REST Contracts in the East of England

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 94 91
Rank change year-on-year +26 -3 0
Contract jobs citing REST 14 18 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.49% 0.94% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.40% 6.25% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 25
10th Percentile £427 - £327
25th Percentile £446 £363 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £556 £488 £530
90th Percentile £613 £518 £553
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £74.44 £53.87
% change year-on-year -26.11% +38.18% +8.28%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 149 288 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.88% 15.09% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 148 165
10th Percentile £336 £325 £327
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £499 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -4.09% +4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £630
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 57 23
10th Percentile £65.00 - £21.00
25th Percentile £66.25 - £21.75
Median hourly rate £80.68 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.62% -33.85% +32.65%
75th Percentile £81.35 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.10 £66.25 £74.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for REST in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for REST in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hertfordshire +23 8 £490 +22.50% 14
Cambridgeshire +10 4 £488 +2.63% 21
Essex - 2 £468 - 22
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Power Automate
1 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
1 3 (21.43%) PowerApps
2 1 (7.14%) Boomi
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) Wireless
2 2 (14.29%) 3GPP
2 2 (14.29%) 4G
2 2 (14.29%) 5G
3 1 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) InfluxDB
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Backend Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Business Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Automation Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Angular Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Programmer
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) RESTful
2 3 (21.43%) HTML
3 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
3 2 (14.29%) Swagger
4 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.14%) Express.js
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) NgRx
4 1 (7.14%) Playwright
4 1 (7.14%) RxJS
4 1 (7.14%) SOAP
4 1 (7.14%) Spring
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 5 (35.71%) TDD
2 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) OO
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) API Development
5 2 (14.29%) Asynchronous Programming
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Prototyping
6 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Front End Development
6 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (7.14%) Product Strategy
6 1 (7.14%) UX Design
6 1 (7.14%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) C++
4 2 (14.29%) Go
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes