REST Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 38 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing REST 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.55% 0.36% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.85% 1.96% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £646 - -
25th Percentile £659 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% - -
75th Percentile £722 £613 -
90th Percentile £724 - -
East of England median daily rate £625 £479 £475
% change year-on-year +30.55% +0.79% -5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 52 51 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 14.25% 18.55% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 36 50
10th Percentile £363 £403 £325
25th Percentile £410 £415 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £462 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.09% -7.60% -3.61%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £582
90th Percentile £630 £659 £702
East of England median daily rate £550 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £30.97 - £50.10
25th Percentile £32.69 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £37.25 - £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.76%
75th Percentile £41.36 - £75.00
90th Percentile £42.79 - £79.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.53
% change year-on-year -10.34% +30.56% -15.22%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

REST job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing REST

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing REST

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 10 March 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
Cambridge -6 1 £725 +26.09% 1
Peterborough - 1 £675 - 3
REST
East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Blazor
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Next.js
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Virgin Media