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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 163 211
Rank change year-on-year -19 +48 -18
Contract jobs citing RESTful 567 422 431
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.54% 1.70% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.19% 7.49% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 284 329
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £403 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £619
90th Percentile £650 £738 £719
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £48.50 - £61.71
25th Percentile £53.75 £38.25 £67.27
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.50 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +39.24% -48.39% +7.41%
75th Percentile £84.63 £40.75 -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £39.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +39.24% -48.39% +7.41%

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 7,888 5,634 7,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 22.63% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,287 3,813 5,387
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 87 193
10th Percentile £35.03 £27.34 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.78 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.85 £83.38 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 15 March 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 +4 311 £488 -7.14% 91
North of England -25 114 £450 - 79
North West -10 59 £433 -1.03% 35
Midlands -28 58 £500 +3.09% 32
Yorkshire -27 51 £500 - 25
West Midlands -49 40 £481 -3.75% 22
South East -58 37 £525 +28.36% 48
East of England -14 25 £500 +60.00% 17
South West -36 20 £512 -15.63% 21
East Midlands -17 17 £550 +21.35% 10
North East -13 4 £450 +21.62% 20
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 28 (4.94%) Confluence
2 16 (2.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.29%) CMS
4 11 (1.94%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.41%) Appian
6 7 (1.23%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (1.06%) Ethereum
7 6 (1.06%) Headless CMS
7 6 (1.06%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.88%) Camunda
8 5 (0.88%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.88%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.71%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.53%) Apache
10 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.53%) CICS
11 2 (0.35%) Drupal
11 2 (0.35%) IIS
11 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.18%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (1.41%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.88%) Sketch
3 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.18%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 257 (45.33%) AWS
2 200 (35.27%) Azure
3 121 (21.34%) Serverless
4 94 (16.58%) GCP
5 90 (15.87%) GitHub
6 58 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (9.17%) Amazon S3
8 46 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
9 41 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
11 32 (5.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (5.47%) Azure Functions
13 29 (5.11%) Azure AKS
14 25 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (3.00%) Entra ID
16 17 (3.00%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.00%) HTTP
2 9 (1.59%) HTTPS
3 6 (1.06%) SSL
4 5 (0.88%) DNS
5 3 (0.53%) VPN
6 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.18%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.18%) 4G
7 1 (0.18%) 5G
7 1 (0.18%) Internet
7 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.18%) LTE
7 1 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.18%) SMS
7 1 (0.18%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (20.11%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (18.69%) NoSQL
3 60 (10.58%) Relational Database
4 45 (7.94%) SQL Server
5 41 (7.23%) MySQL
6 39 (6.88%) MongoDB
7 31 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (4.94%) DynamoDB
9 16 (2.82%) Redis
10 11 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.59%) DocumentDB
11 9 (1.59%) Pinecone
12 7 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.23%) DB2
13 6 (1.06%) Flink
14 4 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.71%) Big Data
14 4 (0.71%) GIS
14 4 (0.71%) Power BI
14 4 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 152 (26.81%) Git
2 77 (13.58%) Jenkins
3 73 (12.87%) GitLab
4 45 (7.94%) JIRA
4 45 (7.94%) JUnit
5 24 (4.23%) Mockito
6 19 (3.35%) Postman
7 17 (3.00%) Cypress.io
8 16 (2.82%) Maven
8 16 (2.82%) SonarQube
9 14 (2.47%) Cucumber
9 14 (2.47%) Selenium
10 13 (2.29%) Gradle
10 13 (2.29%) Liquibase
11 10 (1.76%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.76%) MLflow
12 8 (1.41%) REST Assured
13 7 (1.23%) Visual Studio
14 6 (1.06%) Android Studio
14 6 (1.06%) Jasmine
General
1 178 (31.39%) Social Skills
2 126 (22.22%) Finance
3 91 (16.05%) Public Sector
4 65 (11.46%) Banking
5 50 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.17%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.94%) Front Office
8 10 (1.76%) Marketing
9 8 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.06%) Legal
12 5 (0.88%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.88%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.71%) Electronics
14 3 (0.53%) Advertising
14 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.35%) Billing
15 2 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 338 (59.61%) Developer
2 97 (17.11%) Senior
3 96 (16.93%) Java Developer
4 71 (12.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 46 (8.11%) Software Engineer
6 45 (7.94%) Senior Developer
7 39 (6.88%) Python Developer
8 34 (6.00%) React Developer
9 29 (5.11%) Architect
10 28 (4.94%) Backend Developer
11 27 (4.76%) .NET Developer
12 25 (4.41%) Lead
13 23 (4.06%) C# Developer
14 21 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
14 21 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
15 20 (3.53%) Java Engineer
16 17 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
16 17 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
17 15 (2.65%) GCP Engineer
18 14 (2.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (28.04%) Spring
2 152 (26.81%) React
3 149 (26.28%) Spring Boot
4 128 (22.57%) REST
5 101 (17.81%) .NET
6 89 (15.70%) AngularJS
7 88 (15.52%) CSS
8 86 (15.17%) Node.js
9 81 (14.29%) HTML
10 74 (13.05%) Kafka
11 58 (10.23%) OAuth
12 46 (8.11%) Hibernate
13 41 (7.23%) JSON
14 40 (7.05%) HTML5
15 39 (6.88%) OAuth2
16 36 (6.35%) Django
17 35 (6.17%) CSS3
18 34 (6.00%) Web Services
19 31 (5.47%) .NET Framework
19 31 (5.47%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 84 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 52 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
2 52 (9.17%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 21 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (3.35%) Public Cloud
6 15 (2.65%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.12%) Derivative
7 12 (2.12%) NHS
7 12 (2.12%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.94%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.94%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.41%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.88%) Credit Risk
13 5 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.94%) Linux
2 15 (2.65%) Android
2 15 (2.65%) Windows
3 11 (1.94%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.23%) Unix
5 3 (0.53%) zOS
6 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (60.14%) CI/CD
2 299 (52.73%) Agile
3 282 (49.74%) Microservices
4 195 (34.39%) DevOps
5 173 (30.51%) Containerisation
6 155 (27.34%) Problem-Solving
7 125 (22.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 122 (21.52%) Test Automation
9 105 (18.52%) Software Engineering
10 91 (16.05%) API Development
10 91 (16.05%) Event-Driven
11 88 (15.52%) Clean Code
12 79 (13.93%) Scrum
12 79 (13.93%) TDD
13 76 (13.40%) User Experience
14 74 (13.05%) Code Quality
15 68 (11.99%) API Design
15 68 (11.99%) Design Patterns
15 68 (11.99%) Infrastructure as Code
16 65 (11.46%) AI
Programming Languages
1 223 (39.33%) Java
2 176 (31.04%) SQL
3 168 (29.63%) Python
4 144 (25.40%) JavaScript
5 110 (19.40%) TypeScript
6 89 (15.70%) C#
7 38 (6.70%) Go
8 19 (3.35%) Kotlin
9 13 (2.29%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.76%) Swift
11 8 (1.41%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.23%) Bicep
12 7 (1.23%) JSX
13 6 (1.06%) Ruby
14 5 (0.88%) Bash
14 5 (0.88%) PHP
14 5 (0.88%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.71%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.71%) Groovy
15 4 (0.71%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 110 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 72 (12.70%) SC Cleared
3 62 (10.93%) Degree
4 50 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (5.11%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 10 (1.76%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.23%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.06%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.35%) CCSP
14 2 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.35%) CISM
14 2 (0.35%) CISSP
14 2 (0.35%) OCP
14 2 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.70%) QA
2 45 (7.94%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.53%) WCAG
4 18 (3.17%) NIST
5 15 (2.65%) GDPR
6 12 (2.12%) EU AI Act
7 10 (1.76%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (1.23%) HL7
10 6 (1.06%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.88%) PSD2
11 5 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.71%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.71%) SLA
12 4 (0.71%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.35%) COBIT
14 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.18%) MiFID
14 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 211 (37.21%) Docker
2 9 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.71%) Postfix
4 3 (0.53%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 202 (35.63%) Kubernetes
2 81 (14.29%) Terraform
3 40 (7.05%) Prometheus
4 36 (6.35%) Grafana
5 28 (4.94%) Ansible
6 12 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.35%) Consul
8 1 (0.18%) Argo
8 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.18%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.18%) Kibana
8 1 (0.18%) Nagios
8 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.18%) Puppet
8 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 65 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.35%) Google
3 31 (5.47%) Adobe
4 26 (4.59%) Splunk
5 21 (3.70%) Oracle
6 16 (2.82%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.12%) Foundry
8 11 (1.94%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.94%) Ping Identity
9 9 (1.59%) Databricks
10 8 (1.41%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.41%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.41%) Sitecore
10 8 (1.41%) UiPath
10 8 (1.41%) Veracode
11 7 (1.23%) ForgeRock
12 6 (1.06%) Apple
12 6 (1.06%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.88%) Jaspersoft
13 5 (0.88%) SAP