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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 157 180
Rank change year-on-year -45 +23 +38
Contract jobs citing RESTful 611 513 460
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.86% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.22% 8.32% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 382 315
10th Percentile £350 £325 £339
25th Percentile £413 £388 £416
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 £675 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £48.50 £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% -3.39%
75th Percentile £77.50 £59.38 £85.00
90th Percentile - £76.25 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% -3.39%

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 8,465 6,169 7,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.59% 22.33% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,546 4,244 5,071
10th Percentile £365 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £642 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £823
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 150 229
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £23.96
25th Percentile £49.20 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -10.20%
75th Percentile £73.11 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.10 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £50.00
% change year-on-year +19.40% +8.88% -16.67%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -32 328 £500 - 195
North of England -76 93 £500 +13.64% 73
South East -21 89 £475 +4.05% 51
Yorkshire -53 41 £538 +30.30% 27
Midlands -68 41 £481 +5.77% 23
South West -23 35 £450 -16.28% 29
North West -68 32 £572 +25.85% 41
West Midlands -52 27 £481 -3.75% 18
North East -26 20 £450 -10.00% 5
East of England -14 15 £425 -22.02% 18
East Midlands -28 13 £472 +17.29% 5
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 29 (4.75%) Confluence
2 7 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.98%) CICS
3 6 (0.98%) CMS
4 4 (0.65%) Ethereum
4 4 (0.65%) Hyperledger
4 4 (0.65%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.49%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.33%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.33%) Camunda
6 2 (0.33%) Mule
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) Appian
7 1 (0.16%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.47%) CPLEX
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Quorum
1 4 (0.65%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.65%) Ripple
2 3 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.16%) Maximo
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.16%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 238 (38.95%) AWS
2 228 (37.32%) Azure
3 127 (20.79%) GitHub
4 96 (15.71%) Serverless
5 84 (13.75%) GitHub Actions
6 81 (13.26%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (11.78%) AWS Lambda
8 69 (11.29%) GCP
9 52 (8.51%) Amazon S3
10 45 (7.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (6.71%) Amazon EC2
12 34 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
13 30 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (4.91%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (3.27%) Entra ID
15 18 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 17 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
17 16 (2.62%) Azure AKS
17 16 (2.62%) Azure Key Vault
17 16 (2.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.13%) HTTP
2 6 (0.98%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.65%) 5G
4 4 (0.65%) DNS
4 4 (0.65%) MQTT
4 4 (0.65%) Network Security
4 4 (0.65%) SSH
5 3 (0.49%) 4G
6 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.16%) LTE
6 1 (0.16%) NFC
6 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (22.09%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (13.09%) NoSQL
3 73 (11.95%) Relational Database
4 55 (9.00%) SQL Server
5 54 (8.84%) MongoDB
6 44 (7.20%) DynamoDB
7 38 (6.22%) MySQL
8 28 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (4.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (3.44%) Redis
11 13 (2.13%) Geospatial Data
12 11 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.31%) Db2
15 7 (1.15%) Power BI
16 5 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.82%) Metadata
17 4 (0.65%) Flink
17 4 (0.65%) RDBMS
17 4 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 175 (28.64%) Git
2 105 (17.18%) Jenkins
3 49 (8.02%) GitLab
3 49 (8.02%) JUnit
4 46 (7.53%) JIRA
5 37 (6.06%) Mockito
6 27 (4.42%) Maven
7 25 (4.09%) Gradle
8 21 (3.44%) SonarQube
9 19 (3.11%) Cucumber
9 19 (3.11%) Cypress.io
9 19 (3.11%) Postman
10 15 (2.45%) Visual Studio
11 13 (2.13%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.96%) DbUnit
13 11 (1.80%) Bitbucket Server
13 11 (1.80%) jMock
13 11 (1.80%) MSI
14 10 (1.64%) fastlane
14 10 (1.64%) Selenium
General
1 128 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 116 (18.99%) Finance
3 107 (17.51%) Public Sector
4 79 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (8.35%) Banking
6 30 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.95%) Retail
8 13 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.47%) Marketing
11 8 (1.31%) Law
12 7 (1.15%) Local Government
13 6 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.98%) Front Office
14 5 (0.82%) Legal
14 5 (0.82%) Police
15 4 (0.65%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.65%) Publishing
15 4 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 385 (63.01%) Developer
2 134 (21.93%) Senior
3 115 (18.82%) Java Developer
4 97 (15.88%) Senior Developer
5 75 (12.27%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (7.69%) Python Developer
7 46 (7.53%) .NET Developer
8 41 (6.71%) Architect
9 39 (6.38%) Senior Java Developer
10 38 (6.22%) Software Engineer
11 29 (4.75%) React Developer
12 28 (4.58%) C# Developer
13 24 (3.93%) Software Developer
14 21 (3.44%) Backend Developer
14 21 (3.44%) Java Engineer
15 20 (3.27%) Lead
16 19 (3.11%) C# .NET Developer
17 18 (2.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 18 (2.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
18 17 (2.78%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (29.95%) REST
2 151 (24.71%) Spring
3 146 (23.90%) Spring Boot
4 121 (19.80%) React
5 120 (19.64%) .NET
6 114 (18.66%) Kafka
7 88 (14.40%) CSS
8 82 (13.42%) HTML
9 65 (10.64%) Node.js
10 63 (10.31%) AngularJS
11 59 (9.66%) OAuth
12 47 (7.69%) .NET Core
12 47 (7.69%) OAuth2
12 47 (7.69%) Web Services
13 44 (7.20%) HTML5
14 43 (7.04%) JSON
15 41 (6.71%) CSS3
16 39 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
16 39 (6.38%) Swagger
17 38 (6.22%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 133 (21.77%) Cloud Native
2 112 (18.33%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (12.93%) Product Ownership
4 35 (5.73%) Mobile App
5 31 (5.07%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (3.93%) Data Structures
7 22 (3.60%) Onboarding
8 21 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (2.13%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.64%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.64%) NHS
12 9 (1.47%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.31%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.15%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.98%) DataPower
15 6 (0.98%) Mainframe
15 6 (0.98%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 47 (7.69%) Linux
2 27 (4.42%) Unix
3 21 (3.44%) Android
3 21 (3.44%) Apple iOS
4 17 (2.78%) Windows
5 6 (0.98%) zOS
6 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (62.85%) CI/CD
2 334 (54.66%) Agile
3 320 (52.37%) Microservices
4 259 (42.39%) DevOps
5 187 (30.61%) Containerisation
6 177 (28.97%) Test Automation
7 135 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
8 134 (21.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 131 (21.44%) Event-Driven
10 129 (21.11%) Scrum
11 116 (18.99%) Software Engineering
12 108 (17.68%) Infrastructure as Code
13 106 (17.35%) Code Quality
14 103 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 91 (14.89%) API Design
16 86 (14.08%) Clean Code
17 80 (13.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 79 (12.93%) API Development
19 72 (11.78%) AI
19 72 (11.78%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 242 (39.61%) Java
2 181 (29.62%) SQL
3 164 (26.84%) Python
4 148 (24.22%) JavaScript
5 139 (22.75%) C#
6 119 (19.48%) TypeScript
7 36 (5.89%) Kotlin
8 29 (4.75%) Shell Script
9 26 (4.26%) Bicep
10 20 (3.27%) Swift
11 14 (2.29%) Go
12 11 (1.80%) Ruby
13 10 (1.64%) Scala
14 9 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.31%) Bash
15 8 (1.31%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.31%) Rust
15 8 (1.31%) X++
16 7 (1.15%) Objective-C
17 6 (0.98%) JCL
Qualifications
1 171 (27.99%) Security Cleared
2 144 (23.57%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.73%) Degree
4 24 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.95%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.64%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
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 6 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.49%) MBA
12 2 (0.33%) PhD
13 1 (0.16%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (15.55%) QA
2 71 (11.62%) Accessibility
3 46 (7.53%) WCAG
4 13 (2.13%) NCSC
5 9 (1.47%) NIST
6 8 (1.31%) COBIT
6 8 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.15%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.82%) GDPR
9 3 (0.49%) HL7
10 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.33%) SLA
11 1 (0.16%) Basel III
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 237 (38.79%) Docker
2 9 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.47%) Postfix
3 4 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 184 (30.11%) Kubernetes
2 90 (14.73%) Terraform
3 43 (7.04%) Grafana
4 36 (5.89%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.29%) Ansible
6 7 (1.15%) Kibana
7 4 (0.65%) Podman
7 4 (0.65%) Puppet
8 3 (0.49%) Argo
8 3 (0.49%) Bosun
8 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.33%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.33%) Consul
9 2 (0.33%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.16%) Istio
10 1 (0.16%) linkerd
Vendors
1 66 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.89%) Oracle
3 28 (4.58%) Google
4 20 (3.27%) Dynatrace
5 12 (1.96%) Atlassian
5 12 (1.96%) New Relic
5 12 (1.96%) Splunk
6 11 (1.80%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (1.47%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.31%) Databricks
9 7 (1.15%) Apple
10 6 (0.98%) IBM
10 6 (0.98%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.98%) Sybase
11 5 (0.82%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.82%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.65%) Adobe
12 4 (0.65%) Citrix
12 4 (0.65%) NVIDIA
12 4 (0.65%) SAP