REST Contract Job Trends in Exeter

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Exeter requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing REST 2 0 15
As % of all contract jobs in Exeter 1.12% - 13.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.06% - 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £534 - £621
25th Percentile £547 - £643
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £668
75th Percentile £622 - £685
90th Percentile £631 - -
Devon median daily rate £588 £425 £668
% change year-on-year +38.24% -36.33% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 33 10 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 18.54% 12.50% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 10
10th Percentile £428 - £601
25th Percentile £476 £475 £621
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £609 £525 £685
90th Percentile £619 - -
Devon median daily rate £600 £475 £646
% change year-on-year +26.32% -26.50% +7.71%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

REST job vacancy trend in Exeter

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing REST

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Hourly Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing REST

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Exeter 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%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Fiddler
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker