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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 163 211
Rank change year-on-year -15 +48 -12
Contract jobs citing RESTful 582 411 422
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.53% 1.68% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.31% 7.46% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 280 320
10th Percentile £350 £358 £375
25th Percentile £406 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £560 £638 £619
90th Percentile £670 £738 £719
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 3
10th Percentile £53.00 - £40.40
25th Percentile £66.25 £38.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £39.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.22% -28.18% -24.14%
75th Percentile £74.26 £40.75 £56.50
90th Percentile £91.50 - £57.40
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £39.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +77.22% -28.18% -24.14%

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 7,964 5,510 7,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.93% 22.54% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,327 3,801 5,397
10th Percentile £360 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 88 172
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.85 £20.78
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £37.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +33.18% -25.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £78.78 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 29 March 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 +2 304 £488 -7.14% 100
North of England -14 126 £456 +1.39% 80
North West -16 64 £438 +0.11% 40
Midlands -30 63 £500 +3.09% 23
Yorkshire -30 53 £500 - 21
South East -41 48 £515 +25.92% 42
West Midlands -35 42 £488 -4.88% 18
East of England -20 22 £550 +76.00% 17
South West -30 21 £512 -16.49% 25
East Midlands -14 20 £550 +23.87% 5
North East -7 9 £450 +21.62% 19
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 28 (4.81%) Confluence
2 16 (2.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.23%) CMS
4 10 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.37%) Appian
6 7 (1.20%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (1.03%) Ethereum
7 6 (1.03%) Headless CMS
7 6 (1.03%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.86%) Camunda
8 5 (0.86%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.86%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.69%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.69%) CICS
10 3 (0.52%) Apache
11 2 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.34%) Drupal
11 2 (0.34%) IIS
11 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
Applications
1 8 (1.37%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.86%) Sketch
3 3 (0.52%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.17%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (0.17%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 268 (46.05%) AWS
2 204 (35.05%) Azure
3 122 (20.96%) Serverless
4 95 (16.32%) GCP
5 91 (15.64%) GitHub
6 63 (10.82%) AWS Lambda
7 54 (9.28%) Amazon S3
8 49 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
9 45 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
10 33 (5.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (4.64%) Azure Functions
12 25 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (3.95%) Azure AKS
14 22 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (3.44%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (3.26%) Azure Service Bus
18 16 (2.75%) Power Automate
19 15 (2.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.92%) HTTP
2 8 (1.37%) HTTPS
3 6 (1.03%) SSL
4 5 (0.86%) DNS
5 3 (0.52%) VPN
6 2 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.17%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.17%) 4G
7 1 (0.17%) 5G
7 1 (0.17%) Internet
7 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.17%) LTE
7 1 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.17%) SMS
7 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (21.31%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (19.07%) NoSQL
3 68 (11.68%) Relational Database
4 54 (9.28%) SQL Server
5 45 (7.73%) MySQL
6 43 (7.39%) MongoDB
7 33 (5.67%) DynamoDB
8 31 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (3.09%) Redis
10 14 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.55%) DocumentDB
11 9 (1.55%) Pinecone
12 8 (1.37%) DB2
13 7 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.03%) Flink
15 4 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (0.69%) GIS
15 4 (0.69%) Power BI
16 3 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
16 3 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 162 (27.84%) Git
2 85 (14.60%) Jenkins
3 75 (12.89%) GitLab
4 49 (8.42%) JUnit
5 46 (7.90%) JIRA
6 28 (4.81%) Mockito
7 24 (4.12%) Postman
8 19 (3.26%) Maven
9 17 (2.92%) SonarQube
10 15 (2.58%) Cypress.io
11 14 (2.41%) Cucumber
12 13 (2.23%) Gradle
12 13 (2.23%) Liquibase
12 13 (2.23%) Selenium
13 10 (1.72%) Bitbucket
14 9 (1.55%) MLflow
14 9 (1.55%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.20%) Visual Studio
15 7 (1.20%) Vite
16 6 (1.03%) jMock
General
1 175 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 126 (21.65%) Finance
3 97 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 68 (11.68%) Banking
5 49 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.92%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.89%) Front Office
8 8 (1.37%) Marketing
8 8 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.03%) Legal
9 6 (1.03%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.86%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.86%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.69%) Electronics
11 4 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.52%) Advertising
12 3 (0.52%) Law
12 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 353 (60.65%) Developer
2 109 (18.73%) Java Developer
3 104 (17.87%) Senior
4 74 (12.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 54 (9.28%) Senior Developer
6 44 (7.56%) Software Engineer
7 42 (7.22%) Python Developer
8 35 (6.01%) React Developer
9 33 (5.67%) .NET Developer
10 30 (5.15%) Architect
11 27 (4.64%) C# Developer
12 26 (4.47%) Backend Developer
13 25 (4.30%) Senior Java Developer
14 24 (4.12%) Lead
15 21 (3.61%) Senior Software Engineer
15 21 (3.61%) Software Developer
16 20 (3.44%) Java Engineer
17 17 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
18 16 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
19 15 (2.58%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (29.90%) Spring
2 164 (28.18%) Spring Boot
3 159 (27.32%) React
4 142 (24.40%) REST
5 102 (17.53%) .NET
6 100 (17.18%) AngularJS
7 90 (15.46%) CSS
8 85 (14.60%) Node.js
9 83 (14.26%) HTML
9 83 (14.26%) Kafka
10 55 (9.45%) OAuth
11 48 (8.25%) Hibernate
12 41 (7.04%) HTML5
13 39 (6.70%) JSON
14 37 (6.36%) Web Services
15 36 (6.19%) CSS3
15 36 (6.19%) Django
15 36 (6.19%) OAuth2
16 35 (6.01%) Swagger
17 32 (5.50%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 85 (14.60%) Cloud Native
2 63 (10.82%) Product Ownership
3 62 (10.65%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (3.44%) Mobile App
6 19 (3.26%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.23%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.06%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.06%) Derivative
8 12 (2.06%) NHS
9 11 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.89%) Low-Code
9 11 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.55%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.86%) Equities
13 5 (0.86%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.73%) Linux
2 14 (2.41%) Windows
3 10 (1.72%) Android
4 9 (1.55%) Unix
5 7 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.69%) zOS
7 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (60.31%) CI/CD
2 317 (54.47%) Agile
3 307 (52.75%) Microservices
4 202 (34.71%) DevOps
5 186 (31.96%) Containerisation
6 154 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
7 131 (22.51%) Test Automation
8 127 (21.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 107 (18.38%) Software Engineering
10 99 (17.01%) Event-Driven
11 97 (16.67%) API Development
12 89 (15.29%) Scrum
13 88 (15.12%) Clean Code
14 84 (14.43%) TDD
15 83 (14.26%) Code Quality
16 74 (12.71%) Infrastructure as Code
16 74 (12.71%) User Experience
17 71 (12.20%) API Design
18 62 (10.65%) AI
18 62 (10.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 235 (40.38%) Java
2 185 (31.79%) SQL
3 164 (28.18%) Python
4 141 (24.23%) JavaScript
5 109 (18.73%) TypeScript
6 101 (17.35%) C#
7 37 (6.36%) Go
8 17 (2.92%) Kotlin
9 14 (2.41%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.03%) JSX
11 6 (1.03%) Swift
12 5 (0.86%) Bash
12 5 (0.86%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.86%) Ruby
13 4 (0.69%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.69%) Groovy
13 4 (0.69%) PHP
14 3 (0.52%) JCL
14 3 (0.52%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 126 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 85 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.48%) Degree
4 50 (8.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (4.98%) Master's Degree
6 17 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.06%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.69%) CCSP
10 4 (0.69%) CEH
10 4 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.69%) CISM
10 4 (0.69%) CISSP
10 4 (0.69%) OSCP
11 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.52%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (10.14%) QA
2 49 (8.42%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.12%) WCAG
4 15 (2.58%) NIST
5 10 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.72%) GDPR
6 8 (1.37%) HL7
6 8 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.37%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.20%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.69%) COBIT
8 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.34%) PSD2
9 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.34%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.17%) MiFID
10 1 (0.17%) NCSC
10 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 221 (37.97%) Docker
2 9 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.86%) Postfix
4 3 (0.52%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 206 (35.40%) Kubernetes
2 81 (13.92%) Terraform
3 41 (7.04%) Prometheus
4 38 (6.53%) Grafana
5 28 (4.81%) Ansible
6 9 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.34%) Consul
8 1 (0.17%) Argo
8 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.17%) Kibana
8 1 (0.17%) Nagios
8 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.17%) Puppet
8 1 (0.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 57 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.50%) Google
3 31 (5.33%) Adobe
4 25 (4.30%) Oracle
4 25 (4.30%) Splunk
5 15 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.72%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.37%) Automation Anywhere
7 8 (1.37%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.37%) Ping Identity
7 8 (1.37%) Sitecore
7 8 (1.37%) UiPath
7 8 (1.37%) Veracode
8 7 (1.20%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.20%) Databricks
8 7 (1.20%) Foundry
9 6 (1.03%) Jaspersoft
10 5 (0.86%) Apple
11 4 (0.69%) SAP
11 4 (0.69%) Sybase