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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 70 114
Rank change year-on-year -33 +44 -15
Contract jobs citing RESTful 10 29 9
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.69% 2.09% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.58% 10.43% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 2
10th Percentile £409 £390 -
25th Percentile £420 £395 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £405 £400
Median % change year-on-year +17.28% +1.25% -13.51%
75th Percentile £493 £409 -
90th Percentile £551 £480 -
South East median daily rate £475 £409 £560
% change year-on-year +16.14% -26.96% +1.82%

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 279 278 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.18% 20.04% 15.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 185 121
10th Percentile £363 £385 £315
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £648 £670 £675
South East median daily rate £483 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.98% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile - £32.14 £55.16
25th Percentile - £38.72 £56.06
Median hourly rate £81.00 £50.87 £88.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.22% -42.52% +16.83%
75th Percentile £81.25 £63.46 £90.25
90th Percentile £81.70 £70.31 -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% -10.71% +7.69%

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 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 9 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
Reading -1 5 £425 +3.91% 3
Windsor -5 3 £475 +5.56%
Wokingham -28 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 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (10.00%) Drupal
2 1 (10.00%) nginx
2 1 (10.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (10.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Serverless
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Datadog
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Postman
1 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Mocha
General
1 2 (20.00%) Billing
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Swagger
2 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) OpenAPI
3 3 (30.00%) JSON
3 3 (30.00%) SOAP
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (20.00%) Node.js
4 2 (20.00%) OAuth
4 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
4 2 (20.00%) WSDL
4 2 (20.00%) XSLT
5 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (10.00%) Jest
5 1 (10.00%) React
5 1 (10.00%) Spring
5 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (10.00%) Vue
5 1 (10.00%) Web Services
5 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) TM Forum
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Microservices
2 4 (40.00%) API Design
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) API Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) CRM
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (10.00%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C#
1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) Pega
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk