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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 153 178
Rank change year-on-year -53 +25 +46
Contract jobs citing RESTful 612 517 464
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 1.89% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.29% 7.56% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 381 305
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £570 £583 £650
90th Percentile £650 £675 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £476 £500
% change year-on-year +5.04% -4.80% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £49.25 £47.70
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.55 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +12.04%
75th Percentile £77.38 £63.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £95.00 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +12.04%

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 9,735 6,835 8,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.35% 24.96% 24.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,415 4,689 5,577
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 166 182
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £50.38 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.59 £76.85 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -20 337 £500 -3.85% 355
North of England -91 91 £475 +6.74% 104
South East -51 79 £475 +4.05% 57
Midlands -67 46 £447 +2.69% 38
Yorkshire -47 43 £513 +20.59% 29
South West -21 30 £440 +3.53% 45
West Midlands -41 30 £488 -2.50% 20
North West -72 29 £535 +18.30% 57
North East -32 19 £450 -10.00% 19
East of England -18 17 £463 -15.14% 25
East Midlands -34 15 £435 +8.21% 17
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 34 (5.56%) Confluence
2 5 (0.82%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.82%) CMS
3 4 (0.65%) Camunda
3 4 (0.65%) CICS
3 4 (0.65%) Ethereum
3 4 (0.65%) Hyperledger
3 4 (0.65%) OpenStack
3 4 (0.65%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.33%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.33%) Mule
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.16%) IIS
6 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (1.31%) CPLEX
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Quorum
1 4 (0.65%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.65%) Ripple
2 3 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.16%) Maximo
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.16%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.16%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 247 (40.36%) AWS
2 228 (37.25%) Azure
3 138 (22.55%) GitHub
4 89 (14.54%) GitHub Actions
5 86 (14.05%) Serverless
6 83 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (12.91%) GCP
8 62 (10.13%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (7.52%) Amazon S3
10 38 (6.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (3.59%) GitHub Copilot
15 17 (2.78%) Entra ID
16 16 (2.61%) Azure AKS
16 16 (2.61%) Power Platform
17 15 (2.45%) Azure Functions
17 15 (2.45%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.61%) HTTP
2 5 (0.82%) 5G
2 5 (0.82%) DNS
2 5 (0.82%) SSH
2 5 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.65%) 4G
3 4 (0.65%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.65%) MQTT
3 4 (0.65%) Network Security
4 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.16%) LTE
4 1 (0.16%) NFC
4 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (23.20%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (13.89%) Relational Database
3 81 (13.24%) NoSQL
4 59 (9.64%) MongoDB
5 51 (8.33%) SQL Server
6 45 (7.35%) MySQL
7 35 (5.72%) DynamoDB
8 27 (4.41%) Redis
9 23 (3.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (2.12%) Geospatial Data
12 11 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.14%) Power BI
15 6 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.98%) Metadata
15 6 (0.98%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 4 (0.65%) Db2
17 4 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 179 (29.25%) Git
2 120 (19.61%) Jenkins
3 57 (9.31%) GitLab
4 53 (8.66%) JUnit
5 52 (8.50%) JIRA
6 39 (6.37%) Mockito
7 31 (5.07%) Maven
8 30 (4.90%) Gradle
9 24 (3.92%) SonarQube
10 20 (3.27%) Cypress.io
11 19 (3.10%) Postman
12 17 (2.78%) Cucumber
13 14 (2.29%) Visual Studio
14 12 (1.96%) REST Assured
14 12 (1.96%) Selenium
15 11 (1.80%) MSI
16 10 (1.63%) fastlane
17 9 (1.47%) CircleCI
17 9 (1.47%) Storybook
17 9 (1.47%) Xcode
General
1 153 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 116 (18.95%) Finance
3 108 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 89 (14.54%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (7.19%) Banking
6 35 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.94%) Retail
8 15 (2.45%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.80%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.31%) Law
10 8 (1.31%) Marketing
10 8 (1.31%) Publishing
11 7 (1.14%) Local Government
12 6 (0.98%) Front Office
12 6 (0.98%) Legal
13 5 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.82%) Police
14 4 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.65%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.49%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 379 (61.93%) Developer
2 125 (20.42%) Senior
3 115 (18.79%) Java Developer
4 90 (14.71%) Senior Developer
5 77 (12.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 46 (7.52%) Python Developer
7 42 (6.86%) .NET Developer
8 40 (6.54%) Software Engineer
9 38 (6.21%) Senior Java Developer
10 37 (6.05%) Architect
11 26 (4.25%) Lead
11 26 (4.25%) React Developer
11 26 (4.25%) Software Developer
12 25 (4.08%) C# Developer
13 23 (3.76%) Java Engineer
14 20 (3.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (3.10%) C# .NET Developer
16 18 (2.94%) AWS Developer
16 18 (2.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 17 (2.78%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (30.23%) REST
2 157 (25.65%) Spring
3 152 (24.84%) Spring Boot
4 124 (20.26%) React
5 119 (19.44%) Kafka
6 109 (17.81%) .NET
7 94 (15.36%) CSS
8 90 (14.71%) HTML
9 88 (14.38%) Terraform
10 65 (10.62%) AngularJS
11 61 (9.97%) Node.js
11 61 (9.97%) OAuth
12 54 (8.82%) Web Services
13 52 (8.50%) OAuth2
14 50 (8.17%) .NET Core
15 47 (7.68%) JSON
16 45 (7.35%) HTML5
17 42 (6.86%) Swagger
18 41 (6.70%) CSS3
19 39 (6.37%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 155 (25.33%) Cloud Native
2 108 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (14.05%) Product Ownership
4 41 (6.70%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (6.05%) Mobile App
6 25 (4.08%) Onboarding
7 23 (3.76%) Data Structures
8 18 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (2.12%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.96%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.80%) NHS
12 10 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.63%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.31%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.14%) Hedge funds
15 6 (0.98%) Life Science
15 6 (0.98%) Low-Code
16 4 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 52 (8.50%) Linux
2 36 (5.88%) Unix
3 23 (3.76%) Apple iOS
4 20 (3.27%) Android
5 15 (2.45%) Windows
6 4 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (64.38%) CI/CD
2 348 (56.86%) Agile
3 316 (51.63%) Microservices
4 265 (43.30%) DevOps
5 196 (32.03%) Test Automation
6 181 (29.58%) Containerisation
7 149 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
8 142 (23.20%) Event-Driven
9 138 (22.55%) Scrum
10 136 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
11 134 (21.90%) Software Engineering
12 120 (19.61%) Code Quality
13 119 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 107 (17.48%) Infrastructure as Code
15 97 (15.85%) API Development
16 89 (14.54%) API Design
17 88 (14.38%) AI
18 87 (14.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 83 (13.56%) Clean Code
20 81 (13.24%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 245 (40.03%) Java
2 174 (28.43%) SQL
3 157 (25.65%) Python
4 150 (24.51%) JavaScript
5 129 (21.08%) C#
6 117 (19.12%) TypeScript
7 36 (5.88%) Kotlin
8 31 (5.07%) Shell Script
9 26 (4.25%) Bicep
10 22 (3.59%) Swift
11 15 (2.45%) Bash
12 14 (2.29%) Ruby
13 12 (1.96%) Scala
14 10 (1.63%) Rust
15 9 (1.47%) Go
15 9 (1.47%) Objective-C
16 8 (1.31%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.31%) X++
17 7 (1.14%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.65%) JCL
Qualifications
1 165 (26.96%) Security Cleared
2 134 (21.90%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.37%) Degree
4 27 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.27%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.12%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.63%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (1.14%) CCSP
11 7 (1.14%) CEH
11 7 (1.14%) CISM
11 7 (1.14%) CISSP
11 7 (1.14%) OSCP
12 5 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.49%) MBA
14 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (17.81%) QA
2 68 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 42 (6.86%) WCAG
4 13 (2.12%) NCSC
5 8 (1.31%) HL7
5 8 (1.31%) NIST
6 7 (1.14%) COBIT
6 7 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.49%) GDPR
8 2 (0.33%) Basel III
8 2 (0.33%) SLA
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 239 (39.05%) Docker
2 6 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.82%) Postfix
4 4 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 185 (30.23%) Kubernetes
2 49 (8.01%) Grafana
3 41 (6.70%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.96%) Ansible
5 10 (1.63%) Kibana
6 5 (0.82%) Argo
7 4 (0.65%) Podman
7 4 (0.65%) Puppet
8 3 (0.49%) Bosun
8 3 (0.49%) Istio
9 2 (0.33%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.33%) Consul
9 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.33%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.16%) linkerd
Vendors
1 70 (11.44%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.70%) Oracle
3 30 (4.90%) Google
4 20 (3.27%) Dynatrace
5 16 (2.61%) Splunk
6 12 (1.96%) New Relic
6 12 (1.96%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.14%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.14%) Databricks
8 6 (0.98%) Apple
8 6 (0.98%) IBM
8 6 (0.98%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (0.98%) MuleSoft
9 5 (0.82%) Okta
9 5 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.65%) Citrix
10 4 (0.65%) NVIDIA
10 4 (0.65%) SAP
10 4 (0.65%) Sybase
10 4 (0.65%) Tenable