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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 174 208
Rank change year-on-year -22 +34 -14
Contract jobs citing RESTful 548 381 419
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.57% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.90% 6.99% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 263 307
10th Percentile £350 £359 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £738 £719
UK median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.90% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 7
10th Percentile £53.00 - £47.70
25th Percentile £66.25 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £85.00
90th Percentile £91.50 - £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +6.67%

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 7,947 5,454 7,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.69% 22.40% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,297 3,781 5,342
10th Percentile £361 £368 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.23% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 100 218
10th Percentile £34.25 £30.13 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.38 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +7 305 £500 -4.76% 118
North of England -22 110 £450 - 43
North West -15 64 £439 +8.06% 27
South East -40 52 £515 +14.44% 66
Midlands -62 47 £488 +0.52% 16
Yorkshire -33 37 £500 - 10
West Midlands -55 30 £488 -4.88% 10
South West -25 22 £525 -12.50% 19
East Midlands -24 16 £498 +7.68% 6
North East -14 9 £450 +22.87% 6
East of England -29 7 £500 -13.04% 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 24 (4.38%) Confluence
2 13 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.46%) Appian
4 8 (1.46%) CMS
5 6 (1.09%) Ethereum
5 6 (1.09%) Hyperledger
6 5 (0.91%) Camunda
6 5 (0.91%) CICS
6 5 (0.91%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.55%) Apache
8 3 (0.55%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.55%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.36%) IIS
9 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.18%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (1.46%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.91%) Sketch
3 4 (0.73%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.18%) Maximo
3 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.18%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 248 (45.26%) AWS
2 183 (33.39%) Azure
3 96 (17.52%) Serverless
4 83 (15.15%) GitHub
5 72 (13.14%) GCP
6 68 (12.41%) AWS Lambda
7 64 (11.68%) Amazon S3
8 52 (9.49%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (9.31%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 35 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
13 28 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (4.56%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (3.65%) Power Automate
16 17 (3.10%) Azure Functions
16 17 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
17 14 (2.55%) Entra ID
18 13 (2.37%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.74%) HTTP
2 8 (1.46%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.91%) SSL
4 4 (0.73%) DNS
5 2 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.36%) VPN
6 1 (0.18%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.18%) 4G
6 1 (0.18%) 5G
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.18%) SMS
6 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (20.44%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (15.88%) NoSQL
3 60 (10.95%) Relational Database
4 58 (10.58%) SQL Server
5 45 (8.21%) MongoDB
6 39 (7.12%) DynamoDB
6 39 (7.12%) MySQL
7 34 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (4.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 19 (3.47%) Redis
10 9 (1.64%) DB2
10 9 (1.64%) DocumentDB
10 9 (1.64%) Pinecone
11 7 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.09%) Flink
13 5 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (0.91%) Big Data
13 5 (0.91%) Power BI
14 4 (0.73%) GIS
15 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 148 (27.01%) Git
2 79 (14.42%) Jenkins
3 64 (11.68%) GitLab
4 50 (9.12%) JUnit
5 39 (7.12%) JIRA
6 32 (5.84%) Mockito
7 23 (4.20%) Maven
7 23 (4.20%) Postman
8 19 (3.47%) SonarQube
9 14 (2.55%) Gradle
10 13 (2.37%) Cucumber
10 13 (2.37%) Visual Studio
11 10 (1.82%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.82%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.82%) Selenium
12 9 (1.64%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (1.64%) DbUnit
12 9 (1.64%) jMock
13 8 (1.46%) MLflow
14 7 (1.28%) REST Assured
General
1 141 (25.73%) Social Skills
2 125 (22.81%) Finance
3 97 (17.70%) Public Sector
4 57 (10.40%) Banking
5 54 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.01%) Front Office
7 7 (1.28%) Marketing
8 6 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.09%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.09%) Legal
8 6 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.09%) Telecoms
9 5 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.73%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.73%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.55%) Electronics
11 3 (0.55%) Law
11 3 (0.55%) Local Government
11 3 (0.55%) Police
12 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 353 (64.42%) Developer
2 120 (21.90%) Java Developer
3 90 (16.42%) Senior
4 72 (13.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 56 (10.22%) Senior Developer
6 45 (8.21%) Python Developer
7 35 (6.39%) Software Engineer
8 32 (5.84%) .NET Developer
8 32 (5.84%) Architect
9 28 (5.11%) React Developer
10 26 (4.74%) Senior Java Developer
11 23 (4.20%) Backend Developer
12 22 (4.01%) C# Developer
12 22 (4.01%) Java Engineer
12 22 (4.01%) Software Developer
13 20 (3.65%) Lead
14 17 (3.10%) AWS Developer
15 13 (2.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 12 (2.19%) Senior Software Engineer
17 11 (2.01%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (32.48%) Spring
2 171 (31.20%) Spring Boot
3 135 (24.64%) React
4 126 (22.99%) REST
5 93 (16.97%) Kafka
6 91 (16.61%) .NET
7 86 (15.69%) AngularJS
8 78 (14.23%) CSS
9 76 (13.87%) Node.js
10 74 (13.50%) HTML
11 52 (9.49%) OAuth
12 46 (8.39%) Hibernate
13 38 (6.93%) HTML5
13 38 (6.93%) Swagger
13 38 (6.93%) Web Services
14 37 (6.75%) JSON
15 36 (6.57%) Django
16 34 (6.20%) OAuth2
17 33 (6.02%) JWT
17 33 (6.02%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 81 (14.78%) Cloud Native
2 68 (12.41%) Product Ownership
3 67 (12.23%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (2.55%) Data Structures
5 14 (2.55%) Low-Code
5 14 (2.55%) Mobile App
6 13 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.01%) NHS
8 10 (1.82%) Derivative
9 9 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.46%) Hedge funds
11 6 (1.09%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.09%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.91%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.91%) Credit Risk
12 5 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.91%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.02%) Linux
2 20 (3.65%) Unix
3 11 (2.01%) Windows
4 5 (0.91%) Android
4 5 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.91%) zOS
5 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (62.04%) CI/CD
2 302 (55.11%) Microservices
3 292 (53.28%) Agile
4 198 (36.13%) DevOps
5 173 (31.57%) Containerisation
6 128 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
7 122 (22.26%) Full-Stack Development
8 119 (21.72%) Test Automation
9 107 (19.53%) Event-Driven
10 93 (16.97%) Software Engineering
11 86 (15.69%) Clean Code
11 86 (15.69%) Scrum
12 82 (14.96%) Code Quality
13 80 (14.60%) API Development
13 80 (14.60%) TDD
14 74 (13.50%) Infrastructure as Code
15 72 (13.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 69 (12.59%) API Design
17 60 (10.95%) Unit Testing
18 58 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 247 (45.07%) Java
2 172 (31.39%) SQL
3 140 (25.55%) Python
4 130 (23.72%) JavaScript
5 109 (19.89%) C#
6 102 (18.61%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.38%) Go
8 18 (3.28%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.74%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.09%) Bicep
12 5 (0.91%) Bash
12 5 (0.91%) X++
13 4 (0.73%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.73%) JCL
13 4 (0.73%) Swift
14 3 (0.55%) JSX
14 3 (0.55%) Ruby
14 3 (0.55%) Rust
14 3 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 135 (24.64%) Security Cleared
2 96 (17.52%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.85%) Degree
4 33 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.37%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.01%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.82%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (0.91%) CCSP
9 5 (0.91%) CEH
9 5 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.91%) CISM
9 5 (0.91%) CISSP
9 5 (0.91%) OSCP
10 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.73%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.55%) MBA
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.36%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.31%) QA
2 44 (8.03%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.38%) WCAG
4 10 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.82%) NIST
5 9 (1.64%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.28%) HL7
8 6 (1.09%) GDPR
9 5 (0.91%) COBIT
10 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.36%) SLA
10 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.18%) EMIR
11 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.18%) MiFID
11 1 (0.18%) NCSC
11 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 205 (37.41%) Docker
2 8 (1.46%) Postfix
3 6 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.55%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 181 (33.03%) Kubernetes
2 73 (13.32%) Terraform
3 28 (5.11%) Grafana
4 27 (4.93%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.82%) Ansible
6 6 (1.09%) Kibana
7 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.18%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 39 (7.12%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.74%) Oracle
3 22 (4.01%) Adobe
4 18 (3.28%) Google
5 12 (2.19%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.01%) Splunk
7 10 (1.82%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.82%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.64%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (1.46%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.46%) UiPath
9 8 (1.46%) Veracode
10 7 (1.28%) Databricks
10 7 (1.28%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.28%) Okta
11 5 (0.91%) Ping Identity
11 5 (0.91%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.73%) Apple
12 4 (0.73%) Brio
12 4 (0.73%) Sybase