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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 160 207
Rank change year-on-year -33 +47 -7
Contract jobs citing RESTful 566 388 407
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.63% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.06% 7.30% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 270 286
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £412 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year - -2.72% -14.33%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £619
90th Percentile £660 £735 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 7
10th Percentile £54.00 £51.00 £47.70
25th Percentile £56.25 £52.50 £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 £84.50 - £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 8,020 5,318 7,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.25% 22.37% 20.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,295 3,686 5,352
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £421 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £794 £793
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 95 234
10th Percentile £30.87 £28.13 £22.58
25th Percentile £51.25 £40.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.38 £66.63
90th Percentile £78.83 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -5 310 £500 -4.76% 96
North of England -20 108 £461 +15.31% 62
South East -26 65 £515 +7.24% 43
North West -21 55 £450 +12.50% 36
Midlands -72 45 £488 +2.63% 15
Yorkshire -26 40 £525 +13.51% 19
West Midlands -63 27 £488 -2.50% 8
South West -25 24 £525 -12.50% 17
East Midlands -33 16 £447 +4.20% 7
North East -15 13 £450 +21.62% 7
East of England -31 9 £500 -6.98% 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 26 (4.59%) Confluence
2 9 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 9 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.41%) Appian
4 7 (1.24%) CICS
4 7 (1.24%) Ethereum
4 7 (1.24%) Hyperledger
5 6 (1.06%) CMS
6 5 (0.88%) Camunda
6 5 (0.88%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.53%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.35%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.35%) IIS
8 2 (0.35%) Mule
8 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.18%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (1.41%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.88%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.88%) Sketch
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.35%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.18%) Maximo
3 1 (0.18%) Quorum
3 1 (0.18%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.18%) Ripple
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
1 233 (41.17%) AWS
2 189 (33.39%) Azure
3 92 (16.25%) Serverless
4 88 (15.55%) GitHub
5 68 (12.01%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
7 58 (10.25%) GCP
8 57 (10.07%) Amazon S3
9 52 (9.19%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (6.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (5.12%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (3.53%) Power Automate
16 19 (3.36%) Route 53
17 17 (3.00%) Entra ID
18 16 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
19 15 (2.65%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.30%) HTTP
2 5 (0.88%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.71%) DNS
3 4 (0.71%) SSL
4 2 (0.35%) MQTT
4 2 (0.35%) Network Security
4 2 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.35%) 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%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.18%) SMS
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (19.79%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (15.72%) NoSQL
3 61 (10.78%) SQL Server
4 58 (10.25%) Relational Database
5 47 (8.30%) DynamoDB
5 47 (8.30%) MongoDB
6 35 (6.18%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (5.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 30 (5.30%) MySQL
8 20 (3.53%) Redis
9 11 (1.94%) DB2
10 9 (1.59%) Pinecone
11 8 (1.41%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.06%) Flink
12 6 (1.06%) Power BI
13 5 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.71%) Big Data
14 4 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.71%) GIS
15 3 (0.53%) Presto
Development Applications
1 132 (23.32%) Git
2 92 (16.25%) Jenkins
3 61 (10.78%) GitLab
4 50 (8.83%) JUnit
5 42 (7.42%) JIRA
6 34 (6.01%) Mockito
7 25 (4.42%) Postman
8 24 (4.24%) SonarQube
9 22 (3.89%) Maven
10 19 (3.36%) Cucumber
11 16 (2.83%) Gradle
12 14 (2.47%) Visual Studio
13 12 (2.12%) DbUnit
14 11 (1.94%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (1.94%) jMock
14 11 (1.94%) REST Assured
15 9 (1.59%) Selenium
16 8 (1.41%) JMeter
16 8 (1.41%) Liquibase
16 8 (1.41%) MLflow
General
1 126 (22.26%) Social Skills
2 122 (21.55%) Finance
3 89 (15.72%) Public Sector
4 62 (10.95%) Banking
5 59 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.12%) Front Office
7 11 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.59%) Retail
10 5 (0.88%) Law
10 5 (0.88%) Legal
10 5 (0.88%) Marketing
10 5 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.53%) Automotive
12 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Local Government
12 3 (0.53%) Police
12 3 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 350 (61.84%) Developer
2 113 (19.96%) Java Developer
3 105 (18.55%) Senior
4 65 (11.48%) Senior Developer
5 63 (11.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 48 (8.48%) Python Developer
7 38 (6.71%) Software Engineer
8 36 (6.36%) Architect
9 34 (6.01%) .NET Developer
10 30 (5.30%) Senior Java Developer
11 29 (5.12%) React Developer
12 26 (4.59%) C# Developer
13 22 (3.89%) Backend Developer
14 21 (3.71%) Java Engineer
14 21 (3.71%) Software Developer
15 20 (3.53%) Lead
16 19 (3.36%) AWS Developer
17 16 (2.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 15 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
19 12 (2.12%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (28.98%) Spring
2 159 (28.09%) Spring Boot
3 136 (24.03%) REST
4 127 (22.44%) React
5 105 (18.55%) Kafka
6 103 (18.20%) .NET
7 80 (14.13%) AngularJS
8 71 (12.54%) CSS
9 70 (12.37%) HTML
10 66 (11.66%) Node.js
11 58 (10.25%) OAuth
12 49 (8.66%) Web Services
13 40 (7.07%) Swagger
14 39 (6.89%) JSON
14 39 (6.89%) OAuth2
15 38 (6.71%) Django
16 37 (6.54%) FastAPI
16 37 (6.54%) Hibernate
16 37 (6.54%) HTML5
17 36 (6.36%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 85 (15.02%) Cloud Native
2 83 (14.66%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (13.25%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (3.71%) Mobile App
5 15 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (2.65%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.30%) Low-Code
7 12 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.59%) Hedge funds
9 8 (1.41%) Derivative
9 8 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.41%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.24%) DataPower
10 7 (1.24%) Mainframe
11 6 (1.06%) Equities
11 6 (1.06%) NHS
11 6 (1.06%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.07%) Linux
2 21 (3.71%) Unix
3 11 (1.94%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.41%) Android
5 7 (1.24%) Windows
5 7 (1.24%) zOS
6 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (58.83%) CI/CD
2 301 (53.18%) Microservices
3 289 (51.06%) Agile
4 197 (34.81%) DevOps
5 168 (29.68%) Containerisation
6 129 (22.79%) Test Automation
7 120 (21.20%) Event-Driven
8 116 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
9 113 (19.96%) Full-Stack Development
10 104 (18.37%) Scrum
11 99 (17.49%) Software Engineering
12 81 (14.31%) Clean Code
13 80 (14.13%) Code Quality
14 79 (13.96%) TDD
15 78 (13.78%) API Development
16 76 (13.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 73 (12.90%) API Design
18 68 (12.01%) Infrastructure as Code
19 60 (10.60%) Observability
19 60 (10.60%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 242 (42.76%) Java
2 179 (31.63%) SQL
3 141 (24.91%) Python
4 123 (21.73%) JavaScript
5 122 (21.55%) C#
6 98 (17.31%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.24%) Go
8 22 (3.89%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.65%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.77%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.59%) Bicep
11 9 (1.59%) Swift
12 8 (1.41%) Scala
13 6 (1.06%) JCL
13 6 (1.06%) X++
14 5 (0.88%) Rust
15 4 (0.71%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.71%) Bash
15 4 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 136 (24.03%) Security Cleared
2 99 (17.49%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.54%) Degree
4 25 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.47%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.59%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 7 (1.24%) CCSP
9 7 (1.24%) CEH
9 7 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.24%) CISM
9 7 (1.24%) CISSP
9 7 (1.24%) OSCP
10 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.53%) MBA
12 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (13.07%) QA
2 49 (8.66%) Accessibility
3 30 (5.30%) WCAG
4 12 (2.12%) NIST
5 11 (1.94%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.24%) COBIT
8 6 (1.06%) GDPR
9 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.35%) HL7
9 2 (0.35%) SLA
9 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) Basel III
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.18%) EMIR
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
10 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 206 (36.40%) Docker
2 9 (1.59%) Postfix
3 5 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.35%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 169 (29.86%) Kubernetes
2 63 (11.13%) Terraform
3 38 (6.71%) Grafana
4 33 (5.83%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.94%) Ansible
6 6 (1.06%) Kibana
7 3 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.35%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.35%) Consul
8 2 (0.35%) Podman
8 2 (0.35%) Puppet
8 2 (0.35%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 36 (6.36%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.77%) Oracle
3 20 (3.53%) Adobe
4 14 (2.47%) Google
5 13 (2.30%) Atlassian
5 13 (2.30%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.94%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (1.77%) OpenAI
7 10 (1.77%) Splunk
8 9 (1.59%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.41%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.41%) UiPath
9 8 (1.41%) Veracode
10 7 (1.24%) Databricks
10 7 (1.24%) Okta
10 7 (1.24%) Sybase
11 6 (1.06%) Apple
11 6 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.88%) New Relic