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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 168 215
Rank change year-on-year -29 +47 -12
Contract jobs citing RESTful 566 402 420
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.68% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.06% 7.44% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 277 293
10th Percentile £353 £356 £369
25th Percentile £413 £406 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £619
90th Percentile £658 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £498 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.15% -2.50% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 7
10th Percentile £54.25 £51.50 £47.70
25th Percentile £58.75 £53.75 £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 £82.75 - £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 8,012 5,403 7,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.18% 22.52% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,287 3,737 5,386
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £536
% change year-on-year +0.86% -2.85% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 106 239
10th Percentile £31.03 £31.28 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.00 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -5 312 £500 -4.76% 113
North of England -25 106 £463 +12.12% 73
South East -29 67 £525 +5.53% 46
North West -12 53 £450 +12.50% 39
Midlands -68 44 £488 +5.41% 17
Yorkshire -34 39 £525 +13.51% 22
West Midlands -63 26 £488 -2.50% 7
South West -29 23 £440 -21.78% 29
East Midlands -31 16 £446 +10.95% 10
North East -20 14 £450 -7.69% 12
East of England -36 9 £500 -6.98% 18
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 24 (4.24%) Confluence
2 10 (1.77%) Ethereum
2 10 (1.77%) Hyperledger
3 9 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.41%) Appian
5 7 (1.24%) CICS
6 6 (1.06%) CMS
7 5 (0.88%) Camunda
7 5 (0.88%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.53%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.35%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.35%) IIS
9 2 (0.35%) Mule
9 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.18%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 8 (1.41%) Adobe XD
2 6 (1.06%) CPLEX
3 5 (0.88%) Sketch
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.88%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.71%) Quorum
2 4 (0.71%) Ripple
3 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.18%) Maximo
5 1 (0.18%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 226 (39.93%) AWS
2 191 (33.75%) Azure
3 91 (16.08%) Serverless
4 90 (15.90%) GitHub
5 68 (12.01%) AWS Lambda
6 64 (11.31%) GitHub Actions
7 56 (9.89%) GCP
8 53 (9.36%) Amazon S3
8 53 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (6.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 32 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
11 30 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
12 28 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (3.53%) Power Automate
16 19 (3.36%) Route 53
17 18 (3.18%) Entra ID
18 16 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
19 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%) MQTT
4 3 (0.53%) Network Security
5 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.35%) SSL
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (19.79%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (15.37%) NoSQL
3 61 (10.78%) SQL Server
4 56 (9.89%) Relational Database
5 46 (8.13%) MongoDB
6 45 (7.95%) DynamoDB
7 34 (6.01%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (5.12%) Amazon Aurora
8 29 (5.12%) MySQL
9 18 (3.18%) Redis
10 11 (1.94%) DB2
11 9 (1.59%) Pinecone
12 6 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.06%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.06%) Flink
12 6 (1.06%) Power BI
13 5 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.71%) GIS
15 3 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.53%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 128 (22.61%) Git
2 92 (16.25%) Jenkins
3 60 (10.60%) GitLab
4 51 (9.01%) JUnit
5 42 (7.42%) JIRA
6 34 (6.01%) Mockito
7 26 (4.59%) Postman
8 25 (4.42%) SonarQube
9 22 (3.89%) Maven
10 20 (3.53%) Cucumber
10 20 (3.53%) Gradle
11 14 (2.47%) Visual Studio
12 12 (2.12%) DbUnit
12 12 (2.12%) REST Assured
13 11 (1.94%) Bitbucket Server
13 11 (1.94%) jMock
14 9 (1.59%) Selenium
15 8 (1.41%) JMeter
15 8 (1.41%) Liquibase
15 8 (1.41%) MLflow
General
1 123 (21.73%) Social Skills
2 119 (21.02%) Finance
3 85 (15.02%) Public Sector
4 63 (11.13%) Banking
5 59 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.94%) Front Office
8 10 (1.77%) Retail
9 9 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.06%) Legal
10 6 (1.06%) Marketing
11 5 (0.88%) Law
11 5 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.71%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.53%) Automotive
13 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.53%) Local Government
13 3 (0.53%) Police
13 3 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 350 (61.84%) Developer
2 110 (19.43%) Java Developer
3 107 (18.90%) Senior
4 68 (12.01%) Senior Developer
5 62 (10.95%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (8.30%) Python Developer
7 38 (6.71%) Software Engineer
8 35 (6.18%) Architect
9 34 (6.01%) .NET Developer
10 30 (5.30%) Senior Java Developer
11 29 (5.12%) React Developer
12 25 (4.42%) C# Developer
13 22 (3.89%) Backend Developer
13 22 (3.89%) Software Developer
14 21 (3.71%) Lead
15 19 (3.36%) AWS Developer
15 19 (3.36%) Java Engineer
16 15 (2.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 15 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
17 12 (2.12%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (27.74%) Spring
2 152 (26.86%) Spring Boot
3 142 (25.09%) REST
4 124 (21.91%) React
5 104 (18.37%) Kafka
6 102 (18.02%) .NET
7 75 (13.25%) AngularJS
8 68 (12.01%) CSS
9 67 (11.84%) HTML
9 67 (11.84%) Node.js
10 59 (10.42%) OAuth
11 49 (8.66%) Web Services
12 40 (7.07%) OAuth2
13 39 (6.89%) Swagger
14 38 (6.71%) Django
15 37 (6.54%) FastAPI
16 36 (6.36%) JSON
17 35 (6.18%) JWT
17 35 (6.18%) OpenAPI
18 34 (6.01%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 87 (15.37%) Cloud Native
2 84 (14.84%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (13.78%) Product Ownership
4 29 (5.12%) Mobile App
5 21 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.65%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.30%) Low-Code
9 12 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.59%) Hedge funds
10 9 (1.59%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.41%) Derivative
12 7 (1.24%) DataPower
12 7 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.24%) Mainframe
12 7 (1.24%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.06%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.06%) Blockchain
13 6 (1.06%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.24%) Linux
2 21 (3.71%) Unix
3 16 (2.83%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.12%) 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
1 337 (59.54%) CI/CD
2 292 (51.59%) Microservices
3 289 (51.06%) Agile
4 195 (34.45%) DevOps
5 163 (28.80%) Containerisation
6 128 (22.61%) Test Automation
7 118 (20.85%) Event-Driven
8 111 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
9 109 (19.26%) Full-Stack Development
10 105 (18.55%) Scrum
11 104 (18.37%) Software Engineering
12 80 (14.13%) API Development
13 79 (13.96%) Clean Code
13 79 (13.96%) Code Quality
14 76 (13.43%) TDD
15 74 (13.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 70 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
17 68 (12.01%) API Design
18 61 (10.78%) Performance Optimisation
19 60 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 238 (42.05%) Java
2 181 (31.98%) SQL
3 142 (25.09%) Python
4 122 (21.55%) C#
5 119 (21.02%) JavaScript
6 96 (16.96%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.24%) Go
7 24 (4.24%) Shell Script
8 20 (3.53%) Kotlin
9 14 (2.47%) Swift
10 10 (1.77%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.59%) Bicep
11 9 (1.59%) Scala
12 6 (1.06%) JCL
12 6 (1.06%) Objective-C
12 6 (1.06%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.06%) Rust
12 6 (1.06%) X++
13 5 (0.88%) Ruby
13 5 (0.88%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 131 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 97 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.89%) Degree
4 26 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.65%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.59%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (1.41%) CCSP
8 8 (1.41%) CEH
8 8 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.41%) CISM
8 8 (1.41%) CISSP
8 8 (1.41%) 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 80 (14.13%) QA
2 51 (9.01%) Accessibility
3 30 (5.30%) WCAG
4 13 (2.30%) NIST
5 12 (2.12%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.94%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.41%) COBIT
7 8 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 (35.16%) Docker
2 9 (1.59%) Postfix
3 5 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.18%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 164 (28.98%) Kubernetes
2 63 (11.13%) Terraform
3 37 (6.54%) Grafana
4 32 (5.65%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.12%) Ansible
6 6 (1.06%) Kibana
7 3 (0.53%) Podman
7 3 (0.53%) Puppet
7 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.35%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.35%) Consul
8 2 (0.35%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 38 (6.71%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.59%) Oracle
3 19 (3.36%) Adobe
4 16 (2.83%) Google
5 13 (2.30%) Atlassian
6 12 (2.12%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.12%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (1.77%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.77%) Splunk
9 9 (1.59%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.41%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.41%) UiPath
10 8 (1.41%) 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%) New Relic
12 6 (1.06%) ServiceNow