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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 154 214
Rank change year-on-year -16 +60 -27
Contract jobs citing RESTful 563 449 417
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 1.74% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.44% 7.73% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 281 318
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £400 £406 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.67% -15.25%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £623
90th Percentile £650 £700 £719
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £49.50 - £57.50
25th Percentile £53.29 £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 £79.45 £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 7,566 5,809 7,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.88% 22.50% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,080 3,770 5,493
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £526 £534
% change year-on-year -2.57% -1.50% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 74 189
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.80 £23.75
25th Percentile £51.00 £51.56 £43.88
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £54.56
% change year-on-year +2.40% +14.55% -16.06%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -8 301 £480 -8.57% 115
North of England -11 122 £450 -5.26% 69
North West -7 62 £428 -6.30% 39
Midlands -32 61 £500 +5.26% 33
Yorkshire -14 59 £500 -6.19% 21
West Midlands -35 46 £500 +1.52% 21
East of England -11 29 £500 +60.00% 18
South East -44 29 £475 +16.14% 64
South West -26 19 £500 -12.09% 31
East Midlands -14 14 £550 +23.87% 12
North East -16 1 £475 +28.38% 10
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 31 (5.51%) Confluence
2 15 (2.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.31%) CMS
4 10 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.42%) Appian
6 7 (1.24%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.07%) Ethereum
7 6 (1.07%) Headless CMS
7 6 (1.07%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.89%) Camunda
8 5 (0.89%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.53%) Apache
11 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.36%) Drupal
11 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.18%) Mule
12 1 (0.18%) Mule ESB
12 1 (0.18%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (1.42%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.89%) Sketch
3 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.18%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (0.18%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 249 (44.23%) AWS
2 197 (34.99%) Azure
3 119 (21.14%) Serverless
4 114 (20.25%) GCP
5 84 (14.92%) GitHub
6 47 (8.35%) AWS Lambda
7 46 (8.17%) Amazon S3
8 45 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (7.10%) GitHub Actions
10 33 (5.86%) Amazon ECS
11 30 (5.33%) Azure Functions
12 28 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (4.97%) Azure AKS
13 22 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (3.20%) Azure Service Bus
14 18 (3.20%) PaaS
15 17 (3.02%) GitHub Copilot
16 15 (2.66%) Power Automate
17 14 (2.49%) Entra ID
18 13 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.84%) HTTP
2 9 (1.60%) HTTPS
3 6 (1.07%) SSL
4 5 (0.89%) DNS
5 3 (0.53%) VPN
6 2 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.18%) Internet
7 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.18%) SMS
7 1 (0.18%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (20.43%) NoSQL
2 108 (19.18%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (10.30%) Relational Database
4 41 (7.28%) MySQL
4 41 (7.28%) SQL Server
5 40 (7.10%) MongoDB
6 24 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.37%) DynamoDB
8 18 (3.20%) Redis
9 9 (1.60%) DocumentDB
9 9 (1.60%) Pinecone
10 8 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.24%) Big Data
12 6 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.07%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.89%) Flink
14 4 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.71%) Power BI
15 3 (0.53%) DB2
15 3 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 147 (26.11%) Git
2 86 (15.28%) Jenkins
3 81 (14.39%) GitLab
4 49 (8.70%) JIRA
5 43 (7.64%) JUnit
6 22 (3.91%) Mockito
6 22 (3.91%) Postman
7 21 (3.73%) Liquibase
8 16 (2.84%) Cypress.io
8 16 (2.84%) Gradle
9 14 (2.49%) Maven
9 14 (2.49%) Selenium
10 13 (2.31%) Cucumber
10 13 (2.31%) MLflow
10 13 (2.31%) SonarQube
11 11 (1.95%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.42%) REST Assured
13 6 (1.07%) Android Studio
13 6 (1.07%) Vite
14 5 (0.89%) Jasmine
General
1 199 (35.35%) Social Skills
2 130 (23.09%) Finance
3 82 (14.56%) Public Sector
4 70 (12.43%) Banking
5 48 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.09%) Financial Institution
7 10 (1.78%) Front Office
8 9 (1.60%) Marketing
9 8 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.07%) Legal
10 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.89%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.71%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.71%) Multimedia
12 4 (0.71%) Wearables
13 3 (0.53%) Advertising
13 3 (0.53%) Electronics
13 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.36%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 327 (58.08%) Developer
2 101 (17.94%) Senior
3 94 (16.70%) Java Developer
4 73 (12.97%) Full-Stack Developer
5 55 (9.77%) Software Engineer
6 42 (7.46%) Senior Developer
7 40 (7.10%) Python Developer
8 32 (5.68%) React Developer
9 29 (5.15%) Architect
9 29 (5.15%) Lead
9 29 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
10 25 (4.44%) Backend Developer
11 23 (4.09%) Senior Java Developer
12 22 (3.91%) C# Developer
13 21 (3.73%) .NET Developer
14 20 (3.55%) Java Engineer
15 19 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
16 18 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
17 16 (2.84%) GCP Engineer
18 14 (2.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (27.18%) Spring
2 151 (26.82%) React
3 143 (25.40%) Spring Boot
4 118 (20.96%) REST
5 93 (16.52%) .NET
6 83 (14.74%) AngularJS
7 81 (14.39%) CSS
8 80 (14.21%) Node.js
9 79 (14.03%) HTML
10 72 (12.79%) Kafka
11 61 (10.83%) OAuth
12 41 (7.28%) Hibernate
12 41 (7.28%) OAuth2
13 38 (6.75%) JSON
14 35 (6.22%) Django
14 35 (6.22%) HTML5
14 35 (6.22%) Swagger
15 34 (6.04%) FastAPI
16 33 (5.86%) Web Services
17 32 (5.68%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 96 (17.05%) Cloud Native
2 55 (9.77%) Product Ownership
3 54 (9.59%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (5.15%) Mobile App
5 28 (4.97%) Public Cloud
6 21 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (3.02%) Algorithms
8 14 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (2.13%) Derivative
9 12 (2.13%) NHS
9 12 (2.13%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.95%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.78%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.42%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.89%) Credit Risk
14 5 (0.89%) Equities
14 5 (0.89%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 53 (9.41%) Linux
2 18 (3.20%) Windows
3 16 (2.84%) Android
4 13 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.07%) Unix
6 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Embedded Compact
7 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (61.46%) CI/CD
2 302 (53.64%) Agile
3 268 (47.60%) Microservices
4 198 (35.17%) DevOps
5 173 (30.73%) Containerisation
6 167 (29.66%) Problem-Solving
7 125 (22.20%) Full-Stack Development
8 113 (20.07%) Software Engineering
9 112 (19.89%) Test Automation
10 98 (17.41%) API Development
11 84 (14.92%) Clean Code
12 83 (14.74%) Event-Driven
13 82 (14.56%) Scrum
14 76 (13.50%) Code Quality
15 74 (13.14%) User Experience
16 72 (12.79%) TDD
17 71 (12.61%) Design Patterns
17 71 (12.61%) Infrastructure as Code
18 69 (12.26%) API Design
19 64 (11.37%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 221 (39.25%) Java
2 181 (32.15%) Python
3 163 (28.95%) SQL
4 144 (25.58%) JavaScript
5 105 (18.65%) TypeScript
6 84 (14.92%) C#
7 41 (7.28%) Go
8 19 (3.37%) Kotlin
9 15 (2.66%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.95%) Swift
11 8 (1.42%) Bicep
11 8 (1.42%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.24%) JSX
13 6 (1.07%) PHP
13 6 (1.07%) Ruby
14 5 (0.89%) Bash
15 4 (0.71%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.71%) Groovy
15 4 (0.71%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (15.81%) Security Cleared
2 68 (12.08%) Degree
3 56 (9.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 53 (9.41%) SC Cleared
5 35 (6.22%) Master's Degree
6 18 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.31%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 7 (1.24%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.89%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.36%) OCP
13 2 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.18%) PMP
14 1 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.88%) QA
2 37 (6.57%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.84%) NIST
4 14 (2.49%) WCAG
5 13 (2.31%) GDPR
6 12 (2.13%) EU AI Act
7 9 (1.60%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.24%) HL7
8 7 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.89%) PSD2
9 5 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.71%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.71%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.53%) SLA
12 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.18%) MiFID
13 1 (0.18%) NCSC
13 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 219 (38.90%) Docker
2 8 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.53%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.18%) Postfix
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 210 (37.30%) Kubernetes
2 86 (15.28%) Terraform
3 46 (8.17%) Prometheus
4 41 (7.28%) Grafana
5 36 (6.39%) Ansible
6 12 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.36%) Consul
8 1 (0.18%) Argo
8 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.18%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.18%) Kibana
8 1 (0.18%) Nagios
8 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.18%) Puppet
8 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 67 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 48 (8.53%) Google
3 34 (6.04%) Splunk
4 30 (5.33%) Adobe
5 20 (3.55%) Oracle
6 17 (3.02%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.13%) Foundry
8 11 (1.95%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.95%) Ping Identity
9 10 (1.78%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.78%) Sitecore
10 8 (1.42%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.42%) Databricks
10 8 (1.42%) UiPath
10 8 (1.42%) Veracode
11 7 (1.24%) ForgeRock
12 6 (1.07%) SAP
13 5 (0.89%) Apple
14 4 (0.71%) Brio
14 4 (0.71%) ION Trading