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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 143 181
Rank change year-on-year -70 +38 +51
Contract jobs citing RESTful 623 538 470
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.93% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.31% 7.71% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 397 299
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £390 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £570 £583 £650
90th Percentile £650 £675 £763
UK median daily rate £493 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +1.55% -3.00% -8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 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 £77.25 £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 9,867 6,979 8,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.29% 25.08% 24.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,481 4,774 5,525
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
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 271 164 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.36 £27.38
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -13.04% -0.79%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.40 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -30 340 £500 -3.85% 247
North of England -86 97 £450 - 82
South East -46 76 £475 +4.05% 52
Midlands -59 52 £447 -0.67% 25
Yorkshire -58 43 £513 +16.48% 30
West Midlands -39 36 £488 -2.50% 12
North West -67 32 £500 +13.64% 42
South West -24 31 £445 -1.11% 28
North East -29 22 £450 -10.00% 12
East of England -17 17 £463 -15.14% 26
East Midlands -36 15 £435 +8.21% 12
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 38 (6.10%) Confluence
2 5 (0.80%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.80%) CMS
3 4 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.64%) Camunda
3 4 (0.64%) CICS
3 4 (0.64%) Ethereum
3 4 (0.64%) Hyperledger
3 4 (0.64%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.64%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
4 3 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.32%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.32%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.32%) Mule
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (1.28%) CPLEX
2 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Quorum
1 4 (0.64%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.64%) Ripple
2 3 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
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
1 259 (41.57%) AWS
2 226 (36.28%) Azure
3 144 (23.11%) GitHub
4 92 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
5 89 (14.29%) Serverless
6 81 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (13.00%) GCP
7 66 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
8 49 (7.87%) Amazon S3
9 41 (6.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 38 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (3.53%) GitHub Copilot
15 17 (2.73%) Entra ID
16 15 (2.41%) Azure AKS
16 15 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (2.41%) Power Platform
17 14 (2.25%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.57%) HTTP
2 5 (0.80%) 5G
2 5 (0.80%) DNS
2 5 (0.80%) SSH
2 5 (0.80%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.64%) 4G
3 4 (0.64%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.64%) MQTT
3 4 (0.64%) 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
1 146 (23.43%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (14.61%) Relational Database
3 82 (13.16%) NoSQL
4 64 (10.27%) MongoDB
5 51 (8.19%) SQL Server
6 48 (7.70%) MySQL
7 35 (5.62%) DynamoDB
8 27 (4.33%) Redis
9 23 (3.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (2.09%) Geospatial Data
12 10 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.12%) Power BI
15 6 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.96%) Metadata
15 6 (0.96%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 4 (0.64%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.64%) Db2
Development Applications
1 188 (30.18%) Git
2 126 (20.22%) Jenkins
3 61 (9.79%) GitLab
4 58 (9.31%) JUnit
5 56 (8.99%) JIRA
6 42 (6.74%) Mockito
7 36 (5.78%) Maven
8 31 (4.98%) Gradle
9 28 (4.49%) SonarQube
10 20 (3.21%) Cypress.io
11 19 (3.05%) Cucumber
11 19 (3.05%) Postman
12 13 (2.09%) Selenium
13 12 (1.93%) REST Assured
13 12 (1.93%) Visual Studio
14 11 (1.77%) MSI
15 10 (1.61%) fastlane
16 9 (1.44%) CircleCI
16 9 (1.44%) Storybook
16 9 (1.44%) Xcode
General
1 159 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 117 (18.78%) Finance
3 109 (17.50%) Public Sector
4 95 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (7.06%) Banking
6 38 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.73%) Retail
8 15 (2.41%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.77%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.28%) Law
10 8 (1.28%) Marketing
10 8 (1.28%) Publishing
11 7 (1.12%) Local Government
12 6 (0.96%) Front Office
12 6 (0.96%) Legal
12 6 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.80%) Police
14 4 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.48%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 388 (62.28%) Developer
2 128 (20.55%) Senior
3 119 (19.10%) Java Developer
4 91 (14.61%) Senior Developer
5 79 (12.68%) Full-Stack Developer
6 48 (7.70%) Python Developer
7 42 (6.74%) Software Engineer
8 40 (6.42%) .NET Developer
9 38 (6.10%) Senior Java Developer
10 35 (5.62%) Architect
11 30 (4.82%) Lead
11 30 (4.82%) Software Developer
12 26 (4.17%) React Developer
13 24 (3.85%) C# Developer
14 23 (3.69%) Java Engineer
15 20 (3.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (2.89%) AWS Developer
16 18 (2.89%) Backend Developer
16 18 (2.89%) C# .NET Developer
16 18 (2.89%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (30.34%) REST
2 163 (26.16%) Spring
3 158 (25.36%) Spring Boot
4 125 (20.06%) React
5 122 (19.58%) Kafka
6 109 (17.50%) .NET
7 94 (15.09%) CSS
7 94 (15.09%) Terraform
8 93 (14.93%) HTML
9 69 (11.08%) AngularJS
10 61 (9.79%) OAuth
11 60 (9.63%) Node.js
12 59 (9.47%) Web Services
13 52 (8.35%) OAuth2
14 50 (8.03%) .NET Core
15 47 (7.54%) HTML5
15 47 (7.54%) JSON
16 44 (7.06%) Swagger
17 43 (6.90%) CSS3
18 42 (6.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 163 (26.16%) Cloud Native
2 110 (17.66%) Distributed Systems
3 93 (14.93%) Product Ownership
4 42 (6.74%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (5.94%) Mobile App
6 25 (4.01%) Onboarding
7 23 (3.69%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (2.41%) AI Agents
9 15 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.93%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.77%) NHS
12 10 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.61%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.12%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.12%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.96%) Life Science
15 5 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
15 5 (0.80%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 52 (8.35%) Linux
2 36 (5.78%) Unix
3 23 (3.69%) Apple iOS
4 20 (3.21%) Android
5 15 (2.41%) Windows
6 4 (0.64%) zOS
7 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (65.33%) CI/CD
2 357 (57.30%) Agile
3 322 (51.69%) Microservices
4 269 (43.18%) DevOps
5 210 (33.71%) Test Automation
6 187 (30.02%) Containerisation
7 154 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
8 147 (23.60%) Scrum
9 146 (23.43%) Event-Driven
10 140 (22.47%) Software Engineering
11 138 (22.15%) Full-Stack Development
12 130 (20.87%) Code Quality
13 126 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 112 (17.98%) Infrastructure as Code
15 106 (17.01%) API Development
16 91 (14.61%) API Design
17 90 (14.45%) AI
17 90 (14.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 86 (13.80%) Observability
19 85 (13.64%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 256 (41.09%) Java
2 174 (27.93%) SQL
3 163 (26.16%) Python
4 155 (24.88%) JavaScript
5 128 (20.55%) C#
6 122 (19.58%) TypeScript
7 37 (5.94%) Kotlin
8 30 (4.82%) Shell Script
9 27 (4.33%) Bicep
10 22 (3.53%) Swift
11 15 (2.41%) Bash
12 14 (2.25%) Ruby
12 14 (2.25%) Scala
13 10 (1.61%) Rust
14 9 (1.44%) Go
14 9 (1.44%) Objective-C
15 8 (1.28%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.28%) X++
16 6 (0.96%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.80%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 169 (27.13%) Security Cleared
2 139 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.74%) Degree
4 30 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.69%) DV Cleared
6 20 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (3.05%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.09%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.61%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (0.96%) CCSP
11 6 (0.96%) CEH
11 6 (0.96%) CISM
11 6 (0.96%) CISSP
11 6 (0.96%) OSCP
12 5 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.48%) MBA
13 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (18.46%) QA
2 68 (10.91%) Accessibility
3 44 (7.06%) WCAG
4 13 (2.09%) NCSC
5 8 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.28%) HL7
6 7 (1.12%) NIST
7 6 (0.96%) COBIT
7 6 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.48%) GDPR
9 2 (0.32%) Basel III
9 2 (0.32%) SLA
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
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
1 250 (40.13%) Docker
2 5 (0.80%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.80%) Postfix
3 4 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 192 (30.82%) Kubernetes
2 54 (8.67%) Grafana
3 44 (7.06%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.93%) Ansible
5 10 (1.61%) Kibana
6 5 (0.80%) Argo
7 4 (0.64%) Podman
7 4 (0.64%) Puppet
8 3 (0.48%) Bosun
8 3 (0.48%) Istio
9 2 (0.32%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.32%) Consul
9 2 (0.32%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.16%) linkerd
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.58%) Oracle
3 31 (4.98%) Google
4 21 (3.37%) Dynatrace
5 18 (2.89%) Splunk
6 12 (1.93%) New Relic
7 11 (1.77%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.28%) Databricks
9 7 (1.12%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.96%) Apple
10 6 (0.96%) IBM
10 6 (0.96%) Jaspersoft
10 6 (0.96%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.80%) Okta
11 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.64%) Citrix
12 4 (0.64%) NVIDIA
12 4 (0.64%) SAP
12 4 (0.64%) Sybase
12 4 (0.64%) Tenable