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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 83 115
Rank change year-on-year -15 +32 -12
Contract jobs citing RESTful 15 9 5
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.84% 0.80% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.45% 3.72% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 2
10th Percentile - £378 -
25th Percentile £349 £441 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +25.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £550 £559 -
90th Percentile £615 £588 -
South East median daily rate £525 £498 £450
% change year-on-year +5.53% +10.56% -1.10%

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 275 242 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.44% 21.63% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 166 190
10th Percentile £351 £350 £325
25th Percentile £403 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £624
90th Percentile £688 £656 £652
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 18
10th Percentile £53.08 £30.87 £56.61
25th Percentile £70.67 £31.80 £56.65
Median hourly rate £79.91 £54.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +45.95% -11.12% -21.78%
75th Percentile £82.37 £81.02 -
90th Percentile £85.72 £87.91 £61.72
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £54.94 £61.60
% change year-on-year +9.22% -10.82% -8.74%

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 4 June 2026.

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 4 June 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
Wokingham -15 8 £358 -33.49%
Reading -21 6 £538 +18.13% 4
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 3 (20.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Storage
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
1 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (20.00%) GIS
3 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (6.67%) MySQL
4 1 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) JMeter
2 1 (6.67%) LoadRunner
2 1 (6.67%) NeoLoad
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Python Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) GIS Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Integration Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (13.33%) React Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Android Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) iOS Android Developer
5 1 (6.67%) iOS Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) FastAPI
2 7 (46.67%) Flask
3 6 (40.00%) Django
3 6 (40.00%) NumPy
3 6 (40.00%) OpenAPI
3 6 (40.00%) Pandas
3 6 (40.00%) Swagger
4 5 (33.33%) Kafka
4 5 (33.33%) pytest
4 5 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (13.33%) Jinja
5 2 (13.33%) OAuth
5 2 (13.33%) React
5 2 (13.33%) REST
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
6 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
6 1 (6.67%) JSON
6 1 (6.67%) Node.js
6 1 (6.67%) OpenID
6 1 (6.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 6 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Life Science
4 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Analytics
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 6 (40.00%) OOP
2 6 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (40.00%) TDD
3 5 (33.33%) Data Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) API Development
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (20.00%) Webhook
6 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (6.67%) Emotional Intelligence
7 1 (6.67%) Product Requirements
7 1 (6.67%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) Groovy
3 1 (6.67%) Objective-C
3 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle
1 1 (6.67%) Parasoft