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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 152 182
Rank change year-on-year -55 +30 +43
Contract jobs citing RESTful 605 501 462
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.81% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.19% 8.15% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 374 318
10th Percentile £350 £325 £339
25th Percentile £413 £388 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -10.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £675 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £48.13 £47.70
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% -3.39%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £85.00
90th Percentile - £59.38 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% -3.39%

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 8,415 6,144 7,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.65% 22.25% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,514 4,235 5,084
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £648 £675
90th Percentile £750 £772 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 147 231
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £48.40 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%
75th Percentile £73.23 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £79.22 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £53.75
% change year-on-year +18.45% +2.09% -10.42%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -24 324 £500 -0.50% 201
North of England -57 93 £500 +16.96% 78
South East -32 87 £475 +1.28% 52
Yorkshire -47 41 £538 +29.13% 29
Midlands -67 41 £488 +7.14% 21
South West -20 36 £445 -17.21% 31
North West -59 32 £572 +34.59% 44
West Midlands -53 27 £488 -2.50% 17
North East -26 20 £450 -10.00% 5
East of England -14 13 £500 -8.26% 18
East Midlands -28 13 £472 +17.29% 4
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 (4.63%) Confluence
2 8 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.99%) CICS
3 6 (0.99%) CMS
4 4 (0.66%) Ethereum
4 4 (0.66%) Hyperledger
4 4 (0.66%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.33%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.33%) Camunda
6 2 (0.33%) Mule
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) Appian
7 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.17%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (1.49%) CPLEX
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Quorum
1 4 (0.66%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.66%) Ripple
2 3 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Maximo
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.17%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 236 (39.01%) AWS
2 228 (37.69%) Azure
3 124 (20.50%) GitHub
4 94 (15.54%) Serverless
5 83 (13.72%) Azure DevOps
5 83 (13.72%) GitHub Actions
6 71 (11.74%) AWS Lambda
7 67 (11.07%) GCP
8 51 (8.43%) Amazon S3
9 44 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 40 (6.61%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (3.14%) Entra ID
14 18 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (2.98%) Azure AKS
15 16 (2.64%) Azure Key Vault
15 16 (2.64%) GitHub Copilot
15 16 (2.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.65%) HTTP
2 6 (0.99%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.66%) MQTT
3 4 (0.66%) Network Security
4 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.17%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.17%) 4G
5 1 (0.17%) 5G
5 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.17%) DNS
5 1 (0.17%) LTE
5 1 (0.17%) NFC
5 1 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.17%) SNMP
5 1 (0.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (22.15%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (12.89%) NoSQL
3 74 (12.23%) Relational Database
4 54 (8.93%) SQL Server
5 51 (8.43%) MongoDB
6 43 (7.11%) DynamoDB
7 35 (5.79%) MySQL
8 27 (4.46%) Amazon Aurora
8 27 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (2.98%) Redis
10 13 (2.15%) Geospatial Data
11 11 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.32%) Db2
14 7 (1.16%) Power BI
15 5 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.83%) Flink
16 4 (0.66%) Metadata
16 4 (0.66%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 171 (28.26%) Git
2 104 (17.19%) Jenkins
3 49 (8.10%) JUnit
4 47 (7.77%) GitLab
5 45 (7.44%) JIRA
6 37 (6.12%) Mockito
7 27 (4.46%) Maven
8 25 (4.13%) Gradle
9 21 (3.47%) SonarQube
10 19 (3.14%) Cucumber
10 19 (3.14%) Postman
11 18 (2.98%) Cypress.io
12 15 (2.48%) Visual Studio
13 13 (2.15%) REST Assured
14 12 (1.98%) DbUnit
15 11 (1.82%) Bitbucket Server
15 11 (1.82%) jMock
15 11 (1.82%) MSI
16 10 (1.65%) fastlane
17 9 (1.49%) Xcode
General
1 126 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 114 (18.84%) Finance
3 107 (17.69%) Public Sector
4 78 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (8.43%) Banking
6 30 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.98%) Retail
8 13 (2.15%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.49%) Marketing
10 8 (1.32%) Law
10 8 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.99%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.99%) Front Office
11 6 (0.99%) Local Government
12 5 (0.83%) Legal
12 5 (0.83%) Police
13 4 (0.66%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.66%) Publishing
13 4 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 384 (63.47%) Developer
2 134 (22.15%) Senior
3 118 (19.50%) Java Developer
4 96 (15.87%) Senior Developer
5 76 (12.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 46 (7.60%) .NET Developer
7 44 (7.27%) Python Developer
8 39 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
8 39 (6.45%) Software Engineer
9 37 (6.12%) Architect
10 29 (4.79%) React Developer
11 28 (4.63%) C# Developer
12 24 (3.97%) Software Developer
13 22 (3.64%) Backend Developer
13 22 (3.64%) Java Engineer
14 19 (3.14%) C# .NET Developer
14 19 (3.14%) Lead
15 18 (2.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 18 (2.98%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 17 (2.81%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (29.42%) REST
2 154 (25.45%) Spring
3 149 (24.63%) Spring Boot
4 121 (20.00%) React
5 119 (19.67%) .NET
6 114 (18.84%) Kafka
7 85 (14.05%) CSS
8 79 (13.06%) HTML
9 66 (10.91%) Node.js
10 64 (10.58%) AngularJS
11 57 (9.42%) OAuth
12 46 (7.60%) .NET Core
12 46 (7.60%) Web Services
13 45 (7.44%) OAuth2
14 44 (7.27%) HTML5
14 44 (7.27%) JSON
15 41 (6.78%) CSS3
16 39 (6.45%) .NET Framework
16 39 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
17 38 (6.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 133 (21.98%) Cloud Native
2 112 (18.51%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (12.89%) Product Ownership
4 34 (5.62%) Mobile App
5 31 (5.12%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (3.97%) Data Structures
7 21 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (3.47%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.15%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.65%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.65%) NHS
11 9 (1.49%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.32%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.32%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.16%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.99%) DataPower
14 6 (0.99%) Mainframe
14 6 (0.99%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.27%) Linux
2 27 (4.46%) Unix
3 21 (3.47%) Android
4 20 (3.31%) Apple iOS
5 17 (2.81%) Windows
6 6 (0.99%) zOS
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (62.81%) CI/CD
2 331 (54.71%) Agile
3 319 (52.73%) Microservices
4 254 (41.98%) DevOps
5 188 (31.07%) Containerisation
6 173 (28.60%) Test Automation
7 136 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
8 135 (22.31%) Full-Stack Development
9 127 (20.99%) Event-Driven
9 127 (20.99%) Scrum
10 117 (19.34%) Software Engineering
11 107 (17.69%) Code Quality
12 104 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
13 101 (16.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 90 (14.88%) API Design
15 85 (14.05%) Clean Code
16 78 (12.89%) API Development
16 78 (12.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 72 (11.90%) TDD
18 71 (11.74%) AI
Programming Languages
1 246 (40.66%) Java
2 177 (29.26%) SQL
3 162 (26.78%) Python
4 147 (24.30%) JavaScript
5 138 (22.81%) C#
6 117 (19.34%) TypeScript
7 36 (5.95%) Kotlin
8 26 (4.30%) Bicep
8 26 (4.30%) Shell Script
9 19 (3.14%) Swift
10 14 (2.31%) Go
11 10 (1.65%) Ruby
11 10 (1.65%) Scala
12 9 (1.49%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.32%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.32%) Rust
13 8 (1.32%) X++
14 7 (1.16%) Objective-C
15 6 (0.99%) JCL
16 5 (0.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 167 (27.60%) Security Cleared
2 142 (23.47%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.45%) Degree
4 22 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.64%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.65%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (1.32%) CCSP
10 8 (1.32%) CEH
10 8 (1.32%) CISM
10 8 (1.32%) CISSP
10 8 (1.32%) OSCP
11 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.50%) MBA
13 2 (0.33%) PhD
14 1 (0.17%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (14.71%) QA
2 72 (11.90%) Accessibility
3 46 (7.60%) WCAG
4 13 (2.15%) NCSC
5 9 (1.49%) NIST
6 8 (1.32%) COBIT
6 8 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.16%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.83%) GDPR
9 3 (0.50%) HL7
10 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.33%) SLA
11 1 (0.17%) Basel III
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.17%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 235 (38.84%) Docker
2 9 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.49%) Postfix
3 4 (0.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 185 (30.58%) Kubernetes
2 88 (14.55%) Terraform
3 40 (6.61%) Grafana
4 34 (5.62%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.31%) Ansible
6 7 (1.16%) Kibana
7 4 (0.66%) Podman
7 4 (0.66%) Puppet
8 3 (0.50%) Argo
8 3 (0.50%) Bosun
9 2 (0.33%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.33%) Consul
9 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.33%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 67 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.95%) Oracle
3 26 (4.30%) Google
4 20 (3.31%) Dynatrace
5 12 (1.98%) Atlassian
5 12 (1.98%) New Relic
5 12 (1.98%) Splunk
6 11 (1.82%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (1.49%) Databricks
7 9 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.16%) Apple
9 6 (0.99%) MuleSoft
9 6 (0.99%) Sybase
10 5 (0.83%) Adobe
10 5 (0.83%) IBM
10 5 (0.83%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.83%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.66%) Citrix
11 4 (0.66%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.66%) SAP