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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 76 46
Rank change year-on-year +28 -30 +36
Contract jobs citing REST 42 46 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.60% 2.41% 4.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.65% 16.31% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 47
10th Percentile £350 £500 £425
25th Percentile £400 £538 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £519 £688 £575
90th Percentile £561 £713 £623
South East median daily rate £500 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -3.08%

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 238 282 313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 20.41% 14.76% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 185 228
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £702
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 8
10th Percentile £39.64 £56.59 £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% +52.67%
75th Percentile £84.85 - £80.25
90th Percentile £89.44 £61.76 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% -12.00% +100.00%

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 20 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 20 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 +10 21 £350 -46.15% 25
Wokingham - 7 £523 - 2
Windsor - 3 £483 - 4
Bracknell - 2 £595 - 2
REST
South East

REST
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 (2.38%) Confluence
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (50.00%) AWS
1 21 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (14.29%) SaaS
3 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (7.14%) Azure AKS
3 3 (7.14%) Azure App Service
3 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.14%) OCI
3 3 (7.14%) PaaS
3 3 (7.14%) Serverless
4 2 (4.76%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.38%) AWS KMS
5 1 (2.38%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) HTTP
2 2 (4.76%) MQTT
2 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.38%) SMS
3 1 (2.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 6 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.52%) MySQL
3 4 (9.52%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.38%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 16 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 14 (33.33%) JIRA
3 13 (30.95%) Cucumber
3 13 (30.95%) GitLab
3 13 (30.95%) REST Assured
3 13 (30.95%) Selenium
4 10 (23.81%) SonarQube
5 3 (7.14%) JUnit
5 3 (7.14%) Mockito
6 2 (4.76%) Git
6 2 (4.76%) JMeter
7 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (2.38%) DbUnit
7 1 (2.38%) jMock
7 1 (2.38%) Maven
General
1 18 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Law
3 8 (19.05%) Telecoms
4 5 (11.90%) Billing
5 4 (9.52%) Police
5 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.76%) Automotive
7 1 (2.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Developer
2 9 (21.43%) Java Developer
2 9 (21.43%) Java Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) Java Software Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Architect
4 6 (14.29%) SIEM Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Designer
5 5 (11.90%) Solutions Designer
6 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) AWS Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior
7 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow Architect
7 3 (7.14%) Telecoms Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.76%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (35.71%) Web Services
2 14 (33.33%) JSON
3 13 (30.95%) Java EE
4 10 (23.81%) ARM Templates
4 10 (23.81%) SOAP
5 8 (19.05%) XML
6 6 (14.29%) HTML
7 4 (9.52%) Ajax
7 4 (9.52%) CSS
7 4 (9.52%) OAuth
8 3 (7.14%) .NET
8 3 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (7.14%) GraphQL
8 3 (7.14%) Hibernate
8 3 (7.14%) Node.js
8 3 (7.14%) React
8 3 (7.14%) Spring
8 3 (7.14%) Spring Boot
9 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
9 2 (4.76%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) CSOC
1 6 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 5 (11.90%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (11.90%) Frameworx
2 5 (11.90%) TM Forum
3 4 (9.52%) CMDB
3 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Infotainment
4 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.38%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Technical Leadership
2 18 (42.86%) DevOps
3 17 (40.48%) Configuration Management
4 15 (35.71%) Agile
4 15 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (35.71%) Test Automation
5 14 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 13 (30.95%) Software Architecture
7 12 (28.57%) Containerisation
8 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (23.81%) Decision-Making
10 9 (21.43%) Process Improvement
11 8 (19.05%) Microservices
12 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
13 6 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
13 6 (14.29%) Incident Response
13 6 (14.29%) Security Operations
13 6 (14.29%) SIEM
13 6 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (42.86%) Java
2 6 (14.29%) Python
3 5 (11.90%) SQL
4 3 (7.14%) Bicep
4 3 (7.14%) C#
4 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 14 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (14.29%) GIAC
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) HL7
2 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.38%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Kubernetes
1 13 (30.95%) Terraform
2 9 (21.43%) Ansible
2 9 (21.43%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (21.43%) Podman
3 2 (4.76%) Kibana
3 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) ServiceNow
2 5 (11.90%) Salesforce
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle
5 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.76%) Splunk
6 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.38%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (2.38%) Snow