RESTful Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

RESTful
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring RESTful skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 36 47
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing RESTful 11 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.08% 2.51% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.64% 17.19% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £213 £262 £420
25th Percentile £256 £280 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £300 £469
Median % change year-on-year +25.83% -36.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £590 - £506
90th Percentile £672 - £516
East of England median daily rate £425 £300 £481
% change year-on-year +41.67% -37.66% -20.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.55 - -
Median hourly rate £54.70 - -
75th Percentile £55.85 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £54.70 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 59 64 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 16.53% 14.61% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 32 31
10th Percentile £322 £300 £413
25th Percentile £355 £340 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -11.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £559
90th Percentile £670 £631 £613
East of England median daily rate £500 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.34%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £16.50
90th Percentile £49.80 - -
East of England median hourly rate £63.50 £43.00 £56.53
% change year-on-year +47.67% -23.93% -13.36%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in Cambridgeshire

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing RESTful

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in Cambridgeshire

RESTful
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing RESTful

RESTful
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 RESTful within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Cambridge +1 11 £378 +25.83% 21
RESTful
East of England

RESTful
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Functions
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
2 4 (36.36%) Serverless
3 3 (27.27%) Azure AKS
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (18.18%) PaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) Appium
2 1 (9.09%) Gatling
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) JMeter
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) TestNG
General
1 3 (27.27%) Multimedia
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Wearables
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Angular Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Science Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) FastAPI
2 3 (27.27%) PyTorch
2 3 (27.27%) React
2 3 (27.27%) Semantic Kernel
2 3 (27.27%) TensorFlow
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
3 1 (9.09%) Express.js
3 1 (9.09%) NgRx
3 1 (9.09%) Pandas
3 1 (9.09%) Playwright
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) RxJS
3 1 (9.09%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Algorithms
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (9.09%) Smartphone
3 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) Validation
3 5 (45.45%) Data Collection
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Inertial Measurement
4 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) API Management
5 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (27.27%) Data Privacy
5 3 (27.27%) Data Science
5 3 (27.27%) Deep Learning
5 3 (27.27%) LLM
5 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
5 3 (27.27%) Prompt Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Shell Script
3 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) C#
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) Bourne shell
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) MCP
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) EU AI Act
1 3 (27.27%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Foundry
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft