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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 152 182
Rank change year-on-year -58 +30 +43
Contract jobs citing RESTful 615 501 462
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.81% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.26% 8.15% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 374 318
10th Percentile £350 £325 £339
25th Percentile £413 £388 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -10.10% -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 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% -3.39%
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% -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 8,472 6,144 7,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.65% 22.25% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,559 4,235 5,084
10th Percentile £364 £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 £648 £675
90th Percentile £750 £772 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 147 231
10th Percentile £28.93 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £46.80 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £79.22 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £53.75
% change year-on-year +18.45% +2.09% -10.42%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -24 329 £500 -0.50% 210
North of England -59 93 £500 +16.96% 76
South East -32 88 £488 +3.94% 50
Midlands -71 42 £488 +7.14% 23
Yorkshire -51 41 £538 +29.13% 27
South West -23 36 £445 -17.21% 31
North West -59 32 £572 +34.59% 44
West Midlands -53 28 £488 -2.50% 19
North East -25 20 £450 -10.00% 5
East of England -8 17 £463 -15.14% 18
East Midlands -29 13 £472 +17.29% 4
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 (4.72%) Confluence
2 8 (1.30%) 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%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.46%) CPLEX
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
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
1 240 (39.02%) AWS
2 230 (37.40%) Azure
3 126 (20.49%) GitHub
4 97 (15.77%) Serverless
5 84 (13.66%) GitHub Actions
6 83 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (11.87%) AWS Lambda
8 69 (11.22%) GCP
9 53 (8.62%) Amazon S3
10 45 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (3.25%) Entra ID
16 18 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (2.93%) Azure AKS
17 16 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
17 16 (2.60%) GitHub Copilot
17 16 (2.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.11%) HTTP
2 6 (0.98%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.81%) 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
1 137 (22.28%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (13.17%) NoSQL
3 75 (12.20%) Relational Database
4 54 (8.78%) MongoDB
4 54 (8.78%) SQL Server
5 44 (7.15%) DynamoDB
6 38 (6.18%) MySQL
7 28 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (4.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 21 (3.41%) Redis
10 13 (2.11%) Geospatial Data
11 11 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.30%) Db2
14 7 (1.14%) Power BI
15 5 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.81%) Flink
15 5 (0.81%) Metadata
16 4 (0.65%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 175 (28.46%) Git
2 108 (17.56%) Jenkins
3 50 (8.13%) GitLab
4 49 (7.97%) JUnit
5 46 (7.48%) JIRA
6 37 (6.02%) Mockito
7 27 (4.39%) Maven
8 25 (4.07%) Gradle
9 21 (3.41%) SonarQube
10 19 (3.09%) Cucumber
10 19 (3.09%) Postman
11 18 (2.93%) Cypress.io
12 15 (2.44%) Visual Studio
13 13 (2.11%) REST Assured
14 12 (1.95%) DbUnit
15 11 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
15 11 (1.79%) jMock
15 11 (1.79%) MSI
16 10 (1.63%) fastlane
16 10 (1.63%) Selenium
General
1 129 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 115 (18.70%) Finance
3 108 (17.56%) Public Sector
4 79 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (8.46%) Banking
6 30 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.93%) Retail
8 13 (2.11%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.46%) Marketing
11 8 (1.30%) Law
12 7 (1.14%) Local Government
13 6 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.98%) Front Office
14 5 (0.81%) Legal
14 5 (0.81%) Police
15 4 (0.65%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.65%) Publishing
15 4 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 389 (63.25%) Developer
2 135 (21.95%) Senior
3 118 (19.19%) Java Developer
4 97 (15.77%) Senior Developer
5 76 (12.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (7.64%) Python Developer
7 46 (7.48%) .NET Developer
8 40 (6.50%) Architect
9 39 (6.34%) Senior Java Developer
9 39 (6.34%) Software Engineer
10 29 (4.72%) React Developer
11 28 (4.55%) C# Developer
12 24 (3.90%) Software Developer
13 22 (3.58%) Backend Developer
13 22 (3.58%) Java Engineer
14 20 (3.25%) Lead
15 19 (3.09%) C# .NET Developer
16 18 (2.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (2.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 17 (2.76%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (29.59%) REST
2 155 (25.20%) Spring
3 150 (24.39%) Spring Boot
4 121 (19.67%) React
5 120 (19.51%) .NET
6 117 (19.02%) Kafka
7 88 (14.31%) CSS
8 82 (13.33%) HTML
9 66 (10.73%) Node.js
10 64 (10.41%) AngularJS
11 58 (9.43%) OAuth
12 47 (7.64%) Web Services
13 46 (7.48%) .NET Core
13 46 (7.48%) OAuth2
14 44 (7.15%) HTML5
14 44 (7.15%) JSON
15 41 (6.67%) CSS3
15 41 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
16 39 (6.34%) .NET Framework
16 39 (6.34%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 136 (22.11%) Cloud Native
2 113 (18.37%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (12.85%) Product Ownership
4 35 (5.69%) Mobile App
5 31 (5.04%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (3.90%) Data Structures
7 22 (3.58%) Onboarding
8 21 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (2.11%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.63%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.63%) NHS
12 9 (1.46%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.30%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.30%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.14%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.98%) DataPower
15 6 (0.98%) Mainframe
15 6 (0.98%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 47 (7.64%) Linux
2 27 (4.39%) Unix
3 21 (3.41%) Android
3 21 (3.41%) Apple iOS
4 17 (2.76%) Windows
5 6 (0.98%) zOS
6 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (62.93%) CI/CD
2 335 (54.47%) Agile
3 323 (52.52%) Microservices
4 262 (42.60%) DevOps
5 189 (30.73%) Containerisation
6 176 (28.62%) Test Automation
7 136 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
8 135 (21.95%) Full-Stack Development
9 132 (21.46%) Event-Driven
10 130 (21.14%) Scrum
11 118 (19.19%) Software Engineering
12 109 (17.72%) Code Quality
12 109 (17.72%) Infrastructure as Code
13 103 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 91 (14.80%) API Design
15 86 (13.98%) Clean Code
16 81 (13.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 79 (12.85%) API Development
18 72 (11.71%) AI
18 72 (11.71%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 247 (40.16%) Java
2 182 (29.59%) SQL
3 167 (27.15%) Python
4 148 (24.07%) JavaScript
5 139 (22.60%) C#
6 118 (19.19%) TypeScript
7 36 (5.85%) Kotlin
8 29 (4.72%) Shell Script
9 26 (4.23%) Bicep
10 20 (3.25%) Swift
11 14 (2.28%) Go
12 11 (1.79%) Ruby
13 10 (1.63%) Scala
14 9 (1.46%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.30%) Bash
15 8 (1.30%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.30%) Rust
15 8 (1.30%) X++
16 7 (1.14%) Objective-C
17 6 (0.98%) JCL
Qualifications
1 171 (27.80%) Security Cleared
2 144 (23.41%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.85%) Degree
4 25 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.93%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (1.30%) CCSP
9 8 (1.30%) CEH
9 8 (1.30%) CISM
9 8 (1.30%) CISSP
9 8 (1.30%) OSCP
10 6 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.49%) MBA
12 2 (0.33%) PhD
13 1 (0.16%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (15.45%) QA
2 72 (11.71%) Accessibility
3 46 (7.48%) WCAG
4 13 (2.11%) NCSC
5 9 (1.46%) NIST
6 8 (1.30%) COBIT
6 8 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.14%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.81%) 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%) GRC
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
1 240 (39.02%) Docker
2 9 (1.46%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.46%) Postfix
3 4 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 187 (30.41%) Kubernetes
2 90 (14.63%) Terraform
3 42 (6.83%) Grafana
4 36 (5.85%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.28%) Ansible
6 7 (1.14%) 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 68 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.85%) Oracle
3 28 (4.55%) Google
4 20 (3.25%) Dynatrace
5 12 (1.95%) Atlassian
5 12 (1.95%) New Relic
5 12 (1.95%) Splunk
6 11 (1.79%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (1.46%) Databricks
7 9 (1.46%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.14%) Apple
9 6 (0.98%) IBM
9 6 (0.98%) MuleSoft
9 6 (0.98%) Sybase
10 5 (0.81%) Adobe
10 5 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.81%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.65%) Citrix
11 4 (0.65%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.65%) SAP