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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 153 208
Rank change year-on-year -14 +55 -26
Contract jobs citing RESTful 569 443 421
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 1.77% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.38% 7.81% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 283 325
10th Percentile £350 £357 £375
25th Percentile £404 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £552 £634 £619
90th Percentile £650 £738 £719
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £48.50 - £65.41
25th Percentile £53.75 £38.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.50 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +39.24% -48.39% +9.33%
75th Percentile £84.63 £40.75 -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
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 7,707 5,673 7,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.65% 22.67% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,175 3,746 5,458
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -7.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 78 209
10th Percentile £35.10 £26.92 £21.16
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.75 £40.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £81.34 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -2 305 £488 -7.14% 106
North of England -14 119 £450 -2.70% 107
North West -16 61 £431 -4.22% 48
Midlands -28 61 £500 +5.26% 52
Yorkshire -25 56 £500 -6.19% 42
West Midlands -38 43 £500 +1.52% 30
South East -38 34 £525 +28.36% 107
East of England -15 26 £488 +56.08% 58
South West -17 23 £512 -16.49% 51
East Midlands -18 17 £550 +23.87% 20
North East -15 2 £463 +25.00% 18
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 29 (5.10%) Confluence
2 16 (2.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 14 (2.46%) CMS
4 11 (1.93%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.41%) Appian
6 7 (1.23%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (1.05%) Ethereum
7 6 (1.05%) Headless CMS
7 6 (1.05%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.88%) Camunda
8 5 (0.88%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.53%) Apache
10 3 (0.53%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.53%) CICS
11 2 (0.35%) Drupal
11 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.18%) Mule
12 1 (0.18%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (1.41%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.88%) Sketch
3 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.18%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 260 (45.69%) AWS
2 198 (34.80%) Azure
3 119 (20.91%) Serverless
4 102 (17.93%) GCP
5 88 (15.47%) GitHub
6 57 (10.02%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (9.14%) Amazon S3
8 44 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (7.73%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (6.33%) Amazon ECS
10 30 (5.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (4.92%) Azure AKS
12 27 (4.75%) Azure Functions
13 25 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (3.34%) Azure Service Bus
15 17 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
15 17 (2.99%) PaaS
16 16 (2.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.81%) HTTP
2 9 (1.58%) 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%) 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
1 110 (19.33%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (19.16%) NoSQL
3 62 (10.90%) Relational Database
4 44 (7.73%) SQL Server
5 39 (6.85%) MongoDB
5 39 (6.85%) MySQL
6 32 (5.62%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (4.92%) DynamoDB
8 18 (3.16%) Redis
9 11 (1.93%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (1.58%) DocumentDB
10 9 (1.58%) Pinecone
11 8 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.23%) DB2
13 6 (1.05%) Big Data
13 6 (1.05%) Flink
13 6 (1.05%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.70%) Power BI
15 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 155 (27.24%) Git
2 82 (14.41%) Jenkins
3 77 (13.53%) GitLab
4 47 (8.26%) JUnit
5 45 (7.91%) JIRA
6 25 (4.39%) Mockito
7 19 (3.34%) Maven
7 19 (3.34%) Postman
8 17 (2.99%) Liquibase
9 16 (2.81%) Cypress.io
9 16 (2.81%) Gradle
10 15 (2.64%) SonarQube
11 14 (2.46%) Cucumber
11 14 (2.46%) Selenium
12 12 (2.11%) MLflow
13 10 (1.76%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.41%) REST Assured
15 6 (1.05%) Android Studio
15 6 (1.05%) Vite
16 5 (0.88%) webpack
General
1 190 (33.39%) Social Skills
2 128 (22.50%) Finance
3 85 (14.94%) Public Sector
4 67 (11.78%) Banking
5 52 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.69%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.93%) Front Office
8 10 (1.76%) Marketing
9 8 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.05%) Legal
10 6 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.88%) Health Technology
11 5 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.53%) Advertising
12 3 (0.53%) Electronics
12 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.35%) Billing
13 2 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.35%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 334 (58.70%) Developer
2 105 (18.45%) Senior
3 98 (17.22%) Java Developer
4 71 (12.48%) Full-Stack Developer
5 51 (8.96%) Software Engineer
6 48 (8.44%) Senior Developer
7 43 (7.56%) Python Developer
8 32 (5.62%) React Developer
9 30 (5.27%) Architect
10 27 (4.75%) Backend Developer
10 27 (4.75%) Lead
11 26 (4.57%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (4.39%) Senior Java Developer
13 23 (4.04%) .NET Developer
14 22 (3.87%) C# Developer
15 21 (3.69%) Java Engineer
16 19 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
17 18 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
18 16 (2.81%) GCP Engineer
19 14 (2.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (27.94%) Spring
2 154 (27.07%) React
3 150 (26.36%) Spring Boot
4 124 (21.79%) REST
5 98 (17.22%) .NET
6 86 (15.11%) AngularJS
7 84 (14.76%) Node.js
8 83 (14.59%) CSS
9 80 (14.06%) HTML
10 77 (13.53%) Kafka
11 59 (10.37%) OAuth
12 45 (7.91%) Hibernate
13 40 (7.03%) OAuth2
14 39 (6.85%) JSON
15 38 (6.68%) Web Services
16 37 (6.50%) HTML5
17 36 (6.33%) Django
18 32 (5.62%) Jest
19 31 (5.45%) .NET Framework
19 31 (5.45%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 88 (15.47%) Cloud Native
2 58 (10.19%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (9.49%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.92%) Mobile App
5 23 (4.04%) Public Cloud
6 22 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (2.99%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.28%) Derivative
9 12 (2.11%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.11%) NHS
9 12 (2.11%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.76%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.41%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
16 5 (0.88%) Credit Risk
16 5 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 48 (8.44%) Linux
2 16 (2.81%) Windows
3 15 (2.64%) Android
4 12 (2.11%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.05%) Unix
6 3 (0.53%) zOS
7 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (61.16%) CI/CD
2 302 (53.08%) Agile
3 279 (49.03%) Microservices
4 199 (34.97%) DevOps
5 175 (30.76%) Containerisation
6 164 (28.82%) Problem-Solving
7 123 (21.62%) Full-Stack Development
8 118 (20.74%) Test Automation
9 110 (19.33%) Software Engineering
10 98 (17.22%) API Development
11 88 (15.47%) Event-Driven
12 86 (15.11%) Clean Code
13 81 (14.24%) Scrum
14 80 (14.06%) TDD
15 77 (13.53%) Code Quality
16 73 (12.83%) Design Patterns
17 72 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
17 72 (12.65%) User Experience
18 67 (11.78%) API Design
19 66 (11.60%) AI
Programming Languages
1 225 (39.54%) Java
2 182 (31.99%) Python
3 172 (30.23%) SQL
4 142 (24.96%) JavaScript
5 108 (18.98%) TypeScript
6 88 (15.47%) C#
7 42 (7.38%) Go
8 19 (3.34%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.93%) Swift
11 9 (1.58%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.41%) Bicep
13 7 (1.23%) JSX
14 6 (1.05%) Ruby
15 5 (0.88%) Bash
15 5 (0.88%) PHP
16 4 (0.70%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.70%) Groovy
16 4 (0.70%) Objective-C
16 4 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 66 (11.60%) Degree
2 66 (11.60%) SC Cleared
3 55 (9.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (5.62%) Master's Degree
5 17 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.28%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 8 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.23%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
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 54 (9.49%) QA
2 38 (6.68%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.81%) NIST
4 15 (2.64%) GDPR
4 15 (2.64%) WCAG
5 12 (2.11%) EU AI Act
6 10 (1.76%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.23%) HL7
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
1 218 (38.31%) Docker
2 8 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.70%) Postfix
4 3 (0.53%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 205 (36.03%) Kubernetes
2 87 (15.29%) Terraform
3 44 (7.73%) Prometheus
4 40 (7.03%) Grafana
5 32 (5.62%) Ansible
6 12 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.35%) Consul
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 64 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.03%) Google
3 31 (5.45%) Adobe
4 30 (5.27%) Splunk
5 20 (3.51%) Oracle
6 17 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.11%) Foundry
8 11 (1.93%) Ping Identity
9 10 (1.76%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.76%) Sitecore
10 9 (1.58%) Databricks
11 8 (1.41%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (1.41%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.41%) UiPath
11 8 (1.41%) Veracode
12 7 (1.23%) ForgeRock
13 6 (1.05%) Apple
13 6 (1.05%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.88%) Jaspersoft
14 5 (0.88%) SAP