REST Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 28 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 +13
Contract jobs citing REST 6 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 4.92% 2.67% 5.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.79% 14.81% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £365 - £558
25th Percentile £375 £425 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -21.74% +84.00%
75th Percentile £400 £556 £588
90th Percentile £460 £605 -
Hampshire median daily rate £450 £528 £575
% change year-on-year -14.69% -8.26% +4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 38 27 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 31.15% 18.00% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 20 13
10th Percentile £300 £425 £553
25th Percentile £363 £551 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £584 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.91% +1.48% +15.00%
75th Percentile £509 £673 £655
90th Percentile £619 £751 £661
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.54%
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -7.69%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

REST job vacancy trend in Farnborough

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Farnborough over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Farnborough

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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 5 (83.33%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) Bitbucket
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 4 (66.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Automotive
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Automation Tester
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium Automation Tester
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium Tester
1 4 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Angular Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
1 5 (83.33%) RESTful
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
3 3 (50.00%) Swagger
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Contract Management
4 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Proxmox
1 1 (16.67%) Rundeck
1 1 (16.67%) Salt
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) VMware