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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 173 211
Rank change year-on-year -18 +38 -22
Contract jobs citing RESTful 542 392 416
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 1.61% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.85% 7.22% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 270 301
10th Percentile £350 £358 £375
25th Percentile £409 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -11.02%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £738 £719
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 7
10th Percentile £53.25 £50.50 £47.70
25th Percentile £67.19 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -34.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 £53.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £89.75 £54.50 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -34.38% +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 7,916 5,429 7,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.42% 22.34% 20.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,250 3,761 5,335
10th Percentile £363 £365 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 103 228
10th Percentile £34.75 £33.25 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.95 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -4 300 £500 -4.76% 105
North of England -23 110 £450 +2.86% 66
North West -15 61 £439 +9.75% 39
South East -50 50 £515 +7.24% 46
Midlands -53 46 £488 +1.56% 18
Yorkshire -33 38 £513 +2.50% 18
West Midlands -52 30 £488 -4.88% 13
South West -30 22 £525 -12.50% 12
East Midlands -31 15 £473 +2.16% 5
North East -11 11 £450 +22.87% 9
East of England -41 7 £500 -13.04% 15
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 (4.61%) Confluence
2 12 (2.21%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.48%) Appian
5 7 (1.29%) CMS
6 6 (1.11%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.11%) Hyperledger
7 5 (0.92%) Camunda
7 5 (0.92%) CICS
7 5 (0.92%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.55%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.37%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.37%) Apache
10 2 (0.37%) IIS
10 2 (0.37%) Mule
10 2 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Mendix
11 1 (0.18%) Mule ESB
11 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (1.48%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.92%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.92%) Sketch
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.18%) Maximo
3 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.18%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 236 (43.54%) AWS
2 180 (33.21%) Azure
3 87 (16.05%) Serverless
4 79 (14.58%) GitHub
5 65 (11.99%) GCP
6 63 (11.62%) AWS Lambda
7 59 (10.89%) Amazon S3
8 53 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (8.86%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (5.72%) Amazon EC2
10 31 (5.72%) Amazon ECS
10 31 (5.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
12 27 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
13 26 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (3.87%) Power Automate
15 17 (3.14%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (2.77%) Azure Functions
17 14 (2.58%) Power Platform
18 13 (2.40%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.40%) HTTP
2 6 (1.11%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.92%) SSL
4 4 (0.74%) DNS
5 2 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.37%) VPN
6 1 (0.18%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.18%) 4G
6 1 (0.18%) 5G
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.18%) SMS
6 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (20.30%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (16.24%) NoSQL
3 61 (11.25%) SQL Server
4 59 (10.89%) Relational Database
5 47 (8.67%) MongoDB
6 39 (7.20%) DynamoDB
7 37 (6.83%) MySQL
8 30 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (4.43%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (3.69%) Redis
11 9 (1.66%) DB2
11 9 (1.66%) DocumentDB
11 9 (1.66%) Pinecone
12 7 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.11%) Flink
13 6 (1.11%) Power BI
14 5 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.92%) Big Data
15 4 (0.74%) GIS
16 3 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 141 (26.01%) Git
2 80 (14.76%) Jenkins
3 66 (12.18%) GitLab
4 49 (9.04%) JUnit
5 41 (7.56%) JIRA
6 33 (6.09%) Mockito
7 22 (4.06%) Maven
8 21 (3.87%) Postman
9 19 (3.51%) SonarQube
10 16 (2.95%) Gradle
11 15 (2.77%) Cucumber
12 14 (2.58%) Visual Studio
13 10 (1.85%) Selenium
14 9 (1.66%) Bitbucket
14 9 (1.66%) Bitbucket Server
14 9 (1.66%) DbUnit
14 9 (1.66%) jMock
15 8 (1.48%) MLflow
16 7 (1.29%) Mocha
16 7 (1.29%) REST Assured
General
1 134 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 123 (22.69%) Finance
3 95 (17.53%) Public Sector
4 59 (10.89%) Banking
5 57 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.03%) Front Office
7 7 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.29%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.11%) Legal
8 6 (1.11%) Marketing
8 6 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.74%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.74%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.55%) Law
10 3 (0.55%) Local Government
10 3 (0.55%) Police
11 2 (0.37%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.37%) Billing
11 2 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 349 (64.39%) Developer
2 113 (20.85%) Java Developer
3 89 (16.42%) Senior
4 69 (12.73%) Full-Stack Developer
5 56 (10.33%) Senior Developer
6 47 (8.67%) Python Developer
7 34 (6.27%) Software Engineer
8 33 (6.09%) .NET Developer
9 32 (5.90%) Architect
10 28 (5.17%) React Developer
11 26 (4.80%) Senior Java Developer
12 22 (4.06%) Backend Developer
12 22 (4.06%) C# Developer
12 22 (4.06%) Software Developer
13 21 (3.87%) Java Engineer
13 21 (3.87%) Lead
14 18 (3.32%) AWS Developer
15 14 (2.58%) Senior Software Engineer
16 12 (2.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 11 (2.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (31.18%) Spring
2 166 (30.63%) Spring Boot
3 128 (23.62%) React
4 124 (22.88%) REST
5 99 (18.27%) Kafka
6 93 (17.16%) .NET
7 85 (15.68%) AngularJS
8 74 (13.65%) HTML
9 73 (13.47%) CSS
10 67 (12.36%) Node.js
11 50 (9.23%) OAuth
12 43 (7.93%) Hibernate
13 40 (7.38%) Swagger
14 39 (7.20%) Web Services
15 38 (7.01%) HTML5
16 37 (6.83%) Django
17 35 (6.46%) OpenAPI
18 34 (6.27%) JSON
19 33 (6.09%) CSS3
19 33 (6.09%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 82 (15.13%) Cloud Native
2 69 (12.73%) Distributed Systems
2 69 (12.73%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (3.14%) Mobile App
5 15 (2.77%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.58%) Low-Code
7 13 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.66%) Hedge funds
9 9 (1.66%) NHS
10 7 (1.29%) Derivative
10 7 (1.29%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.11%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.11%) Equities
11 6 (1.11%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.92%) Fixed Income
12 5 (0.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.27%) Linux
2 21 (3.87%) Unix
3 11 (2.03%) Windows
4 7 (1.29%) Android
4 7 (1.29%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.92%) zOS
6 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (61.25%) CI/CD
2 296 (54.61%) Microservices
3 284 (52.40%) Agile
4 194 (35.79%) DevOps
5 172 (31.73%) Containerisation
6 124 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
6 124 (22.88%) Test Automation
7 116 (21.40%) Full-Stack Development
8 106 (19.56%) Event-Driven
9 92 (16.97%) Software Engineering
10 89 (16.42%) Scrum
11 84 (15.50%) Clean Code
12 83 (15.31%) TDD
13 80 (14.76%) Code Quality
14 77 (14.21%) API Development
15 73 (13.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 69 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
17 68 (12.55%) API Design
18 61 (11.25%) Unit Testing
19 59 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 240 (44.28%) Java
2 167 (30.81%) SQL
3 140 (25.83%) Python
4 126 (23.25%) JavaScript
5 113 (20.85%) C#
6 94 (17.34%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.43%) Go
8 19 (3.51%) Shell Script
9 16 (2.95%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.85%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.11%) Bicep
11 6 (1.11%) X++
12 5 (0.92%) Scala
12 5 (0.92%) Swift
13 4 (0.74%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.74%) JCL
14 3 (0.55%) Bash
14 3 (0.55%) Ruby
14 3 (0.55%) Rust
15 2 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 132 (24.35%) Security Cleared
2 93 (17.16%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.56%) Degree
4 31 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.85%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (0.92%) CCSP
9 5 (0.92%) CEH
9 5 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.92%) CISM
9 5 (0.92%) CISSP
9 5 (0.92%) OSCP
10 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.74%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.55%) MBA
12 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (11.81%) QA
2 44 (8.12%) Accessibility
3 26 (4.80%) WCAG
4 10 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.85%) NIST
5 9 (1.66%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.11%) GDPR
8 5 (0.92%) COBIT
8 5 (0.92%) HL7
9 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.37%) SLA
9 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.18%) EMIR
10 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
10 1 (0.18%) NCSC
10 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 202 (37.27%) Docker
2 8 (1.48%) Postfix
3 5 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.55%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 175 (32.29%) Kubernetes
2 67 (12.36%) Terraform
3 28 (5.17%) Grafana
4 25 (4.61%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.66%) Ansible
6 6 (1.11%) Kibana
7 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.37%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 36 (6.64%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.61%) Oracle
3 21 (3.87%) Adobe
4 17 (3.14%) Google
5 12 (2.21%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.85%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.85%) OpenAI
6 10 (1.85%) Splunk
7 9 (1.66%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (1.48%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (1.48%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.48%) UiPath
8 8 (1.48%) Veracode
9 7 (1.29%) Databricks
9 7 (1.29%) Okta
10 5 (0.92%) Apple
10 5 (0.92%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.92%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.92%) Sybase
11 3 (0.55%) Sitecore