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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 171 209
Rank change year-on-year -20 +38 -15
Contract jobs citing RESTful 557 393 404
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.62% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.03% 7.28% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 270 285
10th Percentile £354 £356 £375
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year - -3.29% -13.83%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £625
90th Percentile £650 £704 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 7
10th Percentile £53.50 £50.50 £47.70
25th Percentile £68.13 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -34.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 £53.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £54.50 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -34.38% +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 7,925 5,396 7,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.22% 22.28% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,251 3,732 5,333
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.70%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 100 231
10th Percentile £30.55 £33.25 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.13 £50.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.64
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +3 305 £500 -4.76% 103
North of England -20 113 £450 +12.50% 50
North West -17 60 £450 +12.50% 29
South East -32 57 £515 +7.24% 44
Midlands -56 45 £488 +5.41% 16
Yorkshire -27 40 £513 +2.50% 15
West Midlands -56 27 £488 -4.88% 10
South West -28 23 £525 -12.50% 14
East Midlands -29 16 £447 +4.20% 6
North East -13 13 £450 +22.87% 6
East of England -26 9 £500 -6.98% 16
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 11 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.44%) Appian
5 6 (1.08%) CMS
5 6 (1.08%) Ethereum
5 6 (1.08%) Hyperledger
6 5 (0.90%) Camunda
6 5 (0.90%) CICS
6 5 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.54%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.36%) IIS
8 2 (0.36%) Mule
8 2 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.36%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.18%) Mendix
9 1 (0.18%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 8 (1.44%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.90%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.90%) Sketch
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.36%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.18%) Maximo
3 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.18%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 230 (41.29%) AWS
2 185 (33.21%) Azure
3 90 (16.16%) Serverless
4 86 (15.44%) GitHub
5 64 (11.49%) AWS Lambda
6 60 (10.77%) Amazon S3
7 59 (10.59%) GCP
8 56 (10.05%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
10 35 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (5.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 30 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (5.39%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (3.59%) Power Automate
16 18 (3.23%) Route 53
17 16 (2.87%) Azure Functions
17 16 (2.87%) Azure Service Bus
18 15 (2.69%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.33%) HTTP
2 5 (0.90%) HTTPS
2 5 (0.90%) SSL
3 4 (0.72%) DNS
4 2 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.18%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.18%) 4G
5 1 (0.18%) 5G
5 1 (0.18%) LTE
5 1 (0.18%) MQTT
5 1 (0.18%) Network Security
5 1 (0.18%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.18%) SMS
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (20.11%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (16.52%) NoSQL
3 59 (10.59%) Relational Database
3 59 (10.59%) SQL Server
4 49 (8.80%) MongoDB
5 43 (7.72%) DynamoDB
6 34 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (5.57%) MySQL
8 29 (5.21%) Amazon Aurora
9 20 (3.59%) Redis
10 9 (1.62%) DB2
10 9 (1.62%) DocumentDB
10 9 (1.62%) Pinecone
11 6 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.08%) Flink
11 6 (1.08%) Power BI
12 5 (0.90%) Big Data
13 4 (0.72%) GIS
14 3 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 135 (24.24%) Git
2 89 (15.98%) Jenkins
3 61 (10.95%) GitLab
4 49 (8.80%) JUnit
5 41 (7.36%) JIRA
6 33 (5.92%) Mockito
7 23 (4.13%) Maven
7 23 (4.13%) Postman
7 23 (4.13%) SonarQube
8 17 (3.05%) Cucumber
9 16 (2.87%) Gradle
10 14 (2.51%) Visual Studio
11 12 (2.15%) DbUnit
12 11 (1.97%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (1.97%) jMock
13 10 (1.80%) Selenium
14 8 (1.44%) MLflow
14 8 (1.44%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.26%) Bitbucket
15 7 (1.26%) Liquibase
General
1 126 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 123 (22.08%) Finance
3 93 (16.70%) Public Sector
4 60 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (10.59%) Banking
6 12 (2.15%) Front Office
7 11 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.62%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.44%) Retail
10 5 (0.90%) Law
10 5 (0.90%) Legal
10 5 (0.90%) Marketing
10 5 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.72%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.54%) Local Government
12 3 (0.54%) Police
12 3 (0.54%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 349 (62.66%) Developer
2 112 (20.11%) Java Developer
3 98 (17.59%) Senior
4 67 (12.03%) Full-Stack Developer
5 61 (10.95%) Senior Developer
6 47 (8.44%) Python Developer
7 39 (7.00%) Software Engineer
8 34 (6.10%) Architect
9 33 (5.92%) .NET Developer
10 29 (5.21%) Senior Java Developer
11 28 (5.03%) React Developer
12 25 (4.49%) C# Developer
13 22 (3.95%) Java Engineer
14 21 (3.77%) Backend Developer
14 21 (3.77%) Lead
14 21 (3.77%) Software Developer
15 18 (3.23%) AWS Developer
16 16 (2.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 15 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
18 11 (1.97%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (30.70%) Spring
2 167 (29.98%) Spring Boot
3 131 (23.52%) REST
4 127 (22.80%) React
5 102 (18.31%) Kafka
6 99 (17.77%) .NET
7 83 (14.90%) AngularJS
8 72 (12.93%) HTML
9 71 (12.75%) CSS
10 66 (11.85%) Node.js
11 57 (10.23%) OAuth
12 46 (8.26%) Web Services
13 40 (7.18%) Swagger
14 39 (7.00%) Hibernate
15 38 (6.82%) Django
15 38 (6.82%) HTML5
15 38 (6.82%) OAuth2
16 36 (6.46%) FastAPI
16 36 (6.46%) JSON
16 36 (6.46%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 82 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 81 (14.54%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (12.57%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (3.59%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.51%) Low-Code
8 13 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.62%) Hedge funds
11 9 (1.62%) NHS
11 9 (1.62%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.44%) Derivative
12 8 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.44%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.08%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.08%) Equities
14 5 (0.90%) Fixed Income
14 5 (0.90%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.00%) Linux
2 22 (3.95%) Unix
3 9 (1.62%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.44%) Android
5 7 (1.26%) Windows
6 5 (0.90%) zOS
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (60.32%) CI/CD
2 305 (54.76%) Microservices
3 287 (51.53%) Agile
4 203 (36.45%) DevOps
5 173 (31.06%) Containerisation
6 125 (22.44%) Test Automation
7 119 (21.36%) Full-Stack Development
8 118 (21.18%) Event-Driven
9 117 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
10 100 (17.95%) Scrum
11 96 (17.24%) Software Engineering
12 84 (15.08%) TDD
13 83 (14.90%) Clean Code
14 78 (14.00%) Code Quality
15 75 (13.46%) API Design
15 75 (13.46%) API Development
15 75 (13.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 69 (12.39%) Infrastructure as Code
17 60 (10.77%) Unit Testing
18 58 (10.41%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 243 (43.63%) Java
2 173 (31.06%) SQL
3 137 (24.60%) Python
4 122 (21.90%) JavaScript
5 118 (21.18%) C#
6 99 (17.77%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.31%) Go
8 19 (3.41%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.69%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.80%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.44%) Bicep
12 7 (1.26%) Swift
13 6 (1.08%) X++
14 5 (0.90%) Scala
15 4 (0.72%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.72%) Bash
15 4 (0.72%) JCL
15 4 (0.72%) Rust
16 3 (0.54%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 135 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 97 (17.41%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.00%) Degree
4 28 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.62%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 7 (1.26%) CCSP
8 7 (1.26%) CEH
8 7 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.26%) CISM
8 7 (1.26%) CISSP
8 7 (1.26%) OSCP
9 5 (0.90%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.54%) MBA
12 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (12.57%) QA
2 47 (8.44%) Accessibility
3 29 (5.21%) WCAG
4 12 (2.15%) NIST
5 11 (1.97%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.97%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.26%) COBIT
8 6 (1.08%) GDPR
9 4 (0.72%) HL7
10 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.36%) SLA
10 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.18%) EMIR
11 1 (0.18%) MiFID
11 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 209 (37.52%) Docker
2 9 (1.62%) Postfix
3 5 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.54%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 172 (30.88%) Kubernetes
2 64 (11.49%) Terraform
3 35 (6.28%) Grafana
4 30 (5.39%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.97%) Ansible
6 6 (1.08%) Kibana
7 3 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.36%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.36%) Consul
8 2 (0.36%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.18%) Podman
9 1 (0.18%) Puppet
9 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 37 (6.64%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.85%) Oracle
3 21 (3.77%) Adobe
4 13 (2.33%) Atlassian
4 13 (2.33%) Google
5 12 (2.15%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.97%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (1.97%) Splunk
7 10 (1.80%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.62%) MuleSoft
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%) Okta
11 6 (1.08%) Apple
11 6 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.08%) Sybase
12 4 (0.72%) New Relic