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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 37 38
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +18
Contract jobs citing REST 25 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 4.07% 0.39% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.09% 2.13% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 1 3
10th Percentile £353 - -
25th Percentile £363 - £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +18.18% -19.71%
75th Percentile £538 - £620
90th Percentile £592 - £653
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £506 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -22.12% +18.18% -19.71%

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 89 47 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 14.47% 18.50% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 41 32
10th Percentile £365 £313 £413
25th Percentile £491 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £513
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -19.51% -3.67%
75th Percentile £596 £473 £625
90th Percentile £628 £565 £675
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £548 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +28.82% -17.07% -4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £13.50 -
% change year-on-year +29.63% - -

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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 4 October 2026.

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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (8.00%) GCP
3 2 (8.00%) Google App Engine
4 1 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.00%) Google Gemini
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) DocumentDB
1 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) NUnit
3 2 (8.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (16.00%) Finance
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Automotive
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Java Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) C# Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) ITSM Developer
5 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) .NET
2 10 (40.00%) React
2 10 (40.00%) SOAP
3 7 (28.00%) .NET Core
3 7 (28.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 7 (28.00%) JSON
4 5 (20.00%) Terraform
5 4 (16.00%) .NET Framework
5 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
5 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 4 (16.00%) Entity Framework
5 4 (16.00%) NHibernate
5 4 (16.00%) RESTful
5 4 (16.00%) XML
6 3 (12.00%) CSS
6 3 (12.00%) HTML
6 3 (12.00%) Middleware
6 3 (12.00%) Spring
7 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
7 2 (8.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) CMDB
3 1 (4.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Agile
2 14 (56.00%) Scrum
3 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (32.00%) DevOps
4 8 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (28.00%) CAD
5 7 (28.00%) SOLID
5 7 (28.00%) TDD
6 6 (24.00%) ITSM
6 6 (24.00%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (20.00%) Clean Code
7 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
8 4 (16.00%) Microservices
8 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (16.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 4 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
9 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
9 3 (12.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (48.00%) SQL
3 11 (44.00%) C#
4 10 (40.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (12.00%) Java
6 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Databricks