REST Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing REST 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 6.67% 1.12% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.33% 4.76% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £333 - -
25th Percentile £350 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £573 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £456 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -8.75% -9.09% +0.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 15 21 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 20.00% 23.60% 29.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 19
10th Percentile £321 £300 £306
25th Percentile £405 £359 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £380
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +38.16% -20.00%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £541
90th Percentile £645 £638 £598
South East median daily rate £503 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -1.95% +2.50% -7.83%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

REST job vacancy trend in East Sussex

REST
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in East Sussex over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in East Sussex

REST
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. 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
Brighton - 4 £565 - 1
REST
South East

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (80.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (80.00%) Couchbase
2 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Big Data
3 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
2 4 (80.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Open Source
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Go
2 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) CA Agile Central