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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 136 171
Rank change year-on-year -71 +35 +52
Contract jobs citing RESTful 641 593 487
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.37% 2.10% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.41% 8.22% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 425 316
10th Percentile £340 £337 £325
25th Percentile £408 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 2
10th Percentile £51.20 £49.63 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.91 £75.00
Median hourly rate £66.25 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% -31.25% +4.53%
75th Percentile £77.13 £61.78 £85.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £95.00 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 9,995 7,214 7,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.35% 25.58% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,577 4,854 5,193
10th Percentile £381 £358 £361
25th Percentile £447 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% -5.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 173 152
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £28.48
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.60 £73.98
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +30.00% -23.08% +10.11%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -41 347 £500 -3.85% 301
North of England -81 105 £450 -5.26% 88
South East -39 72 £468 -4.00% 44
Midlands -67 50 £447 -5.89% 28
Yorkshire -59 49 £475 - 35
West Midlands -44 37 £525 +5.00% 15
North West -58 33 £450 - 39
South West -25 29 £419 -14.10% 22
North East -21 23 £450 -10.00% 16
East of England -41 18 £463 -15.14% 25
East Midlands -27 12 £414 +2.86% 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 40 (6.24%) Confluence
2 4 (0.62%) CMS
2 4 (0.62%) Ethereum
2 4 (0.62%) Hyperledger
2 4 (0.62%) OpenStack
2 4 (0.62%) WebSphere
3 3 (0.47%) Apache Pulsar
3 3 (0.47%) Camunda
3 3 (0.47%) CICS
3 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.31%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.31%) Apache
4 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.31%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.31%) Mule
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (0.78%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Quorum
1 4 (0.62%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.62%) Ripple
2 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.16%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 263 (41.03%) AWS
2 237 (36.97%) Azure
3 154 (24.02%) GitHub
4 95 (14.82%) GCP
5 94 (14.66%) GitHub Actions
6 90 (14.04%) Serverless
7 77 (12.01%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (9.67%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (7.18%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (6.71%) Amazon S3
11 38 (5.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
13 28 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (3.74%) Entra ID
15 23 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
15 23 (3.59%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (2.65%) Azure AKS
17 16 (2.50%) Azure Functions
17 16 (2.50%) Power Platform
18 15 (2.34%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.18%) HTTP
2 7 (1.09%) SSH
3 6 (0.94%) DNS
3 6 (0.94%) HTTPS
3 6 (0.94%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.78%) 5G
5 4 (0.62%) 4G
5 4 (0.62%) MQTT
5 4 (0.62%) Network Security
5 4 (0.62%) 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
1 149 (23.24%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (15.29%) Relational Database
3 72 (11.23%) NoSQL
4 62 (9.67%) MongoDB
5 57 (8.89%) MySQL
6 54 (8.42%) SQL Server
7 32 (4.99%) Redis
8 28 (4.37%) DynamoDB
9 17 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 13 (2.03%) Geospatial Data
12 12 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.09%) Power BI
14 6 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.94%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.78%) Metadata
15 5 (0.78%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.78%) Pinecone
15 5 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 202 (31.51%) Git
2 122 (19.03%) Jenkins
3 63 (9.83%) JUnit
4 62 (9.67%) GitLab
4 62 (9.67%) JIRA
5 42 (6.55%) Maven
5 42 (6.55%) Mockito
6 37 (5.77%) Gradle
7 30 (4.68%) Cucumber
8 27 (4.21%) SonarQube
9 26 (4.06%) Cypress.io
10 25 (3.90%) Selenium
11 14 (2.18%) Postman
11 14 (2.18%) REST Assured
12 13 (2.03%) Visual Studio
13 12 (1.87%) CircleCI
14 11 (1.72%) MSI
15 10 (1.56%) Bitbucket
16 9 (1.40%) Storybook
17 8 (1.25%) fastlane
General
1 176 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 128 (19.97%) Finance
3 109 (17.00%) Public Sector
4 104 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (9.05%) Banking
6 36 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (3.59%) Retail
8 18 (2.81%) Investment Banking
9 16 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.25%) Marketing
10 8 (1.25%) Publishing
11 7 (1.09%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.94%) Front Office
12 6 (0.94%) Law
12 6 (0.94%) Local Government
12 6 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.78%) Legal
14 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 372 (58.03%) Developer
2 132 (20.59%) Senior
3 107 (16.69%) Java Developer
4 87 (13.57%) Senior Developer
5 81 (12.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 52 (8.11%) Software Engineer
7 48 (7.49%) Python Developer
8 40 (6.24%) .NET Developer
9 37 (5.77%) Senior Java Developer
10 34 (5.30%) Lead
11 33 (5.15%) Architect
12 28 (4.37%) Java Engineer
13 27 (4.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 25 (3.90%) C# Developer
14 25 (3.90%) React Developer
15 23 (3.59%) Software Developer
16 21 (3.28%) C# .NET Developer
17 19 (2.96%) Technical Leader
18 18 (2.81%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
19 15 (2.34%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (32.14%) REST
2 159 (24.80%) Spring
3 154 (24.02%) Spring Boot
4 147 (22.93%) React
5 125 (19.50%) Kafka
6 108 (16.85%) .NET
7 105 (16.38%) Terraform
8 104 (16.22%) CSS
8 104 (16.22%) HTML
9 77 (12.01%) AngularJS
10 76 (11.86%) Node.js
11 71 (11.08%) OAuth
12 70 (10.92%) Web Services
13 61 (9.52%) OAuth2
14 60 (9.36%) HTML5
14 60 (9.36%) JSON
15 58 (9.05%) .NET Core
16 54 (8.42%) CSS3
17 51 (7.96%) Swagger
18 49 (7.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 183 (28.55%) Cloud Native
2 112 (17.47%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (13.57%) Product Ownership
4 50 (7.80%) Enterprise Software
5 44 (6.86%) Mobile App
6 26 (4.06%) Onboarding
7 25 (3.90%) AI Agents
8 22 (3.43%) Data Structures
8 22 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (2.03%) NHS
10 11 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.56%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.56%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
15 5 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
15 5 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.96%) Linux
2 32 (4.99%) Unix
3 24 (3.74%) Apple iOS
4 22 (3.43%) Android
5 17 (2.65%) Windows
6 4 (0.62%) macOS
7 3 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (67.24%) CI/CD
2 373 (58.19%) Agile
3 325 (50.70%) Microservices
4 277 (43.21%) DevOps
5 245 (38.22%) Test Automation
6 188 (29.33%) Containerisation
7 165 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
8 161 (25.12%) Software Engineering
9 159 (24.80%) Event-Driven
10 153 (23.87%) Scrum
11 151 (23.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 150 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
13 134 (20.90%) Code Quality
14 114 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
15 106 (16.54%) AI
16 105 (16.38%) API Development
17 102 (15.91%) Observability
18 100 (15.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 98 (15.29%) API Design
20 92 (14.35%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 250 (39.00%) Java
2 172 (26.83%) JavaScript
3 164 (25.59%) SQL
4 162 (25.27%) Python
5 149 (23.24%) TypeScript
6 123 (19.19%) C#
7 36 (5.62%) Kotlin
8 34 (5.30%) Shell Script
9 28 (4.37%) Bicep
10 22 (3.43%) Bash
10 22 (3.43%) Swift
11 15 (2.34%) Go
12 14 (2.18%) Ruby
13 13 (2.03%) Scala
14 11 (1.72%) Rust
15 10 (1.56%) Objective-C
15 10 (1.56%) PL/SQL
16 9 (1.40%) T-SQL
17 8 (1.25%) X++
18 7 (1.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 164 (25.59%) Security Cleared
2 140 (21.84%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.27%) Degree
4 41 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 21 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (3.12%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.03%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.72%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.78%) CCSP
11 5 (0.78%) CEH
11 5 (0.78%) CISM
11 5 (0.78%) CISSP
11 5 (0.78%) OSCP
12 4 (0.62%) PhD
13 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (20.28%) QA
2 74 (11.54%) Accessibility
3 38 (5.93%) WCAG
4 13 (2.03%) NCSC
5 9 (1.40%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.40%) HL7
6 6 (0.94%) NIST
7 5 (0.78%) COBIT
7 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.62%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.62%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.47%) GDPR
10 2 (0.31%) Basel III
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.16%) SLA
11 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 242 (37.75%) Docker
2 8 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.31%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 199 (31.05%) Kubernetes
2 54 (8.42%) Grafana
3 43 (6.71%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.72%) Ansible
5 9 (1.40%) Kibana
6 5 (0.78%) Argo
7 4 (0.62%) Bosun
7 4 (0.62%) Podman
7 4 (0.62%) Puppet
8 3 (0.47%) Istio
9 2 (0.31%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.31%) Consul
9 2 (0.31%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.16%) linkerd
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 82 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.40%) Google
3 38 (5.93%) Oracle
4 21 (3.28%) Dynatrace
4 21 (3.28%) Splunk
5 14 (2.18%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.03%) New Relic
7 8 (1.25%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.25%) Okta
8 7 (1.09%) Databricks
8 7 (1.09%) IBM
8 7 (1.09%) SAP
8 7 (1.09%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.94%) Apple
9 6 (0.94%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.78%) Citrix
10 5 (0.78%) Ping Identity
11 4 (0.62%) Adobe
11 4 (0.62%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.62%) webMethods