RESTful Contracts in England

RESTful
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring RESTful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RESTful over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 208 194
Rank change year-on-year +33 -14 -47
Contract jobs citing RESTful 382 419 689
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.57% 1.13% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.00% 5.58% 5.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 307 501
10th Percentile £359 £375 £385
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £713
90th Percentile £738 £719 £806
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 7
10th Percentile - £47.70 £62.70
25th Percentile - £65.00 £66.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £87.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -31.25% +6.67% +25.00%

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 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in England

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RESTful in England.

Daily rate trend for RESTful in England

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in England

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RESTful in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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 +29 220 £525 -8.70% 270
North of England -11 60 £450 -7.69% 166
North West -18 38 £406 -14.47% 117
South East +47 36 £450 - 149
Midlands +36 33 £485 -3.00% 64
West Midlands +26 23 £513 -15.57% 36
Yorkshire +13 18 £500 -2.44% 38
South West +48 17 £600 +11.63% 47
East Midlands +12 10 £463 +0.11% 22
East of England +19 9 £575 +15.00% 47
North East -1 4 £366 -26.75% 12
RESTful
UK

RESTful
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (6.81%) Confluence
2 9 (2.36%) Apache
3 5 (1.31%) Moodle
4 4 (1.05%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.05%) CMS
4 4 (1.05%) JBoss
4 4 (1.05%) Mule
4 4 (1.05%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.79%) Mule ESB
6 2 (0.52%) CICS
6 2 (0.52%) nginx
6 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.26%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Adobe XD
1 3 (0.79%) Sketch
2 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) SAP Hybris
2 3 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.52%) Magento
3 2 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.52%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 123 (32.20%) AWS
2 103 (26.96%) Azure
3 36 (9.42%) Serverless
4 34 (8.90%) GitHub
5 29 (7.59%) GCP
6 27 (7.07%) Amazon S3
7 20 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (4.97%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (4.97%) Cloud Computing
9 18 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (4.71%) Slack
10 16 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (4.19%) Route 53
11 14 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (3.40%) CloudFront
13 12 (3.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 12 (3.14%) Azure AKS
14 11 (2.88%) Azure Functions
14 11 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.02%) HTTP
2 6 (1.57%) Firewall
3 4 (1.05%) SSL
4 3 (0.79%) DNS
4 3 (0.79%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.79%) Network Security
4 3 (0.79%) Wireless
5 2 (0.52%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.52%) 4G
5 2 (0.52%) 5G
5 2 (0.52%) LAN
5 2 (0.52%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.52%) VPN
5 2 (0.52%) WAN
6 1 (0.26%) RTSP
6 1 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (20.94%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (16.75%) MongoDB
3 54 (14.14%) NoSQL
4 43 (11.26%) MySQL
5 39 (10.21%) SQL Server
6 32 (8.38%) Redis
7 23 (6.02%) Apache Cassandra
7 23 (6.02%) Relational Database
8 19 (4.97%) Amazon Aurora
8 19 (4.97%) DynamoDB
9 12 (3.14%) DocumentDB
10 11 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.83%) DB2
14 5 (1.31%) Big Data
14 5 (1.31%) GIS
14 5 (1.31%) ObjectStore
15 4 (1.05%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 135 (35.34%) Git
2 45 (11.78%) Jenkins
3 44 (11.52%) JIRA
4 34 (8.90%) JUnit
5 27 (7.07%) Cucumber
5 27 (7.07%) GitLab
6 22 (5.76%) Jasmine
7 20 (5.24%) Postman
8 17 (4.45%) Cypress.io
9 14 (3.66%) Maven
10 13 (3.40%) Mockito
11 12 (3.14%) webpack
12 9 (2.36%) Selenium
13 8 (2.09%) Babel
13 8 (2.09%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (1.83%) Gradle
15 6 (1.57%) git-flow
15 6 (1.57%) REST Assured
15 6 (1.57%) Visual Studio
16 5 (1.31%) CircleCI
General
1 88 (23.04%) Social Skills
2 74 (19.37%) Finance
3 42 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.21%) Banking
5 32 (8.38%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.14%) Retail Banking
7 11 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.83%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.57%) Retail
10 4 (1.05%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.79%) Advertising
11 3 (0.79%) French Language
11 3 (0.79%) Front Office
11 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.52%) Legal
12 2 (0.52%) Marketing
12 2 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 251 (65.71%) Developer
2 82 (21.47%) Senior
3 56 (14.66%) Senior Developer
4 52 (13.61%) Full-Stack Developer
5 51 (13.35%) Java Developer
6 27 (7.07%) Software Engineer
7 25 (6.54%) Architect
8 24 (6.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 22 (5.76%) Lead
10 20 (5.24%) React Developer
11 18 (4.71%) Senior Java Developer
12 17 (4.45%) Angular Developer
13 16 (4.19%) C# Developer
14 15 (3.93%) .NET Developer
15 14 (3.66%) Android Developer
15 14 (3.66%) Lead Developer
15 14 (3.66%) Python Developer
15 14 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
16 13 (3.40%) Backend Developer
17 11 (2.88%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (24.35%) React
2 84 (21.99%) CSS
3 82 (21.47%) HTML
4 72 (18.85%) Spring
5 69 (18.06%) Web Services
6 65 (17.02%) AngularJS
7 59 (15.45%) Spring Boot
8 54 (14.14%) .NET
9 51 (13.35%) Node.js
10 42 (10.99%) Kafka
11 37 (9.69%) GraphQL
12 35 (9.16%) Swagger
13 34 (8.90%) REST
14 33 (8.64%) JSON
15 30 (7.85%) OpenAPI
16 27 (7.07%) SOAP
17 24 (6.28%) OAuth
17 24 (6.28%) XML
18 22 (5.76%) HTML5
19 21 (5.50%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (4.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 17 (4.45%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.19%) Public Cloud
4 14 (3.66%) Derivative
5 13 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.14%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.62%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.83%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.57%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.31%) e-Learning
12 5 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.31%) VLE
13 4 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
14 3 (0.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.57%) Linux
2 19 (4.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (4.71%) Android
4 15 (3.93%) Unix
5 13 (3.40%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.52%) Windows
6 2 (0.52%) zOS
7 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.26%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (45.55%) Agile
2 166 (43.46%) CI/CD
3 122 (31.94%) Microservices
4 117 (30.63%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (21.73%) Test Automation
6 80 (20.94%) DevOps
7 76 (19.90%) Full-Stack Development
8 75 (19.63%) Containerisation
9 64 (16.75%) Front End Development
9 64 (16.75%) Software Engineering
10 61 (15.97%) TDD
11 57 (14.92%) API Development
12 54 (14.14%) API Design
12 54 (14.14%) User Experience
13 51 (13.35%) Code Quality
14 47 (12.30%) Scrum
15 46 (12.04%) Continuous Integration
16 36 (9.42%) Event-Driven
16 36 (9.42%) Mentoring
17 34 (8.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 134 (35.08%) JavaScript
2 120 (31.41%) Java
3 108 (28.27%) SQL
4 81 (21.20%) TypeScript
5 74 (19.37%) Python
6 55 (14.40%) C#
7 26 (6.81%) Bash
8 15 (3.93%) Kotlin
9 14 (3.66%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.14%) PHP
11 11 (2.88%) Swift
12 10 (2.62%) Objective-C
13 9 (2.36%) Go
14 6 (1.57%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.57%) Scala
14 6 (1.57%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.31%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.31%) Ruby
16 4 (1.05%) Perl
17 3 (0.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 62 (16.23%) Security Cleared
2 51 (13.35%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.50%) Degree
4 13 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.31%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.52%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.52%) IBM Certification
7 2 (0.52%) OCP
7 2 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.52%) Sun Certification
8 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.76%) QA
2 18 (4.71%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.79%) WCAG
4 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.52%) DICOM
4 2 (0.52%) HL7
System Software
1 92 (24.08%) Docker
2 6 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.05%) Postfix
4 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 84 (21.99%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.28%) Terraform
3 13 (3.40%) Grafana
3 13 (3.40%) Prometheus
4 11 (2.88%) Ansible
5 4 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.79%) CloudHub
7 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.52%) Puppet
7 2 (0.52%) vRealize
8 1 (0.26%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.26%) Kibana
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.26%) Rancher
8 1 (0.26%) VxRail
Vendors
1 32 (8.38%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.54%) Oracle
3 15 (3.93%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.66%) Google
5 9 (2.36%) SAP
6 8 (2.09%) Adobe
6 8 (2.09%) IBM
7 6 (1.57%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.31%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.31%) Sybase
8 5 (1.31%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.05%) Cisco
9 4 (1.05%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (1.05%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.05%) Splunk
10 3 (0.79%) Okta
10 3 (0.79%) Zend
11 2 (0.52%) Mapbox
11 2 (0.52%) New Relic
11 2 (0.52%) PagerDuty