RESTful Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

RESTful
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring RESTful skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 78 117
Rank change year-on-year -19 +39 -14
Contract jobs citing RESTful 16 34 7
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.12% 2.13% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.65% 10.27% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 0
10th Percentile £403 £390 -
25th Percentile £423 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £409 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.14% - -
75th Percentile £600 £548 -
90th Percentile - £593 -
South East median daily rate £463 £411 £575
% change year-on-year +12.60% -28.57% +4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

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 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 283 331 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.89% 20.69% 15.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 221 140
10th Percentile £363 £383 £308
25th Percentile £413 £430 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £602
90th Percentile £626 £663 £675
South East median daily rate £480 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile - £33.53 £35.70
25th Percentile - £42.20 £54.94
Median hourly rate £81.00 £58.30 £72.28
Median % change year-on-year +38.94% -19.34% -4.58%
75th Percentile - £67.41 £90.25
90th Percentile - £71.88 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -2.09%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in Berkshire

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing RESTful.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing RESTful

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in Berkshire over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in Berkshire

RESTful
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing RESTful.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing RESTful

RESTful
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 RESTful within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 9 December 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 +3 9 £600 +46.70% 2
Windsor -2 3 £475 +5.56%
Wokingham -22 2 £508 -
RESTful
South East

RESTful
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (12.50%) CMS
2 1 (6.25%) Drupal
2 1 (6.25%) nginx
2 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.25%) Umbraco
2 1 (6.25%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) GitHub
3 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) GCP
3 5 (31.25%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (31.25%) Serverless
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Functions
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (12.50%) Azure API Management
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Storage
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.25%) Datadog
6 1 (6.25%) PaaS
6 1 (6.25%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Postman
1 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.25%) Eclipse
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Gradle
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Maven
2 1 (6.25%) Mocha
General
1 2 (12.50%) Billing
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.25%) HTML CSS Developer
4 1 (6.25%) HTML Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Web Developer
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (6.25%) JSP Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) .NET
1 5 (31.25%) Swagger
2 4 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 4 (25.00%) JSON
2 4 (25.00%) OpenAPI
3 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
3 3 (18.75%) SOAP
4 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
4 2 (12.50%) Entity Framework
4 2 (12.50%) HTML
4 2 (12.50%) Node.js
4 2 (12.50%) OAuth
4 2 (12.50%) OAuth2
4 2 (12.50%) REST
4 2 (12.50%) WSDL
4 2 (12.50%) XSLT
5 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
5 1 (6.25%) OpenID
5 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) TM Forum
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Microservices
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Design Patterns
5 4 (25.00%) AI
5 4 (25.00%) API Design
5 4 (25.00%) CQRS
5 4 (25.00%) Generative AI
6 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 2 (12.50%) API Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Application Security
7 2 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (12.50%) High Availability
7 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) C#
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Databricks
1 4 (25.00%) Virgin Media
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Pega
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk