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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 154 212
Rank change year-on-year -15 +58 -33
Contract jobs citing RESTful 568 447 417
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 1.75% 1.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.40% 7.73% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 286 320
10th Percentile £350 £357 £375
25th Percentile £402 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.67% -15.25%
75th Percentile £550 £630 £625
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 6
10th Percentile £48.50 - £57.75
25th Percentile £53.75 £38.25 £62.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.50 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +39.24% -48.39% +11.32%
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% +11.32%

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 7,673 5,786 7,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.67% 22.66% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,149 3,814 5,491
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -1.95% -1.69% -6.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 79 213
10th Percentile £35.13 £26.98 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £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 £68.38 £66.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £81.23 £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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -4 304 £488 -7.14% 112
North of England -13 121 £450 -2.70% 121
North West -17 62 £431 -4.22% 53
Midlands -23 62 £500 +5.26% 64
Yorkshire -28 57 £500 -6.19% 51
West Midlands -34 45 £488 -1.02% 34
South East -47 32 £525 +28.36% 122
East of England -18 26 £488 +56.08% 59
South West -28 22 £506 -11.08% 61
East Midlands -13 16 £550 +23.87% 27
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 (5.11%) Confluence
2 16 (2.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 14 (2.46%) CMS
4 11 (1.94%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.41%) Appian
6 7 (1.23%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.06%) Ethereum
7 6 (1.06%) Headless CMS
7 6 (1.06%) Hyperledger
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 (45.77%) AWS
2 197 (34.68%) Azure
3 119 (20.95%) Serverless
4 102 (17.96%) GCP
5 87 (15.32%) GitHub
6 55 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (8.98%) Amazon S3
8 44 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (7.57%) GitHub Actions
10 36 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
11 30 (5.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (4.93%) Azure AKS
13 27 (4.75%) Azure Functions
14 24 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (3.35%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (2.99%) PaaS
17 16 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.82%) HTTP
2 9 (1.58%) HTTPS
3 6 (1.06%) 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
1 111 (19.54%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (19.19%) NoSQL
3 61 (10.74%) Relational Database
4 42 (7.39%) SQL Server
5 40 (7.04%) MySQL
6 39 (6.87%) MongoDB
7 31 (5.46%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (4.58%) DynamoDB
9 18 (3.17%) Redis
10 11 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.58%) DocumentDB
11 9 (1.58%) Pinecone
12 8 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.23%) Big Data
13 7 (1.23%) DB2
14 6 (1.06%) Flink
14 6 (1.06%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.70%) Power BI
16 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.53%) GIS
Development Applications
1 155 (27.29%) Git
2 83 (14.61%) Jenkins
3 79 (13.91%) GitLab
4 47 (8.27%) JUnit
5 45 (7.92%) JIRA
6 25 (4.40%) Mockito
7 19 (3.35%) Maven
7 19 (3.35%) Postman
8 18 (3.17%) Liquibase
9 16 (2.82%) Cypress.io
9 16 (2.82%) Gradle
10 15 (2.64%) SonarQube
11 14 (2.46%) Selenium
12 13 (2.29%) Cucumber
12 13 (2.29%) MLflow
13 10 (1.76%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.41%) REST Assured
15 6 (1.06%) Android Studio
15 6 (1.06%) Vite
16 5 (0.88%) webpack
General
1 189 (33.27%) Social Skills
2 129 (22.71%) Finance
3 87 (15.32%) Public Sector
4 67 (11.80%) Banking
5 52 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.87%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.94%) Front Office
8 10 (1.76%) Marketing
9 8 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.06%) Legal
10 6 (1.06%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.88%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.53%) Advertising
13 3 (0.53%) Electronics
13 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.35%) Billing
14 2 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 332 (58.45%) Developer
2 103 (18.13%) Senior
3 97 (17.08%) Java Developer
4 71 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 52 (9.15%) Software Engineer
6 46 (8.10%) Senior Developer
7 42 (7.39%) Python Developer
8 31 (5.46%) React Developer
9 30 (5.28%) Architect
10 27 (4.75%) Lead
10 27 (4.75%) Senior Software Engineer
11 26 (4.58%) Backend Developer
12 24 (4.23%) Senior Java Developer
13 23 (4.05%) .NET Developer
14 22 (3.87%) C# Developer
15 20 (3.52%) Java Engineer
16 19 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
17 18 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
18 16 (2.82%) GCP Engineer
19 14 (2.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (27.82%) Spring
2 154 (27.11%) React
3 149 (26.23%) Spring Boot
4 126 (22.18%) REST
5 97 (17.08%) .NET
6 87 (15.32%) AngularJS
7 83 (14.61%) CSS
7 83 (14.61%) Node.js
8 81 (14.26%) HTML
9 77 (13.56%) Kafka
10 58 (10.21%) OAuth
11 45 (7.92%) Hibernate
12 39 (6.87%) JSON
12 39 (6.87%) OAuth2
13 38 (6.69%) Web Services
14 37 (6.51%) HTML5
15 35 (6.16%) Django
16 32 (5.63%) Jest
17 31 (5.46%) .NET Framework
17 31 (5.46%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 89 (15.67%) Cloud Native
2 58 (10.21%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (9.51%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.93%) Mobile App
5 24 (4.23%) Public Cloud
6 22 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (2.99%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.29%) Derivative
9 12 (2.11%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.11%) NHS
9 12 (2.11%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.76%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (0.88%) Credit Risk
15 5 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 48 (8.45%) Linux
2 15 (2.64%) Android
2 15 (2.64%) Windows
3 12 (2.11%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.06%) Unix
5 3 (0.53%) zOS
6 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (61.27%) CI/CD
2 300 (52.82%) Agile
3 277 (48.77%) Microservices
4 200 (35.21%) DevOps
5 174 (30.63%) Containerisation
6 162 (28.52%) Problem-Solving
7 124 (21.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 117 (20.60%) Test Automation
9 110 (19.37%) Software Engineering
10 98 (17.25%) API Development
11 87 (15.32%) Event-Driven
12 86 (15.14%) Clean Code
13 81 (14.26%) Scrum
14 79 (13.91%) TDD
15 76 (13.38%) Code Quality
16 74 (13.03%) User Experience
17 73 (12.85%) Infrastructure as Code
18 72 (12.68%) Design Patterns
19 66 (11.62%) AI
19 66 (11.62%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 223 (39.26%) Java
2 182 (32.04%) Python
3 170 (29.93%) SQL
4 143 (25.18%) JavaScript
5 107 (18.84%) TypeScript
6 87 (15.32%) C#
7 43 (7.57%) Go
8 19 (3.35%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.94%) Swift
11 9 (1.58%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.41%) Bicep
13 7 (1.23%) JSX
14 6 (1.06%) PHP
14 6 (1.06%) Ruby
15 5 (0.88%) Bash
16 4 (0.70%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.70%) Groovy
16 4 (0.70%) Objective-C
16 4 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (17.96%) Security Cleared
2 66 (11.62%) Degree
3 65 (11.44%) SC Cleared
4 55 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (5.81%) Master's Degree
6 17 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 8 (1.41%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.23%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.35%) OCP
14 2 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
15 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.18%) PMP
15 1 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (9.51%) QA
2 38 (6.69%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.82%) 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 (38.38%) 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
1 206 (36.27%) Kubernetes
2 88 (15.49%) Terraform
3 45 (7.92%) Prometheus
4 41 (7.22%) Grafana
5 33 (5.81%) 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 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.22%) Google
3 31 (5.46%) Adobe
3 31 (5.46%) Splunk
4 20 (3.52%) Oracle
5 17 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.11%) Foundry
7 11 (1.94%) Ping Identity
8 10 (1.76%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.76%) Sitecore
9 9 (1.58%) Databricks
10 8 (1.41%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.41%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.41%) UiPath
10 8 (1.41%) Veracode
11 7 (1.23%) ForgeRock
12 6 (1.06%) Apple
12 6 (1.06%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.06%) SAP
13 5 (0.88%) Jaspersoft