REST Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing REST 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 2.68% - 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.08% - 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile - - £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £485
75th Percentile £638 - £500
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £548 £420 £488
% change year-on-year +30.36% -13.85% -11.36%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 26 12 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 11.61% 7.23% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 19
10th Percentile £350 £382 £313
25th Percentile £416 £459 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £631 £597 £516
90th Percentile £675 £749 £550
East of England median daily rate £500 £406 £500
% change year-on-year +23.08% -18.75% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -1.15% +17.12% -14.62%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

REST job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Bedfordshire

REST
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Bedford - 2 £625 - 1
Luton - 1 £425 -
REST
East of England

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 2 (33.33%) Anypoint
1 2 (33.33%) Mule
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP MDG
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure AI
1 2 (33.33%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (33.33%) JWT
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) MUnit
2 2 (33.33%) OAuth
2 2 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 2 (33.33%) scikit-learn
2 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) EDI
3 1 (16.67%) IDoc
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) NETCONF
3 1 (16.67%) RESTCONF
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Life Science
1 1 (16.67%) LIMS
1 1 (16.67%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) API Development
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) API Design
3 2 (33.33%) B2B
3 2 (33.33%) B2C
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) OO
3 2 (33.33%) OOD
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) DataWeave
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCIE
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 1 (16.67%) GxP
1 1 (16.67%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) CloudHub
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Foundry
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) MuleSoft
1 2 (33.33%) OpenAI
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) SAP