REST Contract Job Trends in Bedford

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedford requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing REST 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedford 13.04% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £625 - £485
% change year-on-year - - -25.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bedford

REST 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 in Bedford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford 13.04% - 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

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

REST job vacancy trend in Bedford

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Bedford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing REST

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
1 2 (66.67%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (33.33%) NETCONF
2 1 (33.33%) RESTCONF
2 1 (33.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) B2B
2 2 (66.67%) B2C
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) MLOps
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Foundry
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) OpenAI