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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 170 207
Rank change year-on-year -25 +37 -18
Contract jobs citing RESTful 551 393 421
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.61% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.95% 7.20% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 271 298
10th Percentile £350 £358 £384
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.50% -12.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 7
10th Percentile £53.50 £50.50 £47.70
25th Percentile £68.13 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -34.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 £53.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £54.50 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -34.38% +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 7,928 5,456 7,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.28% 22.30% 20.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,254 3,776 5,311
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 99 231
10th Percentile £31.18 £32.65 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.81 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -2 305 £500 -4.76% 123
North of England -20 111 £450 +9.09% 67
North West -17 61 £449 +12.13% 37
South East -41 53 £515 +7.24% 53
Midlands -62 43 £488 +1.56% 16
Yorkshire -35 37 £513 +2.50% 21
West Midlands -60 26 £488 -4.88% 10
South West -26 24 £525 -12.50% 16
East Midlands -22 16 £447 -3.35% 6
North East -12 13 £450 +22.87% 9
East of England -29 8 £513 -10.87% 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 26 (4.72%) Confluence
2 11 (2.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 11 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.45%) Appian
4 7 (1.27%) CMS
5 6 (1.09%) Ethereum
5 6 (1.09%) Hyperledger
6 5 (0.91%) Camunda
6 5 (0.91%) CICS
6 5 (0.91%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.54%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.36%) IIS
8 2 (0.36%) Mule
8 2 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.45%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.91%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.91%) Sketch
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.18%) Maximo
3 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.18%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 228 (41.38%) AWS
2 182 (33.03%) Azure
3 87 (15.79%) Serverless
4 81 (14.70%) GitHub
5 64 (11.62%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (10.71%) GCP
7 58 (10.53%) Amazon S3
8 56 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 28 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
15 26 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (3.63%) Power Automate
17 16 (2.90%) Azure AKS
17 16 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
18 14 (2.54%) Azure Functions
18 14 (2.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.18%) HTTP
2 5 (0.91%) HTTPS
2 5 (0.91%) SSL
3 4 (0.73%) DNS
4 2 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.36%) VPN
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
1 104 (18.87%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (16.52%) NoSQL
3 60 (10.89%) Relational Database
4 58 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 48 (8.71%) MongoDB
6 39 (7.08%) DynamoDB
7 32 (5.81%) MySQL
8 29 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (4.36%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (3.63%) Redis
11 9 (1.63%) DB2
11 9 (1.63%) DocumentDB
11 9 (1.63%) Pinecone
12 6 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.09%) Flink
12 6 (1.09%) Power BI
13 5 (0.91%) Big Data
14 4 (0.73%) GIS
15 3 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 132 (23.96%) Git
2 80 (14.52%) Jenkins
3 65 (11.80%) GitLab
4 46 (8.35%) JUnit
5 41 (7.44%) JIRA
6 30 (5.44%) Mockito
7 21 (3.81%) Maven
7 21 (3.81%) Postman
8 19 (3.45%) SonarQube
9 16 (2.90%) Gradle
10 15 (2.72%) Cucumber
11 14 (2.54%) Visual Studio
12 10 (1.81%) Selenium
13 9 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (1.63%) DbUnit
13 9 (1.63%) jMock
14 8 (1.45%) MLflow
15 7 (1.27%) Bitbucket
15 7 (1.27%) Mocha
15 7 (1.27%) REST Assured
General
1 128 (23.23%) Social Skills
2 122 (22.14%) Finance
3 94 (17.06%) Public Sector
4 57 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (10.34%) Banking
5 12 (2.18%) Front Office
6 9 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.63%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.27%) Retail
8 6 (1.09%) Marketing
9 5 (0.91%) Legal
9 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.54%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.54%) Law
11 3 (0.54%) Local Government
11 3 (0.54%) Police
11 3 (0.54%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 346 (62.79%) Developer
2 109 (19.78%) Java Developer
3 95 (17.24%) Senior
4 67 (12.16%) Full-Stack Developer
5 56 (10.16%) Senior Developer
6 47 (8.53%) Python Developer
7 40 (7.26%) Software Engineer
8 33 (5.99%) Architect
9 31 (5.63%) .NET Developer
10 29 (5.26%) React Developer
11 26 (4.72%) Senior Java Developer
12 24 (4.36%) C# Developer
13 23 (4.17%) Java Engineer
14 22 (3.99%) Backend Developer
14 22 (3.99%) Software Developer
15 21 (3.81%) Lead
16 17 (3.09%) AWS Developer
17 16 (2.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 16 (2.90%) Senior Software Engineer
18 11 (2.00%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (30.67%) Spring
2 166 (30.13%) Spring Boot
3 129 (23.41%) React
4 125 (22.69%) REST
5 101 (18.33%) Kafka
6 97 (17.60%) .NET
7 81 (14.70%) AngularJS
8 72 (13.07%) HTML
9 71 (12.89%) CSS
10 68 (12.34%) Node.js
11 54 (9.80%) OAuth
12 40 (7.26%) Swagger
12 40 (7.26%) Web Services
13 39 (7.08%) Django
13 39 (7.08%) Hibernate
14 38 (6.90%) HTML5
15 36 (6.53%) FastAPI
15 36 (6.53%) JSON
15 36 (6.53%) OpenAPI
16 35 (6.35%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 82 (14.88%) Cloud Native
2 75 (13.61%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (12.34%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (3.63%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.90%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.54%) Low-Code
8 13 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.81%) NHS
9 10 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.63%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.45%) Derivative
11 8 (1.45%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.09%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.09%) Equities
12 6 (1.09%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.91%) Fixed Income
13 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.35%) Linux
2 22 (3.99%) Unix
3 9 (1.63%) Android
4 8 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.27%) Windows
6 5 (0.91%) zOS
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (60.62%) CI/CD
2 300 (54.45%) Microservices
3 282 (51.18%) Agile
4 197 (35.75%) DevOps
5 173 (31.40%) Containerisation
6 129 (23.41%) Test Automation
7 120 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
8 118 (21.42%) Event-Driven
9 116 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
10 96 (17.42%) Software Engineering
11 94 (17.06%) Scrum
12 87 (15.79%) Clean Code
13 85 (15.43%) TDD
14 79 (14.34%) Code Quality
14 79 (14.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 77 (13.97%) API Development
16 73 (13.25%) API Design
17 71 (12.89%) Infrastructure as Code
18 62 (11.25%) Unit Testing
19 58 (10.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 240 (43.56%) Java
2 168 (30.49%) SQL
3 139 (25.23%) Python
4 123 (22.32%) JavaScript
5 117 (21.23%) C#
6 100 (18.15%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.36%) Go
8 19 (3.45%) Shell Script
9 16 (2.90%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.81%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.63%) Bicep
12 6 (1.09%) Swift
12 6 (1.09%) X++
13 5 (0.91%) Scala
14 4 (0.73%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.73%) Bash
14 4 (0.73%) JCL
15 3 (0.54%) Ruby
15 3 (0.54%) Rust
16 2 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 131 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 93 (16.88%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.08%) Degree
4 29 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.36%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.45%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (0.91%) CCSP
8 5 (0.91%) CEH
8 5 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.91%) CISM
8 5 (0.91%) CISSP
8 5 (0.91%) OSCP
9 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.54%) MBA
11 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (12.16%) QA
2 47 (8.53%) Accessibility
3 29 (5.26%) WCAG
4 12 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.81%) NIST
6 9 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.09%) GDPR
9 5 (0.91%) COBIT
9 5 (0.91%) HL7
10 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.36%) SLA
10 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.18%) EMIR
11 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.18%) MiFID
11 1 (0.18%) NCSC
11 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 206 (37.39%) Docker
2 8 (1.45%) Postfix
3 5 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.54%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 172 (31.22%) Kubernetes
2 68 (12.34%) Terraform
3 28 (5.08%) Grafana
4 25 (4.54%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.45%) Ansible
6 6 (1.09%) Kibana
7 3 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.36%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 36 (6.53%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.54%) Oracle
3 21 (3.81%) Adobe
4 15 (2.72%) Google
5 12 (2.18%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.81%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.81%) OpenAI
6 10 (1.81%) Splunk
7 9 (1.63%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (1.63%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.45%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (1.45%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.45%) UiPath
8 8 (1.45%) Veracode
9 7 (1.27%) Databricks
9 7 (1.27%) Okta
10 6 (1.09%) Apple
11 5 (0.91%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.91%) Sybase
12 3 (0.54%) New Relic