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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 147 176
Rank change year-on-year -62 +29 +55
Contract jobs citing RESTful 611 525 463
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 1.89% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.22% 7.60% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 388 305
10th Percentile £362 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £572 £584 £650
90th Percentile £650 £675 £763
UK median daily rate £499 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £49.25 £47.70
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.55 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +12.04%
75th Percentile £77.38 £63.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £95.00 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +12.04%

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 6,909 8,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.39% 24.90% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,469 4,744 5,564
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 166 183
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £32.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -2.34%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.43 £76.85 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -25 339 £500 -3.85% 325
North of England -86 91 £475 +7.95% 94
South East -49 79 £475 +4.05% 56
Yorkshire -52 42 £525 +23.53% 30
Midlands -62 42 £447 +2.69% 35
South West -19 31 £445 -1.11% 47
North West -82 29 £535 +18.89% 49
West Midlands -37 25 £488 -2.50% 18
North East -23 20 £450 -10.00% 16
East of England -19 16 £463 -15.14% 25
East Midlands -32 16 £435 +8.21% 16
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 (4.75%) Confluence
2 5 (0.82%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.82%) CMS
3 4 (0.65%) Camunda
3 4 (0.65%) CICS
3 4 (0.65%) Ethereum
3 4 (0.65%) Hyperledger
3 4 (0.65%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.65%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.33%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.33%) Mule
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.16%) IIS
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (1.31%) CPLEX
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
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
1 244 (39.93%) AWS
2 230 (37.64%) Azure
3 139 (22.75%) GitHub
4 90 (14.73%) GitHub Actions
5 87 (14.24%) Serverless
6 82 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (12.93%) GCP
8 63 (10.31%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (7.36%) Amazon S3
10 37 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (5.40%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (5.40%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (3.60%) GitHub Copilot
15 17 (2.78%) Entra ID
16 16 (2.62%) Azure AKS
16 16 (2.62%) Power Platform
17 15 (2.45%) Azure Functions
18 14 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.62%) HTTP
2 5 (0.82%) 5G
2 5 (0.82%) DNS
2 5 (0.82%) SSH
2 5 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.65%) 4G
3 4 (0.65%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.65%) MQTT
3 4 (0.65%) Network Security
4 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.16%) LTE
4 1 (0.16%) NFC
4 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (22.26%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (13.58%) NoSQL
3 82 (13.42%) Relational Database
4 59 (9.66%) MongoDB
5 53 (8.67%) SQL Server
6 43 (7.04%) MySQL
7 36 (5.89%) DynamoDB
8 26 (4.26%) Redis
9 22 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (2.13%) Geospatial Data
12 11 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.15%) Power BI
15 6 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.98%) Metadata
15 6 (0.98%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 4 (0.65%) Db2
17 4 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 176 (28.81%) Git
2 115 (18.82%) Jenkins
3 57 (9.33%) GitLab
4 48 (7.86%) JUnit
5 47 (7.69%) JIRA
6 34 (5.56%) Mockito
7 30 (4.91%) Gradle
8 26 (4.26%) Maven
9 21 (3.44%) Cypress.io
10 19 (3.11%) Postman
10 19 (3.11%) SonarQube
11 18 (2.95%) Cucumber
12 14 (2.29%) Visual Studio
13 12 (1.96%) REST Assured
13 12 (1.96%) Selenium
14 11 (1.80%) MSI
15 10 (1.64%) fastlane
16 9 (1.47%) CircleCI
16 9 (1.47%) Storybook
16 9 (1.47%) Xcode
General
1 153 (25.04%) Social Skills
2 114 (18.66%) Finance
3 106 (17.35%) Public Sector
4 84 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (7.36%) Banking
6 35 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.95%) Retail
8 15 (2.45%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.96%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.31%) Law
10 8 (1.31%) Marketing
10 8 (1.31%) Publishing
11 7 (1.15%) Local Government
12 6 (0.98%) Front Office
12 6 (0.98%) Legal
13 5 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.82%) Police
14 4 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.65%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.49%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 380 (62.19%) Developer
2 121 (19.80%) Senior
3 113 (18.49%) Java Developer
4 87 (14.24%) Senior Developer
5 79 (12.93%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (7.69%) Python Developer
7 43 (7.04%) .NET Developer
8 38 (6.22%) Software Engineer
9 37 (6.06%) Architect
10 35 (5.73%) Senior Java Developer
11 27 (4.42%) React Developer
12 26 (4.26%) C# Developer
13 25 (4.09%) Software Developer
14 24 (3.93%) Lead
15 23 (3.76%) Java Engineer
16 20 (3.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 19 (3.11%) AWS Developer
17 19 (3.11%) C# .NET Developer
18 18 (2.95%) Backend Developer
18 18 (2.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (29.62%) REST
2 155 (25.37%) Spring
3 148 (24.22%) Spring Boot
4 125 (20.46%) React
5 117 (19.15%) Kafka
6 110 (18.00%) .NET
7 95 (15.55%) CSS
8 91 (14.89%) HTML
9 86 (14.08%) Terraform
10 61 (9.98%) AngularJS
11 60 (9.82%) Node.js
11 60 (9.82%) OAuth
12 51 (8.35%) OAuth2
13 50 (8.18%) .NET Core
14 48 (7.86%) Web Services
15 46 (7.53%) HTML5
15 46 (7.53%) JSON
16 42 (6.87%) CSS3
17 40 (6.55%) Swagger
18 39 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 151 (24.71%) Cloud Native
2 107 (17.51%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (14.08%) Product Ownership
4 41 (6.71%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (6.06%) Mobile App
6 25 (4.09%) Onboarding
7 23 (3.76%) Data Structures
8 18 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (2.13%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.96%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.80%) NHS
12 10 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.64%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.47%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.15%) Hedge funds
15 6 (0.98%) Life Science
15 6 (0.98%) Low-Code
16 4 (0.65%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 53 (8.67%) Linux
2 36 (5.89%) Unix
3 23 (3.76%) Apple iOS
4 20 (3.27%) Android
5 16 (2.62%) Windows
6 4 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (64.16%) CI/CD
2 346 (56.63%) Agile
3 314 (51.39%) Microservices
4 265 (43.37%) DevOps
5 190 (31.10%) Test Automation
6 182 (29.79%) Containerisation
7 147 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
8 141 (23.08%) Event-Driven
9 138 (22.59%) Full-Stack Development
10 132 (21.60%) Scrum
11 130 (21.28%) Software Engineering
12 116 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 113 (18.49%) Code Quality
14 106 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
15 91 (14.89%) API Design
15 91 (14.89%) API Development
16 87 (14.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 86 (14.08%) AI
18 84 (13.75%) Clean Code
19 79 (12.93%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 243 (39.77%) Java
2 178 (29.13%) SQL
3 156 (25.53%) Python
4 150 (24.55%) JavaScript
5 130 (21.28%) C#
6 115 (18.82%) TypeScript
7 36 (5.89%) Kotlin
8 31 (5.07%) Shell Script
9 25 (4.09%) Bicep
10 22 (3.60%) Swift
11 15 (2.45%) Bash
12 13 (2.13%) Ruby
13 12 (1.96%) Scala
14 9 (1.47%) Go
14 9 (1.47%) Objective-C
14 9 (1.47%) Rust
15 8 (1.31%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.31%) X++
16 7 (1.15%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.65%) JCL
Qualifications
1 167 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 136 (22.26%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.55%) Degree
4 28 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.27%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.13%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.64%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (1.31%) CCSP
11 8 (1.31%) CEH
11 8 (1.31%) CISM
11 8 (1.31%) CISSP
11 8 (1.31%) OSCP
12 5 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.49%) MBA
14 2 (0.33%) PhD
15 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (17.51%) QA
2 73 (11.95%) Accessibility
3 45 (7.36%) WCAG
4 13 (2.13%) NCSC
5 9 (1.47%) NIST
6 8 (1.31%) COBIT
6 8 (1.31%) HL7
6 8 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.98%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.49%) GDPR
9 2 (0.33%) Basel III
9 2 (0.33%) SLA
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 238 (38.95%) Docker
2 6 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.82%) Postfix
4 4 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 189 (30.93%) Kubernetes
2 44 (7.20%) Grafana
3 36 (5.89%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.96%) Ansible
5 10 (1.64%) Kibana
6 5 (0.82%) Argo
7 4 (0.65%) Podman
7 4 (0.65%) Puppet
8 3 (0.49%) Bosun
8 3 (0.49%) Istio
9 2 (0.33%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.33%) Consul
9 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.33%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.16%) linkerd
Vendors
1 70 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.71%) Oracle
3 30 (4.91%) Google
4 20 (3.27%) Dynatrace
5 16 (2.62%) Splunk
6 12 (1.96%) New Relic
6 12 (1.96%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.15%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.15%) Databricks
8 6 (0.98%) Apple
8 6 (0.98%) IBM
8 6 (0.98%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (0.98%) MuleSoft
9 5 (0.82%) Okta
9 5 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.65%) Citrix
10 4 (0.65%) NVIDIA
10 4 (0.65%) SAP
10 4 (0.65%) Sybase
10 4 (0.65%) Tenable