REST Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - -14
Contract jobs citing REST 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 7.14% - 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.00% - 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £270 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £493 - £575
90th Percentile £502 - -
South West median daily rate £528 £542 £575
% change year-on-year -2.59% -5.83% +9.52%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 25 26 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 25.51% 22.81% 8.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 18
10th Percentile £270 £400 £372
25th Percentile £363 £460 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £524
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -9.31% -0.24%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £738
90th Percentile - - £750
South West median daily rate £524 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.73% +4.76% -

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

REST job vacancy trend in Dorset

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Dorset over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Dorset

REST
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing REST

REST
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Bournemouth - 5 £270 -
REST
South West

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (28.57%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) CockroachDB
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) NUnit
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Django Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Python/Django Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) Django
2 2 (28.57%) OAuth
2 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
2 2 (28.57%) React
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Compact Framework
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) OpenID
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) SOLID
3 3 (42.86%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) API Design
4 2 (28.57%) Build Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Android Development
5 1 (14.29%) API Development
5 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Xamarin