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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 140 165
Rank change year-on-year -63 +25 +57
Contract jobs citing RESTful 625 574 491
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 2.05% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.36% 8.04% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 417 307
10th Percentile £349 £332 £324
25th Percentile £413 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £507
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -2.37% -7.82%
75th Percentile £565 £580 £638
90th Percentile £648 £675 £755
UK median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 5
10th Percentile £53.88 £49.63 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.91 £75.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -31.25% +4.53%
75th Percentile £77.38 £61.78 £85.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £95.00 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -31.25% +4.53%

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 9,826 7,136 8,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.50% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,461 4,810 5,235
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £449 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £794
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 172 171
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £36.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.51 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.85 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% -15.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £70.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +8.33%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -49 340 £500 -3.85% 428
North of England -81 97 £450 -4.05% 129
South East -44 73 £475 +2.70% 77
Midlands -63 47 £445 -3.78% 39
Yorkshire -59 45 £470 +1.62% 45
West Midlands -38 34 £468 -8.68% 25
South West -24 32 £425 -15.00% 30
North West -61 30 £488 +10.17% 66
North East -23 22 £450 -10.00% 21
East of England -38 18 £463 -15.14% 49
East Midlands -33 12 £425 +5.33% 14
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 40 (6.40%) Confluence
2 6 (0.96%) CMS
3 5 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.64%) Camunda
4 4 (0.64%) Ethereum
4 4 (0.64%) Hyperledger
4 4 (0.64%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.64%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.48%) CICS
5 3 (0.48%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.32%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.32%) Apache
6 2 (0.32%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.32%) Mule
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (0.96%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Quorum
1 4 (0.64%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.64%) Ripple
2 3 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
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
1 259 (41.44%) AWS
2 228 (36.48%) Azure
3 144 (23.04%) GitHub
4 91 (14.56%) GitHub Actions
5 88 (14.08%) GCP
6 86 (13.76%) Serverless
7 77 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (7.04%) Amazon S3
11 36 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 35 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
13 28 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (3.84%) Entra ID
15 22 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
16 21 (3.36%) GitHub Copilot
17 17 (2.72%) Azure AKS
18 16 (2.56%) Azure Functions
19 15 (2.40%) Azure Key Vault
19 15 (2.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.40%) HTTP
2 7 (1.12%) SSH
3 6 (0.96%) DNS
3 6 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.80%) 5G
4 5 (0.80%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.64%) 4G
5 4 (0.64%) MQTT
5 4 (0.64%) Network Security
5 4 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.16%) Broadband
6 1 (0.16%) NFC
6 1 (0.16%) SNMP
6 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (23.20%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (14.88%) Relational Database
3 74 (11.84%) NoSQL
4 63 (10.08%) MongoDB
5 52 (8.32%) MySQL
5 52 (8.32%) SQL Server
6 31 (4.96%) Redis
7 27 (4.32%) DynamoDB
8 20 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (2.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (2.08%) Geospatial Data
11 12 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.12%) Power BI
13 6 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.96%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.80%) Metadata
14 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (0.64%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.64%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 198 (31.68%) Git
2 126 (20.16%) Jenkins
3 61 (9.76%) GitLab
3 61 (9.76%) JUnit
4 60 (9.60%) JIRA
5 41 (6.56%) Mockito
6 39 (6.24%) Maven
7 32 (5.12%) Gradle
8 29 (4.64%) Cucumber
9 27 (4.32%) SonarQube
10 21 (3.36%) Cypress.io
10 21 (3.36%) Selenium
11 14 (2.24%) Visual Studio
12 13 (2.08%) Postman
12 13 (2.08%) REST Assured
13 11 (1.76%) MSI
14 10 (1.60%) Bitbucket
14 10 (1.60%) CircleCI
15 9 (1.44%) Storybook
16 8 (1.28%) fastlane
General
1 166 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 120 (19.20%) Finance
3 108 (17.28%) Public Sector
4 106 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (8.64%) Banking
6 36 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.36%) Retail
8 17 (2.72%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.72%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.28%) Local Government
9 8 (1.28%) Marketing
9 8 (1.28%) Publishing
10 6 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 6 (0.96%) Front Office
10 6 (0.96%) Law
10 6 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.80%) Legal
12 4 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.48%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.48%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 379 (60.64%) Developer
2 128 (20.48%) Senior
3 108 (17.28%) Java Developer
4 88 (14.08%) Senior Developer
5 82 (13.12%) Full-Stack Developer
6 50 (8.00%) Python Developer
7 47 (7.52%) Software Engineer
8 39 (6.24%) .NET Developer
9 35 (5.60%) Senior Java Developer
10 32 (5.12%) Lead
11 30 (4.80%) Architect
12 26 (4.16%) React Developer
13 25 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (3.84%) C# Developer
14 24 (3.84%) Java Engineer
15 23 (3.68%) Software Developer
16 20 (3.20%) C# .NET Developer
17 18 (2.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
17 18 (2.88%) Technical Leader
18 16 (2.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (32.16%) REST
2 155 (24.80%) Spring
3 149 (23.84%) Spring Boot
4 140 (22.40%) React
5 121 (19.36%) Kafka
6 109 (17.44%) .NET
6 109 (17.44%) CSS
6 109 (17.44%) HTML
7 100 (16.00%) Terraform
8 75 (12.00%) AngularJS
9 69 (11.04%) Node.js
10 68 (10.88%) OAuth
11 65 (10.40%) Web Services
12 60 (9.60%) HTML5
13 58 (9.28%) OAuth2
14 55 (8.80%) .NET Core
14 55 (8.80%) JSON
15 54 (8.64%) CSS3
16 48 (7.68%) Swagger
17 45 (7.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 177 (28.32%) Cloud Native
2 107 (17.12%) Distributed Systems
3 84 (13.44%) Product Ownership
4 47 (7.52%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (5.92%) Mobile App
6 27 (4.32%) Onboarding
7 24 (3.84%) AI Agents
8 22 (3.52%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.92%) NHS
11 11 (1.76%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.44%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
15 5 (0.80%) Life Science
15 5 (0.80%) Low-Code
15 5 (0.80%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 55 (8.80%) Linux
2 36 (5.76%) Unix
3 22 (3.52%) Apple iOS
4 21 (3.36%) Android
5 17 (2.72%) Windows
6 3 (0.48%) Mac OS X
6 3 (0.48%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (66.88%) CI/CD
2 368 (58.88%) Agile
3 319 (51.04%) Microservices
4 269 (43.04%) DevOps
5 229 (36.64%) Test Automation
6 180 (28.80%) Containerisation
7 156 (24.96%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (24.64%) Software Engineering
9 151 (24.16%) Event-Driven
10 149 (23.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 149 (23.84%) Scrum
11 141 (22.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 127 (20.32%) Code Quality
13 110 (17.60%) Infrastructure as Code
14 104 (16.64%) API Development
15 98 (15.68%) AI
16 94 (15.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 92 (14.72%) API Design
17 92 (14.72%) Observability
18 89 (14.24%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 246 (39.36%) Java
2 171 (27.36%) JavaScript
3 167 (26.72%) Python
4 160 (25.60%) SQL
5 142 (22.72%) TypeScript
6 124 (19.84%) C#
7 34 (5.44%) Kotlin
8 32 (5.12%) Shell Script
9 28 (4.48%) Bicep
10 22 (3.52%) Bash
11 21 (3.36%) Swift
12 19 (3.04%) Go
13 14 (2.24%) Ruby
13 14 (2.24%) Scala
14 11 (1.76%) Rust
15 9 (1.44%) Objective-C
16 8 (1.28%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.28%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.28%) X++
17 7 (1.12%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 160 (25.60%) Security Cleared
2 136 (21.76%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.00%) Degree
4 38 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.16%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (3.04%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.08%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.64%) CCSP
11 4 (0.64%) CEH
11 4 (0.64%) CISM
11 4 (0.64%) CISSP
11 4 (0.64%) OSCP
11 4 (0.64%) PhD
12 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (20.00%) QA
2 72 (11.52%) Accessibility
3 40 (6.40%) WCAG
4 13 (2.08%) NCSC
5 9 (1.44%) HL7
6 8 (1.28%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.80%) NIST
8 4 (0.64%) COBIT
8 4 (0.64%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.64%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.48%) GDPR
10 2 (0.32%) Basel III
11 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.16%) SLA
11 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 241 (38.56%) Docker
2 8 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.48%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 195 (31.20%) Kubernetes
2 55 (8.80%) Grafana
3 43 (6.88%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.92%) Kibana
5 11 (1.76%) Ansible
6 5 (0.80%) Argo
7 4 (0.64%) Bosun
7 4 (0.64%) Podman
7 4 (0.64%) Puppet
8 3 (0.48%) Istio
9 2 (0.32%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.32%) Consul
9 2 (0.32%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.16%) linkerd
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.40%) Google
3 35 (5.60%) Oracle
4 23 (3.68%) Splunk
5 21 (3.36%) Dynatrace
6 12 (1.92%) New Relic
6 12 (1.92%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.28%) Okta
8 7 (1.12%) Databricks
8 7 (1.12%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.96%) Apple
9 6 (0.96%) IBM
10 5 (0.80%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.80%) Ping Identity
10 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.80%) SAP
11 4 (0.64%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (0.64%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.64%) Tenable