RESTCONF Contract Job Trends

RESTCONF
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring RESTCONF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 541 565
Rank change year-on-year -116 +24 +82
Contract jobs citing RESTCONF 7 13 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.040% 0.010%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.069% 0.17% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £629 £400
Median % change year-on-year -48.31% +57.19% -33.33%
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £629 -
% change year-on-year -48.31% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

RESTCONF 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 10,172 7,434 8,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.04% 22.62% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,633 5,010 5,809
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £669
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 169 244
10th Percentile £28.65 £29.85 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.35 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% +7.07% -14.58%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £57.28
% change year-on-year +15.56% -1.79% -2.24%

RESTCONF
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RESTCONF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

RESTCONF job vacancy trend in the UK

RESTCONF
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RESTCONF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RESTCONF

RESTCONF
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RESTCONF within the UK over the 6 months to 7 August 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
UK excluding London -105 7 £325 -48.31% 2
England -107 7 £325 -48.31% 3
South East -66 4 £325 -7.14%
East of England -20 2 £325 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
North of England - 1 - - 2

RESTCONF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (57.14%) OpenStack
2 1 (14.29%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (85.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
2 6 (85.71%) BGP
2 6 (85.71%) MPLS
2 6 (85.71%) SNMP
2 6 (85.71%) TACACS
2 6 (85.71%) TCP/IP
3 4 (57.14%) LAN
3 4 (57.14%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (14.29%) DMZ
4 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
4 1 (14.29%) Modbus
4 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 1 (14.29%) VLAN
4 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
1 3 (42.86%) IP Network Consultant
1 3 (42.86%) Network Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Network Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) IP Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) NETCONF
2 6 (85.71%) OpenConfig
2 6 (85.71%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (85.71%) Data Centre
1 6 (85.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (57.14%) Private Cloud
2 4 (57.14%) Public Cloud
3 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
4 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Network Design
2 4 (57.14%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) CCIE
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (85.71%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (85.71%) F5
2 6 (85.71%) Fortinet
2 6 (85.71%) Juniper
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Rockwell
3 1 (14.29%) Siemens
3 1 (14.29%) Wonderware