Hybrid/Remote RESTful Contract Job Trends

RESTful
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring RESTful skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 122 183
Rank change year-on-year -6 +61 -61
Contract jobs citing RESTful 220 228 227
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.16% 1.88% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.24% 7.64% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 161 174
10th Percentile £334 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £325 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £473 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.34% -6.44% -12.93%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £610 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £58.75 £39.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +48.73% -48.39% +13.38%

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 2,671 2,983 4,341
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.23% 24.59% 24.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 1,962 3,140
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 28 48
10th Percentile £31.00 £21.78 £40.22
25th Percentile £40.56 £32.88 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.25 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -7.55% +1.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - £89.38 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RESTful and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

RESTful job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RESTful.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RESTful

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RESTful over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

RESTful daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

RESTful
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RESTful.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RESTful

RESTful
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 9 (4.09%) CMS
2 7 (3.18%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.73%) Apache
3 6 (2.73%) Confluence
4 5 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.27%) nginx
5 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.91%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.45%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.45%) Drupal
7 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.45%) IIS
7 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.45%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (1.36%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.45%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (44.55%) AWS
2 85 (38.64%) Azure
3 42 (19.09%) GitHub
4 39 (17.73%) GCP
5 37 (16.82%) Serverless
6 22 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (5.45%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (5.45%) Azure AKS
9 11 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.09%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.64%) Azure Functions
12 7 (3.18%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (3.18%) Cloud Functions
13 6 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.73%) PaaS
13 6 (2.73%) Power Platform
14 5 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.36%) HTTP
1 3 (1.36%) SSL
2 1 (0.45%) DNS
2 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.45%) tcpdump
2 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 32 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (14.55%) Relational Database
3 20 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 14 (6.36%) MySQL
5 11 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 10 (4.55%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.73%) Big Data
9 5 (2.27%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.27%) Power BI
9 5 (2.27%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.82%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.82%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.36%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.36%) Redis
12 2 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 77 (35.00%) Git
2 42 (19.09%) Jenkins
3 31 (14.09%) GitLab
4 26 (11.82%) JUnit
5 19 (8.64%) JIRA
6 17 (7.73%) Cypress.io
7 10 (4.55%) Mockito
7 10 (4.55%) Selenium
8 9 (4.09%) Cucumber
9 8 (3.64%) JMeter
9 8 (3.64%) SonarQube
10 7 (3.18%) Liquibase
10 7 (3.18%) Postman
11 6 (2.73%) Gatling
11 6 (2.73%) Maven
11 6 (2.73%) REST Assured
12 5 (2.27%) Jasmine
12 5 (2.27%) TestNG
13 4 (1.82%) Bitbucket
13 4 (1.82%) Gradle
General
1 80 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.91%) Finance
3 34 (15.45%) Public Sector
4 29 (13.18%) Banking
5 11 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.27%) Digital Healthcare
6 5 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.36%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.91%) Automotive
9 2 (0.91%) Front Office
9 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.91%) Marketing
10 1 (0.45%) Legal
10 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.45%) Police
10 1 (0.45%) Retail
10 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 134 (60.91%) Developer
2 42 (19.09%) Senior
3 41 (18.64%) Java Developer
4 29 (13.18%) Senior Developer
5 22 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (6.82%) Architect
6 15 (6.82%) Senior Java Developer
7 12 (5.45%) Lead
7 12 (5.45%) Python Developer
7 12 (5.45%) Python Engineer
8 10 (4.55%) .NET Developer
9 9 (4.09%) Java Engineer
9 9 (4.09%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (3.64%) Software Developer
10 8 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.18%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.18%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 7 (3.18%) Lead Developer
11 7 (3.18%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (24.55%) Spring
2 51 (23.18%) React
2 51 (23.18%) Spring Boot
3 45 (20.45%) REST
4 40 (18.18%) HTML
5 36 (16.36%) AngularJS
5 36 (16.36%) CSS
6 33 (15.00%) .NET
7 32 (14.55%) Node.js
8 29 (13.18%) JSON
9 25 (11.36%) Kafka
10 19 (8.64%) Jest
11 18 (8.18%) OAuth
12 16 (7.27%) OAuth2
12 16 (7.27%) Web Services
13 15 (6.82%) .NET Framework
13 15 (6.82%) SOAP
14 14 (6.36%) CSS3
14 14 (6.36%) HTML5
15 12 (5.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.82%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.27%) Product Ownership
3 15 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.45%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.55%) Mobile App
6 9 (4.09%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.27%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.36%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.36%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.91%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.91%) Derivative
10 2 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.91%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.91%) NHS
10 2 (0.91%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.82%) Linux
2 6 (2.73%) Android
2 6 (2.73%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.82%) Unix
4 3 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.91%) Windows
6 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.45%) tvOS
6 1 (0.45%) watchOS
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (59.55%) CI/CD
2 125 (56.82%) Agile
3 113 (51.36%) Microservices
4 94 (42.73%) DevOps
5 82 (37.27%) Containerisation
6 64 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (20.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 41 (18.64%) Clean Code
9 38 (17.27%) Scrum
9 38 (17.27%) Test Automation
10 34 (15.45%) API Development
11 32 (14.55%) User Experience
12 30 (13.64%) Code Quality
12 30 (13.64%) Front End Development
13 28 (12.73%) TDD
14 27 (12.27%) Software Engineering
15 26 (11.82%) AI
15 26 (11.82%) API Design
15 26 (11.82%) Event-Driven
16 24 (10.91%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 92 (41.82%) Java
2 58 (26.36%) Python
3 53 (24.09%) JavaScript
4 52 (23.64%) SQL
5 37 (16.82%) TypeScript
6 30 (13.64%) C#
7 8 (3.64%) Go
8 7 (3.18%) Ruby
9 6 (2.73%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.27%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.82%) Swift
12 3 (1.36%) JSX
12 3 (1.36%) Perl
12 3 (1.36%) PHP
12 3 (1.36%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.36%) Scala
13 2 (0.91%) ABAP
13 2 (0.91%) Dart
13 2 (0.91%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.00%) Degree
4 18 (8.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.18%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.82%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.91%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.91%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.45%) QA
2 21 (9.55%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.27%) GDPR
3 5 (2.27%) WCAG
4 3 (1.36%) COBIT
5 2 (0.91%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) PSD2
6 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 96 (43.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 82 (37.27%) Kubernetes
2 30 (13.64%) Terraform
3 11 (5.00%) Ansible
4 9 (4.09%) Grafana
5 8 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.45%) Demisto
6 1 (0.45%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.45%) Kibana
6 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.45%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 20 (9.09%) Google
1 20 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.55%) Oracle
3 7 (3.18%) Databricks
3 7 (3.18%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.73%) Pega
4 6 (2.73%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.73%) Splunk
5 4 (1.82%) SAP
6 3 (1.36%) Workday
7 2 (0.91%) Apple
7 2 (0.91%) Gigya
7 2 (0.91%) IBM
7 2 (0.91%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.91%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.45%) mParticle
8 1 (0.45%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.45%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.45%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.45%) UiPath