REST Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 41 53
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing REST 4 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.43% 1.65% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.16% 13.89% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £408 - £499
25th Percentile £411 £535 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £550 £685
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% -19.71% +16.60%
75th Percentile £495 £620 £709
90th Percentile £588 £653 £713
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £431 £550 £685
% change year-on-year -21.59% -19.71% +24.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 49 36 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 17.56% 11.88% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 28 97
10th Percentile £319 £406 £379
25th Percentile £359 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - -
75th Percentile £475 £633 £643
90th Percentile £565 £675 £729
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -20.93% +2.38% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

REST job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing REST

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Milton Keynes

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) OCI
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Database 12c
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle ODI
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (75.00%) ERP
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Inventory Management
4 1 (25.00%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle