RESTful Contracts in the UK excluding London

RESTful
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 204 242
Rank change year-on-year +51 +38 -93
Contract jobs citing RESTful 220 206 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.69% 0.99% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.07% 6.20% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 141 139
10th Percentile £308 £360 £373
25th Percentile £372 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £529 £518 £595
90th Percentile £588 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% -13.04% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 1
10th Percentile £51.50 £47.70 -
25th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% - +26.48%
75th Percentile - £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £87.00 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -31.25% +6.67% +20.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,425 3,325 4,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.61% 16.05% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 2,176 3,071
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £571 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £521 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.62% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 217 86
10th Percentile £33.59 £22.65 £22.20
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £48.43 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.21% -25.49% +18.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.46 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +30.30% -26.21% +23.81%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RESTful in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RESTful in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
North of England +7 55 £413 -10.81% 148
Midlands +40 51 £463 -6.57% 56
Scotland -6 38 £450 +9.76% 21
North West -1 36 £400 -13.51% 86
South East +50 35 £498 +10.56% 90
West Midlands +30 29 £500 -17.63% 35
East Midlands +19 22 £402 -6.51% 19
South West +50 19 £600 +9.09% 59
East of England +17 13 £538 +7.50% 35
Yorkshire +14 13 £463 -1.33% 45
Northern Ireland - 11 £325 - 20
North East +1 6 £488 -2.50% 19
Wales +2 2 £563 +28.57% 13
RESTful
UK

RESTful
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (3.64%) Anypoint
1 8 (3.64%) Confluence
1 8 (3.64%) Mule
2 3 (1.36%) CMS
2 3 (1.36%) Moodle
2 3 (1.36%) Mule ESB
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (1.36%) WordPress
3 2 (0.91%) Apache
3 2 (0.91%) Camunda
3 2 (0.91%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.45%) JBoss
4 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.45%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Magento
1 2 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.91%) SAP ERP
1 2 (0.91%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 79 (35.91%) AWS
2 75 (34.09%) Azure
3 30 (13.64%) GCP
4 26 (11.82%) Serverless
5 24 (10.91%) Amazon S3
6 21 (9.55%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (9.09%) GitHub
8 18 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (5.45%) Route 53
11 11 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (4.09%) AWS KMS
13 8 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (3.18%) Apigee
14 7 (3.18%) npm
14 7 (3.18%) OpenShift
15 6 (2.73%) Azure Functions
15 6 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.09%) HTTP
2 8 (3.64%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.36%) SSL
3 3 (1.36%) Wireless
4 2 (0.91%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.91%) 4G
4 2 (0.91%) 5G
4 2 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.91%) DMZ
4 2 (0.91%) Internet
5 1 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (13.18%) MongoDB
2 29 (13.18%) NoSQL
3 24 (10.91%) MySQL
4 23 (10.45%) Relational Database
5 18 (8.18%) Amazon Aurora
6 16 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (6.82%) DynamoDB
8 9 (4.09%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.27%) ObjectStore
9 5 (2.27%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.36%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (1.36%) GIS
11 3 (1.36%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.36%) Redis
11 3 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.91%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 89 (40.45%) Git
2 50 (22.73%) Jenkins
3 27 (12.27%) JIRA
4 22 (10.00%) GitLab
5 18 (8.18%) JUnit
5 18 (8.18%) Maven
5 18 (8.18%) webpack
6 17 (7.73%) Cypress.io
7 16 (7.27%) SonarQube
8 13 (5.91%) Mockito
9 10 (4.55%) Postman
10 9 (4.09%) Bitbucket Server
11 7 (3.18%) Cucumber
11 7 (3.18%) DbUnit
11 7 (3.18%) Gradle
11 7 (3.18%) jMock
12 6 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (2.27%) Artifactory
13 5 (2.27%) Babel
13 5 (2.27%) CircleCI
General
1 49 (22.27%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.82%) Finance
3 31 (14.09%) Public Sector
4 25 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.64%) Banking
6 5 (2.27%) Front Office
6 5 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.27%) Retail
6 5 (2.27%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.36%) Games
7 3 (1.36%) Legal
8 2 (0.91%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.45%) Automotive
9 1 (0.45%) Billing
9 1 (0.45%) French Language
9 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.45%) Military
9 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 161 (73.18%) Developer
2 40 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 37 (16.82%) Senior
4 26 (11.82%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (10.45%) Senior Developer
6 20 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 15 (6.82%) Architect
7 15 (6.82%) React Developer
7 15 (6.82%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.36%) Software Developer
9 11 (5.00%) Android Developer
10 10 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
11 9 (4.09%) Angular Developer
11 9 (4.09%) Lead
12 8 (3.64%) MuleSoft Developer
13 7 (3.18%) iOS Developer
13 7 (3.18%) Java Software Developer
13 7 (3.18%) Lead Developer
13 7 (3.18%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (30.45%) React
2 57 (25.91%) Web Services
3 56 (25.45%) AngularJS
4 52 (23.64%) CSS
5 51 (23.18%) HTML
6 49 (22.27%) Spring
7 46 (20.91%) Spring Boot
8 44 (20.00%) REST
9 40 (18.18%) Node.js
10 29 (13.18%) JSON
11 25 (11.36%) SOAP
12 23 (10.45%) .NET
13 22 (10.00%) XML
14 21 (9.55%) HTML5
15 19 (8.64%) Hibernate
16 16 (7.27%) ActiveMQ
16 16 (7.27%) CSS3
17 15 (6.82%) GraphQL
17 15 (6.82%) JPA
17 15 (6.82%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.18%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.18%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.73%) Derivative
5 6 (2.73%) Equities
5 6 (2.73%) Equity Derivative
6 5 (2.27%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.36%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.36%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.36%) State Machine
7 3 (1.36%) VLE
8 2 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.09%) Linux
2 11 (5.00%) Android
3 8 (3.64%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.36%) Unix
5 2 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (49.09%) CI/CD
2 104 (47.27%) Agile
3 85 (38.64%) Microservices
4 66 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (28.18%) DevOps
6 46 (20.91%) Containerisation
7 44 (20.00%) Front End Development
7 44 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 42 (19.09%) API Development
9 41 (18.64%) User Experience
10 39 (17.73%) Scrum
11 38 (17.27%) Full-Stack Development
12 36 (16.36%) Continuous Integration
13 33 (15.00%) TDD
14 31 (14.09%) Software Engineering
15 29 (13.18%) Code Quality
16 28 (12.73%) SDLC
17 23 (10.45%) Design Patterns
18 22 (10.00%) API Design
18 22 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 87 (39.55%) Java
2 76 (34.55%) JavaScript
3 59 (26.82%) SQL
4 44 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 36 (16.36%) Python
6 20 (9.09%) C#
7 14 (6.36%) Kotlin
8 11 (5.00%) Bash
9 8 (3.64%) Swift
10 7 (3.18%) DataWeave
10 7 (3.18%) Objective-C
11 6 (2.73%) Go
11 6 (2.73%) PHP
12 5 (2.27%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.82%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.82%) Ruby
14 3 (1.36%) C++
14 3 (1.36%) Scala
15 2 (0.91%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.55%) Degree
4 7 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.91%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.45%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.45%) ISEB
6 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.45%) OCP
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.91%) Accessibility
1 13 (5.91%) QA
2 10 (4.55%) WCAG
3 3 (1.36%) NCSC
3 3 (1.36%) PERC
4 2 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 53 (24.09%) Docker
2 7 (3.18%) Postfix
3 3 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (16.82%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.55%) Grafana
2 10 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 10 (4.55%) Terraform
3 3 (1.36%) Ansible
3 3 (1.36%) CloudHub
3 3 (1.36%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.91%) Puppet
4 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.45%) Packer
5 1 (0.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.36%) Google
3 9 (4.09%) Atlassian
3 9 (4.09%) Oracle
4 8 (3.64%) MuleSoft
5 7 (3.18%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (2.73%) Adobe
7 5 (2.27%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.27%) SAP
7 5 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.36%) Cisco
8 3 (1.36%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.36%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.91%) IBM
9 2 (0.91%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.91%) Zend
10 1 (0.45%) 3PAR
10 1 (0.45%) IBM Sterling
10 1 (0.45%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.45%) VMware