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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 155 215
Rank change year-on-year -12 +60 -28
Contract jobs citing RESTful 573 446 415
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 1.74% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.49% 7.69% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 282 318
10th Percentile £350 £356 £379
25th Percentile £402 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £625
90th Percentile £650 £723 £719
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £48.50 - £57.50
25th Percentile £53.75 £38.25 £57.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.50 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +39.24% -48.39% +9.33%
75th Percentile £84.63 £40.75 -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £39.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +39.24% -48.39% +9.33%

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 7,655 5,800 7,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.71% 22.67% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,155 3,795 5,444
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £418 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 80 208
10th Percentile £35.03 £27.04 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.31 £43.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £78.85 £80.10 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -10 304 £488 -7.14% 95
North of England -14 123 £450 -5.26% 68
North West -13 63 £431 -5.64% 32
Midlands -32 61 £500 +5.26% 33
Yorkshire -22 59 £500 -3.19% 24
West Midlands -38 46 £494 +0.25% 23
South East -45 35 £515 +25.92% 59
East of England -10 27 £500 +60.00% 12
South West -29 21 £500 -12.09% 23
East Midlands -19 14 £550 +23.87% 10
North East -19 1 £475 +28.38% 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 29 (5.06%) Confluence
2 16 (2.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 14 (2.44%) CMS
4 11 (1.92%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.40%) Appian
6 7 (1.22%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.05%) Ethereum
7 6 (1.05%) Headless CMS
7 6 (1.05%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.87%) Camunda
8 5 (0.87%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.52%) Apache
10 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.35%) CICS
11 2 (0.35%) Drupal
11 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.17%) Documentum
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (1.40%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.87%) Sketch
3 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.17%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (0.17%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 258 (45.03%) AWS
2 198 (34.55%) Azure
3 120 (20.94%) Serverless
4 108 (18.85%) GCP
5 88 (15.36%) GitHub
6 52 (9.08%) Amazon S3
7 51 (8.90%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
10 36 (6.28%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 29 (5.06%) Azure Functions
12 28 (4.89%) Azure AKS
13 23 (4.01%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (3.32%) Azure Service Bus
15 18 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (3.14%) PaaS
16 17 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
17 15 (2.62%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.79%) HTTP
2 9 (1.57%) HTTPS
3 6 (1.05%) SSL
4 5 (0.87%) DNS
5 3 (0.52%) VPN
6 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.17%) Internet
7 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.17%) SMS
7 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (19.72%) NoSQL
2 111 (19.37%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (10.47%) Relational Database
4 44 (7.68%) SQL Server
5 40 (6.98%) MySQL
6 39 (6.81%) MongoDB
7 29 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (4.19%) DynamoDB
9 18 (3.14%) Redis
10 11 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.57%) DocumentDB
11 9 (1.57%) Pinecone
12 7 (1.22%) Big Data
12 7 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.05%) DB2
13 6 (1.05%) Flink
13 6 (1.05%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.70%) Power BI
15 3 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.52%) GIS
Development Applications
1 154 (26.88%) Git
2 89 (15.53%) Jenkins
3 80 (13.96%) GitLab
4 48 (8.38%) JUnit
5 46 (8.03%) JIRA
6 25 (4.36%) Mockito
7 22 (3.84%) Postman
8 21 (3.66%) Liquibase
9 19 (3.32%) Maven
10 16 (2.79%) Cypress.io
10 16 (2.79%) Gradle
11 15 (2.62%) SonarQube
12 14 (2.44%) Selenium
13 13 (2.27%) Cucumber
13 13 (2.27%) MLflow
14 10 (1.75%) Bitbucket
15 8 (1.40%) REST Assured
16 6 (1.05%) Android Studio
16 6 (1.05%) Vite
17 5 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 196 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 128 (22.34%) Finance
3 86 (15.01%) Public Sector
4 69 (12.04%) Banking
5 51 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.01%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.92%) Front Office
8 10 (1.75%) Marketing
9 9 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.05%) Legal
10 6 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.87%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.52%) Advertising
13 3 (0.52%) Electronics
13 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.35%) Billing
14 2 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.35%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 333 (58.12%) Developer
2 108 (18.85%) Senior
3 98 (17.10%) Java Developer
4 72 (12.57%) Full-Stack Developer
5 55 (9.60%) Software Engineer
6 47 (8.20%) Senior Developer
7 41 (7.16%) Python Developer
8 31 (5.41%) Architect
8 31 (5.41%) React Developer
9 29 (5.06%) Lead
9 29 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
10 26 (4.54%) Backend Developer
11 25 (4.36%) Senior Java Developer
12 23 (4.01%) C# Developer
13 22 (3.84%) .NET Developer
14 21 (3.66%) Java Engineer
15 19 (3.32%) AWS Engineer
15 19 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
16 16 (2.79%) GCP Engineer
17 14 (2.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (27.75%) Spring
2 153 (26.70%) React
3 150 (26.18%) Spring Boot
4 126 (21.99%) REST
5 101 (17.63%) .NET
6 88 (15.36%) AngularJS
7 83 (14.49%) CSS
7 83 (14.49%) Node.js
8 81 (14.14%) HTML
9 77 (13.44%) Kafka
10 57 (9.95%) OAuth
11 44 (7.68%) Hibernate
12 38 (6.63%) JSON
12 38 (6.63%) OAuth2
13 37 (6.46%) HTML5
13 37 (6.46%) Web Services
14 34 (5.93%) .NET Framework
15 33 (5.76%) Django
15 33 (5.76%) Swagger
16 32 (5.58%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 95 (16.58%) Cloud Native
2 61 (10.65%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (9.60%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.89%) Mobile App
4 28 (4.89%) Public Cloud
5 21 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.97%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.27%) Derivative
8 12 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.09%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.09%) NHS
8 12 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.75%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.87%) Credit Risk
13 5 (0.87%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 52 (9.08%) Linux
2 15 (2.62%) Android
3 14 (2.44%) Windows
4 12 (2.09%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.05%) Unix
6 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.35%) zOS
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (62.13%) CI/CD
2 306 (53.40%) Agile
3 280 (48.87%) Microservices
4 204 (35.60%) DevOps
5 180 (31.41%) Containerisation
6 167 (29.14%) Problem-Solving
7 126 (21.99%) Full-Stack Development
8 118 (20.59%) Test Automation
9 112 (19.55%) Software Engineering
10 99 (17.28%) API Development
11 89 (15.53%) Event-Driven
12 85 (14.83%) Clean Code
13 84 (14.66%) Scrum
14 77 (13.44%) Code Quality
14 77 (13.44%) TDD
15 76 (13.26%) Infrastructure as Code
16 74 (12.91%) User Experience
17 73 (12.74%) Design Patterns
18 68 (11.87%) API Design
19 65 (11.34%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 228 (39.79%) Java
2 182 (31.76%) Python
3 170 (29.67%) SQL
4 143 (24.96%) JavaScript
5 107 (18.67%) TypeScript
6 91 (15.88%) C#
7 46 (8.03%) Go
8 19 (3.32%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.09%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.92%) Swift
11 8 (1.40%) Bicep
11 8 (1.40%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.22%) JSX
13 6 (1.05%) PHP
13 6 (1.05%) Ruby
14 5 (0.87%) Bash
15 4 (0.70%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.70%) Groovy
15 4 (0.70%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 101 (17.63%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.22%) Degree
3 64 (11.17%) SC Cleared
4 58 (10.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (6.11%) Master's Degree
6 17 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.62%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 8 (1.40%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.22%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.35%) OCP
12 2 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.17%) PMP
13 1 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.25%) QA
2 38 (6.63%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.79%) NIST
4 15 (2.62%) GDPR
4 15 (2.62%) WCAG
5 12 (2.09%) EU AI Act
6 10 (1.75%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.22%) HL7
9 5 (0.87%) PSD2
9 5 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.70%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.70%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.52%) SLA
12 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.17%) EMIR
13 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.17%) NCSC
13 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 224 (39.09%) Docker
2 8 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.70%) Postfix
4 3 (0.52%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 213 (37.17%) Kubernetes
2 90 (15.71%) Terraform
3 48 (8.38%) Prometheus
4 44 (7.68%) Grafana
5 36 (6.28%) Ansible
6 12 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.35%) 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 65 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.85%) Google
3 34 (5.93%) Splunk
4 31 (5.41%) Adobe
5 20 (3.49%) Oracle
6 17 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.09%) Foundry
8 11 (1.92%) Ping Identity
9 10 (1.75%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.75%) Sitecore
10 9 (1.57%) Databricks
11 8 (1.40%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (1.40%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.40%) UiPath
11 8 (1.40%) Veracode
12 7 (1.22%) ForgeRock
13 6 (1.05%) Apple
13 6 (1.05%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.05%) SAP
14 5 (0.87%) Jaspersoft