RESTful Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

RESTful
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 156 167
Rank change year-on-year +16 +11 -42
Contract jobs citing RESTful 183 206 395
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.85% 1.34% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.14% 5.62% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 167 310
10th Percentile £334 £375 £370
25th Percentile £409 £431 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £700
90th Percentile £706 £630 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £66.05
25th Percentile - £75.00 £68.38
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.84% +22.50%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £77.38
90th Percentile - £89.00 £78.95
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -31.25% +6.67% +25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

RESTful trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing RESTful.

RESTful daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing RESTful over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

RESTful daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing RESTful.

RESTful hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (3.28%) Confluence
2 5 (2.73%) Moodle
2 5 (2.73%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.64%) CMS
4 2 (1.09%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.09%) JBoss
4 2 (1.09%) Mule
4 2 (1.09%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.09%) WordPress
5 1 (0.55%) Apache
5 1 (0.55%) CICS
5 1 (0.55%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.55%) Magnolia
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.09%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (36.61%) AWS
2 51 (27.87%) Azure
3 28 (15.30%) Serverless
4 25 (13.66%) GCP
5 17 (9.29%) GitHub
6 15 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.46%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (3.83%) Azure Functions
11 6 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.28%) Slack
12 5 (2.73%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (2.73%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.73%) Apigee
12 5 (2.73%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (2.73%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.84%) HTTP
2 3 (1.64%) Firewall
2 3 (1.64%) SSL
3 2 (1.09%) 3GPP
3 2 (1.09%) 4G
3 2 (1.09%) 5G
3 2 (1.09%) Wireless
4 1 (0.55%) DNS
4 1 (0.55%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (21.31%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (14.21%) MongoDB
3 23 (12.57%) NoSQL
4 22 (12.02%) MySQL
5 15 (8.20%) SQL Server
6 14 (7.65%) Redis
7 12 (6.56%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.28%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (3.28%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.64%) ObjectStore
11 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.09%) DB2
11 2 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.09%) GIS
11 2 (1.09%) IMS/DB
12 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.55%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 72 (39.34%) Git
2 17 (9.29%) JIRA
3 14 (7.65%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.10%) JUnit
5 12 (6.56%) GitLab
6 10 (5.46%) Postman
7 7 (3.83%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.28%) Cypress.io
8 6 (3.28%) git-flow
8 6 (3.28%) Jasmine
8 6 (3.28%) Mockito
8 6 (3.28%) webpack
9 5 (2.73%) Gradle
9 5 (2.73%) PHPUnit
10 4 (2.19%) Android Studio
10 4 (2.19%) Maven
10 4 (2.19%) NUnit
10 4 (2.19%) TestNG
10 4 (2.19%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (1.64%) Selenium
General
1 38 (20.77%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.66%) Public Sector
3 19 (10.38%) Banking
4 17 (9.29%) Finance
5 8 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.73%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.19%) French Language
9 3 (1.64%) Front Office
10 2 (1.09%) Advertising
10 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.09%) German Language
10 2 (1.09%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.09%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.55%) Aviation
11 1 (0.55%) Billing
11 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.55%) Marketing
11 1 (0.55%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 126 (68.85%) Developer
2 32 (17.49%) Senior
3 22 (12.02%) Senior Developer
4 20 (10.93%) .NET Developer
4 20 (10.93%) Java Developer
5 17 (9.29%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (7.65%) Software Engineer
7 13 (7.10%) Architect
7 13 (7.10%) Lead
8 11 (6.01%) Backend Developer
9 10 (5.46%) Angular Developer
10 9 (4.92%) iOS Developer
10 9 (4.92%) Python Developer
11 8 (4.37%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (4.37%) Node.js Developer
11 8 (4.37%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (3.83%) Android Developer
12 7 (3.83%) C# Developer
12 7 (3.83%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (19.67%) React
2 34 (18.58%) CSS
3 32 (17.49%) .NET
3 32 (17.49%) HTML
4 29 (15.85%) Spring
5 26 (14.21%) Node.js
6 25 (13.66%) Kafka
7 24 (13.11%) Web Services
8 23 (12.57%) JSON
9 22 (12.02%) AngularJS
10 20 (10.93%) OAuth
10 20 (10.93%) Spring Boot
11 17 (9.29%) Swagger
12 16 (8.74%) GraphQL
13 15 (8.20%) .NET Core
13 15 (8.20%) OpenAPI
13 15 (8.20%) XML
14 13 (7.10%) Redux
15 12 (6.56%) .NET Framework
16 11 (6.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.01%) Mobile App
2 10 (5.46%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.92%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.37%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 6 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.73%) e-Learning
6 5 (2.73%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.73%) VLE
7 3 (1.64%) Animation
7 3 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.09%) Derivative
8 2 (1.09%) Equities
8 2 (1.09%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.09%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.10%) Linux
2 12 (6.56%) Android
3 11 (6.01%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.28%) Unix
5 3 (1.64%) Windows
6 1 (0.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (42.62%) Microservices
2 75 (40.98%) CI/CD
3 70 (38.25%) Agile
4 48 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (22.40%) Containerisation
6 39 (21.31%) DevOps
7 37 (20.22%) Test Automation
8 36 (19.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 32 (17.49%) Clean Code
9 32 (17.49%) User Experience
10 26 (14.21%) API Development
11 24 (13.11%) Code Quality
12 23 (12.57%) Software Engineering
13 22 (12.02%) Continuous Integration
14 21 (11.48%) Event-Driven
15 20 (10.93%) Mentoring
16 19 (10.38%) API Design
16 19 (10.38%) Front End Development
16 19 (10.38%) Scrum
16 19 (10.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 58 (31.69%) Java
2 49 (26.78%) SQL
3 45 (24.59%) JavaScript
4 43 (23.50%) TypeScript
5 29 (15.85%) Python
6 28 (15.30%) C#
7 11 (6.01%) Bash
8 9 (4.92%) Kotlin
8 9 (4.92%) Objective-C
8 9 (4.92%) Swift
9 6 (3.28%) PHP
9 6 (3.28%) Scala
9 6 (3.28%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.19%) Go
11 3 (1.64%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.09%) C++
12 2 (1.09%) REXX
12 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.55%) ABAP
13 1 (0.55%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 23 (12.57%) Security Cleared
2 21 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.83%) Degree
4 6 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.19%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.55%) CAPM
7 1 (0.55%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.29%) QA
2 12 (6.56%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.64%) WCAG
4 2 (1.09%) PERC
5 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) NCSC
5 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (30.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (25.68%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.56%) Terraform
3 5 (2.73%) Grafana
3 5 (2.73%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.19%) Ansible
5 3 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.55%) Istio
6 1 (0.55%) Kibana
6 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (8.74%) Google
2 12 (6.56%) Oracle
3 7 (3.83%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.73%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.19%) IBM
5 4 (2.19%) SAP
6 3 (1.64%) Pega
7 2 (1.09%) Apple
7 2 (1.09%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.09%) New Relic
7 2 (1.09%) Okta
7 2 (1.09%) Remedy
7 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.55%) Ariba
8 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.55%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.55%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.55%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.55%) Typelevel