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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 165 199
Rank change year-on-year -25 +34 +6
Contract jobs citing RESTful 573 408 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.67% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.08% 7.39% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 289 299
10th Percentile £356 £331 £371
25th Percentile £413 £400 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £508
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.40% -15.42%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £631
90th Percentile £650 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -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% +10.34%
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% +10.34%

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 8,088 5,520 7,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.15% 22.56% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,337 3,835 5,486
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £653 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 109 248
10th Percentile £30.82 £31.90 £22.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%
75th Percentile £73.23 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +21.21% -23.85%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -13 316 £500 -1.91% 82
North of England -25 108 £455 +13.75% 59
South East -36 68 £525 +5.53% 41
North West -24 52 £450 +12.50% 31
Yorkshire -27 41 £525 +13.51% 20
Midlands -75 39 £493 +6.54% 12
South West -18 27 £458 -12.86% 23
West Midlands -60 21 £500 - 6
East Midlands -33 16 £446 +10.95% 6
North East -14 15 £450 -7.69% 8
East of England -27 9 £500 -6.98% 17
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 (4.71%) Confluence
2 10 (1.75%) Ethereum
2 10 (1.75%) Hyperledger
3 9 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.40%) Appian
5 7 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (1.22%) CICS
6 6 (1.05%) CMS
7 5 (0.87%) Camunda
7 5 (0.87%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.52%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.35%) IIS
9 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.17%) Mule
10 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.05%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.52%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.87%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.70%) Quorum
2 4 (0.70%) Ripple
3 3 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.17%) Maximo
5 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.17%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 226 (39.44%) AWS
2 194 (33.86%) Azure
3 93 (16.23%) GitHub
3 93 (16.23%) Serverless
4 69 (12.04%) AWS Lambda
5 66 (11.52%) GitHub Actions
6 57 (9.95%) GCP
7 56 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (9.08%) Amazon S3
9 38 (6.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
12 28 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (3.49%) Power Automate
16 19 (3.32%) Route 53
17 17 (2.97%) Entra ID
18 16 (2.79%) Azure Service Bus
19 15 (2.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.27%) HTTP
2 4 (0.70%) DNS
2 4 (0.70%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.52%) MQTT
3 3 (0.52%) Network Security
4 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.35%) SSL
5 1 (0.17%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.17%) 4G
5 1 (0.17%) 5G
5 1 (0.17%) LTE
5 1 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (15.36%) NoSQL
3 62 (10.82%) SQL Server
4 59 (10.30%) Relational Database
5 50 (8.73%) MongoDB
6 44 (7.68%) DynamoDB
7 34 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (5.41%) MySQL
9 29 (5.06%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (3.32%) Redis
11 11 (1.92%) Db2
12 9 (1.57%) Pinecone
13 7 (1.22%) Power BI
14 6 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.05%) DocumentDB
14 6 (1.05%) Flink
15 5 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (0.70%) GIS
Development Applications
1 132 (23.04%) Git
2 94 (16.40%) Jenkins
3 61 (10.65%) GitLab
4 51 (8.90%) JUnit
5 45 (7.85%) JIRA
6 34 (5.93%) Mockito
7 27 (4.71%) Postman
8 25 (4.36%) SonarQube
9 22 (3.84%) Maven
10 21 (3.66%) Cucumber
11 20 (3.49%) Gradle
12 14 (2.44%) Visual Studio
13 12 (2.09%) DbUnit
13 12 (2.09%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.92%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (1.92%) jMock
15 9 (1.57%) Selenium
16 8 (1.40%) fastlane
16 8 (1.40%) JMeter
16 8 (1.40%) MLflow
General
1 119 (20.77%) Finance
1 119 (20.77%) Social Skills
2 89 (15.53%) Public Sector
3 63 (10.99%) Banking
4 58 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (2.09%) Retail
7 9 (1.57%) Front Office
7 9 (1.57%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.40%) Marketing
9 7 (1.22%) Legal
10 5 (0.87%) Law
10 5 (0.87%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.70%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.52%) Automotive
12 3 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.52%) Local Government
12 3 (0.52%) Police
12 3 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 357 (62.30%) Developer
2 112 (19.55%) Senior
3 111 (19.37%) Java Developer
4 72 (12.57%) Senior Developer
5 62 (10.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 48 (8.38%) Python Developer
7 39 (6.81%) Software Engineer
8 38 (6.63%) Architect
9 35 (6.11%) .NET Developer
10 31 (5.41%) React Developer
11 30 (5.24%) Senior Java Developer
12 24 (4.19%) Backend Developer
12 24 (4.19%) C# Developer
13 22 (3.84%) Software Developer
14 19 (3.32%) Java Engineer
15 18 (3.14%) AWS Developer
16 17 (2.97%) Lead
17 16 (2.79%) Senior Software Engineer
18 15 (2.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 13 (2.27%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (27.75%) Spring
2 155 (27.05%) Spring Boot
3 149 (26.00%) REST
4 121 (21.12%) React
5 107 (18.67%) Kafka
6 105 (18.32%) .NET
7 69 (12.04%) AngularJS
8 66 (11.52%) CSS
9 65 (11.34%) HTML
9 65 (11.34%) Node.js
10 58 (10.12%) OAuth
11 48 (8.38%) Web Services
12 40 (6.98%) Swagger
13 39 (6.81%) OAuth2
14 38 (6.63%) Django
15 37 (6.46%) JSON
16 36 (6.28%) FastAPI
16 36 (6.28%) OpenAPI
17 35 (6.11%) .NET Core
18 34 (5.93%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 93 (16.23%) Cloud Native
2 87 (15.18%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (14.14%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.89%) Mobile App
5 23 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.62%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.27%) Low-Code
9 12 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.57%) Derivative
10 9 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.57%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.40%) Hedge funds
12 7 (1.22%) DataPower
12 7 (1.22%) Equities
12 7 (1.22%) Mainframe
13 6 (1.05%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.05%) Blockchain
13 6 (1.05%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.16%) Linux
2 22 (3.84%) Unix
3 18 (3.14%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.09%) Android
5 10 (1.75%) Windows
6 7 (1.22%) zOS
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (59.69%) CI/CD
2 299 (52.18%) Microservices
3 293 (51.13%) Agile
4 200 (34.90%) DevOps
5 168 (29.32%) Containerisation
6 131 (22.86%) Test Automation
7 121 (21.12%) Event-Driven
8 110 (19.20%) Scrum
9 109 (19.02%) Full-Stack Development
10 107 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
11 106 (18.50%) Software Engineering
12 83 (14.49%) API Development
13 82 (14.31%) Code Quality
14 81 (14.14%) Clean Code
15 76 (13.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 76 (13.26%) TDD
16 75 (13.09%) API Design
17 74 (12.91%) Infrastructure as Code
18 63 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
18 63 (10.99%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 241 (42.06%) Java
2 183 (31.94%) SQL
3 151 (26.35%) Python
4 125 (21.82%) C#
5 121 (21.12%) JavaScript
6 99 (17.28%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.36%) Shell Script
8 24 (4.19%) Go
9 20 (3.49%) Kotlin
10 16 (2.79%) Swift
11 13 (2.27%) Bicep
12 11 (1.92%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.57%) Scala
14 7 (1.22%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.05%) JCL
15 6 (1.05%) Objective-C
15 6 (1.05%) Rust
15 6 (1.05%) X++
16 5 (0.87%) Ruby
16 5 (0.87%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 134 (23.39%) Security Cleared
2 98 (17.10%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.76%) Degree
4 24 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.62%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.57%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (1.40%) CCSP
9 8 (1.40%) CEH
9 8 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.40%) CISM
9 8 (1.40%) CISSP
9 8 (1.40%) OSCP
10 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.70%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.52%) MBA
12 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (14.49%) QA
2 51 (8.90%) Accessibility
3 31 (5.41%) WCAG
4 13 (2.27%) NIST
5 12 (2.09%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.92%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.40%) COBIT
7 8 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.05%) GDPR
9 4 (0.70%) NCSC
10 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.35%) HL7
10 2 (0.35%) SLA
10 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.17%) Basel III
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) MiFID
11 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 203 (35.43%) Docker
2 9 (1.57%) Postfix
3 5 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 170 (29.67%) Kubernetes
2 67 (11.69%) Terraform
3 38 (6.63%) Grafana
4 32 (5.58%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.09%) Ansible
6 6 (1.05%) Kibana
7 3 (0.52%) Podman
7 3 (0.52%) Puppet
7 3 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.35%) Consul
8 2 (0.35%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 39 (6.81%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.24%) Oracle
3 16 (2.79%) Google
4 14 (2.44%) Dynatrace
5 13 (2.27%) Adobe
5 13 (2.27%) Atlassian
6 12 (2.09%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.92%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (1.75%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.75%) Splunk
9 8 (1.40%) Apple
9 8 (1.40%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.40%) Sybase
9 8 (1.40%) UiPath
9 8 (1.40%) Veracode
10 7 (1.22%) Databricks
10 7 (1.22%) New Relic
10 7 (1.22%) Okta
11 6 (1.05%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.70%) IBM