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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 141 164
Rank change year-on-year -64 +23 +64
Contract jobs citing RESTful 625 557 488
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 2.01% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.37% 7.88% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 405 305
10th Percentile £349 £328 £324
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £488 £505
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -3.47% -8.18%
75th Percentile £565 £580 £638
90th Percentile £649 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.81% -2.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 5
10th Percentile £53.88 £49.63 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.91 £75.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -31.25% +4.53%
75th Percentile £77.38 £61.78 £85.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £95.00 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -31.25% +4.53%

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 9,819 7,073 7,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.20% 25.48% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,457 4,774 5,204
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £449 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £526 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.54% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 173 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.60 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £70.00 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -42 344 £500 -3.85% 419
North of England -85 93 £450 - 164
South East -41 73 £475 +2.70% 107
Midlands -50 47 £446 -3.57% 62
Yorkshire -54 44 £475 +5.56% 60
West Midlands -36 34 £468 -6.40% 34
South West -20 32 £425 -15.00% 50
North West -65 30 £488 +10.17% 83
North East -24 19 £450 -10.00% 24
East of England -29 18 £463 -15.14% 67
East Midlands -28 12 £425 +8.70% 28
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 40 (6.40%) Confluence
2 6 (0.96%) CMS
3 5 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.64%) Camunda
4 4 (0.64%) Ethereum
4 4 (0.64%) Hyperledger
4 4 (0.64%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.64%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.48%) CICS
5 3 (0.48%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.32%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.32%) Apache
6 2 (0.32%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.32%) Mule
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.96%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Quorum
1 4 (0.64%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.64%) Ripple
2 3 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
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
1 255 (40.80%) AWS
2 229 (36.64%) Azure
3 141 (22.56%) GitHub
4 91 (14.56%) GCP
5 87 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
6 86 (13.76%) Serverless
7 79 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (7.36%) Amazon EKS
9 46 (7.36%) Amazon S3
10 36 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
13 23 (3.68%) Entra ID
14 22 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
15 21 (3.36%) GitHub Copilot
16 18 (2.88%) Azure AKS
17 16 (2.56%) Azure Functions
17 16 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
18 15 (2.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.56%) HTTP
2 7 (1.12%) SSH
3 6 (0.96%) DNS
3 6 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.80%) 5G
4 5 (0.80%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.64%) 4G
5 4 (0.64%) MQTT
5 4 (0.64%) Network Security
5 4 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.16%) Broadband
6 1 (0.16%) NFC
6 1 (0.16%) SNMP
6 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (23.20%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (14.88%) Relational Database
3 74 (11.84%) NoSQL
4 63 (10.08%) MongoDB
5 52 (8.32%) MySQL
5 52 (8.32%) SQL Server
6 30 (4.80%) Redis
7 26 (4.16%) DynamoDB
8 19 (3.04%) Amazon Aurora
8 19 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (2.08%) Geospatial Data
10 12 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.12%) Power BI
12 6 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.96%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.80%) Metadata
13 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.64%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.64%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 193 (30.88%) Git
2 126 (20.16%) Jenkins
3 60 (9.60%) GitLab
3 60 (9.60%) JIRA
3 60 (9.60%) JUnit
4 40 (6.40%) Mockito
5 38 (6.08%) Maven
6 31 (4.96%) Gradle
7 28 (4.48%) Cucumber
8 27 (4.32%) SonarQube
9 20 (3.20%) Cypress.io
9 20 (3.20%) Selenium
10 14 (2.24%) Visual Studio
11 13 (2.08%) Postman
11 13 (2.08%) REST Assured
12 11 (1.76%) Bitbucket
12 11 (1.76%) MSI
13 10 (1.60%) CircleCI
14 9 (1.44%) Storybook
15 8 (1.28%) Gatling
General
1 163 (26.08%) Social Skills
2 119 (19.04%) Finance
3 108 (17.28%) Public Sector
4 104 (16.64%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (8.48%) Banking
6 36 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.36%) Retail
8 17 (2.72%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.56%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.28%) Local Government
10 8 (1.28%) Marketing
10 8 (1.28%) Publishing
11 6 (0.96%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.96%) Front Office
11 6 (0.96%) Law
11 6 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.80%) Legal
13 4 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.48%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.48%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 383 (61.28%) Developer
2 128 (20.48%) Senior
3 109 (17.44%) Java Developer
4 87 (13.92%) Senior Developer
5 81 (12.96%) Full-Stack Developer
6 51 (8.16%) Python Developer
7 46 (7.36%) Software Engineer
8 39 (6.24%) .NET Developer
9 35 (5.60%) Senior Java Developer
10 31 (4.96%) Lead
11 30 (4.80%) Architect
12 28 (4.48%) React Developer
13 24 (3.84%) C# Developer
13 24 (3.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 24 (3.84%) Java Engineer
13 24 (3.84%) Software Developer
14 20 (3.20%) C# .NET Developer
15 18 (2.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 17 (2.72%) Backend Developer
16 17 (2.72%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (31.68%) REST
2 156 (24.96%) Spring
3 150 (24.00%) Spring Boot
4 136 (21.76%) React
5 122 (19.52%) Kafka
6 109 (17.44%) .NET
6 109 (17.44%) CSS
6 109 (17.44%) HTML
7 102 (16.32%) Terraform
8 70 (11.20%) AngularJS
9 67 (10.72%) OAuth
10 65 (10.40%) Node.js
10 65 (10.40%) Web Services
11 60 (9.60%) HTML5
12 57 (9.12%) OAuth2
13 55 (8.80%) JSON
14 54 (8.64%) .NET Core
14 54 (8.64%) CSS3
15 48 (7.68%) Swagger
16 45 (7.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 176 (28.16%) Cloud Native
2 109 (17.44%) Distributed Systems
3 84 (13.44%) Product Ownership
4 48 (7.68%) Enterprise Software
5 38 (6.08%) Mobile App
6 28 (4.48%) Onboarding
7 24 (3.84%) AI Agents
8 21 (3.36%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.76%) NHS
11 10 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.44%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
15 5 (0.80%) Life Science
15 5 (0.80%) Low-Code
15 5 (0.80%) Reference Data
16 4 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.12%) Linux
2 38 (6.08%) Unix
3 22 (3.52%) Apple iOS
4 21 (3.36%) Android
5 17 (2.72%) Windows
6 3 (0.48%) Mac OS X
6 3 (0.48%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (66.40%) CI/CD
2 363 (58.08%) Agile
3 317 (50.72%) Microservices
4 270 (43.20%) DevOps
5 222 (35.52%) Test Automation
6 179 (28.64%) Containerisation
7 153 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
8 152 (24.32%) Event-Driven
9 151 (24.16%) Software Engineering
10 150 (24.00%) Scrum
11 145 (23.20%) Full-Stack Development
12 139 (22.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 130 (20.80%) Code Quality
14 112 (17.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 104 (16.64%) API Development
16 99 (15.84%) AI
17 95 (15.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 93 (14.88%) Observability
19 92 (14.72%) API Design
20 88 (14.08%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 249 (39.84%) Java
2 172 (27.52%) JavaScript
3 169 (27.04%) Python
4 162 (25.92%) SQL
5 136 (21.76%) TypeScript
6 127 (20.32%) C#
7 35 (5.60%) Kotlin
8 33 (5.28%) Shell Script
9 29 (4.64%) Bicep
10 22 (3.52%) Bash
11 21 (3.36%) Swift
12 19 (3.04%) Go
13 14 (2.24%) Ruby
13 14 (2.24%) Scala
14 11 (1.76%) Rust
15 9 (1.44%) Objective-C
16 8 (1.28%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.28%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.28%) X++
17 7 (1.12%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 160 (25.60%) Security Cleared
2 135 (21.60%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.00%) Degree
4 38 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.16%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (3.04%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.08%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.64%) CCSP
11 4 (0.64%) CEH
11 4 (0.64%) CISM
11 4 (0.64%) CISSP
11 4 (0.64%) OSCP
11 4 (0.64%) PhD
12 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (19.84%) QA
2 72 (11.52%) Accessibility
3 41 (6.56%) WCAG
4 13 (2.08%) NCSC
5 8 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.28%) HL7
6 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.80%) NIST
7 4 (0.64%) COBIT
7 4 (0.64%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.64%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.64%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.48%) GDPR
9 2 (0.32%) Basel III
10 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
10 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 242 (38.72%) Docker
2 8 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.48%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 195 (31.20%) Kubernetes
2 55 (8.80%) Grafana
3 43 (6.88%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.92%) Kibana
5 11 (1.76%) Ansible
6 5 (0.80%) Argo
7 4 (0.64%) Bosun
7 4 (0.64%) Podman
7 4 (0.64%) Puppet
8 3 (0.48%) Istio
9 2 (0.32%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.32%) Consul
9 2 (0.32%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.16%) linkerd
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.40%) Google
3 34 (5.44%) Oracle
4 23 (3.68%) Splunk
5 21 (3.36%) Dynatrace
6 12 (1.92%) New Relic
6 12 (1.92%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.28%) Okta
8 7 (1.12%) Databricks
8 7 (1.12%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.96%) Apple
9 6 (0.96%) IBM
10 5 (0.80%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.80%) SAP
11 4 (0.64%) Adobe
11 4 (0.64%) Citrix
11 4 (0.64%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (0.64%) Sybase