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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 153 210
Rank change year-on-year +2 +57 -49
Contract jobs citing RESTful 595 462 413
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 1.64% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.47% 7.50% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 296 313
10th Percentile £345 £325 £375
25th Percentile £402 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -5.24% -12.50%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £625
90th Percentile £662 £704 £700
UK median daily rate £485 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -1.02% -6.67% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile £49.13 - £57.50
25th Percentile £54.28 £38.25 £57.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £39.50 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +58.23% -48.39% +13.38%
75th Percentile £84.63 £40.75 -
90th Percentile £95.00 - £80.57
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £39.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +58.23% -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 7,027 6,160 7,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.28% 21.81% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,694 3,942 5,706
10th Percentile £352 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £633 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 72 163
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.60
25th Percentile £45.00 £42.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.40 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -3.20% +16.82% -17.69%

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 December 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 29 December 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 29 December 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 +16 307 £508 -3.33% 232
North of England +7 136 £450 -5.26% 298
Yorkshire +7 83 £475 -10.97% 125
Midlands -27 57 £475 -5.00% 180
North West -4 52 £435 -8.42% 148
South East -3 49 £450 +10.02% 253
West Midlands -20 40 £475 -13.64% 91
East of England -13 26 £475 +58.33% 144
East Midlands -13 17 £479 -2.30% 79
South West -8 15 £512 -2.57% 113
North East -10 1 £475 +28.38% 25
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 (4.37%) Confluence
2 18 (3.03%) CMS
3 12 (2.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (1.18%) Headless CMS
5 6 (1.01%) Apache
5 6 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.01%) nginx
5 6 (1.01%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.84%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.67%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.67%) Mule
7 4 (0.67%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.50%) Drupal
8 3 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.34%) Appian
9 2 (0.34%) Camunda
9 2 (0.34%) Documentum
9 2 (0.34%) Moodle
9 2 (0.34%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Adobe XD
1 5 (0.84%) Sketch
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.17%) Cerner Millennium
3 1 (0.17%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.17%) Finacle
3 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP MRS
3 1 (0.17%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Shopify
3 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 251 (42.18%) AWS
2 200 (33.61%) Azure
3 140 (23.53%) Serverless
4 127 (21.34%) GCP
5 87 (14.62%) GitHub
6 62 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
8 37 (6.22%) GitHub Actions
9 34 (5.71%) Amazon S3
10 32 (5.38%) Azure Functions
11 30 (5.04%) Azure AKS
12 26 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
13 25 (4.20%) PaaS
14 20 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
16 16 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
17 15 (2.52%) Apigee
18 13 (2.18%) SaaS
19 12 (2.02%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.18%) HTTP
2 6 (1.01%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.84%) SSL
4 3 (0.50%) tcpdump
4 3 (0.50%) VPN
5 2 (0.34%) AMQP
5 2 (0.34%) DSL
6 1 (0.17%) DNS
6 1 (0.17%) Firewall
6 1 (0.17%) Internet
6 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.17%) SMS
6 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (19.50%) NoSQL
2 106 (17.82%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (10.25%) Relational Database
4 40 (6.72%) MySQL
5 37 (6.22%) SQL Server
6 33 (5.55%) MongoDB
7 26 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (4.03%) DynamoDB
9 14 (2.35%) Redis
10 12 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (2.02%) RDBMS
11 7 (1.18%) Big Data
11 7 (1.18%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.84%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.84%) Power BI
13 4 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.67%) DB2
13 4 (0.67%) DocumentDB
13 4 (0.67%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 169 (28.40%) Git
2 98 (16.47%) Jenkins
3 69 (11.60%) GitLab
4 47 (7.90%) JIRA
5 34 (5.71%) JUnit
6 28 (4.71%) Liquibase
7 27 (4.54%) Postman
8 24 (4.03%) Selenium
9 23 (3.87%) Cypress.io
10 22 (3.70%) Cucumber
11 21 (3.53%) Gradle
12 15 (2.52%) Bitbucket
13 14 (2.35%) Mockito
14 13 (2.18%) Maven
15 12 (2.02%) REST Assured
16 10 (1.68%) Android Studio
16 10 (1.68%) SonarQube
16 10 (1.68%) Storybook
17 9 (1.51%) CircleCI
17 9 (1.51%) TeamCity
General
1 227 (38.15%) Social Skills
2 150 (25.21%) Finance
3 87 (14.62%) Public Sector
4 81 (13.61%) Banking
5 40 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.87%) Financial Institution
7 9 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (1.51%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.34%) Front Office
9 7 (1.18%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.01%) Automotive
10 6 (1.01%) Legal
10 6 (1.01%) Marketing
11 5 (0.84%) Digital Healthcare
11 5 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.84%) Health Technology
11 5 (0.84%) Retail
12 4 (0.67%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.67%) Multimedia
12 4 (0.67%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 317 (53.28%) Developer
2 115 (19.33%) Senior
3 76 (12.77%) Java Developer
4 60 (10.08%) Full-Stack Developer
5 59 (9.92%) Senior Developer
6 48 (8.07%) Software Engineer
7 38 (6.39%) Architect
8 35 (5.88%) Lead
9 33 (5.55%) Python Developer
10 25 (4.20%) Android Developer
10 25 (4.20%) Senior Java Developer
11 23 (3.87%) C# Developer
11 23 (3.87%) React Developer
12 21 (3.53%) .NET Developer
13 20 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
13 20 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
13 20 (3.36%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (2.86%) Backend Developer
15 16 (2.69%) GCP Engineer
15 16 (2.69%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (24.20%) React
2 117 (19.66%) Spring
3 111 (18.66%) Spring Boot
4 105 (17.65%) REST
5 99 (16.64%) .NET
6 84 (14.12%) HTML
7 83 (13.95%) CSS
8 82 (13.78%) AngularJS
8 82 (13.78%) Node.js
9 61 (10.25%) JSON
10 55 (9.24%) OAuth
11 52 (8.74%) Kafka
12 44 (7.39%) OAuth2
13 38 (6.39%) Elastic Stack
14 35 (5.88%) .NET Framework
15 34 (5.71%) HTML5
15 34 (5.71%) Jest
16 33 (5.55%) XML
17 32 (5.38%) GraphQL
18 31 (5.21%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 113 (18.99%) Cloud Native
2 62 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (9.24%) Mobile App
4 39 (6.55%) Product Ownership
5 33 (5.55%) Public Cloud
6 17 (2.86%) Algorithms
7 16 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.52%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.02%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.85%) NHS
11 8 (1.34%) Derivative
12 7 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.01%) Data Fabric
13 6 (1.01%) N-Tier
14 5 (0.84%) Credit Risk
14 5 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 61 (10.25%) Linux
2 32 (5.38%) Android
3 27 (4.54%) Apple iOS
4 19 (3.19%) Windows
5 4 (0.67%) Unix
6 3 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.34%) tvOS
8 1 (0.17%) watchOS
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Embedded Compact
8 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (57.65%) CI/CD
2 339 (56.97%) Agile
3 269 (45.21%) Microservices
4 235 (39.50%) DevOps
5 183 (30.76%) Problem-Solving
6 176 (29.58%) Containerisation
7 121 (20.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 109 (18.32%) Software Engineering
9 108 (18.15%) Test Automation
10 102 (17.14%) API Development
11 83 (13.95%) Clean Code
12 81 (13.61%) Design Patterns
13 77 (12.94%) API Design
13 77 (12.94%) Event-Driven
14 76 (12.77%) Computer Science
14 76 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
15 74 (12.44%) User Experience
16 73 (12.27%) Scrum
17 71 (11.93%) TDD
18 69 (11.60%) AI
Programming Languages
1 202 (33.95%) Java
2 193 (32.44%) Python
3 144 (24.20%) SQL
4 140 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 97 (16.30%) TypeScript
6 85 (14.29%) C#
7 47 (7.90%) Go
8 36 (6.05%) Kotlin
9 22 (3.70%) Swift
10 14 (2.35%) Ruby
11 13 (2.18%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.85%) Objective-C
13 9 (1.51%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.34%) Bash
15 7 (1.18%) JSX
16 6 (1.01%) Bicep
16 6 (1.01%) PHP
17 5 (0.84%) C++
17 5 (0.84%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.67%) C
Qualifications
1 88 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 82 (13.78%) Degree
3 67 (11.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 53 (8.91%) SC Cleared
5 41 (6.89%) Master's Degree
6 19 (3.19%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (2.18%) MCP
9 11 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.51%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.18%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.84%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.34%) OCP
15 2 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
16 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
16 1 (0.17%) PMP
16 1 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.40%) QA
2 35 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.35%) WCAG
4 13 (2.18%) GDPR
5 12 (2.02%) EU AI Act
5 12 (2.02%) NIST
6 8 (1.34%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.18%) HL7
8 5 (0.84%) PSD2
8 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.67%) SLA
10 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.17%) EMIR
12 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.17%) NCSC
12 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 222 (37.31%) Docker
2 8 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 207 (34.79%) Kubernetes
2 102 (17.14%) Terraform
3 51 (8.57%) Ansible
4 45 (7.56%) Prometheus
5 44 (7.39%) Grafana
6 10 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.50%) Control-M
7 3 (0.50%) Puppet
7 3 (0.50%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.34%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.34%) Consul
8 2 (0.34%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.34%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.34%) Salt
9 1 (0.17%) Argo
9 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.17%) Kibana
9 1 (0.17%) Nagios
9 1 (0.17%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 87 (14.62%) Microsoft
2 62 (10.42%) Google
3 44 (7.39%) Splunk
4 25 (4.20%) Oracle
5 23 (3.87%) Adobe
6 16 (2.69%) MuleSoft
7 12 (2.02%) Foundry
7 12 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.51%) Apple
8 9 (1.51%) Ping Identity
9 8 (1.34%) Sitecore
10 7 (1.18%) SAP
11 6 (1.01%) Databricks
11 6 (1.01%) ForgeRock
11 6 (1.01%) Gigya
11 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.84%) VMware
13 4 (0.67%) Brio
13 4 (0.67%) ION Trading
13 4 (0.67%) Red Hat