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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 162 213
Rank change year-on-year +27 +51 -62
Contract jobs citing RESTful 638 477 456
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.09% 1.53% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.19% 7.03% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 311 344
10th Percentile £338 £313 £375
25th Percentile £402 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -8.68% -8.75%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £659 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 9
10th Percentile £45.88 - £57.50
25th Percentile £53.91 £38.25 £58.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.50 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +39.24% -48.39% +13.38%
75th Percentile £71.63 £40.75 -
90th Percentile £95.00 - £87.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £39.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +39.24% -48.39% +13.38%

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 6,942 6,790 8,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.70% 21.72% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,677 4,330 6,328
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £666 £675
90th Percentile £734 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 102 183
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £36.37
25th Percentile £43.00 £42.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £73.98 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.67%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 +31 324 £510 -2.86% 283
North of England +16 139 £455 -4.32% 100
Yorkshire +12 83 £475 -11.63% 25
Midlands -16 66 £475 -4.04% 42
South East +8 58 £450 +9.56% 77
North West -10 52 £428 +0.59% 64
West Midlands -17 40 £500 -16.67% 33
East of England -5 30 £545 +81.67% 16
East Midlands +1 26 £404 -13.60% 9
South West +4 18 £500 +11.11% 39
North East -5 4 £500 +8.11% 11
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 25 (3.92%) Confluence
2 19 (2.98%) CMS
3 7 (1.10%) Apache
3 7 (1.10%) Headless CMS
3 7 (1.10%) Umbraco
4 6 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.94%) nginx
4 6 (0.94%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.78%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.78%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.47%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.47%) Camunda
7 3 (0.47%) Drupal
7 3 (0.47%) Mule
8 2 (0.31%) Appian
8 2 (0.31%) Documentum
8 2 (0.31%) Moodle
Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.63%) Workday HCM
3 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.16%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.16%) Finacle
4 1 (0.16%) SAP MRS
4 1 (0.16%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 253 (39.66%) AWS
2 204 (31.97%) Azure
3 136 (21.32%) Serverless
4 125 (19.59%) GCP
5 91 (14.26%) GitHub
6 63 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
8 35 (5.49%) Amazon S3
8 35 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (5.02%) Azure Functions
10 29 (4.55%) Azure AKS
11 28 (4.39%) PaaS
12 25 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
13 23 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (2.51%) GitHub Copilot
16 15 (2.35%) Apigee
16 15 (2.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.19%) HTTP
2 6 (0.94%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.63%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.31%) AMQP
4 2 (0.31%) DSL
5 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.16%) DNS
5 1 (0.16%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) Internet
5 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.16%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.16%) SSL
5 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (17.87%) NoSQL
1 114 (17.87%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (9.72%) Relational Database
3 43 (6.74%) MySQL
4 40 (6.27%) SQL Server
5 34 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
6 33 (5.17%) MongoDB
7 26 (4.08%) DynamoDB
8 18 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (1.88%) RDBMS
10 11 (1.72%) Redis
11 7 (1.10%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.94%) Big Data
13 5 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.78%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.78%) Power BI
14 4 (0.63%) DB2
15 3 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 208 (32.60%) Git
2 111 (17.40%) Jenkins
3 69 (10.82%) GitLab
4 55 (8.62%) JIRA
5 50 (7.84%) JUnit
6 28 (4.39%) Liquibase
7 27 (4.23%) Maven
8 25 (3.92%) Cucumber
9 23 (3.61%) Cypress.io
9 23 (3.61%) Postman
10 22 (3.45%) Gradle
10 22 (3.45%) SonarQube
11 21 (3.29%) Selenium
12 18 (2.82%) Bitbucket
12 18 (2.82%) Mockito
13 12 (1.88%) TeamCity
14 11 (1.72%) Android Studio
14 11 (1.72%) Mocha
14 11 (1.72%) Storybook
14 11 (1.72%) webpack
General
1 233 (36.52%) Social Skills
2 155 (24.29%) Finance
3 86 (13.48%) Banking
4 83 (13.01%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (4.86%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (1.41%) Telecoms
9 6 (0.94%) Automotive
9 6 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (0.94%) Legal
9 6 (0.94%) Marketing
9 6 (0.94%) Retail
10 5 (0.78%) Digital Healthcare
10 5 (0.78%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.63%) Multimedia
11 4 (0.63%) Police
11 4 (0.63%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 359 (56.27%) Developer
2 129 (20.22%) Senior
3 100 (15.67%) Java Developer
4 74 (11.60%) Senior Developer
5 59 (9.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 49 (7.68%) Software Engineer
7 45 (7.05%) Architect
8 34 (5.33%) Lead
9 31 (4.86%) Python Developer
10 28 (4.39%) Android Developer
10 28 (4.39%) Senior Java Developer
11 25 (3.92%) Angular Developer
12 24 (3.76%) React Developer
13 23 (3.61%) .NET Developer
14 20 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
14 20 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
15 19 (2.98%) Backend Developer
15 19 (2.98%) C# Developer
16 17 (2.66%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (22.41%) React
2 129 (20.22%) Spring
3 120 (18.81%) Spring Boot
4 119 (18.65%) REST
5 107 (16.77%) .NET
6 91 (14.26%) CSS
7 89 (13.95%) AngularJS
7 89 (13.95%) HTML
8 82 (12.85%) Node.js
9 60 (9.40%) JSON
10 58 (9.09%) OAuth
11 52 (8.15%) Kafka
12 50 (7.84%) Web Services
13 46 (7.21%) OAuth2
14 45 (7.05%) SOAP
15 43 (6.74%) .NET Framework
16 41 (6.43%) GraphQL
17 39 (6.11%) Hibernate
18 38 (5.96%) Elastic Stack
19 33 (5.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 115 (18.03%) Cloud Native
2 70 (10.97%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (9.40%) Mobile App
4 37 (5.80%) Product Ownership
5 34 (5.33%) Public Cloud
6 16 (2.51%) Algorithms
7 15 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.88%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.25%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.94%) Derivative
12 6 (0.94%) NHS
12 6 (0.94%) N-Tier
13 5 (0.78%) Data Fabric
13 5 (0.78%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 68 (10.66%) Linux
2 40 (6.27%) Android
3 28 (4.39%) Apple iOS
4 19 (2.98%) Windows
5 9 (1.41%) Unix
6 4 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.31%) tvOS
8 1 (0.16%) watchOS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Embedded Compact
8 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (57.37%) Agile
2 350 (54.86%) CI/CD
3 268 (42.01%) Microservices
4 243 (38.09%) DevOps
5 195 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
6 169 (26.49%) Containerisation
7 119 (18.65%) Full-Stack Development
8 118 (18.50%) Software Engineering
9 110 (17.24%) API Development
10 103 (16.14%) Test Automation
11 94 (14.73%) Scrum
12 93 (14.58%) Design Patterns
13 84 (13.17%) TDD
14 82 (12.85%) Clean Code
15 79 (12.38%) Infrastructure as Code
16 78 (12.23%) Continuous Integration
17 75 (11.76%) AI
18 74 (11.60%) API Design
19 73 (11.44%) Computer Science
20 70 (10.97%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 226 (35.42%) Java
2 204 (31.97%) Python
3 162 (25.39%) SQL
4 155 (24.29%) JavaScript
5 99 (15.52%) TypeScript
6 86 (13.48%) C#
7 48 (7.52%) Go
8 43 (6.74%) Kotlin
9 22 (3.45%) Swift
10 17 (2.66%) Shell Script
11 16 (2.51%) Ruby
12 11 (1.72%) Objective-C
13 10 (1.57%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.25%) Bash
15 7 (1.10%) JSX
16 6 (0.94%) Bicep
16 6 (0.94%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.94%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.78%) C++
17 5 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 91 (14.26%) Security Cleared
2 78 (12.23%) Degree
3 61 (9.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 55 (8.62%) SC Cleared
5 36 (5.64%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.04%) MCP
9 11 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.57%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.63%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.31%) OCP
14 2 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.16%) PMP
15 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (7.68%) QA
2 27 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.35%) GDPR
4 12 (1.88%) EU AI Act
4 12 (1.88%) NIST
5 9 (1.41%) WCAG
6 7 (1.10%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.78%) PSD2
7 5 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.63%) COBIT
8 4 (0.63%) HL7
8 4 (0.63%) SLA
9 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.16%) NCSC
11 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 217 (34.01%) Docker
2 8 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.63%) Postfix
3 4 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 194 (30.41%) Kubernetes
2 102 (15.99%) Terraform
3 52 (8.15%) Ansible
4 47 (7.37%) Prometheus
5 46 (7.21%) Grafana
6 12 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.78%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.63%) Control-M
9 3 (0.47%) Puppet
10 2 (0.31%) Consul
10 2 (0.31%) Kibana
10 2 (0.31%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.31%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.31%) Salt
11 1 (0.16%) Argo
11 1 (0.16%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.16%) Nagios
11 1 (0.16%) Podman
11 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 92 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 68 (10.66%) Google
3 40 (6.27%) Splunk
4 24 (3.76%) Oracle
5 18 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.88%) Foundry
7 11 (1.72%) Adobe
8 10 (1.57%) Databricks
9 9 (1.41%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.41%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.41%) Ping Identity
10 8 (1.25%) Apple
10 8 (1.25%) SAP
10 8 (1.25%) Sitecore
10 8 (1.25%) VMware
11 6 (0.94%) ForgeRock
11 6 (0.94%) Gigya
11 6 (0.94%) Workday
12 5 (0.78%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.78%) Virgin Media