 3 (0.53%) Ripple
3 2 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.18%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 232 (40.99%) AWS
2 191 (33.75%) Azure
3 92 (16.25%) Serverless
4 85 (15.02%) GitHub
5 68 (12.01%) AWS Lambda
6 58 (10.25%) GCP
6 58 (10.25%) GitHub Actions
7 55 (9.72%) Amazon S3
8 52 (9.19%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (6.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
11 30 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
12 28 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (4.77%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (3.53%) Power Automate
16 19 (3.36%) Route 53
17 17 (3.00%) Entra ID
18 16 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
19 15 (2.65%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.30%) HTTP
2 5 (0.88%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.71%) DNS
4 3 (0.53%) SSL
5 2 (0.35%) MQTT
5 2 (0.35%) Network Security
5 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
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
6 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (19.26%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (15.55%) NoSQL
3 61 (10.78%) SQL Server
4 55 (9.72%) Relational Database
5 48 (8.48%) DynamoDB
6 46 (8.13%) MongoDB
7 35 (6.18%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (5.12%) Amazon Aurora
8 29 (5.12%) MySQL
9 19 (3.36%) Redis
10 11 (1.94%) DB2
11 9 (1.59%) Pinecone
12 7 (1.24%) DocumentDB
13 6 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.06%) Flink
13 6 (1.06%) Power BI
14 4 (0.71%) Big Data
14 4 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.71%) GIS
15 3 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 129 (22.79%) Git
2 92 (16.25%) Jenkins
3 59 (10.42%) GitLab
4 49 (8.66%) JUnit
5 42 (7.42%) JIRA
6 34 (6.01%) Mockito
7 25 (4.42%) Postman
8 24 (4.24%) SonarQube
9 22 (3.89%) Maven
10 20 (3.53%) Cucumber
11 16 (2.83%) Gradle
12 14 (2.47%) Visual Studio
13 12 (2.12%) DbUnit
13 12 (2.12%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.94%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (1.94%) jMock
15 9 (1.59%) Selenium
16 8 (1.41%) JMeter
16 8 (1.41%) Liquibase
16 8 (1.41%) MLflow
General
1 125 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 122 (21.55%) Finance
3 87 (15.37%) Public Sector
4 64 (11.31%) Banking
5 59 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.12%) Front Office
7 11 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.59%) Retail
10 5 (0.88%) Law
10 5 (0.88%) Legal
10 5 (0.88%) Marketing
10 5 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.53%) Automotive
12 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Local Government
12 3 (0.53%) Police
12 3 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 351 (62.01%) Developer
2 112 (19.79%) Java Developer
3 106 (18.73%) Senior
4 66 (11.66%) Senior Developer
5 63 (11.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (8.30%) Python Developer
7 38 (6.71%) Software Engineer
8 36 (6.36%) Architect
9 34 (6.01%) .NET Developer
10 30 (5.30%) Senior Java Developer
11 29 (5.12%) React Developer
12 26 (4.59%) C# Developer
13 22 (3.89%) Backend Developer
14 21 (3.71%) Software Developer
15 20 (3.53%) Java Engineer
15 20 (3.53%) Lead
16 19 (3.36%) AWS Developer
17 16 (2.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 15 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
19 12 (2.12%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (28.62%) Spring
2 157 (27.74%) Spring Boot
3 137 (24.20%) REST
4 127 (22.44%) React
5 103 (18.20%) .NET
6 102 (18.02%) Kafka
7 80 (14.13%) AngularJS
8 71 (12.54%) CSS
9 70 (12.37%) HTML
10 69 (12.19%) Node.js
11 58 (10.25%) OAuth
12 49 (8.66%) Web Services
13 40 (7.07%) Swagger
14 39 (6.89%) OAuth2
15 38 (6.71%) JSON
16 37 (6.54%) Django
16 37 (6.54%) HTML5
17 36 (6.36%) FastAPI
17 36 (6.36%) Hibernate
17 36 (6.36%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 86 (15.19%) Cloud Native
2 83 (14.66%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (13.60%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.89%) Mobile App
5 21 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.47%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.30%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.59%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.41%) Derivative
10 8 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.41%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.24%) DataPower
11 7 (1.24%) Mainframe
12 6 (1.06%) Equities
12 6 (1.06%) NHS
12 6 (1.06%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.07%) Linux
2 21 (3.71%) Unix
3 12 (2.12%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.41%) Android
5 7 (1.24%) Windows
5 7 (1.24%) zOS
6 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (58.66%) CI/CD
2 298 (52.65%) Microservices
3 289 (51.06%) Agile
4 196 (34.63%) DevOps
5 163 (28.80%) Containerisation
6 130 (22.97%) Test Automation
7 119 (21.02%) Event-Driven
8 116 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
9 114 (20.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 104 (18.37%) Scrum
11 103 (18.20%) Software Engineering
12 80 (14.13%) Clean Code
13 79 (13.96%) Code Quality
14 78 (13.78%) API Development
15 77 (13.60%) TDD
16 75 (13.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 70 (12.37%) API Design
18 69 (12.19%) Infrastructure as Code
19 60 (10.60%) Performance Optimisation
20 59 (10.42%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 242 (42.76%) Java
2 178 (31.45%) SQL
3 140 (24.73%) Python
4 123 (21.73%) JavaScript
5 122 (21.55%) C#
6 100 (17.67%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.24%) Go
8 22 (3.89%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.65%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.77%) Swift
10 10 (1.77%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.59%) Bicep
11 9 (1.59%) Scala
12 6 (1.06%) JCL
12 6 (1.06%) X++
13 5 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.88%) Rust
14 4 (0.71%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.71%) Bash
14 4 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 134 (23.67%) Security Cleared
2 98 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.71%) Degree
4 26 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.47%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.59%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 7 (1.24%) CCSP
8 7 (1.24%) CEH
8 7 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.24%) CISM
8 7 (1.24%) CISSP
8 7 (1.24%) OSCP
9 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.53%) MBA
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (13.25%) QA
2 50 (8.83%) Accessibility
3 30 (5.30%) WCAG
4 12 (2.12%) NIST
5 11 (1.94%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.24%) COBIT
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
1 202 (35.69%) Docker
2 9 (1.59%) Postfix
3 5 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.35%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 166 (29.33%) Kubernetes
2 63 (11.13%) Terraform
3 37 (6.54%) Grafana
4 32 (5.65%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.94%) Ansible
6 6 (1.06%) Kibana
7 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.35%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.35%) Consul
8 2 (0.35%) Podman
8 2 (0.35%) Puppet
8 2 (0.35%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 38 (6.71%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.77%) Oracle
3 20 (3.53%) Adobe
4 15 (2.65%) Google
5 13 (2.30%) Atlassian
5 13 (2.30%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.94%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (1.77%) OpenAI
7 10 (1.77%) Splunk
8 9 (1.59%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.41%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.41%) UiPath
9 8 (1.41%) Veracode
10 7 (1.24%) Databricks
10 7 (1.24%) Okta
10 7 (1.24%) Sybase
11 6 (1.06%) Apple
11 6 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.88%) New Relic