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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 18 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -
Contract jobs citing REST 8 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 6.56% 3.70% 4.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.24% 23.08% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £389 - £593
25th Percentile £588 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -28.57% -
75th Percentile £675 £513 £725
90th Percentile £750 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £650 £500 £700
% change year-on-year +30.00% -28.57% +27.27%

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 33 13 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 27.05% 16.05% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 11 20
10th Percentile £407 £425 £393
25th Percentile £600 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -2.13% -12.96%
75th Percentile £700 £734 £719
90th Percentile £750 - £775
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £603 £550
% change year-on-year -0.41% +9.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £78.00
Median hourly rate - - £84.00
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -2.86% +43.68% -

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

REST job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Gloucester over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Gloucester

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 6 (75.00%) GitHub
2 6 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 6 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (75.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Backend Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) FastAPI
1 6 (75.00%) Flask
1 6 (75.00%) GraphQL
1 6 (75.00%) gRPC
1 6 (75.00%) WebSockets
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) Bootstrap
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) SOAP
2 2 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (75.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) CAD
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (25.00%) ITSM
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) Go
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Grafana
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (75.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow