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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 170 211
Rank change year-on-year -26 +41 -11
Contract jobs citing RESTful 565 391 414
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.63% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.03% 7.30% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 270 292
10th Percentile £350 £356 £371
25th Percentile £412 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £496 £503
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% -1.24% -16.25%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £619
90th Percentile £650 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.52% -1.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 7
10th Percentile £54.00 £51.00 £47.70
25th Percentile £56.25 £52.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £85.00
90th Percentile £84.50 - £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +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 8,035 5,357 7,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.39% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,295 3,715 5,407
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
75th Percentile £630 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £790
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £535
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.34% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 96 236
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.66 £22.63
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.90 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £66.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -4 313 £500 -4.76% 81
North of England -22 106 £461 +13.54% 55
South East -22 63 £520 +4.52% 37
North West -15 54 £450 +12.50% 32
Midlands -61 45 £488 +4.00% 15
Yorkshire -28 39 £525 +13.51% 16
West Midlands -63 26 £488 -2.50% 7
South West -26 23 £525 -12.50% 12
East Midlands -28 17 £446 +2.46% 8
North East -19 13 £450 -2.17% 7
East of England -30 9 £500 -6.98% 12
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 25 (4.42%) Confluence
2 9 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 9 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.59%) Ethereum
2 9 (1.59%) Hyperledger
3 8 (1.42%) Appian
4 7 (1.24%) CICS
5 6 (1.06%) CMS
6 5 (0.88%) Camunda
6 5 (0.88%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.53%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.35%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.35%) IIS
8 2 (0.35%) Mule
8 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.18%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (1.42%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.88%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.88%) Sketch
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) R3 Corda
2 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.53%) Quorum
2 3 (0.53%) Ripple
3 2 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.18%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 231 (40.88%) AWS
2 189 (33.45%) Azure
3 93 (16.46%) Serverless
4 88 (15.58%) GitHub
5 69 (12.21%) AWS Lambda
6 61 (10.80%) GitHub Actions
7 57 (10.09%) GCP
8 55 (9.73%) Amazon S3
9 51 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (6.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (5.31%) Amazon SQS
13 28 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (3.54%) Power Automate
17 19 (3.36%) Route 53
18 17 (3.01%) Entra ID
19 16 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
20 15 (2.65%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.30%) HTTP
2 5 (0.88%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.71%) DNS
4 3 (0.53%) SSL
5 2 (0.35%) MQTT
5 2 (0.35%) Network Security
5 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.18%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.18%) 4G
6 1 (0.18%) 5G
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.18%) SMS
6 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (19.65%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (15.40%) NoSQL
3 61 (10.80%) SQL Server
4 55 (9.73%) Relational Database
5 48 (8.50%) DynamoDB
6 46 (8.14%) MongoDB
7 35 (6.19%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 29 (5.13%) MySQL
9 19 (3.36%) Redis
10 11 (1.95%) DB2
11 9 (1.59%) Pinecone
12 7 (1.24%) DocumentDB
13 6 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.06%) Flink
13 6 (1.06%) Power BI
14 4 (0.71%) Big Data
14 4 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.71%) GIS
15 3 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 128 (22.65%) Git
2 92 (16.28%) Jenkins
3 60 (10.62%) GitLab
4 51 (9.03%) JUnit
5 43 (7.61%) JIRA
6 34 (6.02%) Mockito
7 25 (4.42%) Postman
8 24 (4.25%) SonarQube
9 22 (3.89%) Maven
10 20 (3.54%) Cucumber
11 18 (3.19%) Gradle
12 14 (2.48%) Visual Studio
13 12 (2.12%) DbUnit
13 12 (2.12%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.95%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (1.95%) jMock
15 9 (1.59%) Selenium
16 8 (1.42%) JMeter
16 8 (1.42%) Liquibase
16 8 (1.42%) MLflow
General
1 126 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 122 (21.59%) Finance
3 86 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 64 (11.33%) Banking
5 58 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.12%) Front Office
7 11 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.59%) Retail
10 5 (0.88%) Law
10 5 (0.88%) Legal
10 5 (0.88%) Marketing
10 5 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.53%) Automotive
12 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Local Government
12 3 (0.53%) Police
12 3 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 352 (62.30%) Developer
2 112 (19.82%) Java Developer
3 107 (18.94%) Senior
4 66 (11.68%) Senior Developer
5 64 (11.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (8.32%) Python Developer
7 37 (6.55%) Software Engineer
8 34 (6.02%) .NET Developer
8 34 (6.02%) Architect
9 30 (5.31%) Senior Java Developer
10 29 (5.13%) React Developer
11 26 (4.60%) C# Developer
12 22 (3.89%) Backend Developer
12 22 (3.89%) Software Developer
13 20 (3.54%) Lead
14 19 (3.36%) AWS Developer
14 19 (3.36%) Java Engineer
15 16 (2.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 15 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
17 12 (2.12%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (28.50%) Spring
2 155 (27.43%) Spring Boot
3 141 (24.96%) REST
4 125 (22.12%) React
5 102 (18.05%) .NET
5 102 (18.05%) Kafka
6 80 (14.16%) AngularJS
7 70 (12.39%) CSS
7 70 (12.39%) HTML
8 69 (12.21%) Node.js
9 58 (10.27%) OAuth
10 49 (8.67%) Web Services
11 39 (6.90%) OAuth2
12 38 (6.73%) Django
12 38 (6.73%) Swagger
13 37 (6.55%) HTML5
14 36 (6.37%) FastAPI
14 36 (6.37%) Hibernate
14 36 (6.37%) JSON
15 35 (6.19%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 84 (14.87%) Cloud Native
2 83 (14.69%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (13.45%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.42%) Mobile App
5 21 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.48%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.30%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.59%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.42%) Derivative
10 8 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.42%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.24%) DataPower
11 7 (1.24%) Mainframe
12 6 (1.06%) Equities
12 6 (1.06%) Online Banking
13 5 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.08%) Linux
2 21 (3.72%) Unix
3 13 (2.30%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.77%) Android
5 7 (1.24%) Windows
5 7 (1.24%) zOS
6 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (59.29%) CI/CD
2 294 (52.04%) Microservices
3 291 (51.50%) Agile
4 195 (34.51%) DevOps
5 162 (28.67%) Containerisation
6 129 (22.83%) Test Automation
7 118 (20.88%) Event-Driven
8 115 (20.35%) Full-Stack Development
8 115 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
9 104 (18.41%) Scrum
10 101 (17.88%) Software Engineering
11 80 (14.16%) Clean Code
12 79 (13.98%) Code Quality
13 78 (13.81%) API Development
14 77 (13.63%) TDD
15 74 (13.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 69 (12.21%) API Design
16 69 (12.21%) Infrastructure as Code
17 60 (10.62%) Performance Optimisation
18 59 (10.44%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 240 (42.48%) Java
2 180 (31.86%) SQL
3 141 (24.96%) Python
4 124 (21.95%) JavaScript
5 123 (21.77%) C#
6 100 (17.70%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.25%) Go
8 22 (3.89%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.01%) Kotlin
10 11 (1.95%) Swift
11 10 (1.77%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.59%) Bicep
12 9 (1.59%) Scala
13 6 (1.06%) JCL
13 6 (1.06%) X++
14 5 (0.88%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.88%) Rust
15 4 (0.71%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.71%) Ruby
15 4 (0.71%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 133 (23.54%) Security Cleared
2 98 (17.35%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.55%) Degree
4 25 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.48%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.48%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.59%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 7 (1.24%) CCSP
8 7 (1.24%) CEH
8 7 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.24%) CISM
8 7 (1.24%) CISSP
8 7 (1.24%) OSCP
9 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.53%) MBA
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (13.63%) QA
2 49 (8.67%) Accessibility
3 29 (5.13%) WCAG
4 12 (2.12%) NIST
5 11 (1.95%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.95%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.24%) COBIT
8 6 (1.06%) GDPR
9 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.35%) HL7
9 2 (0.35%) SLA
9 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) Basel III
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.18%) EMIR
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
10 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 199 (35.22%) Docker
2 9 (1.59%) Postfix
3 5 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.35%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 163 (28.85%) Kubernetes
2 62 (10.97%) Terraform
3 37 (6.55%) Grafana
4 32 (5.66%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.95%) Ansible
6 6 (1.06%) Kibana
7 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.35%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.35%) Consul
8 2 (0.35%) Podman
8 2 (0.35%) Puppet
8 2 (0.35%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 38 (6.73%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.78%) Oracle
3 20 (3.54%) Adobe
4 15 (2.65%) Google
5 13 (2.30%) Atlassian
6 12 (2.12%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.95%) Dynatrace
7 11 (1.95%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (1.77%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.77%) Splunk
9 9 (1.59%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.42%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.42%) UiPath
10 8 (1.42%) Veracode
11 7 (1.24%) Databricks
11 7 (1.24%) Okta
11 7 (1.24%) Sybase
12 6 (1.06%) Apple
12 6 (1.06%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.88%) New Relic