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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 169 203
Rank change year-on-year -18 +34 +2
Contract jobs citing RESTful 589 396 447
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.37% 1.60% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.18% 7.09% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 282 309
10th Percentile £350 £325 £365
25th Percentile £413 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.12% -13.83%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -12.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 7
10th Percentile £54.50 £47.75 £47.70
25th Percentile £61.25 £50.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £85.00
90th Percentile £95.00 - £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +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 8,202 5,586 7,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.08% 22.52% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,407 3,877 5,488
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 111 260
10th Percentile £30.50 £32.31 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +25.63% -23.46%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.55
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -23.08%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +11 317 £500 - 58
North of England -16 112 £450 +7.46% 48
South East -21 73 £515 +3.52% 31
North West -19 53 £450 +12.50% 25
Yorkshire -33 42 £525 +13.51% 17
Midlands -64 41 £488 +5.41% 6
South West -9 30 £475 -11.63% 12
West Midlands -57 22 £500 - 4
North East -25 17 £450 -10.00% 6
East Midlands -28 17 £445 +10.70% 2
East of England -29 9 £500 -13.04% 13
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 (4.92%) Confluence
2 10 (1.70%) Ethereum
2 10 (1.70%) Hyperledger
3 9 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.36%) Appian
5 7 (1.19%) CICS
6 6 (1.02%) CMS
7 5 (0.85%) Camunda
7 5 (0.85%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.51%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.51%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.34%) IIS
10 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.17%) Mule
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.53%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.51%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.85%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.68%) Quorum
2 4 (0.68%) Ripple
3 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.17%) Maximo
5 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.17%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 231 (39.22%) AWS
2 205 (34.80%) Azure
3 100 (16.98%) GitHub
4 96 (16.30%) Serverless
5 73 (12.39%) GitHub Actions
6 71 (12.05%) AWS Lambda
7 61 (10.36%) GCP
8 59 (10.02%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (9.00%) Amazon S3
10 39 (6.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
15 22 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (3.23%) Route 53
17 18 (3.06%) Entra ID
17 18 (3.06%) Power Automate
18 16 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
19 14 (2.38%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.21%) HTTP
2 4 (0.68%) DNS
2 4 (0.68%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.68%) MQTT
2 4 (0.68%) Network Security
3 2 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.17%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.17%) 4G
4 1 (0.17%) 5G
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
4 1 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.17%) SSL
4 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (21.56%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (15.45%) NoSQL
3 65 (11.04%) Relational Database
4 61 (10.36%) SQL Server
5 52 (8.83%) MongoDB
6 44 (7.47%) DynamoDB
7 34 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (5.43%) MySQL
9 29 (4.92%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (3.57%) Redis
11 11 (1.87%) Db2
12 9 (1.53%) Pinecone
13 7 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (1.19%) Power BI
14 6 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.02%) Flink
15 5 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.85%) DocumentDB
16 4 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 139 (23.60%) Git
2 102 (17.32%) Jenkins
3 68 (11.54%) GitLab
4 53 (9.00%) JUnit
5 47 (7.98%) JIRA
6 36 (6.11%) Mockito
7 26 (4.41%) SonarQube
8 23 (3.90%) Maven
8 23 (3.90%) Postman
9 21 (3.57%) Gradle
10 18 (3.06%) Cucumber
11 14 (2.38%) Visual Studio
12 12 (2.04%) DbUnit
13 11 (1.87%) Bitbucket Server
13 11 (1.87%) jMock
13 11 (1.87%) REST Assured
14 10 (1.70%) fastlane
15 8 (1.36%) Liquibase
15 8 (1.36%) MLflow
15 8 (1.36%) Xcode
General
1 122 (20.71%) Finance
1 122 (20.71%) Social Skills
2 94 (15.96%) Public Sector
3 67 (11.38%) Banking
4 61 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.21%) Retail
7 10 (1.70%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.36%) Law
8 8 (1.36%) Marketing
9 7 (1.19%) Front Office
10 6 (1.02%) Legal
11 5 (0.85%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.85%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.68%) Police
12 4 (0.68%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.51%) Automotive
13 3 (0.51%) Local Government
13 3 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 373 (63.33%) Developer
2 121 (20.54%) Senior
3 116 (19.69%) Java Developer
4 81 (13.75%) Senior Developer
5 65 (11.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 52 (8.83%) Python Developer
7 39 (6.62%) Architect
8 38 (6.45%) Software Engineer
9 36 (6.11%) .NET Developer
10 33 (5.60%) Senior Java Developer
11 32 (5.43%) React Developer
12 26 (4.41%) Backend Developer
13 25 (4.24%) C# Developer
14 23 (3.90%) Software Developer
15 20 (3.40%) Java Engineer
16 19 (3.23%) Lead
17 18 (3.06%) AWS Developer
18 16 (2.72%) Senior Software Engineer
19 15 (2.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 14 (2.38%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (28.01%) Spring
2 161 (27.33%) Spring Boot
3 152 (25.81%) REST
4 122 (20.71%) React
5 116 (19.69%) Kafka
6 106 (18.00%) .NET
7 70 (11.88%) AngularJS
7 70 (11.88%) CSS
8 67 (11.38%) HTML
8 67 (11.38%) Node.js
9 60 (10.19%) OAuth
10 49 (8.32%) Web Services
11 44 (7.47%) Swagger
12 42 (7.13%) Django
12 42 (7.13%) OAuth2
13 40 (6.79%) OpenAPI
14 39 (6.62%) FastAPI
14 39 (6.62%) RabbitMQ
15 36 (6.11%) .NET Core
15 36 (6.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 106 (18.00%) Cloud Native
2 96 (16.30%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (14.60%) Product Ownership
4 29 (4.92%) Mobile App
5 23 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (3.57%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.21%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.87%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.53%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.36%) Derivative
11 8 (1.36%) Hedge funds
12 7 (1.19%) DataPower
12 7 (1.19%) Mainframe
13 6 (1.02%) Blockchain
13 6 (1.02%) Equities
13 6 (1.02%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.13%) Linux
2 21 (3.57%) Unix
3 19 (3.23%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.04%) Android
5 11 (1.87%) Windows
6 7 (1.19%) zOS
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (60.78%) CI/CD
2 309 (52.46%) Microservices
3 303 (51.44%) Agile
4 216 (36.67%) DevOps
5 176 (29.88%) Containerisation
6 137 (23.26%) Test Automation
7 128 (21.73%) Event-Driven
8 117 (19.86%) Scrum
9 114 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 113 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
11 107 (18.17%) Software Engineering
12 89 (15.11%) API Development
13 85 (14.43%) Code Quality
14 84 (14.26%) Clean Code
15 83 (14.09%) TDD
16 82 (13.92%) API Design
16 82 (13.92%) Infrastructure as Code
17 78 (13.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 68 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
18 68 (11.54%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 252 (42.78%) Java
2 186 (31.58%) SQL
3 163 (27.67%) Python
4 127 (21.56%) C#
5 125 (21.22%) JavaScript
6 103 (17.49%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.24%) Go
7 25 (4.24%) Shell Script
8 22 (3.74%) Kotlin
9 17 (2.89%) Swift
10 16 (2.72%) Bicep
11 11 (1.87%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.53%) Scala
13 8 (1.36%) Rust
14 7 (1.19%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.02%) JCL
15 6 (1.02%) Objective-C
15 6 (1.02%) Ruby
16 5 (0.85%) Solidity
16 5 (0.85%) X++
Qualifications
1 140 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 105 (17.83%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.60%) Degree
4 24 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.70%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (1.36%) CCSP
8 8 (1.36%) CEH
8 8 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.36%) CISM
8 8 (1.36%) CISSP
8 8 (1.36%) OSCP
9 5 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.68%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.51%) MBA
12 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (14.43%) QA
2 57 (9.68%) Accessibility
3 37 (6.28%) WCAG
4 13 (2.21%) NIST
5 12 (2.04%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.87%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.36%) COBIT
7 8 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.19%) NCSC
9 6 (1.02%) GDPR
10 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.34%) SLA
10 2 (0.34%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.17%) Basel III
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) HL7
11 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 216 (36.67%) Docker
2 9 (1.53%) Postfix
3 5 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 182 (30.90%) Kubernetes
2 74 (12.56%) Terraform
3 40 (6.79%) Grafana
4 34 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.38%) Ansible
6 6 (1.02%) Kibana
7 4 (0.68%) Podman
7 4 (0.68%) Puppet
8 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.34%) Consul
9 2 (0.34%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 44 (7.47%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.09%) Oracle
3 17 (2.89%) Dynatrace
3 17 (2.89%) Google
4 13 (2.21%) Atlassian
5 12 (2.04%) OpenAI
5 12 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.87%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (1.87%) Splunk
7 9 (1.53%) Adobe
7 9 (1.53%) Apple
8 8 (1.36%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (1.36%) Sybase
8 8 (1.36%) UiPath
8 8 (1.36%) Veracode
9 7 (1.19%) Databricks
9 7 (1.19%) New Relic
9 7 (1.19%) Okta
9 7 (1.19%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.68%) NVIDIA