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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 79 92
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 +6
Contract jobs citing REST 25 25 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.00% 1.49% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.85% 9.54% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 19
10th Percentile £425 £363 £443
25th Percentile £456 £393 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -16.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £548 £488 £533
90th Percentile £613 £500 £553
England median daily rate £500 £524 £550
% change year-on-year -4.53% -4.77% -4.35%

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 211 262 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.89% 15.60% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 121 157
10th Percentile £338 £310 £331
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £514
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -9.53% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £650
90th Percentile £677 £650 £700
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 62 12
10th Percentile £34.10 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -26.81% +6.82%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £70.94
90th Percentile £81.35 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% +12.61%

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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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +13 10 £490 +30.67% 13
Norfolk - 7 £545 - 3
Cambridgeshire -5 4 £488 +16.07% 10
Bedfordshire -4 3 £500 +26.58%
Essex - 1 £468 - 10
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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 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.00%) Anypoint
2 2 (8.00%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SAP MDG
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (4.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) AWS
1 3 (12.00%) IaaS
1 3 (12.00%) PaaS
1 3 (12.00%) Power Automate
1 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (12.00%) PowerApps
1 3 (12.00%) SaaS
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.00%) GCP
2 1 (4.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) Wireless
2 2 (8.00%) 3GPP
2 2 (8.00%) 4G
2 2 (8.00%) 5G
3 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (12.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.00%) InfluxDB
2 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.00%) PowerCenter
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
1 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Backend Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Python Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Technical Leader
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Business Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Test Automation Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Workday Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Linux Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) SOAP
2 6 (24.00%) RESTful
3 4 (16.00%) Web Services
4 3 (12.00%) HTML
4 3 (12.00%) OAuth
5 2 (8.00%) JWT
5 2 (8.00%) Kafka
5 2 (8.00%) MUnit
5 2 (8.00%) OpenAPI
5 2 (8.00%) Swagger
6 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.00%) Django
6 1 (4.00%) Express.js
6 1 (4.00%) IDoc
6 1 (4.00%) NgRx
6 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
6 1 (4.00%) Playwright
6 1 (4.00%) React
6 1 (4.00%) RxJS
6 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.00%) Life Science
2 1 (4.00%) LIMS
2 1 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) OO
2 8 (32.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
3 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (24.00%) API Development
5 5 (20.00%) OOP
5 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) TDD
6 4 (16.00%) DevOps
6 4 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (12.00%) Analytics
7 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (12.00%) Data Analysis
7 3 (12.00%) ETL
7 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (12.00%) Microservices
7 3 (12.00%) Prototyping
7 3 (12.00%) Validation
8 2 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Java
1 9 (36.00%) Python
2 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) C#
3 4 (16.00%) C++
4 2 (8.00%) DataWeave
4 2 (8.00%) Go
4 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) SAP Certification
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 1 (4.00%) GxP
2 1 (4.00%) HL7
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) CloudHub
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Workday
2 3 (12.00%) Informatica
3 2 (8.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow