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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 71 115
Rank change year-on-year -31 +44 -19
Contract jobs citing RESTful 7 25 10
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.45% 1.89% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.37% 9.73% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 2
10th Percentile £433 £390 -
25th Percentile £463 £393 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £405 £400
Median % change year-on-year +17.36% +1.19% -13.51%
75th Percentile £511 £409 -
90th Percentile £591 £421 -
South East median daily rate £500 £409 £525
% change year-on-year +22.25% -22.10% -2.78%

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 295 257 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.02% 19.40% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 170 137
10th Percentile £363 £382 £314
25th Percentile £413 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.61% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £608
90th Percentile £648 £663 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.31% -6.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 13
10th Percentile - £72.18 £56.53
25th Percentile - £73.01 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £75.22 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +22.11% -22.03%
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
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in Berkshire over the 6 months to 30 January 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 30 January 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 0 3 £475 +5.56%
Reading -6 2 £535 +31.44% 2
Wokingham -25 2 £508 +1.50% 1
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 1 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) Drupal
1 1 (14.29%) nginx
1 1 (14.29%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Serverless
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Azure API Management
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Storage
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Postman
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Billing
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Swagger
2 3 (42.86%) JSON
2 3 (42.86%) OpenAPI
2 3 (42.86%) SOAP
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
3 2 (28.57%) WSDL
3 2 (28.57%) XSLT
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) Node.js
4 1 (14.29%) OAuth
4 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
4 1 (14.29%) React
4 1 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) Spring
4 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 1 (14.29%) Vue
4 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) TM Forum
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) API Design
1 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) CRM
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) OOD
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Pega
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce