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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 164 203
Rank change year-on-year -30 +39 -14
Contract jobs citing RESTful 535 390 418
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 1.62% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.89% 7.26% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 267 301
10th Percentile £350 £357 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -4.76% -11.02%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £738 £719
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 7
10th Percentile £53.25 £50.50 £47.70
25th Percentile £67.19 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -34.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 £53.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £89.75 £54.50 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -34.38% +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 7,761 5,375 7,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.25% 22.29% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,143 3,720 5,298
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.78% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 99 226
10th Percentile £32.50 £33.25 £22.12
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.02
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.50 £75.00
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 13 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 13 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 13 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 0 297 £500 -4.76% 108
North of England -31 108 £450 +7.46% 72
North West -14 60 £447 +11.75% 38
South East -37 51 £515 +7.24% 55
Midlands -52 42 £488 +1.56% 21
Yorkshire -34 37 £513 +2.50% 19
West Midlands -57 26 £488 -4.88% 13
South West -26 23 £525 -12.50% 11
East Midlands -27 15 £473 +2.16% 8
North East -12 11 £450 +22.87% 15
East of England -32 7 £500 -13.04% 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 25 (4.67%) Confluence
2 12 (2.24%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.50%) Appian
5 7 (1.31%) CMS
6 6 (1.12%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.12%) Hyperledger
7 5 (0.93%) Camunda
7 5 (0.93%) CICS
7 5 (0.93%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.56%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.37%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.37%) Apache
10 2 (0.37%) IIS
10 2 (0.37%) Mule
10 2 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.19%) Mendix
11 1 (0.19%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 8 (1.50%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.93%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.93%) Sketch
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.19%) Maximo
3 1 (0.19%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.19%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 230 (42.99%) AWS
2 175 (32.71%) Azure
3 86 (16.07%) Serverless
4 78 (14.58%) GitHub
5 64 (11.96%) GCP
6 63 (11.78%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (10.65%) Amazon S3
8 52 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
10 31 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
11 30 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (5.23%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (3.74%) Power Automate
16 16 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
17 14 (2.62%) Azure Functions
17 14 (2.62%) Power Platform
18 13 (2.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.43%) HTTP
2 6 (1.12%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.93%) SSL
4 4 (0.75%) DNS
5 2 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.37%) VPN
6 1 (0.19%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.19%) 4G
6 1 (0.19%) 5G
6 1 (0.19%) LTE
6 1 (0.19%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.19%) SMS
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (16.45%) NoSQL
3 58 (10.84%) Relational Database
4 56 (10.47%) SQL Server
5 46 (8.60%) MongoDB
6 39 (7.29%) DynamoDB
7 34 (6.36%) MySQL
8 28 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (4.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (3.74%) Redis
11 9 (1.68%) DB2
11 9 (1.68%) DocumentDB
11 9 (1.68%) Pinecone
12 7 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.12%) Flink
13 6 (1.12%) Power BI
14 5 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.93%) Big Data
15 4 (0.75%) GIS
16 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 134 (25.05%) Git
2 78 (14.58%) Jenkins
3 65 (12.15%) GitLab
4 49 (9.16%) JUnit
5 40 (7.48%) JIRA
6 33 (6.17%) Mockito
7 22 (4.11%) Maven
8 21 (3.93%) Postman
9 19 (3.55%) SonarQube
10 16 (2.99%) Gradle
11 15 (2.80%) Cucumber
12 14 (2.62%) Visual Studio
13 10 (1.87%) Selenium
14 9 (1.68%) Bitbucket
14 9 (1.68%) Bitbucket Server
14 9 (1.68%) DbUnit
14 9 (1.68%) jMock
15 8 (1.50%) MLflow
16 7 (1.31%) Mocha
16 7 (1.31%) REST Assured
General
1 125 (23.36%) Social Skills
2 119 (22.24%) Finance
3 93 (17.38%) Public Sector
4 57 (10.65%) Banking
5 56 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.06%) Front Office
7 7 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.31%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.12%) Marketing
9 4 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.75%) Legal
9 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (0.75%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.56%) Law
10 3 (0.56%) Local Government
10 3 (0.56%) Police
10 3 (0.56%) Retail
10 3 (0.56%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.37%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.37%) Billing
Job Titles
1 344 (64.30%) Developer
2 113 (21.12%) Java Developer
3 89 (16.64%) Senior
4 69 (12.90%) Full-Stack Developer
5 55 (10.28%) Senior Developer
6 47 (8.79%) Python Developer
7 36 (6.73%) Software Engineer
8 33 (6.17%) Architect
9 29 (5.42%) .NET Developer
9 29 (5.42%) React Developer
10 26 (4.86%) Senior Java Developer
11 22 (4.11%) Backend Developer
11 22 (4.11%) C# Developer
11 22 (4.11%) Java Engineer
11 22 (4.11%) Software Developer
12 20 (3.74%) Lead
13 17 (3.18%) AWS Developer
14 15 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
15 12 (2.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 11 (2.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (31.59%) Spring
2 166 (31.03%) Spring Boot
3 128 (23.93%) React
4 120 (22.43%) REST
5 100 (18.69%) Kafka
6 88 (16.45%) .NET
7 82 (15.33%) AngularJS
8 75 (14.02%) HTML
9 74 (13.83%) CSS
10 66 (12.34%) Node.js
11 50 (9.35%) OAuth
12 43 (8.04%) Hibernate
13 39 (7.29%) Swagger
13 39 (7.29%) Web Services
14 38 (7.10%) Django
14 38 (7.10%) HTML5
15 35 (6.54%) OpenAPI
16 34 (6.36%) FastAPI
16 34 (6.36%) JSON
17 33 (6.17%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 81 (15.14%) Cloud Native
2 71 (13.27%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (12.15%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (3.36%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.80%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.62%) Low-Code
8 13 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.68%) Hedge funds
10 9 (1.68%) NHS
11 8 (1.50%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.31%) Derivative
13 6 (1.12%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.12%) Equities
13 6 (1.12%) Private Cloud
14 5 (0.93%) Fixed Income
14 5 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.36%) Linux
2 21 (3.93%) Unix
3 8 (1.50%) Android
4 7 (1.31%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.31%) Windows
5 5 (0.93%) zOS
6 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (60.93%) CI/CD
2 296 (55.33%) Microservices
3 278 (51.96%) Agile
4 191 (35.70%) DevOps
5 172 (32.15%) Containerisation
6 122 (22.80%) Test Automation
7 120 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
8 115 (21.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 108 (20.19%) Event-Driven
10 94 (17.57%) Software Engineering
11 89 (16.64%) Scrum
12 83 (15.51%) Clean Code
12 83 (15.51%) TDD
13 79 (14.77%) Code Quality
14 74 (13.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 70 (13.08%) API Development
16 69 (12.90%) API Design
17 68 (12.71%) Infrastructure as Code
18 60 (11.21%) Unit Testing
19 58 (10.84%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 239 (44.67%) Java
2 163 (30.47%) SQL
3 139 (25.98%) Python
4 123 (22.99%) JavaScript
5 108 (20.19%) C#
6 94 (17.57%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.49%) Go
8 18 (3.36%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.80%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.87%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.12%) Bicep
11 6 (1.12%) X++
12 5 (0.93%) Scala
12 5 (0.93%) Swift
13 4 (0.75%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.75%) JCL
14 3 (0.56%) Bash
14 3 (0.56%) Ruby
14 3 (0.56%) Rust
15 2 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 129 (24.11%) Security Cleared
2 91 (17.01%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.48%) Degree
4 30 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.43%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (0.93%) CCSP
8 5 (0.93%) CEH
8 5 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.93%) CISM
8 5 (0.93%) CISSP
8 5 (0.93%) OSCP
9 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.75%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.56%) MBA
11 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.59%) QA
2 44 (8.22%) Accessibility
3 26 (4.86%) WCAG
4 10 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.87%) NIST
5 9 (1.68%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.12%) GDPR
8 5 (0.93%) COBIT
8 5 (0.93%) HL7
9 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.37%) SLA
9 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.19%) EMIR
10 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.19%) MiFID
10 1 (0.19%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 203 (37.94%) Docker
2 8 (1.50%) Postfix
3 5 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.56%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 174 (32.52%) Kubernetes
2 66 (12.34%) Terraform
3 28 (5.23%) Grafana
4 25 (4.67%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.68%) Ansible
6 6 (1.12%) Kibana
7 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.37%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.19%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 35 (6.54%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.49%) Oracle
3 21 (3.93%) Adobe
4 16 (2.99%) Google
5 12 (2.24%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.87%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.87%) OpenAI
6 10 (1.87%) Splunk
7 9 (1.68%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (1.50%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (1.50%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.50%) UiPath
8 8 (1.50%) Veracode
9 7 (1.31%) Databricks
9 7 (1.31%) Okta
10 5 (0.93%) Apple
10 5 (0.93%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.93%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.93%) Sybase
11 3 (0.56%) Sitecore