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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 163 185
Rank change year-on-year -40 +22 +34
Contract jobs citing RESTful 609 469 480
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.72% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.19% 7.73% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 342 329
10th Percentile £350 £325 £356
25th Percentile £423 £395 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £684 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £48.13 £47.70
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.25 £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 - £59.38 £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 8,467 6,064 7,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.87% 22.21% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,557 4,172 5,262
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £430 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £746 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £543
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 135 243
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £23.84
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.61 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -24 320 £500 -2.72% 100
North of England -48 103 £476 +9.43% 47
South East -22 85 £500 +10.50% 52
North West -39 45 £488 +17.59% 25
Midlands -70 44 £488 +5.41% 15
Yorkshire -39 41 £525 +24.26% 20
South West -16 35 £445 -17.21% 20
West Midlands -56 26 £513 +2.50% 11
North East -25 17 £450 -10.00% 2
East Midlands -28 17 £445 +10.70% 4
East of England -21 12 £500 -8.26% 15
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 32 (5.25%) Confluence
2 9 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.15%) CICS
4 6 (0.99%) CMS
4 6 (0.99%) Ethereum
4 6 (0.99%) Hyperledger
5 5 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.49%) Appian
7 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.33%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.33%) Camunda
8 2 (0.33%) Mule
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.48%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.82%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.66%) Quorum
2 4 (0.66%) Ripple
3 3 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.16%) Maximo
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.16%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 230 (37.77%) AWS
2 222 (36.45%) Azure
3 117 (19.21%) GitHub
4 96 (15.76%) Serverless
5 80 (13.14%) GitHub Actions
6 77 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (11.49%) AWS Lambda
8 65 (10.67%) GCP
9 49 (8.05%) Amazon S3
10 40 (6.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 38 (6.24%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
13 27 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (3.12%) Entra ID
16 17 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (2.63%) Azure AKS
17 16 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
18 15 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
18 15 (2.46%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.13%) HTTP
2 6 (0.99%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.66%) MQTT
3 4 (0.66%) Network Security
4 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.16%) 4G
5 1 (0.16%) 5G
5 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.16%) DNS
5 1 (0.16%) LTE
5 1 (0.16%) NFC
5 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.16%) SNMP
5 1 (0.16%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (20.85%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (13.46%) NoSQL
3 73 (11.99%) Relational Database
4 58 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 51 (8.37%) MongoDB
6 43 (7.06%) DynamoDB
7 36 (5.91%) MySQL
8 28 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (4.27%) Amazon Aurora
10 16 (2.63%) Redis
11 10 (1.64%) Db2
11 10 (1.64%) Geospatial Data
12 9 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.15%) Power BI
14 6 (0.99%) Flink
15 5 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.66%) Metadata
16 4 (0.66%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 161 (26.44%) Git
2 103 (16.91%) Jenkins
3 55 (9.03%) GitLab
4 50 (8.21%) JUnit
5 49 (8.05%) JIRA
6 37 (6.08%) Mockito
7 28 (4.60%) Maven
8 27 (4.43%) Gradle
9 26 (4.27%) SonarQube
10 22 (3.61%) Postman
11 20 (3.28%) Cucumber
12 16 (2.63%) Visual Studio
13 14 (2.30%) Cypress.io
14 12 (1.97%) DbUnit
15 11 (1.81%) Bitbucket Server
15 11 (1.81%) jMock
15 11 (1.81%) REST Assured
16 10 (1.64%) fastlane
16 10 (1.64%) Selenium
17 9 (1.48%) Xcode
General
1 126 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 117 (19.21%) Finance
3 101 (16.58%) Public Sector
4 75 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (9.20%) Banking
6 27 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.46%) Retail
8 13 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.64%) Marketing
10 8 (1.31%) Law
10 8 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.99%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.99%) Front Office
11 6 (0.99%) Legal
12 5 (0.82%) Local Government
12 5 (0.82%) Police
13 4 (0.66%) Publishing
13 4 (0.66%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.49%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.49%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 383 (62.89%) Developer
2 131 (21.51%) Senior
3 122 (20.03%) Java Developer
4 88 (14.45%) Senior Developer
5 71 (11.66%) Full-Stack Developer
6 44 (7.22%) Python Developer
7 42 (6.90%) .NET Developer
8 41 (6.73%) Software Engineer
9 40 (6.57%) Architect
10 35 (5.75%) Senior Java Developer
11 30 (4.93%) React Developer
12 26 (4.27%) C# Developer
13 23 (3.78%) Backend Developer
13 23 (3.78%) Software Developer
14 21 (3.45%) Java Engineer
15 19 (3.12%) Lead
16 17 (2.79%) AWS Developer
16 17 (2.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 16 (2.63%) C# .NET Developer
17 16 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (28.74%) REST
2 158 (25.94%) Spring
3 153 (25.12%) Spring Boot
4 119 (19.54%) React
5 116 (19.05%) .NET
6 112 (18.39%) Kafka
7 84 (13.79%) CSS
8 77 (12.64%) HTML
9 64 (10.51%) AngularJS
10 60 (9.85%) Node.js
11 59 (9.69%) OAuth
12 50 (8.21%) Web Services
13 44 (7.22%) JSON
13 44 (7.22%) OAuth2
13 44 (7.22%) Swagger
14 41 (6.73%) .NET Core
14 41 (6.73%) HTML5
15 40 (6.57%) RabbitMQ
15 40 (6.57%) SOAP
16 38 (6.24%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 115 (18.88%) Cloud Native
2 105 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (14.12%) Product Ownership
4 37 (6.08%) Mobile App
5 30 (4.93%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (3.94%) Data Structures
7 21 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.79%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.13%) Algorithms
9 13 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.48%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.48%) NHS
11 9 (1.48%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.31%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.31%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.15%) DataPower
13 7 (1.15%) Mainframe
14 6 (0.99%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.06%) Linux
2 25 (4.11%) Unix
3 21 (3.45%) Android
3 21 (3.45%) Apple iOS
4 17 (2.79%) Windows
5 7 (1.15%) zOS
6 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (61.74%) CI/CD
2 328 (53.86%) Agile
3 319 (52.38%) Microservices
4 241 (39.57%) DevOps
5 182 (29.89%) Containerisation
6 162 (26.60%) Test Automation
7 133 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
8 125 (20.53%) Event-Driven
9 124 (20.36%) Full-Stack Development
10 123 (20.20%) Scrum
11 117 (19.21%) Software Engineering
12 100 (16.42%) Code Quality
13 93 (15.27%) Infrastructure as Code
14 91 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 90 (14.78%) API Design
16 84 (13.79%) Clean Code
17 82 (13.46%) TDD
18 80 (13.14%) API Development
19 78 (12.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 73 (11.99%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 259 (42.53%) Java
2 180 (29.56%) SQL
3 158 (25.94%) Python
4 141 (23.15%) JavaScript
5 136 (22.33%) C#
6 109 (17.90%) TypeScript
7 35 (5.75%) Kotlin
8 25 (4.11%) Shell Script
9 23 (3.78%) Go
10 22 (3.61%) Bicep
11 19 (3.12%) Swift
12 10 (1.64%) Ruby
12 10 (1.64%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.48%) Scala
14 8 (1.31%) Objective-C
14 8 (1.31%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.31%) Rust
15 7 (1.15%) X++
16 6 (0.99%) Bash
16 6 (0.99%) JCL
Qualifications
1 158 (25.94%) Security Cleared
2 132 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.42%) Degree
4 22 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.30%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.97%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (1.31%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.31%) CCSP
9 8 (1.31%) CEH
9 8 (1.31%) CISM
9 8 (1.31%) CISSP
9 8 (1.31%) OSCP
10 5 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.49%) MBA
12 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (13.96%) QA
2 67 (11.00%) Accessibility
3 43 (7.06%) WCAG
4 10 (1.64%) NCSC
5 9 (1.48%) NIST
6 8 (1.31%) COBIT
6 8 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.31%) GDPR
6 8 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.49%) HL7
7 3 (0.49%) SLA
8 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.16%) Basel III
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 227 (37.27%) Docker
2 9 (1.48%) Postfix
3 8 (1.31%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 184 (30.21%) Kubernetes
2 81 (13.30%) Terraform
3 43 (7.06%) Grafana
4 38 (6.24%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.63%) Ansible
6 7 (1.15%) Kibana
7 4 (0.66%) Podman
7 4 (0.66%) Puppet
8 2 (0.33%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.33%) Consul
8 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.33%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.16%) Argo
9 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 59 (9.69%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.75%) Oracle
3 23 (3.78%) Google
4 18 (2.96%) Dynatrace
5 13 (2.13%) Atlassian
5 13 (2.13%) Splunk
6 11 (1.81%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (1.81%) OpenAI
7 10 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.48%) New Relic
9 8 (1.31%) Adobe
9 8 (1.31%) Databricks
10 7 (1.15%) Apple
10 7 (1.15%) Sybase
11 6 (0.99%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.99%) Veracode
12 5 (0.82%) IBM
12 5 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.66%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.66%) Okta