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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 169 191
Rank change year-on-year -13 +22 +17
Contract jobs citing RESTful 596 408 460
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.38% 1.64% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.25% 7.26% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 291 321
10th Percentile £350 £320 £366
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -11.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -12.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 7
10th Percentile £54.75 £47.75 £47.70
25th Percentile £63.75 £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 8,216 5,618 7,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.06% 22.59% 20.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,415 3,899 5,517
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 £514 £537
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.22% -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 110 261
10th Percentile £30.55 £32.10 £22.75
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.06 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.05 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.75
% change year-on-year +15.56% +8.70% -20.38%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -6 319 £500 - 80
North of England -21 114 £450 +4.65% 48
South East -29 74 £515 +3.52% 36
North West -23 54 £450 +12.50% 27
Yorkshire -30 43 £525 +13.51% 15
Midlands -70 41 £488 +5.41% 6
South West -8 30 £475 -11.63% 13
West Midlands -66 22 £500 - 4
North East -24 17 £450 -10.00% 6
East Midlands -28 17 £445 +10.70% 2
East of England -28 11 £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 (4.87%) Confluence
2 10 (1.68%) Ethereum
2 10 (1.68%) Hyperledger
3 9 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.17%) Appian
4 7 (1.17%) CICS
5 6 (1.01%) CMS
6 5 (0.84%) Camunda
6 5 (0.84%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.50%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.34%) IIS
9 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.17%) Mule
10 1 (0.17%) nginx
10 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.51%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.50%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.84%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.67%) Quorum
2 4 (0.67%) Ripple
3 3 (0.50%) 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
1 233 (39.09%) AWS
2 207 (34.73%) Azure
3 101 (16.95%) GitHub
4 98 (16.44%) Serverless
5 74 (12.42%) GitHub Actions
6 72 (12.08%) AWS Lambda
7 62 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (10.23%) GCP
9 54 (9.06%) Amazon S3
10 39 (6.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (5.70%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (5.20%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
15 22 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (3.19%) Route 53
17 18 (3.02%) Entra ID
18 17 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
18 17 (2.85%) Power Automate
19 15 (2.52%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.18%) HTTP
2 4 (0.67%) DNS
2 4 (0.67%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.67%) MQTT
2 4 (0.67%) 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 (21.31%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (15.44%) NoSQL
3 66 (11.07%) Relational Database
4 61 (10.23%) SQL Server
5 52 (8.72%) MongoDB
6 45 (7.55%) DynamoDB
7 34 (5.70%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (5.37%) MySQL
9 29 (4.87%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (3.69%) Redis
11 11 (1.85%) Db2
12 8 (1.34%) Pinecone
13 7 (1.17%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (1.17%) Power BI
14 6 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.01%) Flink
15 5 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.84%) DocumentDB
16 4 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 142 (23.83%) Git
2 102 (17.11%) Jenkins
3 68 (11.41%) GitLab
4 53 (8.89%) JUnit
5 47 (7.89%) JIRA
6 36 (6.04%) Mockito
7 26 (4.36%) SonarQube
8 23 (3.86%) Maven
8 23 (3.86%) Postman
9 21 (3.52%) Gradle
10 18 (3.02%) Cucumber
11 16 (2.68%) Visual Studio
12 12 (2.01%) DbUnit
13 11 (1.85%) Bitbucket Server
13 11 (1.85%) jMock
13 11 (1.85%) REST Assured
14 10 (1.68%) fastlane
15 8 (1.34%) JMeter
15 8 (1.34%) Liquibase
15 8 (1.34%) Xcode
General
1 123 (20.64%) Social Skills
2 121 (20.30%) Finance
3 96 (16.11%) Public Sector
4 68 (11.41%) Banking
5 62 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.18%) Retail
8 11 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.34%) Front Office
9 8 (1.34%) Law
9 8 (1.34%) Marketing
10 7 (1.17%) Legal
11 5 (0.84%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.67%) Police
12 4 (0.67%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Automotive
13 3 (0.50%) Local Government
13 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 379 (63.59%) Developer
2 122 (20.47%) Senior
3 117 (19.63%) Java Developer
4 81 (13.59%) Senior Developer
5 67 (11.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 53 (8.89%) Python Developer
7 39 (6.54%) Architect
7 39 (6.54%) Software Engineer
8 38 (6.38%) .NET Developer
9 33 (5.54%) Senior Java Developer
10 32 (5.37%) React Developer
11 27 (4.53%) C# Developer
12 26 (4.36%) Backend Developer
13 23 (3.86%) Software Developer
14 20 (3.36%) Java Engineer
15 19 (3.19%) Lead
16 18 (3.02%) AWS Developer
17 16 (2.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 16 (2.68%) Senior Software Engineer
18 15 (2.52%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (27.68%) Spring
2 161 (27.01%) Spring Boot
3 153 (25.67%) REST
4 125 (20.97%) React
5 116 (19.46%) Kafka
6 110 (18.46%) .NET
7 71 (11.91%) CSS
8 70 (11.74%) AngularJS
9 68 (11.41%) HTML
10 67 (11.24%) Node.js
11 59 (9.90%) OAuth
12 50 (8.39%) Web Services
13 43 (7.21%) Swagger
14 42 (7.05%) OAuth2
15 41 (6.88%) Django
16 40 (6.71%) .NET Core
17 39 (6.54%) OpenAPI
17 39 (6.54%) RabbitMQ
18 38 (6.38%) FastAPI
18 38 (6.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 108 (18.12%) Cloud Native
2 97 (16.28%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (14.77%) Product Ownership
4 29 (4.87%) Mobile App
5 23 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (3.52%) Data Structures
8 13 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (2.01%) Algorithms
9 12 (2.01%) Low-Code
9 12 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.85%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.51%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.34%) Derivative
12 8 (1.34%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.17%) DataPower
13 7 (1.17%) Mainframe
13 7 (1.17%) NHS
14 6 (1.01%) Equities
14 6 (1.01%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.05%) Linux
2 21 (3.52%) Unix
3 19 (3.19%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.18%) Android
4 13 (2.18%) Windows
5 7 (1.17%) zOS
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (60.23%) CI/CD
2 311 (52.18%) Microservices
3 307 (51.51%) Agile
4 219 (36.74%) DevOps
5 176 (29.53%) Containerisation
6 136 (22.82%) Test Automation
7 131 (21.98%) Event-Driven
8 119 (19.97%) Scrum
9 117 (19.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 114 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
11 110 (18.46%) Software Engineering
12 89 (14.93%) API Development
13 88 (14.77%) Code Quality
14 83 (13.93%) API Design
14 83 (13.93%) Clean Code
14 83 (13.93%) Infrastructure as Code
14 83 (13.93%) TDD
15 81 (13.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 69 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
16 69 (11.58%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 253 (42.45%) Java
2 186 (31.21%) SQL
3 164 (27.52%) Python
4 131 (21.98%) C#
5 129 (21.64%) JavaScript
6 106 (17.79%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.19%) Go
7 25 (4.19%) Shell Script
8 23 (3.86%) Kotlin
9 17 (2.85%) Swift
10 16 (2.68%) Bicep
11 11 (1.85%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.51%) Scala
13 8 (1.34%) Rust
14 7 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.01%) JCL
15 6 (1.01%) Objective-C
15 6 (1.01%) Ruby
16 5 (0.84%) Bash
16 5 (0.84%) X++
Qualifications
1 141 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 106 (17.79%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.87%) Degree
4 24 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.01%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.68%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (1.34%) CCSP
9 8 (1.34%) CEH
9 8 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.34%) CISM
9 8 (1.34%) CISSP
9 8 (1.34%) OSCP
10 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.67%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.50%) MBA
13 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (14.60%) QA
2 57 (9.56%) Accessibility
3 37 (6.21%) WCAG
4 13 (2.18%) NIST
5 12 (2.01%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.68%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.34%) COBIT
7 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.17%) NCSC
9 6 (1.01%) GDPR
10 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.34%) HL7
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%) NIST 800
System Software
1 216 (36.24%) Docker
2 9 (1.51%) Postfix
3 5 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 182 (30.54%) Kubernetes
2 75 (12.58%) Terraform
3 40 (6.71%) Grafana
4 34 (5.70%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.35%) Ansible
6 6 (1.01%) Kibana
7 4 (0.67%) Podman
7 4 (0.67%) Puppet
8 3 (0.50%) 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 45 (7.55%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.03%) Oracle
3 17 (2.85%) Dynatrace
3 17 (2.85%) Google
4 13 (2.18%) Atlassian
5 12 (2.01%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.85%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (1.85%) OpenAI
6 11 (1.85%) Splunk
7 9 (1.51%) Adobe
7 9 (1.51%) Apple
8 8 (1.34%) Sybase
8 8 (1.34%) Veracode
9 7 (1.17%) Automation Anywhere
9 7 (1.17%) Databricks
9 7 (1.17%) New Relic
9 7 (1.17%) Okta
9 7 (1.17%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.17%) UiPath
10 4 (0.67%) NVIDIA