REST Contracts in Gloucestershire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 52 55
Rank change year-on-year +15 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing REST 4 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.46% 1.40% 1.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.76% 8.11% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £529 - £513
25th Percentile £553 £488 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% -28.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £673 £513 £725
90th Percentile £700 - £737
South West median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +5.77%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 41 74 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 14.96% 17.25% 18.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 55 63
10th Percentile £408 £355 £438
25th Percentile £513 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £661 £688 £688
90th Percentile £746 £738 £725
South West median daily rate £548 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.38% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £71.34 £50.50
25th Percentile £62.50 £73.35 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £76.71 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.26% +5.08% -
75th Percentile £67.50 £80.06 £78.00
90th Percentile - £82.07 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £54.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.72% -4.78% -9.52%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Gloucestershire.

Daily rate trend for REST in Gloucestershire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Cheltenham +12 2 £610 - 22
REST
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Google Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Matillion
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Flink
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (25.00%) JPA
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Epics
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle