RESTful Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

RESTful
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring RESTful skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 39 53
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 -
Contract jobs citing RESTful 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.61% 0.73% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.76% 4.88% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £556 - £450
25th Percentile £564 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +27.27% -
75th Percentile £642 - £575
90th Percentile £647 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.63% +2.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Gloucestershire

RESTful 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 42 41 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 12.80% 14.96% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 34 55
10th Percentile £413 £408 £355
25th Percentile £494 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -2.58% +2.27%
75th Percentile £750 £661 £688
90th Percentile £875 £746 £738
South West median daily rate £525 £548 £525
% change year-on-year -4.20% +4.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £71.34
25th Percentile - £62.50 £73.35
Median hourly rate £89.00 £65.00 £76.71
Median % change year-on-year +36.92% -15.26% +5.08%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £80.06
90th Percentile - - £82.07
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £54.75
% change year-on-year - +18.72% -4.78%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing RESTful.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing RESTful

RESTful
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 RESTful within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2026. 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 - 1 £600 - 3
RESTful
South West

RESTful
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes