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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 154 182
Rank change year-on-year -55 +28 +45
Contract jobs citing RESTful 607 509 460
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 1.84% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.18% 8.31% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 380 315
10th Percentile £360 £325 £339
25th Percentile £413 £392 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £650
90th Percentile £650 £675 £764
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £48.50 £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% -3.39%
75th Percentile £77.50 £59.38 £85.00
90th Percentile - £76.25 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% -3.39%

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 8,454 6,126 7,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.54% 22.17% 22.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,534 4,206 5,037
10th Percentile £363 £350 £358
25th Percentile £431 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £640 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 152 226
10th Percentile £28.72 £31.25 £24.09
25th Percentile £46.39 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -7.35%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.91 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -35 326 £500 -2.72% 203
North of England -85 91 £500 +12.36% 66
South East -36 88 £475 +2.59% 45
Midlands -67 42 £475 +5.56% 21
Yorkshire -51 41 £525 +27.27% 24
South West -15 34 £450 -16.28% 26
North West -59 30 £575 +24.53% 36
West Midlands -48 28 £475 -5.00% 16
North East -28 20 £450 -10.00% 6
East of England -15 15 £425 -22.02% 19
East Midlands -31 13 £472 +17.29% 5
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 27 (4.45%) Confluence
2 6 (0.99%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.99%) CICS
2 6 (0.99%) CMS
3 4 (0.66%) Ethereum
3 4 (0.66%) Hyperledger
3 4 (0.66%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
4 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.49%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.33%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.33%) Camunda
5 2 (0.33%) Mule
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (1.32%) 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 (0.66%) Quorum
1 4 (0.66%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.66%) Ripple
2 3 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
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
1 240 (39.54%) AWS
2 224 (36.90%) Azure
3 129 (21.25%) GitHub
4 94 (15.49%) Serverless
5 86 (14.17%) GitHub Actions
6 80 (13.18%) Azure DevOps
7 74 (12.19%) GCP
8 70 (11.53%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (8.24%) Amazon S3
10 44 (7.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (6.75%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
13 30 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
14 28 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (2.80%) Entra ID
17 16 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (2.64%) Power Platform
18 15 (2.47%) Azure AKS
18 15 (2.47%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.14%) HTTP
2 6 (0.99%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.66%) 5G
4 4 (0.66%) DNS
4 4 (0.66%) MQTT
4 4 (0.66%) Network Security
4 4 (0.66%) SSH
5 3 (0.49%) 4G
6 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.16%) LTE
6 1 (0.16%) NFC
6 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (22.41%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (12.69%) NoSQL
3 74 (12.19%) Relational Database
4 55 (9.06%) SQL Server
5 52 (8.57%) MongoDB
6 44 (7.25%) DynamoDB
7 38 (6.26%) MySQL
8 28 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (4.45%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (3.62%) Redis
11 13 (2.14%) Geospatial Data
12 10 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.32%) Db2
14 7 (1.15%) Power BI
15 5 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.82%) Metadata
15 5 (0.82%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 3 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 176 (29.00%) Git
2 110 (18.12%) Jenkins
3 51 (8.40%) GitLab
4 49 (8.07%) JUnit
5 44 (7.25%) JIRA
6 37 (6.10%) Mockito
7 29 (4.78%) Maven
8 26 (4.28%) Gradle
9 22 (3.62%) SonarQube
10 19 (3.13%) Cucumber
10 19 (3.13%) Cypress.io
10 19 (3.13%) Postman
11 15 (2.47%) Visual Studio
12 13 (2.14%) REST Assured
13 12 (1.98%) DbUnit
14 11 (1.81%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (1.81%) jMock
14 11 (1.81%) MSI
15 10 (1.65%) fastlane
15 10 (1.65%) Selenium
General
1 130 (21.42%) Social Skills
2 111 (18.29%) Finance
3 108 (17.79%) Public Sector
4 81 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (8.07%) Banking
6 31 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.97%) Retail
8 13 (2.14%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.14%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.48%) Marketing
10 8 (1.32%) Law
11 7 (1.15%) Local Government
12 6 (0.99%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.99%) Front Office
13 5 (0.82%) Legal
13 5 (0.82%) Police
14 4 (0.66%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.66%) Publishing
14 4 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 382 (62.93%) Developer
2 132 (21.75%) Senior
3 118 (19.44%) Java Developer
4 97 (15.98%) Senior Developer
5 72 (11.86%) Full-Stack Developer
6 46 (7.58%) Python Developer
7 44 (7.25%) .NET Developer
8 41 (6.75%) Architect
9 39 (6.43%) Senior Java Developer
10 37 (6.10%) Software Engineer
11 27 (4.45%) C# Developer
12 26 (4.28%) React Developer
13 23 (3.79%) Software Developer
14 21 (3.46%) Backend Developer
14 21 (3.46%) Java Engineer
15 20 (3.29%) Lead
16 19 (3.13%) AWS Developer
17 18 (2.97%) C# .NET Developer
17 18 (2.97%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 17 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (29.82%) REST
2 154 (25.37%) Spring
3 147 (24.22%) Spring Boot
4 122 (20.10%) React
5 118 (19.44%) .NET
6 115 (18.95%) Kafka
7 87 (14.33%) CSS
8 82 (13.51%) HTML
9 64 (10.54%) Node.js
10 63 (10.38%) AngularJS
11 57 (9.39%) OAuth
12 49 (8.07%) OAuth2
13 47 (7.74%) Web Services
14 46 (7.58%) .NET Core
15 43 (7.08%) HTML5
15 43 (7.08%) JSON
16 40 (6.59%) CSS3
17 39 (6.43%) RabbitMQ
18 38 (6.26%) SOAP
19 37 (6.10%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 137 (22.57%) Cloud Native
2 113 (18.62%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (12.85%) Product Ownership
4 35 (5.77%) Mobile App
5 33 (5.44%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (3.79%) Data Structures
6 23 (3.79%) Onboarding
7 19 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.98%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.81%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.65%) NHS
11 9 (1.48%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.32%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.32%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.99%) DataPower
13 6 (0.99%) Life Science
13 6 (0.99%) Mainframe
13 6 (0.99%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 49 (8.07%) Linux
2 29 (4.78%) Unix
3 21 (3.46%) Apple iOS
4 20 (3.29%) Android
5 16 (2.64%) Windows
6 6 (0.99%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (62.77%) CI/CD
2 333 (54.86%) Agile
3 321 (52.88%) Microservices
4 258 (42.50%) DevOps
5 187 (30.81%) Containerisation
6 180 (29.65%) Test Automation
7 135 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
8 132 (21.75%) Event-Driven
9 131 (21.58%) Scrum
10 130 (21.42%) Full-Stack Development
11 119 (19.60%) Software Engineering
12 109 (17.96%) Infrastructure as Code
13 107 (17.63%) Code Quality
14 104 (17.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 91 (14.99%) API Design
16 83 (13.67%) Clean Code
17 80 (13.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 78 (12.85%) API Development
19 75 (12.36%) AI
20 72 (11.86%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 243 (40.03%) Java
2 179 (29.49%) SQL
3 161 (26.52%) Python
4 148 (24.38%) JavaScript
5 138 (22.73%) C#
6 116 (19.11%) TypeScript
7 35 (5.77%) Kotlin
8 29 (4.78%) Shell Script
9 26 (4.28%) Bicep
10 20 (3.29%) Swift
11 14 (2.31%) Go
12 12 (1.98%) Ruby
13 11 (1.81%) Scala
14 10 (1.65%) Bash
15 9 (1.48%) Rust
15 9 (1.48%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.32%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.32%) X++
17 7 (1.15%) Objective-C
18 6 (0.99%) JCL
Qualifications
1 170 (28.01%) Security Cleared
2 142 (23.39%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.93%) Degree
4 25 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.97%) AWS Certification
5 18 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.65%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (1.32%) CCSP
9 8 (1.32%) CEH
9 8 (1.32%) CISM
9 8 (1.32%) CISSP
9 8 (1.32%) OSCP
10 6 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.49%) MBA
12 2 (0.33%) PhD
13 1 (0.16%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (15.82%) QA
2 71 (11.70%) Accessibility
3 45 (7.41%) WCAG
4 13 (2.14%) NCSC
5 9 (1.48%) NIST
6 8 (1.32%) COBIT
6 8 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.99%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.82%) GDPR
9 3 (0.49%) HL7
10 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.33%) SLA
11 1 (0.16%) Basel III
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 239 (39.37%) Docker
2 9 (1.48%) Postfix
3 7 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 186 (30.64%) Kubernetes
2 90 (14.83%) Terraform
3 45 (7.41%) Grafana
4 38 (6.26%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.31%) Ansible
6 9 (1.48%) Kibana
7 4 (0.66%) Argo
7 4 (0.66%) Podman
7 4 (0.66%) Puppet
8 3 (0.49%) Bosun
8 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.33%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.33%) Consul
9 2 (0.33%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.16%) Istio
10 1 (0.16%) linkerd
Vendors
1 64 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.10%) Oracle
3 30 (4.94%) Google
4 20 (3.29%) Dynatrace
5 12 (1.98%) Atlassian
5 12 (1.98%) New Relic
5 12 (1.98%) Splunk
6 11 (1.81%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (1.48%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.15%) Apple
8 7 (1.15%) Databricks
9 6 (0.99%) IBM
9 6 (0.99%) MuleSoft
9 6 (0.99%) Sybase
10 5 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.82%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.66%) Adobe
11 4 (0.66%) Citrix
11 4 (0.66%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.66%) SAP