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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 174 195
Rank change year-on-year -21 +21 +12
Contract jobs citing RESTful 602 415 468
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.37% 1.62% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.20% 7.20% 5.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 293 325
10th Percentile £350 £320 £364
25th Percentile £413 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 7
10th Percentile £54.75 £48.13 £47.70
25th Percentile £63.75 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £85.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £59.38 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +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 8,366 5,767 7,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.09% 22.50% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,514 3,979 5,497
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 123 266
10th Percentile £30.45 £30.45 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £48.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -10.54%
75th Percentile £74.45 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.63 £80.81 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -8 322 £500 - 122
North of England -27 112 £450 - 58
South East -31 76 £515 +3.26% 45
North West -24 52 £449 +12.13% 34
Yorkshire -24 43 £513 +7.89% 18
Midlands -71 41 £488 +5.41% 14
South West -13 32 £440 -18.14% 21
West Midlands -56 22 £500 - 10
North East -21 17 £450 -10.00% 6
East Midlands -23 17 £445 +10.70% 4
East of England -23 11 £500 -8.26% 17
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 30 (4.98%) Confluence
2 10 (1.66%) Ethereum
2 10 (1.66%) Hyperledger
3 9 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.16%) CICS
5 6 (1.00%) Appian
5 6 (1.00%) CMS
6 5 (0.83%) Camunda
6 5 (0.83%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.66%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.33%) IIS
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.17%) nginx
10 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.50%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.50%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.83%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.66%) Quorum
2 4 (0.66%) Ripple
3 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.17%) Maximo
5 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.17%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 231 (38.37%) AWS
2 212 (35.22%) Azure
3 103 (17.11%) GitHub
4 98 (16.28%) Serverless
5 74 (12.29%) GitHub Actions
6 71 (11.79%) Azure DevOps
7 69 (11.46%) AWS Lambda
8 62 (10.30%) GCP
9 51 (8.47%) Amazon S3
10 36 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
13 26 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (3.16%) Entra ID
16 17 (2.82%) Azure Functions
16 17 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (2.66%) Power Automate
17 16 (2.66%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.16%) HTTP
2 4 (0.66%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.66%) MQTT
2 4 (0.66%) Network Security
3 2 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.17%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.17%) 4G
4 1 (0.17%) 5G
4 1 (0.17%) DNS
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
4 1 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.17%) SSL
4 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (20.60%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (14.78%) NoSQL
3 69 (11.46%) Relational Database
4 63 (10.47%) SQL Server
5 54 (8.97%) MongoDB
6 42 (6.98%) DynamoDB
7 31 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (4.98%) MySQL
9 26 (4.32%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (3.16%) Redis
11 11 (1.83%) Db2
12 9 (1.50%) Geospatial Data
13 8 (1.33%) Power BI
14 7 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.16%) Pinecone
15 6 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.00%) Flink
16 4 (0.66%) RDBMS
17 3 (0.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 152 (25.25%) Git
2 104 (17.28%) Jenkins
3 65 (10.80%) GitLab
4 56 (9.30%) JUnit
5 49 (8.14%) JIRA
6 37 (6.15%) Mockito
7 27 (4.49%) SonarQube
8 24 (3.99%) Maven
9 22 (3.65%) Gradle
9 22 (3.65%) Postman
10 17 (2.82%) Cucumber
11 16 (2.66%) Visual Studio
12 12 (1.99%) DbUnit
13 11 (1.83%) Bitbucket Server
13 11 (1.83%) jMock
13 11 (1.83%) REST Assured
14 10 (1.66%) fastlane
15 9 (1.50%) Xcode
16 8 (1.33%) Cypress.io
16 8 (1.33%) Liquibase
General
1 121 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 117 (19.44%) Finance
3 97 (16.11%) Public Sector
4 66 (10.96%) Banking
5 65 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.33%) Retail
8 11 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.50%) Marketing
10 8 (1.33%) Law
11 7 (1.16%) Front Office
11 7 (1.16%) Legal
11 7 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.83%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.66%) Police
13 4 (0.66%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.50%) Automotive
14 3 (0.50%) Local Government
14 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 389 (64.62%) Developer
2 123 (20.43%) Senior
3 118 (19.60%) Java Developer
4 83 (13.79%) Senior Developer
5 70 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 53 (8.80%) Python Developer
7 40 (6.64%) .NET Developer
8 39 (6.48%) Software Engineer
9 37 (6.15%) Architect
10 34 (5.65%) Senior Java Developer
11 31 (5.15%) React Developer
12 26 (4.32%) Backend Developer
13 25 (4.15%) C# Developer
14 24 (3.99%) Software Developer
15 21 (3.49%) Java Engineer
16 19 (3.16%) AWS Developer
16 19 (3.16%) Lead
17 16 (2.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 16 (2.66%) Senior Software Engineer
18 15 (2.49%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (27.08%) Spring
2 160 (26.58%) REST
3 159 (26.41%) Spring Boot
4 126 (20.93%) React
5 115 (19.10%) Kafka
6 114 (18.94%) .NET
7 77 (12.79%) CSS
8 73 (12.13%) HTML
9 71 (11.79%) AngularJS
10 69 (11.46%) Node.js
11 60 (9.97%) OAuth
12 49 (8.14%) Web Services
13 44 (7.31%) Swagger
14 43 (7.14%) OAuth2
15 42 (6.98%) .NET Core
15 42 (6.98%) JSON
16 40 (6.64%) Django
16 40 (6.64%) OpenAPI
17 39 (6.48%) RabbitMQ
18 38 (6.31%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 112 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 95 (15.78%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (14.62%) Product Ownership
4 31 (5.15%) Mobile App
5 26 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (3.65%) Data Structures
8 14 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (2.16%) Algorithms
9 13 (2.16%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.83%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.50%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.33%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.16%) DataPower
14 7 (1.16%) Derivative
14 7 (1.16%) Mainframe
14 7 (1.16%) NHS
15 6 (1.00%) Equities
15 6 (1.00%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.98%) Linux
2 21 (3.49%) Unix
3 20 (3.32%) Apple iOS
4 16 (2.66%) Android
5 15 (2.49%) Windows
6 7 (1.16%) zOS
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (61.30%) CI/CD
2 318 (52.82%) Agile
3 314 (52.16%) Microservices
4 229 (38.04%) DevOps
5 183 (30.40%) Containerisation
6 139 (23.09%) Test Automation
7 130 (21.59%) Event-Driven
8 125 (20.76%) Scrum
9 121 (20.10%) Full-Stack Development
10 119 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
11 108 (17.94%) Software Engineering
12 90 (14.95%) Code Quality
13 89 (14.78%) API Design
13 89 (14.78%) API Development
14 87 (14.45%) Infrastructure as Code
15 85 (14.12%) Clean Code
16 82 (13.62%) TDD
17 78 (12.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 71 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
19 67 (11.13%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 251 (41.69%) Java
2 185 (30.73%) SQL
3 165 (27.41%) Python
4 134 (22.26%) C#
5 132 (21.93%) JavaScript
6 110 (18.27%) TypeScript
7 27 (4.49%) Kotlin
8 26 (4.32%) Go
8 26 (4.32%) Shell Script
9 19 (3.16%) Bicep
10 18 (2.99%) Swift
11 11 (1.83%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.50%) Scala
13 8 (1.33%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.33%) Rust
14 7 (1.16%) Objective-C
14 7 (1.16%) Ruby
15 6 (1.00%) JCL
16 5 (0.83%) Bash
16 5 (0.83%) X++
Qualifications
1 148 (24.58%) Security Cleared
2 114 (18.94%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.98%) Degree
4 25 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.66%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.66%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (1.33%) CCSP
9 8 (1.33%) CEH
9 8 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.33%) CISM
9 8 (1.33%) CISSP
9 8 (1.33%) OSCP
10 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.66%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.50%) MBA
13 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (14.29%) QA
2 63 (10.47%) Accessibility
3 40 (6.64%) WCAG
4 10 (1.66%) NIST
5 9 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.50%) NCSC
5 9 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.33%) COBIT
7 6 (1.00%) GDPR
8 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.33%) HL7
9 2 (0.33%) SLA
9 2 (0.33%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.17%) Basel III
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 219 (36.38%) Docker
2 9 (1.50%) Postfix
3 6 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 184 (30.56%) Kubernetes
2 78 (12.96%) Terraform
3 40 (6.64%) Grafana
4 34 (5.65%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.49%) Ansible
6 6 (1.00%) Kibana
7 4 (0.66%) Podman
7 4 (0.66%) Puppet
8 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.33%) Consul
9 2 (0.33%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 51 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.48%) Oracle
3 18 (2.99%) Dynatrace
3 18 (2.99%) Google
4 13 (2.16%) Atlassian
4 13 (2.16%) Splunk
5 12 (1.99%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.83%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (1.66%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.50%) Adobe
8 9 (1.50%) New Relic
9 8 (1.33%) Apple
9 8 (1.33%) Sybase
9 8 (1.33%) Veracode
10 7 (1.16%) Databricks
10 7 (1.16%) Okta
10 7 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.00%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (1.00%) UiPath
12 5 (0.83%) IBM