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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 71 117
Rank change year-on-year -38 +46 -25
Contract jobs citing RESTful 5 26 10
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.32% 1.99% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.73% 9.92% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 2
10th Percentile £466 £390 -
25th Percentile £472 £395 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £405 £400
Median % change year-on-year +21.30% +1.25% -13.51%
75th Percentile £527 £409 -
90th Percentile £556 £451 -
South East median daily rate £475 £409 £470
% change year-on-year +16.14% -12.98% -11.32%

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 289 262 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.69% 20.03% 15.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 173 141
10th Percentile £363 £383 £315
25th Percentile £413 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £608
90th Percentile £648 £661 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £543 £513
% change year-on-year -7.83% +5.75% -6.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 14
10th Percentile - £72.18 £56.50
25th Percentile - £73.01 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £75.22 £59.95
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +25.47% -23.87%
75th Percentile £81.25 £76.61 £62.00
90th Percentile £81.70 £76.96 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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
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 2 February 2026. 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
Windsor -1 2 £475 +5.56%
Wokingham -29 2 £508 +1.50% 2
Reading -9 1 £550 +34.47% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Storage
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Billing
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) iOS Android Developer
3 1 (20.00%) iOS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (20.00%) React Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Swagger
2 3 (60.00%) OpenAPI
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) SOAP
3 2 (40.00%) WSDL
3 2 (40.00%) XSLT
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (20.00%) Node.js
4 1 (20.00%) React
4 1 (20.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) TM Forum
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) API Design
1 2 (40.00%) API Testing
1 2 (40.00%) CRM
1 2 (40.00%) Microservices
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Emotional Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (20.00%) Order Management
2 1 (20.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
2 1 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce