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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 144 168
Rank change year-on-year -72 +24 +50
Contract jobs citing RESTful 637 587 493
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 2.09% 1.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.37% 8.16% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 426 320
10th Percentile £345 £334 £325
25th Percentile £413 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £501
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% -2.49% -8.86%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 2
10th Percentile £51.20 £49.63 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.91 £75.00
Median hourly rate £66.25 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% -31.25% +4.53%
75th Percentile £77.13 £61.78 £85.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £95.00 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 9,997 7,191 7,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.34% 25.54% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,576 4,855 5,186
10th Percentile £381 £358 £361
25th Percentile £447 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 171 157
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £53.90 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.85
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -32 346 £500 -3.85% 104
North of England -84 105 £450 -5.26% 47
South East -51 71 £471 +1.84% 16
Yorkshire -62 49 £475 - 17
Midlands -66 49 £447 -5.89% 8
West Midlands -42 36 £500 - 6
North West -63 33 £450 - 24
South West -27 29 £419 -14.10% 14
North East -19 23 £450 -10.00% 9
East of England -36 18 £463 -9.31% 13
East Midlands -32 12 £414 +2.86% 2
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 (6.28%) Confluence
2 4 (0.63%) CMS
2 4 (0.63%) Ethereum
2 4 (0.63%) Hyperledger
2 4 (0.63%) OpenStack
2 4 (0.63%) WebSphere
3 3 (0.47%) Apache Pulsar
3 3 (0.47%) Camunda
3 3 (0.47%) CICS
3 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.31%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.31%) Apache
4 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.31%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.31%) Mule
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (0.78%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Quorum
1 4 (0.63%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.63%) Ripple
2 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.16%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 261 (40.97%) AWS
2 235 (36.89%) Azure
3 153 (24.02%) GitHub
4 95 (14.91%) GCP
5 94 (14.76%) GitHub Actions
6 90 (14.13%) Serverless
7 77 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (7.22%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (6.75%) Amazon S3
11 38 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
13 28 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (3.77%) Entra ID
15 23 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
15 23 (3.61%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (2.67%) Azure AKS
17 16 (2.51%) Azure Functions
17 16 (2.51%) Power Platform
18 15 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.35%) HTTP
2 7 (1.10%) SSH
3 6 (0.94%) DNS
3 6 (0.94%) HTTPS
3 6 (0.94%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.78%) 5G
5 4 (0.63%) 4G
5 4 (0.63%) MQTT
5 4 (0.63%) Network Security
5 4 (0.63%) 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
1 147 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (15.07%) Relational Database
3 72 (11.30%) NoSQL
4 62 (9.73%) MongoDB
5 55 (8.63%) MySQL
6 52 (8.16%) SQL Server
7 32 (5.02%) Redis
8 28 (4.40%) DynamoDB
9 17 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
11 13 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
12 12 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.10%) Power BI
14 6 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.94%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.78%) Chroma
15 5 (0.78%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.78%) Pinecone
15 5 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 199 (31.24%) Git
2 122 (19.15%) Jenkins
3 63 (9.89%) JUnit
4 62 (9.73%) GitLab
4 62 (9.73%) JIRA
5 42 (6.59%) Maven
5 42 (6.59%) Mockito
6 37 (5.81%) Gradle
7 30 (4.71%) Cucumber
8 27 (4.24%) SonarQube
9 26 (4.08%) Cypress.io
10 25 (3.92%) Selenium
11 14 (2.20%) Postman
12 13 (2.04%) REST Assured
12 13 (2.04%) Visual Studio
13 12 (1.88%) CircleCI
14 11 (1.73%) MSI
15 10 (1.57%) Bitbucket
16 9 (1.41%) Storybook
17 8 (1.26%) Gatling
General
1 175 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 125 (19.62%) Finance
3 110 (17.27%) Public Sector
4 103 (16.17%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (8.95%) Banking
6 36 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (3.61%) Retail
8 17 (2.67%) Investment Banking
9 16 (2.51%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.26%) Marketing
10 8 (1.26%) Publishing
11 6 (0.94%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.94%) Front Office
11 6 (0.94%) Law
11 6 (0.94%) Local Government
11 6 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.78%) Legal
13 4 (0.63%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 371 (58.24%) Developer
2 131 (20.57%) Senior
3 106 (16.64%) Java Developer
4 87 (13.66%) Senior Developer
5 82 (12.87%) Full-Stack Developer
6 51 (8.01%) Software Engineer
7 47 (7.38%) Python Developer
8 39 (6.12%) .NET Developer
9 37 (5.81%) Senior Java Developer
10 34 (5.34%) Lead
11 33 (5.18%) Architect
12 27 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 27 (4.24%) Java Engineer
13 26 (4.08%) React Developer
14 24 (3.77%) C# Developer
15 23 (3.61%) Software Developer
16 20 (3.14%) C# .NET Developer
17 19 (2.98%) Technical Leader
18 18 (2.83%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
19 15 (2.35%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (32.34%) REST
2 157 (24.65%) Spring
3 152 (23.86%) Spring Boot
4 144 (22.61%) React
5 125 (19.62%) Kafka
6 107 (16.80%) .NET
7 105 (16.48%) Terraform
8 104 (16.33%) CSS
8 104 (16.33%) HTML
9 75 (11.77%) Node.js
10 74 (11.62%) AngularJS
11 71 (11.15%) OAuth
12 67 (10.52%) Web Services
13 61 (9.58%) OAuth2
14 60 (9.42%) HTML5
15 58 (9.11%) .NET Core
15 58 (9.11%) JSON
16 54 (8.48%) CSS3
17 51 (8.01%) Swagger
18 48 (7.54%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 183 (28.73%) Cloud Native
2 111 (17.43%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (13.50%) Product Ownership
4 50 (7.85%) Enterprise Software
5 43 (6.75%) Mobile App
6 26 (4.08%) Onboarding
7 25 (3.92%) AI Agents
8 22 (3.45%) Data Structures
8 22 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (2.04%) NHS
10 11 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.57%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.57%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
15 5 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
15 5 (0.78%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 51 (8.01%) Linux
2 33 (5.18%) Unix
3 24 (3.77%) Apple iOS
4 22 (3.45%) Android
5 17 (2.67%) Windows
6 4 (0.63%) macOS
7 3 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (67.50%) CI/CD
2 370 (58.08%) Agile
3 322 (50.55%) Microservices
4 278 (43.64%) DevOps
5 244 (38.30%) Test Automation
6 186 (29.20%) Containerisation
7 164 (25.75%) Problem-Solving
8 160 (25.12%) Software Engineering
9 159 (24.96%) Event-Driven
10 151 (23.70%) Scrum
11 150 (23.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 150 (23.55%) Full-Stack Development
12 132 (20.72%) Code Quality
13 114 (17.90%) Infrastructure as Code
14 105 (16.48%) API Development
15 104 (16.33%) AI
16 101 (15.86%) Observability
17 100 (15.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 98 (15.38%) API Design
19 90 (14.13%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 249 (39.09%) Java
2 172 (27.00%) JavaScript
3 162 (25.43%) SQL
4 161 (25.27%) Python
5 148 (23.23%) TypeScript
6 122 (19.15%) C#
7 37 (5.81%) Kotlin
8 33 (5.18%) Shell Script
9 28 (4.40%) Bicep
10 22 (3.45%) Swift
11 21 (3.30%) Bash
12 15 (2.35%) Go
13 14 (2.20%) Ruby
14 13 (2.04%) Scala
15 11 (1.73%) Rust
16 10 (1.57%) Objective-C
16 10 (1.57%) PL/SQL
17 8 (1.26%) T-SQL
17 8 (1.26%) X++
18 7 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 163 (25.59%) Security Cleared
2 139 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.32%) Degree
4 41 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 21 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (3.14%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.04%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.73%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.78%) CCSP
11 5 (0.78%) CEH
11 5 (0.78%) CISM
11 5 (0.78%) CISSP
11 5 (0.78%) OSCP
12 4 (0.63%) PhD
13 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (20.25%) QA
2 74 (11.62%) Accessibility
3 39 (6.12%) WCAG
4 13 (2.04%) NCSC
5 9 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.41%) HL7
6 6 (0.94%) NIST
7 5 (0.78%) COBIT
7 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.63%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.63%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.47%) GDPR
10 2 (0.31%) Basel III
11 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
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
System Software
1 241 (37.83%) Docker
2 8 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.31%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 198 (31.08%) Kubernetes
2 54 (8.48%) Grafana
3 43 (6.75%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.73%) Ansible
5 9 (1.41%) Kibana
6 5 (0.78%) Argo
7 4 (0.63%) Bosun
7 4 (0.63%) Podman
7 4 (0.63%) Puppet
8 3 (0.47%) Istio
9 2 (0.31%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.31%) Consul
9 2 (0.31%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.16%) linkerd
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.44%) Google
3 36 (5.65%) Oracle
4 21 (3.30%) Dynatrace
4 21 (3.30%) Splunk
5 14 (2.20%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.04%) New Relic
7 8 (1.26%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.26%) Okta
8 7 (1.10%) Databricks
8 7 (1.10%) IBM
8 7 (1.10%) SAP
8 7 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.94%) Apple
9 6 (0.94%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.78%) Ping Identity
11 4 (0.63%) Adobe
11 4 (0.63%) Citrix
11 4 (0.63%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.63%) Tenable