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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 156 215
Rank change year-on-year -5 +59 -36
Contract jobs citing RESTful 569 445 418
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.72% 1.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.68% 7.65% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 276 315
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £400 £405 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £616
90th Percentile £650 £704 £706
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £50.24 - £57.50
25th Percentile £54.64 £38.25 £57.75
Median hourly rate £64.63 £39.50 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +63.62% -48.39% +9.33%
75th Percentile £95.00 £40.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £39.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +39.24% -48.39% +9.33%

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 7,412 5,814 7,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.88% 22.43% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,961 3,755 5,548
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £662
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £534
% change year-on-year -4.65% +0.66% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 74 180
10th Percentile £33.60 £26.33 £23.88
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.44 £45.66
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.88 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £76.49 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.60% +13.64% -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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -1 299 £490 -6.67% 107
North of England -4 126 £450 -5.26% 77
North West -2 63 £430 -4.44% 45
Yorkshire -15 62 £500 -6.37% 22
Midlands -38 57 £500 +5.26% 30
West Midlands -37 43 £500 +3.09% 18
South East -47 36 £475 +16.14% 64
East of England -8 29 £500 +60.00% 17
South West -25 18 £500 -4.76% 32
East Midlands -16 13 £550 +23.87% 12
North East -17 1 £475 +28.38% 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 39 (6.85%) Confluence
2 18 (3.16%) CMS
3 15 (2.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.41%) Appian
5 7 (1.23%) Headless CMS
5 7 (1.23%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.05%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.05%) Hyperledger
7 5 (0.88%) Camunda
7 5 (0.88%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.88%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.53%) Apache
8 3 (0.53%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.35%) Documentum
9 2 (0.35%) Drupal
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.18%) Mule
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (1.41%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.88%) Sketch
3 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.18%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (0.18%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.18%) Finacle
2 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 242 (42.53%) AWS
2 199 (34.97%) Azure
3 119 (20.91%) Serverless
4 113 (19.86%) GCP
5 84 (14.76%) GitHub
6 44 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (7.56%) Amazon S3
7 43 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
8 39 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
10 30 (5.27%) Azure Functions
11 28 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (4.75%) Azure AKS
13 19 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (3.16%) PaaS
15 17 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
15 17 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
16 15 (2.64%) Figma
16 15 (2.64%) Power Automate
17 14 (2.46%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.81%) HTTP
2 7 (1.23%) HTTPS
3 6 (1.05%) SSL
4 5 (0.88%) DNS
5 3 (0.53%) VPN
6 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.18%) Firewall
7 1 (0.18%) Internet
7 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.18%) SMS
7 1 (0.18%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (20.04%) NoSQL
2 108 (18.98%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (10.02%) Relational Database
4 41 (7.21%) MySQL
4 41 (7.21%) SQL Server
5 40 (7.03%) MongoDB
6 21 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (3.16%) Redis
8 16 (2.81%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.58%) DocumentDB
9 9 (1.58%) Pinecone
10 7 (1.23%) Big Data
11 6 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.05%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.88%) DB2
13 4 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.70%) Power BI
14 3 (0.53%) Flink
14 3 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 142 (24.96%) Git
2 89 (15.64%) Jenkins
3 83 (14.59%) GitLab
4 55 (9.67%) JIRA
5 38 (6.68%) JUnit
6 23 (4.04%) Postman
7 21 (3.69%) Liquibase
8 20 (3.51%) Mockito
9 19 (3.34%) Selenium
10 17 (2.99%) Cucumber
11 16 (2.81%) Bitbucket
11 16 (2.81%) Cypress.io
11 16 (2.81%) Gradle
12 13 (2.28%) MLflow
13 12 (2.11%) Maven
14 11 (1.93%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.93%) SonarQube
15 8 (1.41%) Storybook
16 6 (1.05%) Android Studio
16 6 (1.05%) Vite
General
1 204 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 139 (24.43%) Finance
3 81 (14.24%) Public Sector
4 73 (12.83%) Banking
5 45 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.22%) Financial Institution
7 10 (1.76%) Front Office
8 9 (1.58%) Marketing
9 8 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.05%) Legal
12 5 (0.88%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.88%) Retail
13 4 (0.70%) Automotive
13 4 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.70%) Multimedia
13 4 (0.70%) Wearables
14 3 (0.53%) Advertising
14 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 324 (56.94%) Developer
2 100 (17.57%) Senior
3 88 (15.47%) Java Developer
4 74 (13.01%) Full-Stack Developer
5 54 (9.49%) Software Engineer
6 43 (7.56%) Senior Developer
7 40 (7.03%) Python Developer
8 33 (5.80%) Lead
9 32 (5.62%) React Developer
10 29 (5.10%) Architect
11 28 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (4.22%) .NET Developer
13 23 (4.04%) Senior Java Developer
14 22 (3.87%) Backend Developer
14 22 (3.87%) C# Developer
15 20 (3.51%) Java Engineer
16 19 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
17 17 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
18 16 (2.81%) GCP Engineer
19 14 (2.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (27.42%) React
2 145 (25.48%) Spring
3 136 (23.90%) Spring Boot
4 118 (20.74%) REST
5 98 (17.22%) .NET
6 86 (15.11%) CSS
6 86 (15.11%) Node.js
7 84 (14.76%) HTML
8 83 (14.59%) AngularJS
9 70 (12.30%) Kafka
10 59 (10.37%) OAuth
11 40 (7.03%) JSON
11 40 (7.03%) Swagger
12 39 (6.85%) HTML5
13 38 (6.68%) OAuth2
14 36 (6.33%) Hibernate
15 34 (5.98%) .NET Framework
15 34 (5.98%) Django
15 34 (5.98%) FastAPI
16 33 (5.80%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 98 (17.22%) Cloud Native
2 54 (9.49%) Product Ownership
3 52 (9.14%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (5.27%) Mobile App
5 28 (4.92%) Public Cloud
6 21 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (2.99%) Algorithms
8 14 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.46%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.11%) Derivative
9 12 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.93%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.93%) NHS
11 10 (1.76%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.88%) Credit Risk
14 5 (0.88%) Equities
14 5 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 54 (9.49%) Linux
2 23 (4.04%) Windows
3 16 (2.81%) Android
4 13 (2.28%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.23%) Unix
6 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Embedded Compact
7 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (60.81%) CI/CD
2 306 (53.78%) Agile
3 266 (46.75%) Microservices
4 196 (34.45%) DevOps
5 171 (30.05%) Problem-Solving
6 169 (29.70%) Containerisation
7 124 (21.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 116 (20.39%) Test Automation
9 114 (20.04%) Software Engineering
10 103 (18.10%) API Development
11 84 (14.76%) Event-Driven
12 83 (14.59%) Clean Code
13 78 (13.71%) Scrum
14 77 (13.53%) Code Quality
15 76 (13.36%) User Experience
16 73 (12.83%) TDD
17 71 (12.48%) Design Patterns
17 71 (12.48%) Infrastructure as Code
18 67 (11.78%) API Design
19 66 (11.60%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 218 (38.31%) Java
2 184 (32.34%) Python
3 163 (28.65%) SQL
4 146 (25.66%) JavaScript
5 103 (18.10%) TypeScript
6 89 (15.64%) C#
7 43 (7.56%) Go
8 19 (3.34%) Kotlin
9 15 (2.64%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.93%) Swift
11 10 (1.76%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.41%) Bash
13 7 (1.23%) JSX
14 6 (1.05%) Bicep
14 6 (1.05%) PHP
14 6 (1.05%) Ruby
15 4 (0.70%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.70%) C++
15 4 (0.70%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 93 (16.34%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.30%) Degree
3 58 (10.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 54 (9.49%) SC Cleared
5 35 (6.15%) Master's Degree
6 17 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.28%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 8 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.41%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.35%) OCP
13 2 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.18%) PMP
14 1 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.61%) QA
2 36 (6.33%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.81%) NIST
4 14 (2.46%) WCAG
5 13 (2.28%) GDPR
6 12 (2.11%) EU AI Act
7 9 (1.58%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.23%) HL7
8 7 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.88%) PSD2
9 5 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.70%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.70%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.53%) SLA
12 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.18%) MiFID
13 1 (0.18%) NCSC
13 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 215 (37.79%) Docker
2 8 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.53%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 209 (36.73%) Kubernetes
2 86 (15.11%) Terraform
3 44 (7.73%) Prometheus
4 39 (6.85%) Grafana
5 36 (6.33%) Ansible
6 11 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.35%) Consul
7 2 (0.35%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.35%) Rundeck
7 2 (0.35%) Salt
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 73 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 50 (8.79%) Google
3 35 (6.15%) Splunk
4 30 (5.27%) Adobe
5 24 (4.22%) Oracle
6 21 (3.69%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.11%) Foundry
8 11 (1.93%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.93%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.93%) Ping Identity
9 10 (1.76%) Sitecore
10 8 (1.41%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.41%) UiPath
10 8 (1.41%) Veracode
11 6 (1.05%) Databricks
11 6 (1.05%) ForgeRock
11 6 (1.05%) SAP
12 5 (0.88%) Apple
13 4 (0.70%) Brio
13 4 (0.70%) ION Trading