REST Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 39 29
Rank change year-on-year +22 -10 +5
Contract jobs citing REST 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 7.00% 0.54% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.33% 1.72% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.15%
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £650 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +19.15%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21 58 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 21.00% 31.35% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 28 28
10th Percentile £463 £525 £287
25th Percentile £500 £547 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £700
90th Percentile £750 £702 £749
Gloucestershire median daily rate £588 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.21%
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -2.86% +43.68% -35.04%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

REST job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing REST

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 7 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 7 (100.00%) Flask
1 7 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 7 (100.00%) gRPC
1 7 (100.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Go
1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft