RESTful Contract Job Trends in Dorset

RESTful
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring RESTful skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - -15
Contract jobs citing RESTful 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 6.06% - 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.00% - 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £361
25th Percentile - - £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £364
Median % change year-on-year - - -44.00%
75th Percentile - - £416
90th Percentile - - £448
South West median daily rate £488 £450 £461
% change year-on-year +8.33% -2.44% -8.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Dorset

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 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 25.25% 22.81% 8.00%
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% -

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in Dorset

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing RESTful

RESTful
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 RESTful within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 13 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 - 4 £500 - 2
RESTful
South West

RESTful
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 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) Code Climate
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Java Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) OAuth
1 5 (83.33%) OAuth2
2 4 (66.67%) Middleware
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
2 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Security
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Compact Framework
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) Hugging Face
3 1 (16.67%) OpenID
3 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 4 (66.67%) MVC
1 4 (66.67%) Scrum
1 4 (66.67%) User Stories
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Android Development
4 1 (16.67%) API Design
4 1 (16.67%) API Development
4 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) SOLID
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) OpenAI
1 1 (16.67%) Xamarin