REST Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 47 55
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing REST 5 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.26% 1.05% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.93% 8.70% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £409 - £499
25th Percentile £413 £535 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £685
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -19.71% +24.55%
75th Percentile £525 £620 £709
90th Percentile £600 £653 £713
South East median daily rate £438 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -18.18% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Buckinghamshire

REST 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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 56 46 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 14.14% 12.07% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 33 86
10th Percentile £316 £408 £354
25th Percentile £363 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £537
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +2.42% -2.36%
75th Percentile £534 £630 £643
90th Percentile £575 £675 £733
South East median daily rate £476 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -6.00%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

REST job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Buckinghamshire

REST
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing REST.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing REST

REST
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 2 December 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
Milton Keynes 0 5 £438 -20.45% 9
REST
South East

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (60.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) OCI
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database 12c
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle ODI
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) SOAP
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (60.00%) ERP
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft