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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 160 206
Rank change year-on-year +20 +46 -50
Contract jobs citing RESTful 637 483 456
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.07% 1.56% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.14% 7.18% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 316 340
10th Percentile £341 £322 £367
25th Percentile £400 £400 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -6.98% -10.42%
75th Percentile £569 £633 £625
90th Percentile £655 £764 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £496 £525
% change year-on-year -1.61% -5.62% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 9
10th Percentile £45.50 - £57.50
25th Percentile £53.55 £38.25 £58.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.50 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +39.24% -48.39% +13.38%
75th Percentile £74.26 £40.75 -
90th Percentile £95.00 - £87.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £39.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +39.24% -48.39% +13.38%

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 6,968 6,730 8,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.69% 21.72% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,693 4,269 6,227
10th Percentile £350 £360 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -5.16%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 105 179
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +22.64% -18.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -15.38% +19.13% -12.93%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +29 321 £513 -4.65% 104
North of England +14 145 £450 -6.74% 52
Yorkshire +23 85 £475 -11.05% 9
Midlands -18 61 £475 -5.00% 32
South East +10 57 £463 +12.60% 73
North West -4 56 £428 -10.00% 32
West Midlands -21 36 £500 -13.04% 25
East of England -7 30 £545 +81.67% 11
East Midlands +1 25 £402 -13.92% 7
South West +14 18 £506 +12.39% 32
North East -7 4 £494 +6.76% 11
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 25 (3.92%) Confluence
2 19 (2.98%) CMS
3 7 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (1.10%) Apache
3 7 (1.10%) Headless CMS
3 7 (1.10%) Umbraco
4 6 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.94%) nginx
4 6 (0.94%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.78%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.78%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.47%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.47%) Camunda
7 3 (0.47%) Drupal
7 3 (0.47%) Mule
8 2 (0.31%) Documentum
8 2 (0.31%) Moodle
9 1 (0.16%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.63%) Workday HCM
3 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.16%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.16%) Finacle
4 1 (0.16%) SAP MRS
4 1 (0.16%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 257 (40.35%) AWS
2 202 (31.71%) Azure
3 139 (21.82%) Serverless
4 128 (20.09%) GCP
5 93 (14.60%) GitHub
6 63 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
7 52 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
8 37 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
9 34 (5.34%) Amazon S3
10 32 (5.02%) Azure Functions
11 29 (4.55%) Azure AKS
12 28 (4.40%) PaaS
13 27 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
14 21 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (2.67%) GitHub Copilot
17 16 (2.51%) Apigee
18 14 (2.20%) SaaS
19 13 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.20%) HTTP
2 6 (0.94%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.63%) tcpdump
4 3 (0.47%) SSL
5 2 (0.31%) AMQP
5 2 (0.31%) DSL
5 2 (0.31%) VPN
6 1 (0.16%) DNS
6 1 (0.16%) Firewall
6 1 (0.16%) Internet
6 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.16%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (18.37%) NoSQL
2 112 (17.58%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (9.73%) Relational Database
4 42 (6.59%) MySQL
5 38 (5.97%) SQL Server
6 35 (5.49%) MongoDB
7 28 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (3.45%) DynamoDB
9 14 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (1.88%) RDBMS
10 12 (1.88%) Redis
11 7 (1.10%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.94%) Big Data
13 5 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.78%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.78%) Power BI
14 4 (0.63%) DB2
15 3 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 196 (30.77%) Git
2 111 (17.43%) Jenkins
3 75 (11.77%) GitLab
4 54 (8.48%) JIRA
5 46 (7.22%) JUnit
6 28 (4.40%) Liquibase
7 26 (4.08%) Cucumber
8 24 (3.77%) Postman
9 23 (3.61%) Cypress.io
10 22 (3.45%) Gradle
10 22 (3.45%) Selenium
11 19 (2.98%) Maven
12 17 (2.67%) Bitbucket
13 15 (2.35%) Mockito
14 13 (2.04%) SonarQube
15 11 (1.73%) Android Studio
15 11 (1.73%) Jasmine
15 11 (1.73%) Mocha
15 11 (1.73%) Storybook
16 10 (1.57%) webpack
General
1 234 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 154 (24.18%) Finance
3 83 (13.03%) Banking
3 83 (13.03%) Public Sector
4 51 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.87%) Financial Institution
6 10 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (1.41%) Telecoms
8 6 (0.94%) Automotive
8 6 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (0.94%) Legal
8 6 (0.94%) Marketing
8 6 (0.94%) Retail
9 5 (0.78%) Digital Healthcare
9 5 (0.78%) Health Technology
9 5 (0.78%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.63%) Multimedia
10 4 (0.63%) Police
10 4 (0.63%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 354 (55.57%) Developer
2 124 (19.47%) Senior
3 93 (14.60%) Java Developer
4 71 (11.15%) Senior Developer
5 60 (9.42%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (7.38%) Architect
6 47 (7.38%) Software Engineer
7 33 (5.18%) Lead
8 32 (5.02%) Python Developer
9 27 (4.24%) Android Developer
9 27 (4.24%) Senior Java Developer
10 25 (3.92%) Angular Developer
11 23 (3.61%) .NET Developer
12 22 (3.45%) React Developer
13 20 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
13 20 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
14 19 (2.98%) Backend Developer
14 19 (2.98%) C# Developer
14 19 (2.98%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (2.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (22.14%) React
2 134 (21.04%) Spring
3 125 (19.62%) Spring Boot
4 116 (18.21%) REST
5 105 (16.48%) .NET
6 87 (13.66%) AngularJS
6 87 (13.66%) CSS
7 86 (13.50%) HTML
8 82 (12.87%) Node.js
9 63 (9.89%) JSON
10 59 (9.26%) OAuth
11 58 (9.11%) Kafka
12 47 (7.38%) OAuth2
13 40 (6.28%) .NET Framework
14 38 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
14 38 (5.97%) GraphQL
14 38 (5.97%) SOAP
14 38 (5.97%) Web Services
15 35 (5.49%) Hibernate
16 34 (5.34%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 119 (18.68%) Cloud Native
2 67 (10.52%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (9.26%) Mobile App
4 40 (6.28%) Product Ownership
5 33 (5.18%) Public Cloud
6 17 (2.67%) Algorithms
7 16 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.88%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.57%) NHS
11 8 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.94%) Derivative
13 6 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.94%) N-Tier
14 5 (0.78%) Data Fabric
14 5 (0.78%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 65 (10.20%) Linux
2 39 (6.12%) Android
3 28 (4.40%) Apple iOS
4 19 (2.98%) Windows
5 6 (0.94%) Unix
6 4 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.31%) tvOS
8 1 (0.16%) watchOS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Embedded Compact
8 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (56.99%) Agile
2 357 (56.04%) CI/CD
3 280 (43.96%) Microservices
4 244 (38.30%) DevOps
5 194 (30.46%) Problem-Solving
6 175 (27.47%) Containerisation
7 118 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 115 (18.05%) Software Engineering
9 107 (16.80%) API Development
9 107 (16.80%) Test Automation
10 91 (14.29%) Design Patterns
11 88 (13.81%) Scrum
12 85 (13.34%) Clean Code
13 83 (13.03%) TDD
14 81 (12.72%) Infrastructure as Code
15 80 (12.56%) API Design
16 78 (12.24%) Event-Driven
17 76 (11.93%) AI
18 75 (11.77%) Computer Science
19 72 (11.30%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 225 (35.32%) Java
2 205 (32.18%) Python
3 155 (24.33%) SQL
4 149 (23.39%) JavaScript
5 101 (15.86%) TypeScript
6 84 (13.19%) C#
7 48 (7.54%) Go
8 42 (6.59%) Kotlin
9 22 (3.45%) Swift
10 15 (2.35%) Ruby
11 14 (2.20%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.73%) Objective-C
13 10 (1.57%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.26%) Bash
15 7 (1.10%) JSX
16 6 (0.94%) Bicep
16 6 (0.94%) PHP
16 6 (0.94%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.78%) C++
17 5 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 79 (12.40%) Degree
3 64 (10.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 54 (8.48%) SC Cleared
5 36 (5.65%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.14%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.04%) MCP
9 11 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.57%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.63%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.31%) OCP
14 2 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.16%) PMP
15 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.32%) QA
2 29 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.35%) GDPR
4 12 (1.88%) EU AI Act
4 12 (1.88%) NIST
5 11 (1.73%) WCAG
6 7 (1.10%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.94%) HL7
8 5 (0.78%) PSD2
8 5 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.63%) COBIT
9 4 (0.63%) SLA
10 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.16%) NCSC
12 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 219 (34.38%) Docker
2 8 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.16%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.16%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 205 (32.18%) Kubernetes
2 105 (16.48%) Terraform
3 52 (8.16%) Ansible
4 45 (7.06%) Prometheus
5 44 (6.91%) Grafana
6 11 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.78%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.63%) Control-M
9 3 (0.47%) Puppet
10 2 (0.31%) Consul
10 2 (0.31%) Kibana
10 2 (0.31%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.31%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.31%) Salt
11 1 (0.16%) Argo
11 1 (0.16%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.16%) Nagios
11 1 (0.16%) Podman
11 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 92 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 68 (10.68%) Google
3 42 (6.59%) Splunk
4 24 (3.77%) Oracle
5 17 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.88%) Adobe
6 12 (1.88%) Foundry
7 10 (1.57%) Databricks
8 9 (1.41%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.41%) Ping Identity
9 8 (1.26%) Apple
9 8 (1.26%) SAP
9 8 (1.26%) Sitecore
9 8 (1.26%) VMware
10 6 (0.94%) ForgeRock
10 6 (0.94%) Gigya
10 6 (0.94%) Workday
11 5 (0.78%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.78%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.78%) Virgin Media