REST Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring REST skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 16 31
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 -
Contract jobs citing REST 1 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 1.12% 6.41% 3.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.69% 35.71% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - - £611
25th Percentile - £488 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £713
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -29.82% -
75th Percentile - £513 £725
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £650 £500 £700
% change year-on-year +30.00% -28.57% +31.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 13 14 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 14.61% 17.95% 21.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 22
10th Percentile £414 £348 £475
25th Percentile £556 £434 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £488 £650
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -25.00% -3.70%
75th Percentile £700 £539 £723
90th Percentile - £602 £770
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -10.26% -

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Gloucester

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing REST

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft