REST Contracts in Kent

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing REST 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 2.48% 0.54% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.00% 9.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £383 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £598 - -
South East median daily rate £475 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -10.38% -3.64% -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10 11 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 8.26% 5.98% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 10
10th Percentile £313 - £463
25th Percentile £372 £325 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £539
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -21.11% +7.75%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £619
90th Percentile £630 £570 £640
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £58.91 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Kent

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for REST in Kent

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Kent over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Kent

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (33.33%) IBM Domino
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Domino Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (33.33%) Blazor
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XPages
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
1 1 (33.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) API Integration
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
1 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Speech Recognition
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
1 1 (33.33%) UX Design
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
1 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) LotusScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA