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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 165 226
Rank change year-on-year +30 +61 -95
Contract jobs citing RESTful 594 486 468
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.10% 1.52% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.24% 6.88% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 313 350
10th Percentile £337 £325 £375
25th Percentile £405 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.75% -9.09% -6.26%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £675
90th Percentile £675 £760 £789
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 9
10th Percentile £49.63 £45.60 £57.50
25th Percentile £53.91 £56.63 £58.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +4.53% +13.50%
75th Percentile £61.78 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £95.00 - £87.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -31.25% +4.53% +15.64%

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 6,429 7,064 9,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.76% 22.13% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,307 4,510 6,736
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 148 196
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.53 £38.80
25th Percentile £42.50 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +14.14% -12.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.40 £73.83 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £51.97 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -20.05% +13.04% -11.54%

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025. 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 +13 288 £520 -4.37% 142
North of England +31 133 £475 +2.70% 98
Yorkshire +29 81 £475 -10.88% 26
Midlands +5 69 £475 -5.00% 36
South East +21 53 £488 +9.55% 112
North West +1 46 £452 +16.33% 51
West Midlands -14 36 £500 -13.04% 26
East Midlands +9 33 £402 -13.55% 10
East of England +3 33 £545 +77.96% 24
South West +27 19 £488 +13.04% 23
North East 0 6 £500 -4.76% 23
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 27 (4.55%) Confluence
2 14 (2.36%) CMS
3 6 (1.01%) Apache
3 6 (1.01%) nginx
4 5 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.84%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.67%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.51%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.51%) Camunda
6 3 (0.51%) Drupal
6 3 (0.51%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.51%) Mule
6 3 (0.51%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.34%) Appian
7 2 (0.34%) JBoss
7 2 (0.34%) Moodle
Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.67%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.17%) Finacle
4 1 (0.17%) SAP MRS
4 1 (0.17%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 219 (36.87%) AWS
2 185 (31.14%) Azure
3 121 (20.37%) Serverless
4 107 (18.01%) GCP
5 74 (12.46%) GitHub
6 61 (10.27%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (5.22%) Azure Functions
9 28 (4.71%) Amazon S3
10 27 (4.55%) PaaS
11 25 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
12 24 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (3.87%) Azure AKS
14 22 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (2.53%) AWS KMS
18 14 (2.36%) Route 53
19 13 (2.19%) Apigee
19 13 (2.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.19%) HTTP
2 8 (1.35%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.67%) tcpdump
4 3 (0.51%) Internet
4 3 (0.51%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.51%) SSL
5 2 (0.34%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.34%) 4G
5 2 (0.34%) 5G
5 2 (0.34%) AMQP
5 2 (0.34%) DMZ
5 2 (0.34%) DSL
5 2 (0.34%) Wireless
6 1 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.17%) DNS
6 1 (0.17%) Firewall
6 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (17.68%) NoSQL
2 102 (17.17%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (9.26%) Relational Database
4 39 (6.57%) SQL Server
5 36 (6.06%) MongoDB
6 35 (5.89%) MySQL
7 30 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (4.88%) DynamoDB
9 19 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (2.19%) RDBMS
11 11 (1.85%) Redis
12 8 (1.35%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.01%) Big Data
13 6 (1.01%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.84%) DB2
15 4 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.67%) Power BI
16 3 (0.51%) Airbyte
16 3 (0.51%) Flink
Development Applications
1 188 (31.65%) Git
2 116 (19.53%) Jenkins
3 67 (11.28%) GitLab
4 61 (10.27%) JIRA
5 41 (6.90%) JUnit
6 30 (5.05%) Maven
7 28 (4.71%) SonarQube
8 27 (4.55%) Cucumber
9 25 (4.21%) Liquibase
10 22 (3.70%) Postman
11 21 (3.54%) Cypress.io
12 20 (3.37%) Gradle
12 20 (3.37%) Selenium
13 12 (2.02%) Bitbucket
13 12 (2.02%) Mockito
13 12 (2.02%) TeamCity
14 11 (1.85%) webpack
15 10 (1.68%) Android Studio
15 10 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (1.68%) SpecFlow
General
1 212 (35.69%) Social Skills
2 140 (23.57%) Finance
3 83 (13.97%) Banking
4 70 (11.78%) Public Sector
5 41 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (4.71%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.18%) Automotive
9 6 (1.01%) Retail
9 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.84%) Digital Healthcare
10 5 (0.84%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.67%) Multimedia
11 4 (0.67%) Police
11 4 (0.67%) Wearables
12 3 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.51%) Front Office
12 3 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.51%) Legal
13 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 333 (56.06%) Developer
2 123 (20.71%) Senior
3 83 (13.97%) Java Developer
4 74 (12.46%) Senior Developer
5 46 (7.74%) Architect
6 44 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 43 (7.24%) Software Engineer
8 30 (5.05%) Angular Developer
8 30 (5.05%) Lead
9 28 (4.71%) Android Developer
9 28 (4.71%) Senior Java Developer
10 25 (4.21%) Python Developer
11 22 (3.70%) .NET Developer
12 20 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (3.03%) Backend Developer
13 18 (3.03%) React Developer
13 18 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (2.86%) C# Developer
14 17 (2.86%) Software Developer
15 16 (2.69%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (19.70%) REST
2 116 (19.53%) React
3 105 (17.68%) Spring
4 102 (17.17%) Spring Boot
5 100 (16.84%) .NET
6 83 (13.97%) HTML
7 80 (13.47%) CSS
8 76 (12.79%) Node.js
9 73 (12.29%) AngularJS
10 70 (11.78%) Web Services
11 56 (9.43%) JSON
11 56 (9.43%) OAuth
12 49 (8.25%) Kafka
13 48 (8.08%) SOAP
14 44 (7.41%) GraphQL
15 40 (6.73%) OAuth2
16 37 (6.23%) .NET Framework
16 37 (6.23%) Elastic Stack
17 29 (4.88%) HTML5
18 28 (4.71%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 110 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 72 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (10.10%) Mobile App
4 35 (5.89%) Public Cloud
5 32 (5.39%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.36%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.02%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.85%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.01%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.01%) N-Tier
13 5 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.67%) Data Fabric
14 4 (0.67%) Hedge funds
15 3 (0.51%) Client/Server
15 3 (0.51%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 74 (12.46%) Linux
2 40 (6.73%) Android
3 26 (4.38%) Apple iOS
4 15 (2.53%) Windows
5 8 (1.35%) Unix
6 4 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.67%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.34%) tvOS
7 2 (0.34%) zOS
8 1 (0.17%) watchOS
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (55.56%) Agile
2 312 (52.53%) CI/CD
3 240 (40.40%) Microservices
4 223 (37.54%) DevOps
5 179 (30.13%) Problem-Solving
6 158 (26.60%) Containerisation
7 108 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 98 (16.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 97 (16.33%) Scrum
9 97 (16.33%) Test Automation
10 90 (15.15%) API Development
11 84 (14.14%) Design Patterns
12 78 (13.13%) Continuous Integration
12 78 (13.13%) TDD
13 74 (12.46%) Clean Code
14 72 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
15 69 (11.62%) Mentoring
16 65 (10.94%) API Design
17 64 (10.77%) Computer Science
18 63 (10.61%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 206 (34.68%) Java
2 187 (31.48%) Python
3 141 (23.74%) JavaScript
4 135 (22.73%) SQL
5 81 (13.64%) C#
6 76 (12.79%) TypeScript
7 53 (8.92%) Go
8 39 (6.57%) Kotlin
9 20 (3.37%) Swift
10 16 (2.69%) Ruby
11 14 (2.36%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.68%) Objective-C
12 10 (1.68%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.52%) Bash
13 9 (1.52%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.01%) C++
14 6 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.84%) Bicep
15 5 (0.84%) PHP
15 5 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 78 (13.13%) Security Cleared
2 71 (11.95%) Degree
3 52 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 49 (8.25%) SC Cleared
5 35 (5.89%) Master's Degree
6 17 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.02%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.85%) MCP
10 9 (1.52%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.17%) OCP
15 1 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (7.74%) QA
2 22 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.86%) GDPR
4 11 (1.85%) EU AI Act
4 11 (1.85%) NIST
5 8 (1.35%) WCAG
6 6 (1.01%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.84%) PSD2
7 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.67%) COBIT
8 4 (0.67%) SLA
9 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.34%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.17%) DICOM
11 1 (0.17%) HL7
System Software
1 197 (33.16%) Docker
2 8 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.01%) Postfix
4 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 166 (27.95%) Kubernetes
2 91 (15.32%) Terraform
3 50 (8.42%) Ansible
3 50 (8.42%) Grafana
3 50 (8.42%) Prometheus
4 12 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.84%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.67%) Control-M
6 4 (0.67%) Kibana
7 3 (0.51%) Puppet
8 2 (0.34%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.34%) Consul
8 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.34%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.34%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.34%) Salt
9 1 (0.17%) Argo
9 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 82 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 60 (10.10%) Google
3 36 (6.06%) Splunk
4 22 (3.70%) Oracle
5 15 (2.53%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.85%) Atlassian
6 11 (1.85%) Foundry
7 10 (1.68%) Databricks
8 9 (1.52%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.35%) Ping Identity
9 8 (1.35%) VMware
10 7 (1.18%) Apple
10 7 (1.18%) ForgeRock
10 7 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.01%) Gigya
11 6 (1.01%) Jaspersoft
11 6 (1.01%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.01%) Workday
12 5 (0.84%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.84%) Virgin Media