RESTful Contracts

RESTful
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 204 186
Rank change year-on-year +38 -18 -38
Contract jobs citing RESTful 496 511 834
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.70% 1.17% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.48% 5.70% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 373 617
10th Percentile £356 £375 £400
25th Percentile £410 £431 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +6.48%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £700
90th Percentile £700 £710 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% -6.00% -
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 excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -31.25% - +53.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
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 RESTful within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +34 382 £500 -4.76% 557
London +38 220 £525 -8.70% 204
UK excluding London +30 191 £463 -1.60% 374
Work from Home +25 183 £488 -2.50% 436
North of England -4 60 £450 -7.69% 153
North West -22 38 £406 -14.47% 105
South East +44 36 £450 - 66
Midlands +37 33 £485 -3.00% 59
Scotland -4 27 £438 +9.38% 17
West Midlands +28 23 £513 -15.57% 33
Yorkshire +20 18 £500 -2.44% 38
South West +47 17 £600 +11.63% 38
Northern Ireland - 11 £325 - 8
East Midlands +12 10 £463 +0.11% 25
East of England +22 9 £575 +15.00% 35
North East -1 4 £366 -26.75% 10
Wales +4 2 £563 +28.57% 6

RESTful
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 28 (5.65%) Confluence
2 10 (2.02%) Anypoint
2 10 (2.02%) Mule
3 9 (1.81%) Apache
4 6 (1.21%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.01%) Moodle
6 4 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.81%) CMS
6 4 (0.81%) JBoss
7 3 (0.60%) Mule ESB
7 3 (0.60%) WordPress
8 2 (0.40%) Camunda
8 2 (0.40%) CICS
8 2 (0.40%) nginx
8 2 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.20%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.20%) govService
9 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Magnolia
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Adobe XD
1 4 (0.81%) Sketch
2 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.21%) SAP Hybris
2 4 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.40%) Magento
4 2 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 181 (36.49%) AWS
2 148 (29.84%) Azure
3 56 (11.29%) Serverless
4 50 (10.08%) GCP
5 39 (7.86%) GitHub
6 35 (7.06%) Amazon S3
7 29 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (3.83%) Cloud Computing
10 19 (3.83%) Route 53
11 18 (3.63%) Slack
12 16 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (3.23%) CloudFront
13 15 (3.02%) Azure Functions
14 12 (2.42%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 12 (2.42%) Azure AKS
14 12 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.84%) HTTP
2 6 (1.21%) Firewall
3 5 (1.01%) SSL
4 3 (0.60%) DNS
4 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.60%) Network Security
4 3 (0.60%) Wireless
5 2 (0.40%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.40%) 4G
5 2 (0.40%) 5G
5 2 (0.40%) LAN
5 2 (0.40%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.40%) VPN
5 2 (0.40%) WAN
6 1 (0.20%) RTSP
6 1 (0.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (15.93%) NoSQL
3 78 (15.73%) MongoDB
4 54 (10.89%) MySQL
5 47 (9.48%) SQL Server
6 34 (6.85%) Redis
7 33 (6.65%) Relational Database
8 24 (4.84%) Amazon Aurora
9 23 (4.64%) Apache Cassandra
9 23 (4.64%) DynamoDB
10 13 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (2.42%) DocumentDB
11 12 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.41%) DB2
14 5 (1.01%) Big Data
14 5 (1.01%) GIS
14 5 (1.01%) ObjectStore
15 4 (0.81%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 188 (37.90%) Git
2 56 (11.29%) Jenkins
3 49 (9.88%) JIRA
4 37 (7.46%) JUnit
5 30 (6.05%) GitLab
6 29 (5.85%) Cucumber
7 23 (4.64%) Postman
8 22 (4.44%) Jasmine
9 20 (4.03%) Cypress.io
9 20 (4.03%) webpack
10 16 (3.23%) Mockito
11 15 (3.02%) Maven
12 14 (2.82%) Selenium
13 10 (2.02%) Gradle
14 9 (1.81%) Babel
15 8 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
16 7 (1.41%) Visual Studio
17 6 (1.21%) Ant
17 6 (1.21%) git-flow
17 6 (1.21%) JMeter
General
1 107 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 94 (18.95%) Finance
3 62 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 49 (9.88%) Banking
5 46 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.42%) Retail Banking
7 11 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.02%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.61%) Front Office
10 7 (1.41%) Retail
11 4 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.81%) French Language
12 3 (0.60%) Advertising
12 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Billing
13 2 (0.40%) Games
13 2 (0.40%) Legal
13 2 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 339 (68.35%) Developer
2 92 (18.55%) Senior
3 69 (13.91%) Java Developer
4 65 (13.10%) Senior Developer
5 62 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 36 (7.26%) Software Engineer
7 35 (7.06%) Lead
8 34 (6.85%) .NET Developer
9 30 (6.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 29 (5.85%) Architect
11 24 (4.84%) React Developer
12 22 (4.44%) Lead Developer
13 21 (4.23%) Senior Java Developer
14 19 (3.83%) Android Developer
15 18 (3.63%) Angular Developer
15 18 (3.63%) Python Developer
16 17 (3.43%) C# Developer
17 15 (3.02%) iOS Developer
18 14 (2.82%) Senior Software Engineer
19 13 (2.62%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (24.40%) React
2 101 (20.36%) CSS
3 97 (19.56%) HTML
4 90 (18.15%) Spring
5 88 (17.74%) Web Services
6 75 (15.12%) .NET
6 75 (15.12%) AngularJS
7 74 (14.92%) Spring Boot
8 67 (13.51%) Node.js
9 62 (12.50%) JSON
10 54 (10.89%) GraphQL
11 49 (9.88%) Swagger
12 48 (9.68%) Kafka
13 44 (8.87%) OpenAPI
13 44 (8.87%) XML
14 40 (8.06%) OAuth
14 40 (8.06%) SOAP
15 37 (7.46%) REST
16 32 (6.45%) HTML5
17 30 (6.05%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.65%) Product Ownership
2 22 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.23%) Mobile App
4 20 (4.03%) Derivative
4 20 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (3.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 16 (3.23%) Public Cloud
7 14 (2.82%) Cloud Native
8 13 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.61%) Equities
11 7 (1.41%) Equity Derivative
11 7 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.21%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 5 (1.01%) e-Learning
13 5 (1.01%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 52 (10.48%) Linux
2 28 (5.65%) Android
3 21 (4.23%) Apple iOS
4 20 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.63%) Unix
6 4 (0.81%) Windows
7 2 (0.40%) zOS
8 1 (0.20%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (46.98%) Agile
2 230 (46.37%) CI/CD
3 178 (35.89%) Microservices
4 156 (31.45%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (25.60%) DevOps
6 102 (20.56%) Test Automation
7 100 (20.16%) Containerisation
8 95 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 82 (16.53%) API Development
10 81 (16.33%) User Experience
11 79 (15.93%) Software Engineering
12 75 (15.12%) Code Quality
13 74 (14.92%) TDD
14 72 (14.52%) Front End Development
15 67 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
16 66 (13.31%) Scrum
17 64 (12.90%) Clean Code
18 60 (12.10%) API Design
19 46 (9.27%) SOLID
19 46 (9.27%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 160 (32.26%) Java
2 157 (31.65%) JavaScript
3 131 (26.41%) SQL
4 101 (20.36%) TypeScript
5 88 (17.74%) Python
6 74 (14.92%) C#
7 28 (5.65%) Bash
8 22 (4.44%) Kotlin
9 16 (3.23%) Shell Script
9 16 (3.23%) Swift
10 15 (3.02%) Objective-C
11 12 (2.42%) PHP
12 11 (2.22%) Scala
13 10 (2.02%) Ruby
14 9 (1.81%) DataWeave
14 9 (1.81%) Go
15 8 (1.61%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.21%) PowerShell
17 5 (1.01%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.81%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (16.73%) Security Cleared
2 70 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 32 (6.45%) Degree
4 18 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.40%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.40%) IBM Certification
7 2 (0.40%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.40%) OCP
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.40%) Sun Certification
8 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.20%) CAPM
8 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.20%) PhD
8 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.85%) Accessibility
1 34 (6.85%) QA
2 7 (1.41%) WCAG
3 3 (0.60%) NCSC
3 3 (0.60%) PERC
4 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.40%) DICOM
4 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.40%) HL7
5 1 (0.20%) GDPR
5 1 (0.20%) NIST
5 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 124 (25.00%) Docker
2 8 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.81%) Postfix
4 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 120 (24.19%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.45%) Terraform
3 13 (2.62%) Ansible
3 13 (2.62%) Grafana
3 13 (2.62%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.81%) CloudHub
6 3 (0.60%) Puppet
7 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.40%) vRealize
8 1 (0.20%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.20%) Istio
8 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.20%) Kibana
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.20%) Packer
8 1 (0.20%) Rancher
8 1 (0.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 38 (7.66%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.06%) Oracle
3 23 (4.64%) Google
4 19 (3.83%) ServiceNow
5 17 (3.43%) MuleSoft
6 16 (3.23%) SAP
7 13 (2.62%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.81%) Adobe
9 8 (1.61%) IBM
10 5 (1.01%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.01%) Okta
10 5 (1.01%) Sybase
10 5 (1.01%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.81%) Cisco
11 4 (0.81%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (0.81%) LabVantage
11 4 (0.81%) Splunk
12 3 (0.60%) Pega
12 3 (0.60%) Zend
13 2 (0.40%) Foundry