REST Contracts in Croydon

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 24 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +14
Contract jobs citing REST 8 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 9.76% 8.06% 6.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.62% 28.57% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile - £410 £451
25th Percentile - £425 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +4.71% -6.83%
75th Percentile £507 £525 £500
90th Percentile £582 £659 -
South London median daily rate £380 £481 £455
% change year-on-year -21.04% +5.77% -27.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 37 35 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 45.12% 28.23% 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 28
10th Percentile £429 £409 £450
25th Percentile £463 £444 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +4.62% -18.75%
75th Percentile £635 £544 £500
90th Percentile £732 £595 £632
South London median daily rate £600 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% +2.00% -16.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Croydon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for REST in Croydon

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Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Croydon over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Croydon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
4 3 (37.50%) Serverless
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
6 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (12.50%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (75.00%) Git
3 5 (62.50%) JUnit
3 5 (62.50%) Mockito
4 3 (37.50%) Maven
4 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
5 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (25.00%) JIRA
5 2 (25.00%) JMeter
5 2 (25.00%) Postman
5 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
5 2 (25.00%) Selenium
6 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (12.50%) DbUnit
6 1 (12.50%) jMock
6 1 (12.50%) Storybook
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Java Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Spring
2 5 (62.50%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (62.50%) Spring Boot
3 4 (50.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
4 3 (37.50%) Bootstrap
4 3 (37.50%) JPA
4 3 (37.50%) SOAP
4 3 (37.50%) Spring Cloud
4 3 (37.50%) Web Services
5 2 (25.00%) Apache Camel
5 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 2 (25.00%) jQuery
5 2 (25.00%) JSON
5 2 (25.00%) WireMock
5 2 (25.00%) XML
6 1 (12.50%) Node.js
6 1 (12.50%) RESTful
6 1 (12.50%) Spring Batch
6 1 (12.50%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) Microservices
1 6 (75.00%) TDD
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) BDD
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) API Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Process Management
4 2 (25.00%) SDET
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Workflow
5 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
2 2 (25.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Jaspersoft