REST Contracts

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 107 96
Rank change year-on-year +17 -11 -17
Contract jobs citing REST 856 881 1,417
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.68% 2.04% 2.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.83% 9.47% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 610 950
10th Percentile £356 £377 £419
25th Percentile £406 £433 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -8.41% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £675
90th Percentile £689 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £486 £533
% change year-on-year -3.50% -8.73% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 12
10th Percentile £49.63 £27.00 £50.00
25th Percentile - £36.00 £50.94
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £68.06
90th Percentile £57.80 £85.00 £88.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £72.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -30.56% +37.14% -25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

REST 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,235 9,300 12,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.69% 21.50% 22.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,890 6,376 9,395
10th Percentile £350 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £655 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 283 162
10th Percentile £28.76 £22.55 £30.08
25th Percentile £35.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £74.35 £80.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the UK

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for REST in the UK

REST
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the UK

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in the UK

REST
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in the UK

REST
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the UK over the 6 months to 7 July 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
England +23 692 £500 -4.53% 967
London +5 385 £550 +4.76% 467
UK excluding London +42 358 £469 -3.50% 612
Work from Home +14 305 £500 - 639
South East +53 94 £488 -17.89% 155
North of England +26 88 £447 -14.86% 202
Midlands +40 58 £410 -15.90% 69
North West +23 56 £416 -20.71% 133
Scotland -21 50 £469 +1.63% 48
East Midlands +22 29 £372 -23.79% 29
West Midlands +11 28 £450 -7.69% 40
Yorkshire +10 27 £461 -2.89% 54
East of England +21 26 £500 +19.05% 56
South West +18 26 £575 +17.95% 51
Wales +17 12 £452 +7.82% 16
North East +1 5 £450 -6.25% 15
Northern Ireland -20 5 £513 -10.87% 25

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 46 (5.37%) Confluence
2 37 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.92%) Tomcat
4 23 (2.69%) JBoss
5 14 (1.64%) WebLogic
6 11 (1.29%) WebSphere
7 10 (1.17%) Anypoint
7 10 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 8 (0.93%) Oracle Service Bus
9 7 (0.82%) Apache
9 7 (0.82%) Camunda
9 7 (0.82%) CMS
9 7 (0.82%) NetWeaver
10 6 (0.70%) Apache Spark
10 6 (0.70%) Mule
11 5 (0.58%) Alfresco
12 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.35%) nginx
13 3 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.35%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.82%) Kondor
4 5 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle Payroll
5 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.35%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.35%) Magento
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
6 3 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.23%) assyst
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.23%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.23%) Shopify
7 2 (0.23%) thinkFolio
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.12%) Maximo
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 257 (30.02%) AWS
2 211 (24.65%) Azure
3 90 (10.51%) GitHub
4 57 (6.66%) GCP
5 56 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (5.49%) Power Platform
7 41 (4.79%) Serverless
8 39 (4.56%) Amazon S3
9 37 (4.32%) Power Automate
10 34 (3.97%) PowerApps
11 32 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (3.15%) Entra ID
13 26 (3.04%) SaaS
14 25 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
15 24 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
16 22 (2.57%) Azure AKS
17 21 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (2.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 54 (6.31%) HTTP
2 29 (3.39%) SSL
3 20 (2.34%) HTTPS
4 17 (1.99%) Firewall
5 13 (1.52%) DNS
6 11 (1.29%) SMTP
6 11 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.05%) Wireless
8 7 (0.82%) SAN
8 7 (0.82%) VPN
9 5 (0.58%) NFC
9 5 (0.58%) PPP
10 4 (0.47%) BGP
10 4 (0.47%) NAS
10 4 (0.47%) Network Security
11 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.23%) 3GPP
12 2 (0.23%) DHCP
12 2 (0.23%) FTP
12 2 (0.23%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (10.75%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (7.94%) Relational Database
3 59 (6.89%) SQL Server
4 37 (4.32%) MySQL
5 29 (3.39%) NoSQL
6 24 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (2.80%) MongoDB
7 23 (2.69%) Power BI
8 20 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 19 (2.22%) DynamoDB
10 17 (1.99%) RDBMS
11 16 (1.87%) Oracle Database
12 12 (1.40%) DB2
13 9 (1.05%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.05%) Redis
14 8 (0.93%) Big Data
15 7 (0.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 6 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 216 (25.23%) Git
2 157 (18.34%) JIRA
3 150 (17.52%) Jenkins
4 66 (7.71%) JUnit
5 57 (6.66%) GitLab
6 50 (5.84%) Selenium
7 41 (4.79%) Bitbucket
7 41 (4.79%) Maven
8 40 (4.67%) Cucumber
8 40 (4.67%) SonarQube
9 39 (4.56%) Postman
10 38 (4.44%) REST Assured
11 26 (3.04%) Subversion
12 25 (2.92%) Cypress.io
12 25 (2.92%) Mockito
13 16 (1.87%) webpack
14 15 (1.75%) Gradle
15 11 (1.29%) Mocha
15 11 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (1.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 204 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 180 (21.03%) Finance
3 127 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 68 (7.94%) Banking
6 19 (2.22%) Telecoms
7 18 (2.10%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.64%) Front Office
9 11 (1.29%) Back Office
9 11 (1.29%) Retail
10 10 (1.17%) Law
10 10 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.05%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.05%) Marketing
12 8 (0.93%) Automotive
12 8 (0.93%) Billing
13 7 (0.82%) Legal
14 5 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 403 (47.08%) Developer
2 96 (11.21%) Architect
3 93 (10.86%) Java Developer
3 93 (10.86%) Senior
4 63 (7.36%) Lead
5 56 (6.54%) Software Engineer
6 47 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
7 45 (5.26%) Senior Developer
8 40 (4.67%) Python Developer
9 34 (3.97%) Java Engineer
10 32 (3.74%) Angular Developer
11 29 (3.39%) Consultant
11 29 (3.39%) Python Engineer
12 28 (3.27%) ServiceNow Developer
13 27 (3.15%) React Developer
13 27 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (2.80%) Analyst
15 22 (2.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 22 (2.57%) Lead Developer
15 22 (2.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (31.19%) SOAP
2 168 (19.63%) Web Services
3 137 (16.00%) React
4 133 (15.54%) AngularJS
5 124 (14.49%) HTML
6 115 (13.43%) Spring
7 111 (12.97%) Spring Boot
8 106 (12.38%) JSON
9 105 (12.27%) CSS
10 89 (10.40%) .NET
11 87 (10.16%) XML
12 82 (9.58%) RESTful
13 78 (9.11%) Kafka
14 57 (6.66%) OAuth
15 54 (6.31%) Node.js
16 51 (5.96%) GraphQL
17 42 (4.91%) Swagger
18 41 (4.79%) Hibernate
19 40 (4.67%) HTML5
19 40 (4.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.19%) Product Ownership
2 42 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.62%) Cloud Native
4 29 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.80%) Mobile App
7 22 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.34%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 16 (1.87%) Algorithms
11 16 (1.87%) CMDB
12 14 (1.64%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.64%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (1.52%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.29%) Derivative
15 10 (1.17%) Clustering
16 8 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 83 (9.70%) Linux
2 32 (3.74%) Windows
3 29 (3.39%) Unix
4 18 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 15 (1.75%) Android
6 13 (1.52%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.58%) Solaris
7 5 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.35%) zOS
10 2 (0.23%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (43.22%) Agile
2 249 (29.09%) CI/CD
3 232 (27.10%) DevOps
4 196 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
5 183 (21.38%) Microservices
6 161 (18.81%) Scrum
7 142 (16.59%) Test Automation
8 118 (13.79%) Software Engineering
9 114 (13.32%) SDLC
10 113 (13.20%) TDD
11 101 (11.80%) Full-Stack Development
12 82 (9.58%) Containerisation
13 74 (8.64%) Front End Development
14 70 (8.18%) API Development
15 62 (7.24%) Computer Science
15 62 (7.24%) Design Patterns
16 59 (6.89%) Continuous Integration
16 59 (6.89%) Migration
17 58 (6.78%) API Integration
18 52 (6.07%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 277 (32.36%) Java
2 234 (27.34%) JavaScript
3 229 (26.75%) Python
4 185 (21.61%) SQL
5 114 (13.32%) C#
6 96 (11.21%) TypeScript
7 57 (6.66%) PowerShell
8 33 (3.86%) Bash
9 26 (3.04%) Apex Code
10 23 (2.69%) Go
11 21 (2.45%) PL/SQL
12 18 (2.10%) PHP
12 18 (2.10%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.99%) ABAP
14 15 (1.75%) C++
15 14 (1.64%) Groovy
16 12 (1.40%) Scala
17 8 (0.93%) Perl
17 8 (0.93%) Rust
17 8 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 149 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 118 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 74 (8.64%) Degree
4 45 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.87%) Oracle Certification
6 15 (1.75%) CCNP
6 15 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.29%) ISTQB
8 11 (1.29%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.29%) OCA
8 11 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 10 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.17%) RHCA
9 10 (1.17%) RHCE
10 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.70%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.58%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.71%) QA
2 19 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (1.17%) GDPR
5 10 (1.17%) MiFID
6 7 (0.82%) Basel III
7 6 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.70%) WCAG
8 5 (0.58%) GRC
8 5 (0.58%) SEPA
9 4 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.47%) HL7
9 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.35%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 136 (15.89%) Docker
2 44 (5.14%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.05%) Postfix
5 8 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.47%) OpenAM
7 4 (0.47%) OpenDJ
7 4 (0.47%) OpenIDM
8 3 (0.35%) Firmware
9 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.23%) NFS
9 2 (0.23%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.23%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.12%) KVM
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 124 (14.49%) Kubernetes
2 74 (8.64%) Ansible
2 74 (8.64%) Terraform
3 31 (3.62%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (2.80%) Grafana
5 22 (2.57%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.87%) Puppet
7 15 (1.75%) vCenter Server
8 13 (1.52%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.17%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (1.17%) Podman
10 7 (0.82%) CloudHub
11 6 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.58%) QRadar
12 5 (0.58%) Tivoli
13 3 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
13 3 (0.35%) Kibana
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 2 (0.23%) Netcool
Vendors
1 129 (15.07%) Oracle
2 95 (11.10%) Microsoft
3 92 (10.75%) ServiceNow
4 56 (6.54%) Salesforce
5 44 (5.14%) SAP
6 39 (4.56%) MuleSoft
7 24 (2.80%) Google
7 24 (2.80%) VMware
8 22 (2.57%) Splunk
9 21 (2.45%) Atlassian
10 20 (2.34%) Cisco
11 12 (1.40%) IBM
12 11 (1.29%) CA Agile Central
12 11 (1.29%) Dynatrace
12 11 (1.29%) ForgeRock
13 10 (1.17%) Databricks
13 10 (1.17%) Jaspersoft
14 9 (1.05%) Adobe
14 9 (1.05%) Workday
15 8 (0.93%) Dell