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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 144 164
Rank change year-on-year -61 +20 +67
Contract jobs citing RESTful 628 555 485
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.99% 1.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.32% 7.81% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 406 305
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £478 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -8.08% -5.45%
75th Percentile £573 £586 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £758
UK median daily rate £484 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £49.63 £47.70
25th Percentile £55.94 £53.91 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +4.53%
75th Percentile £77.13 £61.78 £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% +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 9,929 7,105 8,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.32% 25.53% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,522 4,828 5,354
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £445 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
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 281 169 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.54 £27.68
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -12.60% +2.74%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.83% -11.20% +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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -38 340 £505 -2.88% 408
North of England -80 97 £450 - 137
South East -45 76 £475 +5.56% 74
Midlands -53 51 £447 -1.12% 35
Yorkshire -49 44 £488 +8.33% 44
West Midlands -33 36 £488 -2.50% 19
South West -17 34 £425 -5.56% 32
North West -74 30 £500 +11.11% 73
North East -27 23 £450 -10.00% 22
East of England -29 19 £463 +8.82% 45
East Midlands -37 14 £445 +10.70% 16
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 (5.89%) 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%) CICS
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%) 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
1 259 (41.24%) AWS
2 227 (36.15%) Azure
3 141 (22.45%) GitHub
4 90 (14.33%) GCP
5 89 (14.17%) GitHub Actions
6 87 (13.85%) Serverless
7 78 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
8 65 (10.35%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (7.96%) Amazon S3
10 44 (7.01%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (6.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (5.25%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (4.14%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (3.50%) GitHub Copilot
16 21 (3.34%) Entra ID
17 16 (2.55%) Azure AKS
18 15 (2.39%) Power Platform
19 13 (2.07%) Azure Functions
19 13 (2.07%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.55%) HTTP
2 7 (1.11%) 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
1 144 (22.93%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (14.33%) Relational Database
3 75 (11.94%) NoSQL
4 63 (10.03%) MongoDB
5 50 (7.96%) MySQL
6 47 (7.48%) SQL Server
7 34 (5.41%) DynamoDB
8 30 (4.78%) Redis
9 21 (3.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 21 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.07%) Geospatial Data
11 9 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.11%) 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%) Db2
15 4 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 186 (29.62%) Git
2 123 (19.59%) Jenkins
3 62 (9.87%) GitLab
4 60 (9.55%) JUnit
5 55 (8.76%) JIRA
6 42 (6.69%) Mockito
7 37 (5.89%) Maven
8 29 (4.62%) Gradle
8 29 (4.62%) SonarQube
9 22 (3.50%) Cucumber
10 20 (3.18%) Cypress.io
11 19 (3.03%) Postman
12 16 (2.55%) Selenium
13 14 (2.23%) Visual Studio
14 12 (1.91%) REST Assured
15 11 (1.75%) MSI
16 10 (1.59%) CircleCI
17 9 (1.43%) Storybook
18 8 (1.27%) Bitbucket
18 8 (1.27%) fastlane
General
1 164 (26.11%) Social Skills
2 120 (19.11%) Finance
3 105 (16.72%) Public Sector
4 101 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (7.96%) Banking
6 37 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.18%) Retail
8 16 (2.55%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.91%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.27%) Law
10 8 (1.27%) Marketing
10 8 (1.27%) Publishing
11 7 (1.11%) Local Government
12 6 (0.96%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.96%) Front Office
12 6 (0.96%) Legal
12 6 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.80%) Police
14 4 (0.64%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 383 (60.99%) Developer
2 126 (20.06%) Senior
3 115 (18.31%) Java Developer
4 86 (13.69%) Senior Developer
5 78 (12.42%) Full-Stack Developer
6 45 (7.17%) Python Developer
7 42 (6.69%) Software Engineer
8 37 (5.89%) .NET Developer
9 36 (5.73%) Senior Java Developer
10 35 (5.57%) Architect
11 30 (4.78%) Lead
12 27 (4.30%) React Developer
13 26 (4.14%) Software Developer
14 23 (3.66%) C# Developer
14 23 (3.66%) Java Engineer
15 21 (3.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (2.87%) Backend Developer
16 18 (2.87%) C# .NET Developer
16 18 (2.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 18 (2.87%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (31.05%) REST
2 160 (25.48%) Spring
3 155 (24.68%) Spring Boot
4 126 (20.06%) React
5 122 (19.43%) Kafka
6 105 (16.72%) .NET
7 99 (15.76%) Terraform
8 98 (15.61%) CSS
9 97 (15.45%) HTML
10 68 (10.83%) OAuth
10 68 (10.83%) Web Services
11 64 (10.19%) AngularJS
11 64 (10.19%) Node.js
12 60 (9.55%) OAuth2
13 51 (8.12%) JSON
14 50 (7.96%) .NET Core
14 50 (7.96%) HTML5
15 45 (7.17%) CSS3
15 45 (7.17%) Swagger
16 44 (7.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 170 (27.07%) Cloud Native
2 114 (18.15%) Distributed Systems
3 93 (14.81%) Product Ownership
4 46 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (5.89%) Mobile App
6 28 (4.46%) Onboarding
7 22 (3.50%) AI Agents
8 21 (3.34%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.59%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.59%) NHS
12 9 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.43%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.96%) Life Science
15 5 (0.80%) Hedge funds
15 5 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
15 5 (0.80%) Low-Code
15 5 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (8.28%) Linux
2 35 (5.57%) Unix
3 21 (3.34%) Apple iOS
4 20 (3.18%) Android
5 17 (2.71%) Windows
6 4 (0.64%) zOS
7 2 (0.32%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (65.45%) CI/CD
2 364 (57.96%) Agile
3 323 (51.43%) Microservices
4 275 (43.79%) DevOps
5 216 (34.39%) Test Automation
6 183 (29.14%) Containerisation
7 153 (24.36%) Event-Driven
7 153 (24.36%) Scrum
8 152 (24.20%) Problem-Solving
9 149 (23.73%) Software Engineering
10 140 (22.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 134 (21.34%) Code Quality
12 128 (20.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 114 (18.15%) Infrastructure as Code
14 103 (16.40%) API Development
15 99 (15.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 97 (15.45%) AI
16 97 (15.45%) API Design
17 91 (14.49%) Observability
18 85 (13.54%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 253 (40.29%) Java
2 167 (26.59%) Python
3 164 (26.11%) SQL
4 159 (25.32%) JavaScript
5 127 (20.22%) TypeScript
6 124 (19.75%) C#
7 35 (5.57%) Kotlin
8 30 (4.78%) Shell Script
9 27 (4.30%) Bicep
10 20 (3.18%) Swift
11 18 (2.87%) Go
12 16 (2.55%) Bash
13 14 (2.23%) Ruby
13 14 (2.23%) Scala
14 10 (1.59%) Rust
15 9 (1.43%) Objective-C
16 8 (1.27%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.27%) X++
17 5 (0.80%) PowerShell
18 4 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 166 (26.43%) Security Cleared
2 141 (22.45%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.80%) Degree
4 37 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (3.03%) AWS Certification
8 15 (2.39%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.43%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.80%) CCSP
11 5 (0.80%) CEH
11 5 (0.80%) CISM
11 5 (0.80%) CISSP
11 5 (0.80%) OSCP
12 4 (0.64%) PhD
13 3 (0.48%) MBA
13 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (18.47%) QA
2 66 (10.51%) Accessibility
3 40 (6.37%) WCAG
4 13 (2.07%) NCSC
5 9 (1.43%) HL7
6 8 (1.27%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.11%) NIST
8 6 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.80%) COBIT
9 5 (0.80%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.64%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.64%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.48%) GDPR
12 2 (0.32%) Basel III
13 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.16%) GRC
13 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.16%) SLA
13 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 243 (38.69%) Docker
2 7 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.80%) Postfix
4 4 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 196 (31.21%) Kubernetes
2 55 (8.76%) Grafana
3 45 (7.17%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.91%) Ansible
5 11 (1.75%) Kibana
6 5 (0.80%) Argo
7 4 (0.64%) Bosun
7 4 (0.64%) Podman
7 4 (0.64%) Puppet
8 3 (0.48%) Istio
9 2 (0.32%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.32%) Consul
9 2 (0.32%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.16%) linkerd
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.21%) Oracle
3 37 (5.89%) Google
4 21 (3.34%) Dynatrace
5 20 (3.18%) Splunk
6 12 (1.91%) New Relic
6 12 (1.91%) OpenAI
7 9 (1.43%) Okta
8 7 (1.11%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.11%) Databricks
8 7 (1.11%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.11%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.96%) IBM
9 6 (0.96%) Jaspersoft
10 5 (0.80%) Apple
10 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.64%) Citrix
11 4 (0.64%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.64%) SAP
11 4 (0.64%) Sybase