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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 171 194
Rank change year-on-year -22 +23 +16
Contract jobs citing RESTful 601 412 469
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.37% 1.62% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.20% 7.20% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 291 326
10th Percentile £350 £320 £364
25th Percentile £413 £400 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.74% -5.00% -9.09%
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 8,346 5,722 7,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.07% 22.44% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,498 3,948 5,495
10th Percentile £363 £357 £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 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 121 266
10th Percentile £30.35 £30.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -10.54%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.16 £81.01 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -10 324 £500 - 70
North of England -28 112 £450 - 43
South East -31 75 £515 +3.00% 39
North West -33 52 £449 +12.13% 25
Yorkshire -26 43 £513 +7.89% 15
Midlands -73 41 £488 +5.41% 11
South West -14 30 £475 -11.63% 11
West Midlands -59 22 £500 - 8
North East -23 17 £450 -10.00% 3
East Midlands -26 17 £445 +10.70% 3
East of England -28 11 £500 -8.26% 12
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 28 (4.66%) Confluence
2 10 (1.66%) Ethereum
2 10 (1.66%) Hyperledger
3 9 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.16%) CICS
5 6 (1.00%) Appian
5 6 (1.00%) CMS
6 5 (0.83%) Camunda
6 5 (0.83%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.67%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.33%) IIS
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.17%) Mule
10 1 (0.17%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (1.50%) 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 (0.83%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.67%) Quorum
2 4 (0.67%) Ripple
3 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.33%) 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
1 232 (38.60%) AWS
2 209 (34.78%) Azure
3 104 (17.30%) GitHub
4 101 (16.81%) Serverless
5 76 (12.65%) GitHub Actions
6 72 (11.98%) AWS Lambda
7 68 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (10.15%) GCP
9 54 (8.99%) Amazon S3
10 39 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (5.16%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
15 22 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (3.16%) Entra ID
16 19 (3.16%) Route 53
17 17 (2.83%) Azure Functions
17 17 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
18 16 (2.66%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.16%) HTTP
2 4 (0.67%) DNS
2 4 (0.67%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.67%) MQTT
2 4 (0.67%) Network Security
3 2 (0.33%) 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 (21.13%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (15.31%) NoSQL
3 69 (11.48%) Relational Database
4 63 (10.48%) SQL Server
5 54 (8.99%) MongoDB
6 45 (7.49%) DynamoDB
7 34 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (5.49%) MySQL
9 29 (4.83%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (3.66%) Redis
11 11 (1.83%) Db2
12 8 (1.33%) Power BI
13 7 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (1.16%) Pinecone
14 6 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.00%) Flink
15 5 (0.83%) DocumentDB
16 4 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 149 (24.79%) Git
2 106 (17.64%) Jenkins
3 68 (11.31%) GitLab
4 56 (9.32%) JUnit
5 47 (7.82%) JIRA
6 37 (6.16%) Mockito
7 27 (4.49%) SonarQube
8 24 (3.99%) Maven
9 22 (3.66%) Gradle
9 22 (3.66%) Postman
10 17 (2.83%) Cucumber
11 16 (2.66%) Visual Studio
12 12 (2.00%) DbUnit
13 11 (1.83%) Bitbucket Server
13 11 (1.83%) jMock
13 11 (1.83%) REST Assured
14 10 (1.66%) fastlane
15 9 (1.50%) Xcode
16 8 (1.33%) Liquibase
17 7 (1.16%) JMeter
General
1 121 (20.13%) Social Skills
2 116 (19.30%) Finance
3 95 (15.81%) Public Sector
4 66 (10.98%) Banking
5 64 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.33%) Retail
8 11 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.50%) Marketing
10 8 (1.33%) Law
11 7 (1.16%) Front Office
11 7 (1.16%) Legal
12 6 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.83%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.67%) Police
14 4 (0.67%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.50%) Automotive
15 3 (0.50%) Local Government
15 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 385 (64.06%) Developer
2 122 (20.30%) Senior
3 118 (19.63%) Java Developer
4 82 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 70 (11.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 53 (8.82%) Python Developer
7 39 (6.49%) .NET Developer
7 39 (6.49%) Architect
7 39 (6.49%) Software Engineer
8 34 (5.66%) Senior Java Developer
9 31 (5.16%) React Developer
10 26 (4.33%) Backend Developer
11 25 (4.16%) C# Developer
12 24 (3.99%) Software Developer
13 21 (3.49%) Java Engineer
14 20 (3.33%) Lead
15 19 (3.16%) AWS Developer
16 16 (2.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 16 (2.66%) Senior Software Engineer
17 15 (2.50%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (27.79%) Spring
2 163 (27.12%) Spring Boot
3 158 (26.29%) REST
4 126 (20.97%) React
5 117 (19.47%) Kafka
6 112 (18.64%) .NET
7 74 (12.31%) CSS
8 72 (11.98%) AngularJS
9 70 (11.65%) HTML
10 69 (11.48%) Node.js
11 61 (10.15%) OAuth
12 49 (8.15%) Web Services
13 44 (7.32%) OAuth2
14 43 (7.15%) Swagger
15 41 (6.82%) JSON
16 40 (6.66%) .NET Core
16 40 (6.66%) Django
17 39 (6.49%) OpenAPI
17 39 (6.49%) RabbitMQ
18 37 (6.16%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 113 (18.80%) Cloud Native
2 98 (16.31%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (14.81%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.99%) Mobile App
5 27 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (3.66%) Data Structures
7 21 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (2.16%) Algorithms
10 12 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.83%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.83%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.50%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.33%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.16%) DataPower
14 7 (1.16%) Derivative
14 7 (1.16%) Mainframe
14 7 (1.16%) NHS
15 6 (1.00%) Equities
15 6 (1.00%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.99%) Linux
2 21 (3.49%) Unix
3 20 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 15 (2.50%) Android
5 13 (2.16%) Windows
6 7 (1.16%) zOS
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (61.23%) CI/CD
2 315 (52.41%) Agile
3 313 (52.08%) Microservices
4 228 (37.94%) DevOps
5 179 (29.78%) Containerisation
6 136 (22.63%) Test Automation
7 132 (21.96%) Event-Driven
8 125 (20.80%) Scrum
9 120 (19.97%) Full-Stack Development
10 117 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
11 108 (17.97%) Software Engineering
12 89 (14.81%) Code Quality
13 87 (14.48%) API Development
13 87 (14.48%) Infrastructure as Code
14 86 (14.31%) API Design
15 84 (13.98%) Clean Code
16 82 (13.64%) TDD
17 80 (13.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 71 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
19 69 (11.48%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 255 (42.43%) Java
2 188 (31.28%) SQL
3 163 (27.12%) Python
4 132 (21.96%) C#
5 128 (21.30%) JavaScript
6 108 (17.97%) TypeScript
7 26 (4.33%) Go
7 26 (4.33%) Kotlin
7 26 (4.33%) Shell Script
8 18 (3.00%) Swift
9 17 (2.83%) Bicep
10 11 (1.83%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.50%) Scala
12 8 (1.33%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.33%) Rust
13 7 (1.16%) Objective-C
13 7 (1.16%) Ruby
14 6 (1.00%) JCL
15 5 (0.83%) Bash
15 5 (0.83%) X++
Qualifications
1 145 (24.13%) Security Cleared
2 111 (18.47%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.99%) Degree
4 25 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.66%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.00%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.66%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (1.33%) CCSP
9 8 (1.33%) CEH
9 8 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.33%) CISM
9 8 (1.33%) CISSP
9 8 (1.33%) OSCP
10 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.67%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.50%) MBA
13 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (14.81%) QA
2 61 (10.15%) Accessibility
3 38 (6.32%) WCAG
4 13 (2.16%) NIST
5 12 (2.00%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.50%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.33%) COBIT
7 8 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.16%) NCSC
9 6 (1.00%) GDPR
10 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.33%) HL7
10 2 (0.33%) SLA
10 2 (0.33%) 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
1 218 (36.27%) Docker
2 9 (1.50%) Postfix
3 6 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 183 (30.45%) Kubernetes
2 78 (12.98%) Terraform
3 39 (6.49%) Grafana
4 33 (5.49%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.50%) Ansible
6 6 (1.00%) Kibana
7 4 (0.67%) Podman
7 4 (0.67%) Puppet
8 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.33%) Consul
9 2 (0.33%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 50 (8.32%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.49%) Oracle
3 18 (3.00%) Dynatrace
4 17 (2.83%) Google
5 13 (2.16%) Atlassian
5 13 (2.16%) Splunk
6 12 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.83%) Jaspersoft
8 10 (1.66%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.50%) Adobe
9 9 (1.50%) New Relic
10 8 (1.33%) Apple
10 8 (1.33%) Sybase
10 8 (1.33%) Veracode
11 7 (1.16%) Databricks
11 7 (1.16%) Okta
11 7 (1.16%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.00%) Automation Anywhere
12 6 (1.00%) UiPath
13 5 (0.83%) IBM