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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 165 206
Rank change year-on-year -21 +41 -3
Contract jobs citing RESTful 557 402 412
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.41% 1.64% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.99% 7.33% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 274 307
10th Percentile £350 £358 £375
25th Percentile £402 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £738 £719
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 5
10th Percentile £53.25 - £44.05
25th Percentile £67.19 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £76.69 - £85.00
90th Percentile £89.75 - £88.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 7,966 5,484 7,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.21% 22.39% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,329 3,802 5,345
10th Percentile £358 £365 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 89 180
10th Percentile £34.00 £28.76 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £37.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £83.17 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +7 309 £492 -6.29% 99
North of England -27 109 £450 - 58
North West -20 66 £439 +9.75% 31
South East -28 54 £515 +17.71% 53
Midlands -45 51 £488 +5.41% 22
Yorkshire -42 34 £500 - 16
West Midlands -54 32 £481 -8.33% 16
South West -28 21 £525 -14.29% 23
East Midlands -24 18 £498 +12.16% 6
North East -9 9 £450 +21.62% 11
East of England -34 8 £500 +11.11% 15
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 26 (4.67%) Confluence
2 14 (2.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.80%) CMS
5 8 (1.44%) Appian
6 6 (1.08%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.08%) Hyperledger
7 5 (0.90%) CICS
7 5 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.72%) Camunda
8 4 (0.72%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.72%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.54%) Apache
9 3 (0.54%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.36%) IIS
10 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.18%) JBoss
11 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (1.44%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.90%) Sketch
3 4 (0.72%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.18%) Cerner Millennium
3 1 (0.18%) Maximo
3 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.18%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 251 (45.06%) AWS
2 190 (34.11%) Azure
3 98 (17.59%) Serverless
4 86 (15.44%) GitHub
5 76 (13.64%) GCP
6 67 (12.03%) AWS Lambda
7 60 (10.77%) Amazon S3
8 50 (8.98%) GitHub Actions
9 49 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
10 34 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 26 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (3.41%) Azure Functions
15 18 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (3.05%) Power Automate
17 15 (2.69%) Azure AKS
18 14 (2.51%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.05%) HTTP
2 8 (1.44%) HTTPS
3 6 (1.08%) SSL
4 4 (0.72%) DNS
5 2 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.36%) VPN
6 1 (0.18%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.18%) 4G
6 1 (0.18%) 5G
6 1 (0.18%) LTE
6 1 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.18%) SMS
6 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (20.11%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (17.06%) NoSQL
3 63 (11.31%) Relational Database
4 55 (9.87%) SQL Server
5 45 (8.08%) MongoDB
6 42 (7.54%) MySQL
7 40 (7.18%) DynamoDB
8 35 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
9 22 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
10 18 (3.23%) Redis
11 9 (1.62%) DB2
11 9 (1.62%) DocumentDB
11 9 (1.62%) Pinecone
12 7 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.08%) Flink
14 5 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.90%) Big Data
15 4 (0.72%) GIS
16 3 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 157 (28.19%) Git
2 78 (14.00%) Jenkins
3 60 (10.77%) GitLab
4 50 (8.98%) JUnit
5 41 (7.36%) JIRA
6 30 (5.39%) Mockito
7 24 (4.31%) Postman
8 23 (4.13%) Maven
9 19 (3.41%) SonarQube
10 14 (2.51%) Gradle
11 13 (2.33%) Cypress.io
12 12 (2.15%) Cucumber
12 12 (2.15%) Selenium
13 10 (1.80%) Bitbucket
13 10 (1.80%) Visual Studio
14 9 (1.62%) Bitbucket Server
14 9 (1.62%) DbUnit
14 9 (1.62%) jMock
15 8 (1.44%) MLflow
15 8 (1.44%) REST Assured
General
1 150 (26.93%) Social Skills
2 118 (21.18%) Finance
3 97 (17.41%) Public Sector
4 59 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (9.87%) Banking
6 11 (1.97%) Front Office
7 8 (1.44%) Marketing
7 8 (1.44%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.26%) Legal
9 6 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.90%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.90%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.72%) Electronics
12 3 (0.54%) Advertising
12 3 (0.54%) Local Government
12 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 355 (63.73%) Developer
2 121 (21.72%) Java Developer
3 89 (15.98%) Senior
4 73 (13.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 51 (9.16%) Senior Developer
6 46 (8.26%) Python Developer
7 36 (6.46%) Software Engineer
8 32 (5.75%) Architect
8 32 (5.75%) React Developer
9 29 (5.21%) .NET Developer
10 26 (4.67%) Senior Java Developer
11 25 (4.49%) Backend Developer
12 24 (4.31%) C# Developer
13 23 (4.13%) Lead
14 21 (3.77%) Software Developer
15 20 (3.59%) Java Engineer
16 15 (2.69%) AWS Developer
16 15 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
17 14 (2.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 13 (2.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (33.03%) Spring
2 174 (31.24%) Spring Boot
3 144 (25.85%) React
4 124 (22.26%) REST
5 97 (17.41%) AngularJS
6 89 (15.98%) .NET
7 87 (15.62%) Kafka
8 85 (15.26%) CSS
9 81 (14.54%) HTML
10 80 (14.36%) Node.js
11 52 (9.34%) OAuth
12 51 (9.16%) Hibernate
13 40 (7.18%) HTML5
14 39 (7.00%) JSON
15 37 (6.64%) Swagger
16 36 (6.46%) Django
16 36 (6.46%) Web Services
17 35 (6.28%) CSS3
18 34 (6.10%) JWT
18 34 (6.10%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 77 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 69 (12.39%) Product Ownership
3 61 (10.95%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (2.87%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.69%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.33%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.15%) NHS
9 11 (1.97%) Derivative
10 10 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.26%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.26%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.08%) Hedge funds
14 5 (0.90%) Credit Risk
14 5 (0.90%) DataPower
14 5 (0.90%) Equities
14 5 (0.90%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 31 (5.57%) Linux
2 16 (2.87%) Unix
3 11 (1.97%) Windows
4 6 (1.08%) Android
4 6 (1.08%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.90%) zOS
6 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (62.30%) CI/CD
2 300 (53.86%) Microservices
3 298 (53.50%) Agile
4 198 (35.55%) DevOps
5 171 (30.70%) Containerisation
6 135 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
7 127 (22.80%) Full-Stack Development
8 120 (21.54%) Test Automation
9 104 (18.67%) Event-Driven
10 93 (16.70%) Software Engineering
11 91 (16.34%) API Development
12 86 (15.44%) Clean Code
12 86 (15.44%) Scrum
13 85 (15.26%) Code Quality
14 84 (15.08%) TDD
15 70 (12.57%) API Design
16 69 (12.39%) Infrastructure as Code
17 66 (11.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 66 (11.85%) User Experience
18 57 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 251 (45.06%) Java
2 186 (33.39%) SQL
3 144 (25.85%) Python
4 136 (24.42%) JavaScript
5 106 (19.03%) TypeScript
6 101 (18.13%) C#
7 25 (4.49%) Go
8 15 (2.69%) Kotlin
8 15 (2.69%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.26%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.90%) Bash
10 5 (0.90%) Swift
11 4 (0.72%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.72%) Bicep
11 4 (0.72%) JCL
12 3 (0.54%) JSX
12 3 (0.54%) Ruby
12 3 (0.54%) Rust
12 3 (0.54%) Scala
13 2 (0.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 130 (23.34%) Security Cleared
2 91 (16.34%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.72%) Degree
4 34 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.51%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.97%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.72%) CCSP
9 4 (0.72%) CEH
9 4 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.72%) CISM
9 4 (0.72%) CISSP
9 4 (0.72%) OSCP
10 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.54%) MBA
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.31%) QA
2 51 (9.16%) Accessibility
3 27 (4.85%) WCAG
4 10 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.80%) NIST
5 8 (1.44%) HL7
5 8 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.44%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.08%) GDPR
7 4 (0.72%) COBIT
8 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.36%) SLA
8 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) EMIR
9 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.18%) MiFID
9 1 (0.18%) NCSC
9 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 208 (37.34%) Docker
2 8 (1.44%) Postfix
3 6 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.54%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 186 (33.39%) Kubernetes
2 68 (12.21%) Terraform
3 30 (5.39%) Grafana
4 28 (5.03%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.80%) Ansible
6 5 (0.90%) Kibana
7 4 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.18%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 44 (7.90%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.21%) Adobe
3 26 (4.67%) Oracle
4 21 (3.77%) Google
5 15 (2.69%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.15%) Splunk
7 10 (1.80%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.62%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (1.44%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.44%) UiPath
9 8 (1.44%) Veracode
10 7 (1.26%) Databricks
10 7 (1.26%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.90%) Apple
11 5 (0.90%) Okta
11 5 (0.90%) Ping Identity
11 5 (0.90%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.72%) ION Trading
12 4 (0.72%) Sybase