RESTful Contracts in the East of England

RESTful
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring RESTful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RESTful 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 73 92 108
Rank change year-on-year +19 +16 +4
Contract jobs citing RESTful 9 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.96% 1.05% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.04% 6.94% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 7
10th Percentile £494 £363 £338
25th Percentile £522 £469 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +13.64% -7.37%
75th Percentile £613 £513 £506
90th Percentile - £575 £514
England median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 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%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the East of England

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the East of England

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in the East of England

RESTful
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 RESTful 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 +25 4 £575 +15.00% 5
Cambridgeshire +6 4 £538 +7.50% 19
Suffolk -7 1 - - 6
RESTful
England

RESTful
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (11.11%) npm
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Wireless
2 2 (22.22%) 3GPP
2 2 (22.22%) 4G
2 2 (22.22%) 5G
3 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Angular Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) React Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) OpenAPI
2 2 (22.22%) React
2 2 (22.22%) Swagger
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) Express.js
3 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) Immutable.js
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) JWT
3 1 (11.11%) NgRx
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) Playwright
3 1 (11.11%) Redux
3 1 (11.11%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (11.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) API Development
3 2 (22.22%) API Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
3 2 (22.22%) ERP
3 2 (22.22%) ETL
3 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
3 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C++
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Go
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft