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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 159 215
Rank change year-on-year -24 +56 -19
Contract jobs citing RESTful 573 411 405
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.69% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.18% 7.49% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 281 312
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £406 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £564 £638 £620
90th Percentile £665 £738 £711
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 2
10th Percentile £53.00 - £38.58
25th Percentile £66.25 £38.25 £41.31
Median hourly rate £70.00 £39.50 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year +77.22% -15.51% -35.52%
75th Percentile £74.26 £40.75 £51.31
90th Percentile £91.50 - £53.53
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £39.50 £46.75
% change year-on-year +77.22% -15.51% -35.52%

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 7,975 5,487 7,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.63% 22.51% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,347 3,797 5,356
10th Percentile £359 £363 £349
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 88 158
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.85 £20.69
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.55
90th Percentile £78.93 £83.27 £72.88
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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -4 308 £492 -6.29% 100
North of England -29 119 £450 - 80
North West -16 65 £438 +1.57% 40
Midlands -35 61 £493 +6.54% 23
South East -52 47 £515 +25.38% 42
Yorkshire -28 45 £500 - 21
West Midlands -34 43 £488 -4.88% 18
South West -26 20 £525 -14.29% 25
East of England -21 19 £488 +8.39% 17
East Midlands -23 17 £524 +23.88% 5
North East -10 9 £450 +21.62% 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 28 (4.89%) Confluence
2 14 (2.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.57%) CMS
5 8 (1.40%) Appian
6 6 (1.05%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.05%) Hyperledger
7 5 (0.87%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.87%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.70%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.70%) CICS
8 4 (0.70%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.52%) Apache
9 3 (0.52%) Camunda
9 3 (0.52%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.35%) Drupal
10 2 (0.35%) IIS
10 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
Applications
1 8 (1.40%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.87%) Sketch
3 3 (0.52%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.17%) Cerner Millennium
3 1 (0.17%) Maximo
3 1 (0.17%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 262 (45.72%) AWS
2 200 (34.90%) Azure
3 116 (20.24%) Serverless
4 90 (15.71%) GitHub
5 88 (15.36%) GCP
6 65 (11.34%) AWS Lambda
7 56 (9.77%) Amazon S3
8 51 (8.90%) GitHub Actions
9 47 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 33 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (4.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (4.19%) Azure Functions
14 22 (3.84%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (3.84%) Amazon SQS
15 19 (3.32%) Azure AKS
15 19 (3.32%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (2.79%) Power Automate
17 14 (2.44%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.97%) HTTP
2 8 (1.40%) 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%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.17%) 4G
7 1 (0.17%) 5G
7 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.17%) LTE
7 1 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.17%) SMS
7 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (21.12%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (18.67%) NoSQL
3 66 (11.52%) Relational Database
4 54 (9.42%) SQL Server
5 45 (7.85%) MySQL
6 44 (7.68%) MongoDB
7 37 (6.46%) DynamoDB
8 33 (5.76%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (3.32%) Redis
10 16 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.57%) DocumentDB
11 9 (1.57%) Pinecone
12 8 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.40%) DB2
13 6 (1.05%) Flink
14 5 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (0.70%) GIS
15 4 (0.70%) Power BI
16 3 (0.52%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 161 (28.10%) Git
2 83 (14.49%) Jenkins
3 71 (12.39%) GitLab
4 50 (8.73%) JUnit
5 46 (8.03%) JIRA
6 29 (5.06%) Mockito
7 25 (4.36%) Postman
8 22 (3.84%) Maven
9 17 (2.97%) SonarQube
10 15 (2.62%) Gradle
11 14 (2.44%) Cucumber
11 14 (2.44%) Cypress.io
12 13 (2.27%) Selenium
13 9 (1.57%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.57%) Liquibase
13 9 (1.57%) MLflow
13 9 (1.57%) REST Assured
14 7 (1.22%) Bitbucket Server
14 7 (1.22%) DbUnit
14 7 (1.22%) jMock
General
1 170 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 125 (21.82%) Finance
3 100 (17.45%) Public Sector
4 65 (11.34%) Banking
5 51 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.09%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.92%) Front Office
8 8 (1.40%) Marketing
9 7 (1.22%) Legal
9 7 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.87%) Health Technology
11 5 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.70%) Electronics
13 3 (0.52%) Advertising
13 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.35%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 348 (60.73%) Developer
2 115 (20.07%) Java Developer
3 95 (16.58%) Senior
4 71 (12.39%) Full-Stack Developer
5 52 (9.08%) Senior Developer
6 41 (7.16%) Python Developer
6 41 (7.16%) Software Engineer
7 34 (5.93%) Architect
8 33 (5.76%) React Developer
9 32 (5.58%) .NET Developer
10 28 (4.89%) Senior Java Developer
11 25 (4.36%) Backend Developer
11 25 (4.36%) C# Developer
12 23 (4.01%) Lead
13 21 (3.66%) Software Developer
14 20 (3.49%) Java Engineer
15 18 (3.14%) Senior Software Engineer
16 15 (2.62%) Cloud Engineer
17 14 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
17 14 (2.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (31.06%) Spring
2 168 (29.32%) Spring Boot
3 152 (26.53%) React
4 134 (23.39%) REST
5 96 (16.75%) AngularJS
6 95 (16.58%) .NET
7 84 (14.66%) Node.js
8 83 (14.49%) CSS
8 83 (14.49%) Kafka
9 77 (13.44%) HTML
10 54 (9.42%) OAuth
11 50 (8.73%) Hibernate
12 39 (6.81%) HTML5
12 39 (6.81%) JSON
13 37 (6.46%) Web Services
14 36 (6.28%) Swagger
15 35 (6.11%) Django
15 35 (6.11%) OAuth2
16 34 (5.93%) CSS3
17 33 (5.76%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 83 (14.49%) Cloud Native
2 64 (11.17%) Product Ownership
3 62 (10.82%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.84%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (2.97%) Mobile App
6 14 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.09%) Derivative
7 12 (2.09%) NHS
8 11 (1.92%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.40%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.22%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.87%) Credit Risk
14 5 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (6.98%) Linux
2 13 (2.27%) Windows
3 10 (1.75%) Unix
4 7 (1.22%) Android
4 7 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.70%) zOS
6 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (61.26%) CI/CD
2 312 (54.45%) Agile
3 307 (53.58%) Microservices
4 204 (35.60%) DevOps
5 185 (32.29%) Containerisation
6 149 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
7 125 (21.82%) Test Automation
8 123 (21.47%) Full-Stack Development
9 101 (17.63%) Software Engineering
10 100 (17.45%) Event-Driven
11 97 (16.93%) API Development
12 86 (15.01%) Clean Code
12 86 (15.01%) Code Quality
13 85 (14.83%) Scrum
13 85 (14.83%) TDD
14 73 (12.74%) API Design
15 72 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
16 70 (12.22%) User Experience
17 63 (10.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 57 (9.95%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 244 (42.58%) Java
2 184 (32.11%) SQL
3 153 (26.70%) Python
4 133 (23.21%) JavaScript
5 107 (18.67%) TypeScript
6 98 (17.10%) C#
7 31 (5.41%) Go
8 15 (2.62%) Shell Script
9 14 (2.44%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.22%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.05%) JSX
11 6 (1.05%) Ruby
11 6 (1.05%) Swift
12 5 (0.87%) Bash
13 4 (0.70%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.70%) Groovy
14 3 (0.52%) JCL
14 3 (0.52%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.52%) PHP
14 3 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 127 (22.16%) Security Cleared
2 87 (15.18%) SC Cleared
3 55 (9.60%) Degree
4 45 (7.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (4.19%) Master's Degree
6 19 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.09%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.87%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.70%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.70%) CCSP
10 4 (0.70%) CEH
10 4 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.70%) CISM
10 4 (0.70%) CISSP
10 4 (0.70%) OSCP
11 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.52%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (11.17%) QA
2 50 (8.73%) Accessibility
3 25 (4.36%) WCAG
4 12 (2.09%) NIST
5 10 (1.75%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.40%) GDPR
6 8 (1.40%) HL7
6 8 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.70%) COBIT
7 4 (0.70%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.70%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.52%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.35%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.17%) MiFID
10 1 (0.17%) NCSC
10 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 218 (38.05%) Docker
2 8 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.05%) Postfix
4 3 (0.52%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 205 (35.78%) Kubernetes
2 77 (13.44%) Terraform
3 38 (6.63%) Prometheus
4 35 (6.11%) Grafana
5 23 (4.01%) Ansible
6 7 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.35%) Consul
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 52 (9.08%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.06%) Adobe
2 29 (5.06%) Google
3 27 (4.71%) Oracle
4 20 (3.49%) Splunk
5 15 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.75%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.40%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.40%) Automation Anywhere
7 8 (1.40%) UiPath
7 8 (1.40%) Veracode
8 7 (1.22%) Databricks
8 7 (1.22%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (1.22%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.05%) Ping Identity
9 6 (1.05%) Sitecore
10 5 (0.87%) Apple
11 4 (0.70%) ION Trading
11 4 (0.70%) SAP
11 4 (0.70%) Sybase