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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 195 200
Rank change year-on-year +36 +5 -57
Contract jobs citing RESTful 523 516 759
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 1.20% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.93% 5.72% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 364 553
10th Percentile £330 £364 £400
25th Percentile £406 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -13.04% +6.48%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £700
90th Percentile £700 £719 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £51.50 £47.70 £62.70
25th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £66.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +6.67% +20.00%
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% - +26.48%

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 6,599 9,022 12,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.81% 21.02% 22.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,533 6,266 9,379
10th Percentile £361 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 254 149
10th Percentile £28.91 £21.96 £29.15
25th Percentile £38.16 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £74.48 £80.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £50.47 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.80% -22.36% +19.82%

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 May 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 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
England +35 397 £494 -1.30% 3,369
London +25 221 £525 -4.55% 394
UK excluding London +49 216 £463 +2.78% 3,377
Work from Home +30 189 £488 -2.50% 2,616
North of England +2 55 £413 -10.81% 765
Midlands +43 49 £463 -7.50% 641
Scotland -4 38 £450 +7.14% 137
North West -1 36 £400 -13.51% 367
South East +63 35 £498 +10.56% 917
West Midlands +33 29 £500 -17.63% 342
East Midlands +19 20 £429 -1.38% 254
South West +49 19 £600 +9.09% 405
Yorkshire +20 13 £463 -7.50% 312
East of England +25 11 £538 +7.50% 507
Northern Ireland - 11 £325 - 45
North East 0 6 £488 -2.50% 90
Wales +3 2 £563 +28.57% 97

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 18 (3.44%) Confluence
2 13 (2.49%) Apache
3 10 (1.91%) Anypoint
3 10 (1.91%) Mule
4 8 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.96%) JBoss
5 5 (0.96%) Moodle
6 4 (0.76%) CMS
6 4 (0.76%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.57%) Mule ESB
7 3 (0.57%) Oracle Application Server
7 3 (0.57%) WordPress
8 2 (0.38%) Appian
8 2 (0.38%) Camunda
8 2 (0.38%) CICS
8 2 (0.38%) nginx
8 2 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.19%) Drupal
9 1 (0.19%) govService
9 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Adobe XD
1 4 (0.76%) Sketch
2 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.76%) SAP Hybris
2 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.38%) Magento
3 2 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 206 (39.39%) AWS
2 166 (31.74%) Azure
3 71 (13.58%) Serverless
4 57 (10.90%) GCP
5 52 (9.94%) GitHub
6 44 (8.41%) Amazon S3
7 42 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (4.78%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (4.40%) Route 53
12 19 (3.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (3.44%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (3.44%) Azure Functions
14 17 (3.25%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (3.06%) CloudFront
16 15 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (2.68%) OpenShift
18 12 (2.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.02%) HTTP
2 9 (1.72%) HTTPS
3 7 (1.34%) SSL
4 5 (0.96%) Firewall
5 3 (0.57%) DNS
5 3 (0.57%) Network Security
5 3 (0.57%) Wireless
6 2 (0.38%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.38%) 4G
6 2 (0.38%) 5G
6 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.38%) DMZ
6 2 (0.38%) Internet
6 2 (0.38%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.38%) LAN
6 2 (0.38%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.38%) VPN
6 2 (0.38%) WAN
7 1 (0.19%) RTSP
7 1 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (16.63%) NoSQL
2 76 (14.53%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (13.38%) MongoDB
4 45 (8.60%) MySQL
4 45 (8.60%) SQL Server
5 44 (8.41%) Relational Database
6 32 (6.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 32 (6.12%) DynamoDB
7 23 (4.40%) Redis
8 20 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (2.10%) DocumentDB
11 10 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.34%) DB2
13 6 (1.15%) Big Data
13 6 (1.15%) GIS
13 6 (1.15%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.96%) ObjectStore
15 4 (0.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 200 (38.24%) Git
2 81 (15.49%) Jenkins
3 41 (7.84%) JIRA
4 39 (7.46%) GitLab
5 31 (5.93%) Maven
6 29 (5.54%) JUnit
7 28 (5.35%) Cypress.io
8 25 (4.78%) Postman
9 24 (4.59%) webpack
10 22 (4.21%) Mockito
11 20 (3.82%) SonarQube
12 14 (2.68%) Cucumber
13 13 (2.49%) Gradle
14 11 (2.10%) Selenium
15 10 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
16 9 (1.72%) Babel
16 9 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
16 9 (1.72%) IntelliJ
17 8 (1.53%) Bitbucket
18 7 (1.34%) jMock
General
1 133 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 105 (20.08%) Finance
3 65 (12.43%) Public Sector
4 54 (10.33%) Banking
5 51 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (2.10%) Retail Banking
7 9 (1.72%) Front Office
7 9 (1.72%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.34%) Retail
9 3 (0.57%) Advertising
9 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.57%) Games
9 3 (0.57%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.57%) Legal
9 3 (0.57%) Spanish Language
10 2 (0.38%) Automotive
10 2 (0.38%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 361 (69.02%) Developer
2 95 (18.16%) Senior
3 74 (14.15%) Java Developer
4 65 (12.43%) Senior Developer
5 62 (11.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 37 (7.07%) Software Engineer
7 35 (6.69%) .NET Developer
8 31 (5.93%) Architect
9 30 (5.74%) React Developer
10 29 (5.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 28 (5.35%) Lead
12 22 (4.21%) Angular Developer
13 21 (4.02%) Android Developer
13 21 (4.02%) Lead Developer
14 18 (3.44%) Python Developer
15 17 (3.25%) Senior Java Developer
16 16 (3.06%) C# Developer
16 16 (3.06%) Software Developer
17 15 (2.87%) Node.js Developer
18 13 (2.49%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (27.34%) React
2 113 (21.61%) Web Services
3 103 (19.69%) CSS
4 98 (18.74%) HTML
5 94 (17.97%) Spring
6 88 (16.83%) AngularJS
7 86 (16.44%) Node.js
8 81 (15.49%) Spring Boot
9 80 (15.30%) .NET
10 61 (11.66%) JSON
11 57 (10.90%) GraphQL
11 57 (10.90%) REST
12 47 (8.99%) SOAP
13 43 (8.22%) OAuth
14 42 (8.03%) Kafka
14 42 (8.03%) XML
15 34 (6.50%) Redux
16 33 (6.31%) .NET Core
16 33 (6.31%) HTML5
17 32 (6.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.93%) Product Ownership
2 30 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.54%) Cloud Native
4 27 (5.16%) Mobile App
5 19 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.44%) Derivative
7 15 (2.87%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.72%) Equities
9 9 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.34%) Equity Derivative
12 6 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 6 (1.15%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.96%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.96%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.96%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.65%) Linux
2 28 (5.35%) Android
3 18 (3.44%) Unix
4 17 (3.25%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.76%) Windows
6 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) zOS
8 1 (0.19%) CentOS
8 1 (0.19%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (49.33%) Agile
2 245 (46.85%) CI/CD
3 182 (34.80%) Microservices
4 170 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
5 157 (30.02%) DevOps
6 104 (19.89%) Full-Stack Development
7 100 (19.12%) Containerisation
8 95 (18.16%) Test Automation
9 94 (17.97%) API Development
10 90 (17.21%) User Experience
11 78 (14.91%) Scrum
12 77 (14.72%) Clean Code
12 77 (14.72%) Front End Development
13 76 (14.53%) Software Engineering
14 75 (14.34%) TDD
15 66 (12.62%) Continuous Integration
16 65 (12.43%) Code Quality
17 53 (10.13%) Unit Testing
18 49 (9.37%) Mentoring
19 48 (9.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 175 (33.46%) Java
2 171 (32.70%) JavaScript
3 133 (25.43%) SQL
4 104 (19.89%) TypeScript
5 91 (17.40%) Python
6 83 (15.87%) C#
7 24 (4.59%) Kotlin
8 18 (3.44%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.87%) Bash
10 13 (2.49%) Go
10 13 (2.49%) Swift
11 12 (2.29%) Ruby
12 11 (2.10%) Objective-C
12 11 (2.10%) PHP
13 9 (1.72%) DataWeave
13 9 (1.72%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.53%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.53%) Scala
15 5 (0.96%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.76%) Dart
Qualifications
1 75 (14.34%) Security Cleared
2 62 (11.85%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.74%) Degree
4 16 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.57%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.57%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.38%) IBM Certification
6 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.19%) CAPM
7 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.19%) ISEB
7 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.19%) OCP
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.27%) Accessibility
2 37 (7.07%) QA
3 10 (1.91%) WCAG
4 3 (0.57%) GDPR
4 3 (0.57%) NCSC
4 3 (0.57%) PERC
5 2 (0.38%) DICOM
5 2 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.38%) HL7
6 1 (0.19%) NIST
6 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 129 (24.67%) Docker
2 9 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.34%) Postfix
4 4 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.19%) Firmware
5 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 117 (22.37%) Kubernetes
2 37 (7.07%) Terraform
3 20 (3.82%) Grafana
3 20 (3.82%) Prometheus
4 16 (3.06%) Ansible
5 8 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.96%) Kibana
7 4 (0.76%) CloudHub
8 3 (0.57%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.57%) Puppet
9 2 (0.38%) vRealize
10 1 (0.19%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.19%) Packer
10 1 (0.19%) Rancher
10 1 (0.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 38 (7.27%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.50%) Oracle
3 23 (4.40%) Google
4 18 (3.44%) ServiceNow
5 17 (3.25%) MuleSoft
6 16 (3.06%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.29%) SAP
8 10 (1.91%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.72%) Adobe
10 8 (1.53%) IBM
11 7 (1.34%) Jaspersoft
12 6 (1.15%) Cisco
13 5 (0.96%) Sybase
13 5 (0.96%) TIBCO
14 4 (0.76%) LabVantage
14 4 (0.76%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.76%) Splunk
15 3 (0.57%) PagerDuty
16 2 (0.38%) Okta
16 2 (0.38%) Ping Identity