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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 150 179
Rank change year-on-year -59 +29 +49
Contract jobs citing RESTful 614 522 465
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.92% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.30% 7.68% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 385 308
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £385 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £569 £583 £650
90th Percentile £650 £675 £763
UK median daily rate £493 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +2.60% -4.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £49.25 £47.70
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.55 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +12.04%
75th Percentile £77.38 £63.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £95.00 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +12.04%

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 9,748 6,796 8,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.36% 24.97% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,417 4,663 5,509
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 163 178
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £32.83
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -14.19% +0.28%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.60 £74.61
UK median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +27.30% -15.32% -0.80%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -29 335 £500 -3.85% 333
North of England -86 94 £460 +4.55% 109
South East -56 78 £475 +2.59% 45
Midlands -59 47 £447 +1.22% 38
Yorkshire -49 44 £513 +20.59% 33
South West -24 31 £445 +4.71% 42
West Midlands -40 31 £488 -2.50% 20
North West -70 29 £535 +18.89% 59
North East -22 21 £450 -10.00% 20
East of England -13 17 £463 -15.14% 28
East Midlands -40 15 £435 +8.21% 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 35 (5.70%) Confluence
2 5 (0.81%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.81%) CMS
3 4 (0.65%) Camunda
3 4 (0.65%) CICS
3 4 (0.65%) Ethereum
3 4 (0.65%) Hyperledger
3 4 (0.65%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.65%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
4 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.33%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.33%) Mule
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (1.30%) 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%) 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%) 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
1 251 (40.88%) AWS
2 226 (36.81%) Azure
3 140 (22.80%) GitHub
4 90 (14.66%) GitHub Actions
5 87 (14.17%) Serverless
6 81 (13.19%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (12.87%) GCP
8 63 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (7.65%) Amazon S3
10 39 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
14 25 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (3.58%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (2.77%) Entra ID
17 16 (2.61%) Azure AKS
17 16 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
18 15 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
18 15 (2.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.61%) HTTP
2 5 (0.81%) 5G
2 5 (0.81%) DNS
2 5 (0.81%) SSH
2 5 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.65%) 4G
3 4 (0.65%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.65%) MQTT
3 4 (0.65%) Network Security
4 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.16%) LTE
4 1 (0.16%) NFC
4 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (23.13%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (14.01%) Relational Database
3 82 (13.36%) NoSQL
4 61 (9.93%) MongoDB
5 50 (8.14%) SQL Server
6 45 (7.33%) MySQL
7 35 (5.70%) DynamoDB
8 27 (4.40%) Redis
9 23 (3.75%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (2.12%) Geospatial Data
12 10 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.14%) Power BI
15 6 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.98%) Metadata
15 6 (0.98%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 4 (0.65%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.65%) Db2
Development Applications
1 182 (29.64%) Git
2 121 (19.71%) Jenkins
3 58 (9.45%) GitLab
4 55 (8.96%) JUnit
5 53 (8.63%) JIRA
6 40 (6.51%) Mockito
7 32 (5.21%) Maven
8 30 (4.89%) Gradle
9 25 (4.07%) SonarQube
10 20 (3.26%) Cypress.io
11 18 (2.93%) Cucumber
11 18 (2.93%) Postman
12 13 (2.12%) Selenium
12 13 (2.12%) Visual Studio
13 12 (1.95%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.79%) MSI
15 10 (1.63%) fastlane
16 9 (1.47%) CircleCI
16 9 (1.47%) Storybook
16 9 (1.47%) Xcode
General
1 155 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 115 (18.73%) Finance
3 109 (17.75%) Public Sector
4 90 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (7.17%) Banking
6 37 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.93%) Retail
8 15 (2.44%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.79%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.30%) Law
10 8 (1.30%) Marketing
10 8 (1.30%) Publishing
11 7 (1.14%) Local Government
12 6 (0.98%) Front Office
12 6 (0.98%) Legal
13 5 (0.81%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.81%) Police
14 4 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 381 (62.05%) Developer
2 128 (20.85%) Senior
3 116 (18.89%) Java Developer
4 91 (14.82%) Senior Developer
5 76 (12.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 46 (7.49%) Python Developer
7 40 (6.51%) .NET Developer
7 40 (6.51%) Software Engineer
8 38 (6.19%) Senior Java Developer
9 37 (6.03%) Architect
10 28 (4.56%) Software Developer
11 27 (4.40%) Lead
12 26 (4.23%) React Developer
13 24 (3.91%) C# Developer
14 23 (3.75%) Java Engineer
15 19 (3.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (2.93%) AWS Developer
16 18 (2.93%) Backend Developer
16 18 (2.93%) C# .NET Developer
16 18 (2.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (30.29%) REST
2 158 (25.73%) Spring
3 153 (24.92%) Spring Boot
4 123 (20.03%) React
5 120 (19.54%) Kafka
6 109 (17.75%) .NET
7 93 (15.15%) CSS
8 92 (14.98%) Terraform
9 90 (14.66%) HTML
10 67 (10.91%) AngularJS
11 61 (9.93%) Node.js
11 61 (9.93%) OAuth
12 55 (8.96%) Web Services
13 52 (8.47%) OAuth2
14 50 (8.14%) .NET Core
15 46 (7.49%) JSON
16 45 (7.33%) HTML5
17 42 (6.84%) Swagger
18 41 (6.68%) CSS3
19 39 (6.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 156 (25.41%) Cloud Native
2 108 (17.59%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (14.33%) Product Ownership
4 42 (6.84%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (6.03%) Mobile App
6 25 (4.07%) Onboarding
7 22 (3.58%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (2.12%) AI Agents
11 12 (1.95%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.79%) NHS
13 10 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.63%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.30%) Private Cloud
15 7 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.14%) Hedge funds
16 6 (0.98%) Life Science
17 5 (0.81%) Low-Code
18 4 (0.65%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 51 (8.31%) Linux
2 35 (5.70%) Unix
3 23 (3.75%) Apple iOS
4 20 (3.26%) Android
5 15 (2.44%) Windows
6 4 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (64.82%) CI/CD
2 350 (57.00%) Agile
3 316 (51.47%) Microservices
4 266 (43.32%) DevOps
5 200 (32.57%) Test Automation
6 182 (29.64%) Containerisation
7 151 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (23.29%) Event-Driven
9 139 (22.64%) Scrum
10 135 (21.99%) Full-Stack Development
11 134 (21.82%) Software Engineering
12 122 (19.87%) Code Quality
13 119 (19.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 109 (17.75%) Infrastructure as Code
15 100 (16.29%) API Development
16 89 (14.50%) API Design
17 88 (14.33%) AI
17 88 (14.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 84 (13.68%) Clean Code
19 83 (13.52%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 246 (40.07%) Java
2 171 (27.85%) SQL
3 158 (25.73%) Python
4 151 (24.59%) JavaScript
5 128 (20.85%) C#
6 118 (19.22%) TypeScript
7 36 (5.86%) Kotlin
8 30 (4.89%) Shell Script
9 27 (4.40%) Bicep
10 22 (3.58%) Swift
11 15 (2.44%) Bash
12 14 (2.28%) Ruby
13 13 (2.12%) Scala
14 10 (1.63%) Rust
15 9 (1.47%) Go
15 9 (1.47%) Objective-C
16 8 (1.30%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.30%) X++
17 6 (0.98%) T-SQL
18 5 (0.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 167 (27.20%) Security Cleared
2 136 (22.15%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.35%) Degree
4 27 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (2.77%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.12%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.63%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (1.14%) CCSP
11 7 (1.14%) CEH
11 7 (1.14%) CISM
11 7 (1.14%) CISSP
11 7 (1.14%) OSCP
12 5 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.49%) MBA
13 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (18.08%) QA
2 69 (11.24%) Accessibility
3 43 (7.00%) WCAG
4 13 (2.12%) NCSC
5 8 (1.30%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.30%) HL7
5 8 (1.30%) NIST
6 7 (1.14%) COBIT
6 7 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.49%) GDPR
8 2 (0.33%) Basel III
8 2 (0.33%) SLA
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 242 (39.41%) Docker
2 5 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.81%) Postfix
3 4 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 188 (30.62%) Kubernetes
2 51 (8.31%) Grafana
3 42 (6.84%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.95%) Ansible
5 10 (1.63%) Kibana
6 5 (0.81%) Argo
7 4 (0.65%) Podman
7 4 (0.65%) Puppet
8 3 (0.49%) Bosun
8 3 (0.49%) Istio
9 2 (0.33%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.33%) Consul
9 2 (0.33%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.16%) linkerd
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.68%) Oracle
3 30 (4.89%) Google
4 21 (3.42%) Dynatrace
5 17 (2.77%) Splunk
6 12 (1.95%) New Relic
7 11 (1.79%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.14%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.14%) Databricks
9 6 (0.98%) Apple
9 6 (0.98%) IBM
9 6 (0.98%) Jaspersoft
9 6 (0.98%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.81%) Okta
10 5 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.65%) Citrix
11 4 (0.65%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.65%) SAP
11 4 (0.65%) Sybase
11 4 (0.65%) Tenable