REST Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing REST 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 2.56% - 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.69% - 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.58%
75th Percentile - - £425
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median daily rate - - £400
% change year-on-year - - -18.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 13 22 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 33.33% 40.74% 30.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 17
10th Percentile £319 £300 £405
25th Percentile £347 £300 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £369 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% -38.54% -6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £397 £650
90th Percentile - £450 £700
Suffolk median daily rate £425 £369 £575
% change year-on-year +15.25% -35.87% -10.16%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

REST job vacancy trend in Ipswich

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing REST

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Specialist
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%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes