REST Contracts in Berkshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST 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 52 74 48
Rank change year-on-year +22 -26 +37
Contract jobs citing REST 41 50 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.50% 2.52% 4.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.73% 16.72% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 51
10th Percentile £350 £523 £425
25th Percentile £400 £561 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% -1.41%
75th Percentile £515 £688 £594
90th Percentile £567 £714 £623
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £549
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.27% -0.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 245 299 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 20.89% 15.07% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 179 238
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £636
90th Percentile £651 £675 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 8
10th Percentile £39.64 £56.56 £52.90
25th Percentile £53.72 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +20.23%
75th Percentile £84.85 - £80.25
90th Percentile £89.44 £61.84 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for REST in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for REST in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Reading +6 20 £350 -46.15% 33
Wokingham - 7 £523 -
Windsor - 3 £483 -
Bracknell - 2 £595 -
REST
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (2.44%) Confluence
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (51.22%) AWS
2 20 (48.78%) Azure
3 6 (14.63%) SaaS
4 3 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (7.32%) PaaS
4 3 (7.32%) Serverless
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
5 2 (4.88%) Azure App Service
5 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.88%) OCI
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub
6 1 (2.44%) IaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.63%) HTTP
2 2 (4.88%) MQTT
2 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.44%) BGP
3 1 (2.44%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.44%) MPLS
3 1 (2.44%) SSL
3 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (14.63%) Data Lake
2 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.76%) MySQL
3 4 (9.76%) RDBMS
4 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.44%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 16 (39.02%) Jenkins
2 15 (36.59%) JIRA
3 14 (34.15%) GitLab
4 13 (31.71%) Cucumber
4 13 (31.71%) REST Assured
4 13 (31.71%) Selenium
5 10 (24.39%) SonarQube
6 3 (7.32%) JUnit
6 3 (7.32%) Mockito
7 2 (4.88%) Git
7 2 (4.88%) JMeter
8 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (2.44%) DbUnit
8 1 (2.44%) jMock
8 1 (2.44%) Maven
General
1 18 (43.90%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Law
3 8 (19.51%) Telecoms
4 5 (12.20%) Billing
5 4 (9.76%) Police
5 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Developer
2 9 (21.95%) Java Developer
2 9 (21.95%) Java Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Java Software Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Software Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Architect
4 6 (14.63%) SIEM Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Designer
5 5 (12.20%) Solutions Designer
6 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Senior
7 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow Architect
7 3 (7.32%) Telecoms Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.88%) React Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (36.59%) JSON
2 14 (34.15%) Web Services
3 13 (31.71%) Java EE
4 10 (24.39%) ARM Templates
4 10 (24.39%) SOAP
5 9 (21.95%) XML
6 6 (14.63%) HTML
7 4 (9.76%) Ajax
7 4 (9.76%) CSS
7 4 (9.76%) OAuth
8 3 (7.32%) .NET
8 3 (7.32%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (7.32%) Hibernate
8 3 (7.32%) Node.js
8 3 (7.32%) React
8 3 (7.32%) Spring
8 3 (7.32%) Spring Boot
9 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
9 2 (4.88%) GraphQL
9 2 (4.88%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) CSOC
1 6 (14.63%) Onboarding
2 5 (12.20%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (12.20%) Frameworx
2 5 (12.20%) TM Forum
3 4 (9.76%) CMDB
3 4 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.88%) Infotainment
4 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.44%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) CentOS
2 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) Technical Leadership
2 17 (41.46%) Configuration Management
2 17 (41.46%) DevOps
3 16 (39.02%) Agile
4 15 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (36.59%) Test Automation
5 14 (34.15%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (34.15%) Software Engineering
6 13 (31.71%) Software Architecture
7 12 (29.27%) Containerisation
8 10 (24.39%) Decision-Making
8 10 (24.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (21.95%) Process Improvement
10 8 (19.51%) Microservices
11 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
12 6 (14.63%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (14.63%) Incident Response
12 6 (14.63%) Security Operations
12 6 (14.63%) SIEM
12 6 (14.63%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (43.90%) Java
2 6 (14.63%) Python
2 6 (14.63%) SQL
3 3 (7.32%) C#
3 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.88%) Bicep
4 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 14 (34.15%) SC Cleared
3 6 (14.63%) GIAC
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.44%) Degree
4 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.44%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 13 (31.71%) Kubernetes
2 12 (29.27%) Terraform
3 9 (21.95%) Ansible
3 9 (21.95%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (21.95%) Podman
4 2 (4.88%) Kibana
4 2 (4.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) ServiceNow
2 5 (12.20%) Salesforce
3 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle
4 2 (4.88%) Splunk
5 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco
5 1 (2.44%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.44%) Snow