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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 163 221
Rank change year-on-year +25 +58 -76
Contract jobs citing RESTful 623 479 446
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.09% 1.54% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.18% 7.06% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 310 336
10th Percentile £333 £319 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £650
90th Percentile £675 £726 £781
UK median daily rate £493 £490 £530
% change year-on-year +0.61% -7.55% -8.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 9
10th Percentile £45.88 - £57.50
25th Percentile £53.91 £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 £71.63 £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 6,787 6,781 8,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.80% 21.77% 22.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,590 4,326 6,483
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £733 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 100 179
10th Percentile £30.08 £26.48 £37.29
25th Percentile £42.50 £45.51 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £73.78 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £63.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.29% +15.91% -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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +20 312 £517 -1.52% 415
North of England +28 140 £475 - 151
Yorkshire +21 85 £475 -8.65% 37
Midlands -10 66 £469 -4.34% 49
South East +13 55 £450 +9.56% 366
North West -2 49 £448 +14.74% 100
West Midlands -27 35 £500 -16.67% 27
East Midlands +1 31 £402 -9.46% 20
East of England -5 31 £510 +63.20% 29
South West +5 17 £500 +11.11% 37
North East -7 6 £500 +2.56% 14
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 (4.49%) Confluence
2 18 (2.89%) CMS
3 7 (1.12%) Headless CMS
3 7 (1.12%) Umbraco
4 6 (0.96%) nginx
4 6 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.80%) Apache
5 5 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.80%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.80%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.48%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.48%) Camunda
7 3 (0.48%) Drupal
7 3 (0.48%) Mule
8 2 (0.32%) Appian
8 2 (0.32%) Documentum
8 2 (0.32%) Moodle
Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.64%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.32%) 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
1 241 (38.68%) AWS
2 198 (31.78%) Azure
3 132 (21.19%) Serverless
4 117 (18.78%) GCP
5 91 (14.61%) GitHub
6 62 (9.95%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (7.54%) AWS Lambda
8 35 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (5.14%) Azure Functions
10 30 (4.82%) Amazon S3
11 28 (4.49%) Azure AKS
11 28 (4.49%) PaaS
12 24 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (3.69%) Amazon SQS
14 21 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (2.57%) SaaS
16 14 (2.25%) Apigee
17 13 (2.09%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.25%) HTTP
2 6 (0.96%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.64%) tcpdump
4 3 (0.48%) Internet
5 2 (0.32%) AMQP
5 2 (0.32%) DMZ
5 2 (0.32%) DSL
5 2 (0.32%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.32%) SSL
6 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.16%) DNS
6 1 (0.16%) Firewall
6 1 (0.16%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (18.14%) NoSQL
2 111 (17.82%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (9.47%) Relational Database
4 41 (6.58%) MySQL
5 37 (5.94%) SQL Server
6 35 (5.62%) MongoDB
7 33 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (4.33%) DynamoDB
9 18 (2.89%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (2.09%) RDBMS
11 11 (1.77%) Redis
12 6 (0.96%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.96%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.80%) Big Data
13 5 (0.80%) Power BI
14 4 (0.64%) DB2
15 3 (0.48%) Airbyte
15 3 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 201 (32.26%) Git
2 115 (18.46%) Jenkins
3 64 (10.27%) GitLab
4 57 (9.15%) JIRA
5 46 (7.38%) JUnit
6 28 (4.49%) Liquibase
6 28 (4.49%) Maven
7 26 (4.17%) Cucumber
8 25 (4.01%) Cypress.io
8 25 (4.01%) Postman
8 25 (4.01%) SonarQube
9 22 (3.53%) Gradle
9 22 (3.53%) Selenium
10 14 (2.25%) Bitbucket
11 13 (2.09%) Mockito
12 12 (1.93%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.77%) Android Studio
13 11 (1.77%) Storybook
14 10 (1.61%) REST Assured
14 10 (1.61%) webpack
General
1 227 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 151 (24.24%) Finance
3 84 (13.48%) Banking
4 77 (12.36%) Public Sector
5 50 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.65%) Financial Institution
7 9 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.28%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.12%) Automotive
10 6 (0.96%) Retail
11 5 (0.80%) Digital Healthcare
11 5 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.80%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.80%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.80%) Marketing
12 4 (0.64%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.64%) Legal
12 4 (0.64%) Police
12 4 (0.64%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 347 (55.70%) Developer
2 130 (20.87%) Senior
3 90 (14.45%) Java Developer
4 74 (11.88%) Senior Developer
5 58 (9.31%) Full-Stack Developer
6 49 (7.87%) Software Engineer
7 45 (7.22%) Architect
8 34 (5.46%) Lead
9 29 (4.65%) Python Developer
10 28 (4.49%) Angular Developer
11 27 (4.33%) Android Developer
11 27 (4.33%) Senior Java Developer
12 24 (3.85%) React Developer
13 21 (3.37%) .NET Developer
13 21 (3.37%) C# Developer
14 20 (3.21%) Backend Developer
14 20 (3.21%) Senior Software Engineer
15 19 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
16 18 (2.89%) Cloud Engineer
16 18 (2.89%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (22.47%) React
2 117 (18.78%) Spring
3 112 (17.98%) REST
4 108 (17.34%) Spring Boot
5 104 (16.69%) .NET
6 92 (14.77%) CSS
7 90 (14.45%) HTML
8 87 (13.96%) Node.js
9 82 (13.16%) AngularJS
10 59 (9.47%) JSON
11 58 (9.31%) OAuth
12 57 (9.15%) Web Services
13 48 (7.70%) Kafka
14 46 (7.38%) OAuth2
15 45 (7.22%) SOAP
16 41 (6.58%) .NET Framework
16 41 (6.58%) GraphQL
17 38 (6.10%) Elastic Stack
18 33 (5.30%) HTML5
19 32 (5.14%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 113 (18.14%) Cloud Native
2 68 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (9.47%) Mobile App
4 35 (5.62%) Product Ownership
5 34 (5.46%) Public Cloud
6 16 (2.57%) Algorithms
7 15 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.25%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.93%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.96%) Derivative
12 6 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.96%) N-Tier
13 5 (0.80%) NHS
14 4 (0.64%) Data Fabric
14 4 (0.64%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 69 (11.08%) Linux
2 39 (6.26%) Android
3 27 (4.33%) Apple iOS
4 15 (2.41%) Windows
5 8 (1.28%) Unix
6 4 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.32%) tvOS
8 1 (0.16%) watchOS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Embedded Compact
8 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (56.82%) Agile
2 334 (53.61%) CI/CD
3 256 (41.09%) Microservices
4 231 (37.08%) DevOps
5 188 (30.18%) Problem-Solving
6 161 (25.84%) Containerisation
7 119 (19.10%) Full-Stack Development
8 118 (18.94%) Software Engineering
9 100 (16.05%) API Development
9 100 (16.05%) Test Automation
10 96 (15.41%) Scrum
11 92 (14.77%) Design Patterns
12 82 (13.16%) TDD
13 80 (12.84%) Continuous Integration
14 78 (12.52%) Clean Code
15 76 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
16 72 (11.56%) User Experience
17 71 (11.40%) Mentoring
18 70 (11.24%) API Design
19 69 (11.08%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 218 (34.99%) Java
2 197 (31.62%) Python
3 161 (25.84%) SQL
4 159 (25.52%) JavaScript
5 97 (15.57%) TypeScript
6 85 (13.64%) C#
7 48 (7.70%) Go
8 40 (6.42%) Kotlin
9 21 (3.37%) Swift
10 16 (2.57%) Ruby
11 14 (2.25%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.77%) Objective-C
13 10 (1.61%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.28%) Bash
15 7 (1.12%) JSX
15 7 (1.12%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.96%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.80%) Bicep
17 5 (0.80%) PHP
17 5 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (13.80%) Security Cleared
2 74 (11.88%) Degree
3 55 (8.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 55 (8.83%) SC Cleared
4 36 (5.78%) Master's Degree
5 18 (2.89%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.09%) MCP
8 12 (1.93%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.44%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.64%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.32%) OCP
14 2 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.19%) QA
2 29 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.41%) GDPR
4 12 (1.93%) EU AI Act
4 12 (1.93%) NIST
5 9 (1.44%) WCAG
6 6 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.80%) PSD2
7 5 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.64%) COBIT
8 4 (0.64%) SLA
9 3 (0.48%) HL7
9 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 208 (33.39%) Docker
2 9 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.64%) Postfix
3 4 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 179 (28.73%) Kubernetes
2 96 (15.41%) Terraform
3 51 (8.19%) Ansible
4 47 (7.54%) Prometheus
5 46 (7.38%) Grafana
6 13 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.80%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.64%) Control-M
9 3 (0.48%) Puppet
10 2 (0.32%) Consul
10 2 (0.32%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.32%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.32%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.32%) Salt
11 1 (0.16%) Argo
11 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.16%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.16%) Kibana
11 1 (0.16%) Nagios
Vendors
1 91 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 63 (10.11%) Google
3 39 (6.26%) Splunk
4 21 (3.37%) Oracle
5 18 (2.89%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.93%) Foundry
7 10 (1.61%) Adobe
7 10 (1.61%) Databricks
7 10 (1.61%) Ping Identity
8 9 (1.44%) Atlassian
8 9 (1.44%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.28%) Apple
9 8 (1.28%) SAP
9 8 (1.28%) Sitecore
9 8 (1.28%) VMware
10 7 (1.12%) ForgeRock
11 6 (0.96%) Gigya
11 6 (0.96%) Workday
12 5 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.80%) Virgin Media