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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 171 197
Rank change year-on-year -22 +26 -5
Contract jobs citing RESTful 545 390 422
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 1.60% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.90% 7.19% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 268 300
10th Percentile £350 £357 £375
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £736 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 7
10th Percentile £53.50 £50.50 £47.70
25th Percentile £68.13 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -34.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 £53.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £54.50 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -34.38% +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 7,895 5,421 7,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.24% 22.28% 20.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,238 3,753 5,342
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 99 230
10th Percentile £31.03 £32.65 £22.42
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -4 303 £500 -4.76% 126
North of England -20 109 £450 +12.50% 67
North West -20 59 £450 +12.50% 37
South East -42 53 £515 +7.24% 50
Midlands -59 43 £488 +1.56% 18
Yorkshire -28 37 £513 +7.89% 21
West Midlands -56 26 £488 -4.88% 11
South West -20 23 £525 -12.50% 18
East Midlands -28 16 £447 -3.35% 7
North East -13 13 £450 +22.87% 9
East of England -30 8 £513 -10.87% 16
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 26 (4.77%) Confluence
2 11 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.47%) Appian
5 6 (1.10%) CMS
5 6 (1.10%) Ethereum
5 6 (1.10%) Hyperledger
6 5 (0.92%) Camunda
6 5 (0.92%) CICS
6 5 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.55%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.37%) IIS
8 2 (0.37%) Mule
8 2 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.18%) Mendix
9 1 (0.18%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (1.47%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.92%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.92%) Sketch
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.37%) 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 Hybris
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 223 (40.92%) AWS
2 181 (33.21%) Azure
3 84 (15.41%) Serverless
4 80 (14.68%) GitHub
5 62 (11.38%) AWS Lambda
6 58 (10.64%) GCP
7 57 (10.46%) Amazon S3
8 55 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
9 54 (9.91%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (5.87%) Amazon EC2
11 29 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
12 28 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (4.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (4.77%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (3.67%) Power Automate
16 16 (2.94%) Azure AKS
17 15 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
18 14 (2.57%) Azure Functions
18 14 (2.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.20%) HTTP
2 5 (0.92%) HTTPS
2 5 (0.92%) SSL
3 4 (0.73%) DNS
4 2 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.37%) VPN
5 1 (0.18%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.18%) 4G
5 1 (0.18%) 5G
5 1 (0.18%) LTE
5 1 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.18%) SMS
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (18.90%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (16.51%) NoSQL
3 58 (10.64%) Relational Database
3 58 (10.64%) SQL Server
4 47 (8.62%) MongoDB
5 40 (7.34%) DynamoDB
6 30 (5.50%) MySQL
7 29 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 20 (3.67%) Redis
10 9 (1.65%) DB2
10 9 (1.65%) DocumentDB
10 9 (1.65%) Pinecone
11 6 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.10%) Flink
11 6 (1.10%) Power BI
12 5 (0.92%) Big Data
13 4 (0.73%) GIS
14 3 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 129 (23.67%) Git
2 81 (14.86%) Jenkins
3 61 (11.19%) GitLab
4 46 (8.44%) JUnit
5 41 (7.52%) JIRA
6 30 (5.50%) Mockito
7 21 (3.85%) Maven
7 21 (3.85%) Postman
8 19 (3.49%) SonarQube
9 16 (2.94%) Gradle
10 15 (2.75%) Cucumber
11 14 (2.57%) Visual Studio
12 10 (1.83%) Selenium
13 9 (1.65%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (1.65%) DbUnit
13 9 (1.65%) jMock
14 8 (1.47%) MLflow
15 7 (1.28%) Bitbucket
15 7 (1.28%) JMeter
15 7 (1.28%) REST Assured
General
1 124 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 122 (22.39%) Finance
3 91 (16.70%) Public Sector
4 57 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (10.46%) Banking
5 12 (2.20%) Front Office
6 9 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.65%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.28%) Retail
8 5 (0.92%) Legal
8 5 (0.92%) Marketing
8 5 (0.92%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.55%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.55%) Law
10 3 (0.55%) Local Government
10 3 (0.55%) Police
10 3 (0.55%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.37%) Billing
Job Titles
1 346 (63.49%) Developer
2 110 (20.18%) Java Developer
3 95 (17.43%) Senior
4 66 (12.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 58 (10.64%) Senior Developer
6 48 (8.81%) Python Developer
7 39 (7.16%) Software Engineer
8 31 (5.69%) .NET Developer
8 31 (5.69%) Architect
9 28 (5.14%) React Developer
10 27 (4.95%) Senior Java Developer
11 24 (4.40%) C# Developer
12 22 (4.04%) Backend Developer
12 22 (4.04%) Software Developer
13 21 (3.85%) Java Engineer
13 21 (3.85%) Lead
14 18 (3.30%) AWS Developer
15 16 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 15 (2.75%) Senior Software Engineer
17 11 (2.02%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (30.64%) Spring
2 163 (29.91%) Spring Boot
3 125 (22.94%) React
4 124 (22.75%) REST
5 101 (18.53%) Kafka
6 97 (17.80%) .NET
7 80 (14.68%) AngularJS
8 71 (13.03%) HTML
9 70 (12.84%) CSS
10 64 (11.74%) Node.js
11 54 (9.91%) OAuth
12 41 (7.52%) Web Services
13 40 (7.34%) Swagger
14 39 (7.16%) Django
15 37 (6.79%) FastAPI
15 37 (6.79%) Hibernate
15 37 (6.79%) HTML5
16 36 (6.61%) JSON
16 36 (6.61%) OpenAPI
17 35 (6.42%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 79 (14.50%) Cloud Native
2 76 (13.94%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (12.66%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (3.85%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.94%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.57%) Low-Code
8 13 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.83%) NHS
9 10 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.65%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.47%) Derivative
11 8 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.47%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.10%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.10%) Equities
12 6 (1.10%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.92%) Fixed Income
13 5 (0.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.42%) Linux
2 22 (4.04%) Unix
3 9 (1.65%) Android
3 9 (1.65%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.28%) Windows
5 5 (0.92%) zOS
6 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (60.55%) CI/CD
2 294 (53.94%) Microservices
3 279 (51.19%) Agile
4 196 (35.96%) DevOps
5 169 (31.01%) Containerisation
6 126 (23.12%) Test Automation
7 117 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
8 115 (21.10%) Event-Driven
8 115 (21.10%) Full-Stack Development
9 95 (17.43%) Scrum
9 95 (17.43%) Software Engineering
10 85 (15.60%) Clean Code
11 82 (15.05%) TDD
12 78 (14.31%) Code Quality
13 77 (14.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 73 (13.39%) API Development
15 70 (12.84%) API Design
16 69 (12.66%) Infrastructure as Code
17 61 (11.19%) Unit Testing
18 58 (10.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 238 (43.67%) Java
2 168 (30.83%) SQL
3 140 (25.69%) Python
4 121 (22.20%) JavaScript
5 117 (21.47%) C#
6 97 (17.80%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.40%) Go
8 19 (3.49%) Shell Script
9 16 (2.94%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.83%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.65%) Bicep
12 7 (1.28%) Swift
13 6 (1.10%) X++
14 5 (0.92%) Scala
15 4 (0.73%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.73%) Bash
15 4 (0.73%) JCL
16 3 (0.55%) Ruby
16 3 (0.55%) Rust
17 2 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 128 (23.49%) Security Cleared
2 91 (16.70%) SC Cleared
3 36 (6.61%) Degree
4 26 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.20%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.47%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (0.92%) CCSP
9 5 (0.92%) CEH
9 5 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.92%) CISM
9 5 (0.92%) CISSP
9 5 (0.92%) OSCP
10 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.73%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.55%) MBA
12 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (12.29%) QA
2 47 (8.62%) Accessibility
3 29 (5.32%) WCAG
4 12 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.83%) NIST
6 9 (1.65%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.10%) GDPR
9 5 (0.92%) COBIT
9 5 (0.92%) HL7
10 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.37%) SLA
10 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.18%) EMIR
11 1 (0.18%) MiFID
11 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 203 (37.25%) Docker
2 8 (1.47%) Postfix
3 5 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.55%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 169 (31.01%) Kubernetes
2 64 (11.74%) Terraform
3 28 (5.14%) Grafana
4 25 (4.59%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.47%) Ansible
6 6 (1.10%) Kibana
7 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.37%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 36 (6.61%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.40%) Oracle
3 20 (3.67%) Adobe
4 14 (2.57%) Google
5 12 (2.20%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.83%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.83%) OpenAI
6 10 (1.83%) Splunk
7 9 (1.65%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (1.65%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.47%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (1.47%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.47%) UiPath
8 8 (1.47%) Veracode
9 7 (1.28%) Databricks
9 7 (1.28%) Okta
10 6 (1.10%) Apple
10 6 (1.10%) Sybase
11 5 (0.92%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.55%) New Relic