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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 162 206
Rank change year-on-year +24 +44 -53
Contract jobs citing RESTful 625 476 443
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 1.57% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.06% 7.20% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 314 333
10th Percentile £339 £325 £369
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -6.98% -10.42%
75th Percentile £565 £638 £625
90th Percentile £654 £759 £738
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 9
10th Percentile £45.13 - £57.50
25th Percentile £51.73 £38.25 £58.00
Median hourly rate £58.75 £39.50 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +48.73% -48.39% +13.38%
75th Percentile £79.45 £40.75 -
90th Percentile £95.00 - £87.25
UK median hourly rate £58.75 £39.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +48.73% -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 6,902 6,610 8,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.29% 21.80% 21.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,629 4,224 6,131
10th Percentile £350 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £625 £666 £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 168 95 174
10th Percentile £31.10 £26.35 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

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 13 December 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 13 December 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 13 December 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 +18 316 £513 -2.38% 111
North of England +21 145 £450 -8.16% 133
Yorkshire +14 85 £475 -11.34% 48
Midlands -17 58 £475 -5.00% 81
North West +9 57 £435 -8.42% 65
South East -9 55 £463 +12.60% 105
West Midlands -22 35 £500 -13.04% 47
East of England -6 28 £545 +81.67% 57
East Midlands -4 23 £413 -15.82% 32
South West -6 18 £512 +13.67% 51
North East -5 3 £500 +8.11% 20
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 26 (4.16%) Confluence
2 18 (2.88%) CMS
3 8 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (1.12%) Headless CMS
5 6 (0.96%) Apache
5 6 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.96%) nginx
5 6 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.96%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.80%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.64%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.48%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.48%) Camunda
8 3 (0.48%) Drupal
8 3 (0.48%) Mule
9 2 (0.32%) Documentum
9 2 (0.32%) Moodle
10 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
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 3 (0.48%) 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 (41.12%) AWS
2 201 (32.16%) Azure
3 138 (22.08%) Serverless
4 130 (20.80%) GCP
5 95 (15.20%) GitHub
6 62 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
7 52 (8.32%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
9 34 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 30 (4.80%) Azure Functions
11 29 (4.64%) Azure AKS
12 28 (4.48%) PaaS
13 27 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (2.72%) Amazon SQS
15 17 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
16 16 (2.56%) Apigee
17 14 (2.24%) SaaS
18 12 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.08%) HTTP
2 5 (0.80%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.64%) SSL
3 4 (0.64%) tcpdump
4 3 (0.48%) VPN
5 2 (0.32%) AMQP
5 2 (0.32%) DSL
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 (18.72%) NoSQL
2 110 (17.60%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (9.76%) Relational Database
4 42 (6.72%) MySQL
5 37 (5.92%) SQL Server
6 36 (5.76%) MongoDB
7 27 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (3.84%) DynamoDB
9 13 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (2.08%) Redis
10 12 (1.92%) RDBMS
11 7 (1.12%) Big Data
11 7 (1.12%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.80%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.80%) Power BI
13 4 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.64%) DB2
14 3 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 188 (30.08%) Git
2 110 (17.60%) Jenkins
3 76 (12.16%) GitLab
4 52 (8.32%) JIRA
5 45 (7.20%) JUnit
6 28 (4.48%) Liquibase
7 26 (4.16%) Cucumber
8 23 (3.68%) Cypress.io
8 23 (3.68%) Postman
9 22 (3.52%) Selenium
10 21 (3.36%) Gradle
11 17 (2.72%) Bitbucket
11 17 (2.72%) Maven
12 14 (2.24%) Mockito
13 12 (1.92%) SonarQube
14 11 (1.76%) Android Studio
15 10 (1.60%) Jasmine
15 10 (1.60%) REST Assured
15 10 (1.60%) Storybook
16 9 (1.44%) Mocha
General
1 230 (36.80%) Social Skills
2 154 (24.64%) Finance
3 86 (13.76%) Public Sector
4 84 (13.44%) Banking
5 47 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (4.96%) Financial Institution
7 10 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (1.44%) Telecoms
9 6 (0.96%) Automotive
9 6 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (0.96%) Investment Banking
9 6 (0.96%) Marketing
9 6 (0.96%) Retail
10 5 (0.80%) Digital Healthcare
10 5 (0.80%) Legal
11 4 (0.64%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.64%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.64%) Multimedia
11 4 (0.64%) Police
11 4 (0.64%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 347 (55.52%) Developer
2 121 (19.36%) Senior
3 93 (14.88%) Java Developer
4 67 (10.72%) Senior Developer
5 61 (9.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 47 (7.52%) Architect
7 46 (7.36%) Software Engineer
8 33 (5.28%) Python Developer
9 32 (5.12%) Lead
10 27 (4.32%) Android Developer
10 27 (4.32%) Senior Java Developer
11 23 (3.68%) Angular Developer
12 22 (3.52%) React Developer
13 21 (3.36%) .NET Developer
14 20 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
15 19 (3.04%) C# Developer
15 19 (3.04%) Senior Software Engineer
16 18 (2.88%) Backend Developer
17 16 (2.56%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (22.24%) React
2 136 (21.76%) Spring
3 127 (20.32%) Spring Boot
4 108 (17.28%) REST
5 101 (16.16%) .NET
6 85 (13.60%) AngularJS
6 85 (13.60%) CSS
6 85 (13.60%) HTML
7 84 (13.44%) Node.js
8 63 (10.08%) JSON
9 59 (9.44%) Kafka
10 57 (9.12%) OAuth
11 47 (7.52%) OAuth2
12 38 (6.08%) Elastic Stack
13 37 (5.92%) .NET Framework
13 37 (5.92%) GraphQL
14 36 (5.76%) Web Services
15 35 (5.60%) Hibernate
15 35 (5.60%) HTML5
15 35 (5.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 117 (18.72%) Cloud Native
2 65 (10.40%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (8.96%) Mobile App
4 41 (6.56%) Product Ownership
5 33 (5.28%) Public Cloud
6 17 (2.72%) Algorithms
7 16 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (2.24%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.92%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.60%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.60%) NHS
11 8 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.96%) Derivative
13 6 (0.96%) N-Tier
14 5 (0.80%) Data Fabric
14 5 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 63 (10.08%) Linux
2 35 (5.60%) Android
3 28 (4.48%) Apple iOS
4 19 (3.04%) Windows
5 5 (0.80%) 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
1 359 (57.44%) Agile
2 354 (56.64%) CI/CD
3 279 (44.64%) Microservices
4 239 (38.24%) DevOps
5 194 (31.04%) Problem-Solving
6 173 (27.68%) Containerisation
7 121 (19.36%) Full-Stack Development
8 111 (17.76%) Software Engineering
9 107 (17.12%) API Development
10 103 (16.48%) Test Automation
11 86 (13.76%) Scrum
12 85 (13.60%) Clean Code
12 85 (13.60%) Design Patterns
13 81 (12.96%) API Design
14 79 (12.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 79 (12.64%) TDD
15 78 (12.48%) Event-Driven
16 76 (12.16%) AI
17 74 (11.84%) Computer Science
18 66 (10.56%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 221 (35.36%) Java
2 205 (32.80%) Python
3 152 (24.32%) SQL
4 149 (23.84%) JavaScript
5 100 (16.00%) TypeScript
6 81 (12.96%) C#
7 47 (7.52%) Go
8 38 (6.08%) Kotlin
9 22 (3.52%) Swift
10 14 (2.24%) Ruby
11 13 (2.08%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.76%) Objective-C
13 10 (1.60%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.28%) Bash
15 7 (1.12%) JSX
16 6 (0.96%) Bicep
16 6 (0.96%) PHP
16 6 (0.96%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.80%) C++
17 5 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (15.36%) Security Cleared
2 79 (12.64%) Degree
3 64 (10.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 55 (8.80%) SC Cleared
5 36 (5.76%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.20%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (2.08%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.08%) MCP
9 11 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.60%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.64%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.48%) OCP
13 3 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.16%) PMP
14 1 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.32%) QA
2 29 (4.64%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.40%) GDPR
4 12 (1.92%) EU AI Act
4 12 (1.92%) NIST
5 10 (1.60%) WCAG
6 7 (1.12%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.96%) HL7
8 5 (0.80%) PSD2
8 5 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.64%) COBIT
9 4 (0.64%) SLA
10 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.16%) NCSC
12 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 220 (35.20%) Docker
2 8 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.32%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 204 (32.64%) Kubernetes
2 104 (16.64%) Terraform
3 52 (8.32%) Ansible
4 44 (7.04%) Prometheus
5 43 (6.88%) Grafana
6 11 (1.76%) 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%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.32%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.32%) Salt
11 1 (0.16%) Argo
11 1 (0.16%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.16%) Kibana
11 1 (0.16%) Nagios
11 1 (0.16%) Podman
11 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 90 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.24%) Google
3 43 (6.88%) Splunk
4 25 (4.00%) Oracle
5 16 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.08%) Adobe
7 12 (1.92%) Foundry
8 10 (1.60%) Databricks
9 9 (1.44%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.44%) Ping Identity
10 8 (1.28%) Apple
10 8 (1.28%) SAP
10 8 (1.28%) Sitecore
10 8 (1.28%) VMware
11 6 (0.96%) ForgeRock
11 6 (0.96%) Gigya
11 6 (0.96%) Workday
12 5 (0.80%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.80%) Virgin Media