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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 166 205
Rank change year-on-year -33 +39 -6
Contract jobs citing RESTful 564 405 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.67% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.01% 7.41% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 279 297
10th Percentile £356 £356 £368
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 £575 £606 £619
90th Percentile £650 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £490 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +0.46% -2.50% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 7
10th Percentile £54.00 £51.50 £47.70
25th Percentile £56.25 £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 £84.50 - £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 8,043 5,467 7,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.23% 22.55% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,307 3,783 5,413
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £661 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £538
% change year-on-year +0.77% -3.07% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 106 242
10th Percentile £31.03 £31.28 £22.53
25th Percentile £51.25 £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 £72.00 £68.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.01 £74.95
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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -7 311 £500 -4.76% 162
North of England -24 107 £460 +11.52% 72
South East -31 65 £525 +5.53% 65
North West -26 54 £450 +12.50% 40
Midlands -59 45 £488 +5.41% 17
Yorkshire -33 39 £525 +13.51% 22
West Midlands -58 26 £488 -2.50% 8
South West -24 22 £475 -20.83% 31
East Midlands -32 17 £446 +10.95% 9
North East -18 14 £450 -7.69% 10
East of England -36 9 £500 -6.98% 24
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 (4.26%) Confluence
2 10 (1.77%) Ethereum
2 10 (1.77%) Hyperledger
3 9 (1.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 9 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.42%) Appian
5 7 (1.24%) CICS
6 6 (1.06%) CMS
7 5 (0.89%) Camunda
7 5 (0.89%) 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%) Mule ESB
10 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (1.42%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.89%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.89%) Sketch
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.89%) 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
1 230 (40.78%) AWS
2 191 (33.87%) Azure
3 93 (16.49%) Serverless
4 87 (15.43%) GitHub
5 69 (12.23%) AWS Lambda
6 61 (10.82%) GitHub Actions
7 57 (10.11%) GCP
8 55 (9.75%) Amazon S3
9 52 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (6.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 32 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (5.32%) Amazon SQS
13 28 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (4.61%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (3.55%) Power Automate
17 19 (3.37%) Route 53
18 17 (3.01%) Entra ID
19 16 (2.84%) Azure Service Bus
20 15 (2.66%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.30%) HTTP
2 5 (0.89%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.71%) DNS
4 2 (0.35%) MQTT
4 2 (0.35%) Network Security
4 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.35%) SSL
5 1 (0.18%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.18%) 4G
5 1 (0.18%) 5G
5 1 (0.18%) LTE
5 1 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.18%) SMS
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (19.86%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (15.25%) NoSQL
3 61 (10.82%) SQL Server
4 56 (9.93%) Relational Database
5 48 (8.51%) DynamoDB
6 45 (7.98%) MongoDB
7 35 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (5.14%) Amazon Aurora
8 29 (5.14%) MySQL
9 18 (3.19%) Redis
10 11 (1.95%) DB2
11 9 (1.60%) Pinecone
12 6 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.06%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.06%) Flink
12 6 (1.06%) Power BI
13 4 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.71%) GIS
14 3 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.53%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 127 (22.52%) Git
2 92 (16.31%) Jenkins
3 59 (10.46%) GitLab
4 50 (8.87%) JUnit
5 42 (7.45%) JIRA
6 34 (6.03%) Mockito
7 26 (4.61%) Postman
8 24 (4.26%) SonarQube
9 22 (3.90%) Maven
10 20 (3.55%) Cucumber
11 19 (3.37%) Gradle
12 14 (2.48%) Visual Studio
13 12 (2.13%) DbUnit
13 12 (2.13%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.95%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (1.95%) jMock
15 9 (1.60%) Selenium
16 8 (1.42%) JMeter
16 8 (1.42%) Liquibase
16 8 (1.42%) MLflow
General
1 125 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 122 (21.63%) Finance
3 87 (15.43%) Public Sector
4 63 (11.17%) Banking
5 58 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.13%) Front Office
8 10 (1.77%) Retail
9 9 (1.60%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.06%) Legal
10 6 (1.06%) Marketing
11 5 (0.89%) Law
11 5 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.89%) 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
1 351 (62.23%) Developer
2 111 (19.68%) Java Developer
3 106 (18.79%) Senior
4 67 (11.88%) Senior Developer
5 63 (11.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (8.33%) Python Developer
7 37 (6.56%) Software Engineer
8 34 (6.03%) .NET Developer
8 34 (6.03%) Architect
9 30 (5.32%) Senior Java Developer
10 29 (5.14%) React Developer
11 26 (4.61%) C# Developer
12 22 (3.90%) Backend Developer
12 22 (3.90%) Software Developer
13 21 (3.72%) Lead
14 19 (3.37%) AWS Developer
15 18 (3.19%) Java Engineer
16 16 (2.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 15 (2.66%) Senior Software Engineer
18 12 (2.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (28.19%) Spring
2 154 (27.30%) Spring Boot
3 141 (25.00%) REST
4 126 (22.34%) React
5 102 (18.09%) .NET
6 101 (17.91%) Kafka
7 79 (14.01%) AngularJS
8 70 (12.41%) CSS
9 69 (12.23%) HTML
10 68 (12.06%) Node.js
11 59 (10.46%) OAuth
12 49 (8.69%) Web Services
13 40 (7.09%) OAuth2
14 39 (6.91%) Django
15 38 (6.74%) Swagger
16 37 (6.56%) JSON
17 36 (6.38%) FastAPI
17 36 (6.38%) HTML5
18 35 (6.21%) Hibernate
18 35 (6.21%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 85 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 83 (14.72%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (13.83%) Product Ownership
4 26 (4.61%) Mobile App
5 21 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.48%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.30%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.60%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.42%) Derivative
10 8 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.42%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.24%) DataPower
11 7 (1.24%) Mainframe
12 6 (1.06%) Blockchain
12 6 (1.06%) Equities
12 6 (1.06%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.09%) Linux
2 21 (3.72%) Unix
3 13 (2.30%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.95%) 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
1 334 (59.22%) CI/CD
2 293 (51.95%) Microservices
3 291 (51.60%) Agile
4 196 (34.75%) DevOps
5 161 (28.55%) Containerisation
6 129 (22.87%) Test Automation
7 117 (20.74%) Event-Driven
8 113 (20.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 113 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
9 105 (18.62%) Scrum
10 102 (18.09%) Software Engineering
11 80 (14.18%) Clean Code
11 80 (14.18%) Code Quality
12 79 (14.01%) API Development
13 78 (13.83%) TDD
14 73 (12.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 69 (12.23%) Infrastructure as Code
16 68 (12.06%) API Design
17 61 (10.82%) Performance Optimisation
18 58 (10.28%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 240 (42.55%) Java
2 181 (32.09%) SQL
3 142 (25.18%) Python
4 123 (21.81%) C#
5 121 (21.45%) JavaScript
6 99 (17.55%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.26%) Go
8 22 (3.90%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.19%) Kotlin
10 11 (1.95%) Swift
11 10 (1.77%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.60%) Bicep
12 9 (1.60%) Scala
13 6 (1.06%) JCL
13 6 (1.06%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.06%) X++
14 5 (0.89%) Rust
14 5 (0.89%) Solidity
15 4 (0.71%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 131 (23.23%) Security Cleared
2 97 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.74%) Degree
4 26 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.66%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.48%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.60%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 7 (1.24%) CCSP
9 7 (1.24%) CEH
9 7 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.24%) CISM
9 7 (1.24%) CISSP
9 7 (1.24%) OSCP
10 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.53%) MBA
12 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.83%) QA
2 50 (8.87%) Accessibility
3 30 (5.32%) WCAG
4 12 (2.13%) NIST
5 11 (1.95%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.95%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.24%) COBIT
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
1 197 (34.93%) Docker
2 9 (1.60%) Postfix
3 5 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.35%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 162 (28.72%) Kubernetes
2 62 (10.99%) Terraform
3 36 (6.38%) Grafana
4 31 (5.50%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.95%) Ansible
6 6 (1.06%) Kibana
7 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.35%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.35%) Consul
8 2 (0.35%) Podman
8 2 (0.35%) Puppet
8 2 (0.35%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 38 (6.74%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.79%) Oracle
3 20 (3.55%) Adobe
4 16 (2.84%) Google
5 13 (2.30%) Atlassian
6 12 (2.13%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.95%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (1.77%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.77%) Splunk
9 9 (1.60%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.42%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.42%) UiPath
10 8 (1.42%) 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%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.89%) New Relic