REST Contract Job Trends in Essex

Representational State Transfer (REST)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing REST 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.74% 0.99% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.13% 6.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £351 £459 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £352 £468 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.71% - -
75th Percentile £353 £476 -
90th Percentile £354 - -
East of England median daily rate £600 £495 £420
% change year-on-year +21.21% +17.86% -16.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 39 16 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 14.44% 15.84% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 25
10th Percentile £346 £316 £421
25th Percentile £455 £318 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £400 £534
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -25.09% +3.89%
75th Percentile £580 £438 £575
90th Percentile £600 £476 £599
East of England median daily rate £532 £500 £486
% change year-on-year +6.38% +2.83% -6.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.38
25th Percentile £17.12 - £21.99
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £27.99
Median % change year-on-year - - -57.27%
75th Percentile £57.13 - £34.00
90th Percentile £58.75 - £37.60
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year - +51.16% -25.22%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

REST job vacancy trend in Essex

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing REST

REST
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing REST.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing REST

REST
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Essex region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Basildon - 2 £352 - 1
REST
East of England

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) npm
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (50.00%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Angular Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JWT
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (50.00%) RxJS
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility