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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 77 120
Rank change year-on-year -2 +43 -12
Contract jobs citing RESTful 18 28 3
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.43% 1.72% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.52% 8.19% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 0
10th Percentile £405 £390 -
25th Percentile £449 £395 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £409 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.47% - -
75th Percentile £600 £580 -
90th Percentile - £598 -
South East median daily rate £488 £450 £561
% change year-on-year +8.33% -19.73% +1.93%

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 276 342 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.87% 21.06% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 223 151
10th Percentile £324 £382 £305
25th Percentile £413 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £638 £653 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - £45.09 £35.70
25th Percentile - £59.13 £54.94
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £72.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% -14.78% +5.33%
75th Percentile - - £90.25
90th Percentile - £66.91 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £58.59
% change year-on-year -20.00% +6.67% -9.86%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 +24 10 £550 +34.47% 8
Wokingham -13 4 £575 -
Windsor -5 2 £550 +22.22%
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 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (5.56%) Drupal
2 1 (5.56%) nginx
2 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.56%) Umbraco
2 1 (5.56%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) GitHub
3 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (27.78%) GCP
4 5 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (27.78%) Serverless
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (11.11%) Azure API Management
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Storage
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.56%) PaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MySQL
1 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (11.11%) Maven
2 2 (11.11%) Postman
3 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (5.56%) DbUnit
3 1 (5.56%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Gradle
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) jMock
3 1 (5.56%) JUnit
3 1 (5.56%) Mocha
3 1 (5.56%) Mockito
3 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Cloud Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Python Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) React Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.56%) HTML Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Web Developer
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (5.56%) JSP Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Umbraco Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) .NET
1 5 (27.78%) SOAP
2 4 (22.22%) FastAPI
3 3 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 3 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 3 (16.67%) HTML
3 3 (16.67%) JSON
3 3 (16.67%) React
3 3 (16.67%) REST
3 3 (16.67%) Spring
3 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (16.67%) Swagger
4 2 (11.11%) Entity Framework
4 2 (11.11%) jQuery
4 2 (11.11%) Node.js
4 2 (11.11%) OAuth
4 2 (11.11%) Web Services
4 2 (11.11%) WSDL
4 2 (11.11%) XML
4 2 (11.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) DevOps
2 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (44.44%) Agile
4 6 (33.33%) Microservices
5 5 (27.78%) Design Patterns
6 4 (22.22%) AI
6 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 4 (22.22%) CQRS
6 4 (22.22%) Generative AI
7 3 (16.67%) API Design
7 3 (16.67%) OO
7 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (16.67%) User Experience
8 2 (11.11%) API Testing
8 2 (11.11%) Design Thinking
8 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
8 2 (11.11%) High Availability
8 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (11.11%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) C#
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Apex Code
5 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.56%) SOQL
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 2 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Databricks
1 4 (22.22%) Virgin Media
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Pega
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) Splunk