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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 165 187
Rank change year-on-year -36 +22 +30
Contract jobs citing RESTful 610 466 480
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.71% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.22% 7.68% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 337 329
10th Percentile £350 £325 £356
25th Percentile £420 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £686 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 6 7
10th Percentile £55.00 £48.13 £47.70
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.25 £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 £93.25 £59.38 £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 8,450 6,067 7,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.84% 22.26% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,540 4,172 5,263
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -5.41% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £745 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £543
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.99% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 135 243
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.84
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.61 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -17 322 £500 -2.72% 80
North of England -44 104 £475 +7.95% 36
South East -36 83 £488 +7.73% 47
North West -40 45 £475 +15.15% 20
Midlands -62 44 £488 +5.41% 12
Yorkshire -41 42 £525 +21.39% 14
South West -17 35 £445 -17.21% 17
West Midlands -54 26 £513 +2.50% 9
East Midlands -28 17 £445 +10.70% 3
North East -31 17 £450 -10.00% 2
East of England -23 12 £500 -8.26% 11
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 32 (5.25%) Confluence
2 10 (1.64%) Ethereum
2 10 (1.64%) Hyperledger
3 9 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.15%) CICS
5 6 (0.98%) CMS
6 5 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.66%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.66%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.49%) Appian
8 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.33%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.33%) Camunda
9 2 (0.33%) Mule
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (1.48%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.82%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.66%) Quorum
2 4 (0.66%) Ripple
3 3 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.16%) Maximo
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.16%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 228 (37.38%) AWS
2 220 (36.07%) Azure
3 116 (19.02%) GitHub
4 94 (15.41%) Serverless
5 80 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
6 75 (12.30%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (11.15%) AWS Lambda
8 64 (10.49%) GCP
9 49 (8.03%) Amazon S3
10 38 (6.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 38 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
11 27 (4.43%) Amazon SQS
12 25 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (2.79%) Entra ID
15 15 (2.46%) Power Platform
15 15 (2.46%) Route 53
16 14 (2.30%) Azure Functions
16 14 (2.30%) Azure Key Vault
16 14 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.79%) HTTP
2 6 (0.98%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.66%) MQTT
3 4 (0.66%) Network Security
4 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.16%) 4G
5 1 (0.16%) 5G
5 1 (0.16%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.16%) DNS
5 1 (0.16%) LTE
5 1 (0.16%) NFC
5 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.16%) SNMP
5 1 (0.16%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (20.16%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (13.11%) NoSQL
3 73 (11.97%) Relational Database
4 58 (9.51%) SQL Server
5 53 (8.69%) MongoDB
6 40 (6.56%) DynamoDB
7 33 (5.41%) MySQL
8 28 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
10 16 (2.62%) Redis
11 10 (1.64%) Db2
11 10 (1.64%) Geospatial Data
12 9 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.15%) Power BI
14 6 (0.98%) Flink
15 5 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.66%) Metadata
16 4 (0.66%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 160 (26.23%) Git
2 103 (16.89%) Jenkins
3 58 (9.51%) GitLab
4 55 (9.02%) JIRA
5 54 (8.85%) JUnit
6 36 (5.90%) Mockito
7 27 (4.43%) Maven
7 27 (4.43%) SonarQube
8 26 (4.26%) Gradle
9 22 (3.61%) Postman
10 20 (3.28%) Cucumber
11 16 (2.62%) Visual Studio
12 14 (2.30%) Cypress.io
13 12 (1.97%) DbUnit
13 12 (1.97%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.80%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (1.80%) jMock
15 10 (1.64%) fastlane
15 10 (1.64%) Selenium
16 9 (1.48%) Xcode
General
1 126 (20.66%) Social Skills
2 119 (19.51%) Finance
3 100 (16.39%) Public Sector
4 76 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (10.00%) Banking
6 27 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.46%) Retail
8 12 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.64%) Marketing
10 8 (1.31%) Law
10 8 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.15%) Legal
12 6 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.98%) Front Office
13 5 (0.82%) Local Government
13 5 (0.82%) Police
14 4 (0.66%) Publishing
14 4 (0.66%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.49%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.49%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 388 (63.61%) Developer
2 133 (21.80%) Senior
3 124 (20.33%) Java Developer
4 90 (14.75%) Senior Developer
5 71 (11.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 45 (7.38%) Python Developer
7 42 (6.89%) .NET Developer
8 40 (6.56%) Architect
9 38 (6.23%) Software Engineer
10 37 (6.07%) Senior Java Developer
11 33 (5.41%) React Developer
12 26 (4.26%) C# Developer
13 25 (4.10%) Backend Developer
14 23 (3.77%) Software Developer
15 19 (3.11%) Lead
16 18 (2.95%) AWS Developer
17 17 (2.79%) Java Engineer
18 16 (2.62%) C# .NET Developer
18 16 (2.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 16 (2.62%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (28.52%) REST
2 157 (25.74%) Spring
3 152 (24.92%) Spring Boot
4 120 (19.67%) React
5 114 (18.69%) .NET
6 112 (18.36%) Kafka
7 86 (14.10%) CSS
8 80 (13.11%) HTML
9 67 (10.98%) AngularJS
10 60 (9.84%) Node.js
11 57 (9.34%) OAuth
12 50 (8.20%) Web Services
13 46 (7.54%) Swagger
14 45 (7.38%) JSON
15 44 (7.21%) OAuth2
16 43 (7.05%) HTML5
17 41 (6.72%) SOAP
18 40 (6.56%) OpenAPI
19 39 (6.39%) CSS3
19 39 (6.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 113 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 99 (16.23%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (14.75%) Product Ownership
4 37 (6.07%) Mobile App
5 30 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (3.93%) Data Structures
7 21 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.79%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.13%) Algorithms
9 13 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.48%) NHS
11 9 (1.48%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.31%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.31%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.31%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.15%) DataPower
13 7 (1.15%) Mainframe
13 7 (1.15%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.98%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.72%) Linux
2 24 (3.93%) Unix
3 21 (3.44%) Android
3 21 (3.44%) Apple iOS
4 17 (2.79%) Windows
5 7 (1.15%) zOS
6 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (61.64%) CI/CD
2 332 (54.43%) Agile
3 317 (51.97%) Microservices
4 236 (38.69%) DevOps
5 180 (29.51%) Containerisation
6 157 (25.74%) Test Automation
7 133 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
8 130 (21.31%) Scrum
9 123 (20.16%) Full-Stack Development
10 122 (20.00%) Event-Driven
11 112 (18.36%) Software Engineering
12 102 (16.72%) Code Quality
13 93 (15.25%) API Design
14 90 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
15 88 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
16 82 (13.44%) API Development
16 82 (13.44%) Clean Code
16 82 (13.44%) TDD
17 76 (12.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 71 (11.64%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 260 (42.62%) Java
2 175 (28.69%) SQL
3 157 (25.74%) Python
4 142 (23.28%) JavaScript
5 134 (21.97%) C#
6 115 (18.85%) TypeScript
7 35 (5.74%) Kotlin
8 25 (4.10%) Shell Script
9 23 (3.77%) Go
10 20 (3.28%) Bicep
11 19 (3.11%) Swift
12 10 (1.64%) Ruby
12 10 (1.64%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.48%) Scala
14 8 (1.31%) Objective-C
14 8 (1.31%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.31%) Rust
15 7 (1.15%) X++
16 6 (0.98%) Bash
16 6 (0.98%) JCL
Qualifications
1 158 (25.90%) Security Cleared
2 132 (21.64%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.57%) Degree
4 23 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 23 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.30%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.97%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (1.31%) CCSP
9 8 (1.31%) CEH
9 8 (1.31%) CISM
9 8 (1.31%) CISSP
9 8 (1.31%) OSCP
10 6 (0.98%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.49%) MBA
13 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (13.93%) QA
2 67 (10.98%) Accessibility
3 43 (7.05%) WCAG
4 10 (1.64%) NCSC
5 9 (1.48%) NIST
6 8 (1.31%) COBIT
6 8 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.31%) GDPR
6 8 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.49%) HL7
7 3 (0.49%) SLA
8 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.16%) Basel III
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.16%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 223 (36.56%) Docker
2 9 (1.48%) Postfix
3 6 (0.98%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 181 (29.67%) Kubernetes
2 76 (12.46%) Terraform
3 43 (7.05%) Grafana
4 38 (6.23%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.62%) Ansible
6 7 (1.15%) Kibana
7 4 (0.66%) Podman
7 4 (0.66%) Puppet
8 2 (0.33%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.33%) Consul
8 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.33%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.16%) Argo
9 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 57 (9.34%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.90%) Oracle
3 22 (3.61%) Google
4 18 (2.95%) Dynatrace
5 13 (2.13%) Atlassian
5 13 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.13%) Splunk
6 11 (1.80%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (1.64%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.48%) New Relic
9 8 (1.31%) Adobe
9 8 (1.31%) Databricks
10 7 (1.15%) Apple
10 7 (1.15%) Sybase
10 7 (1.15%) Veracode
11 6 (0.98%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.82%) IBM
12 5 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.66%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.66%) Okta