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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 33 42
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 -
Contract jobs citing REST 33 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 4.25% 1.34% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 35.48% 8.33% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 3 1
10th Percentile £349 £304 -
25th Percentile £363 £311 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £321 £650
Median % change year-on-year +55.76% -50.62% -
75th Percentile £563 £436 £675
90th Percentile £593 £504 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £321 £650
% change year-on-year +55.76% -50.62% -

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 93 36 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 11.97% 16.07% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 30 28
10th Percentile £363 £311 £400
25th Percentile £431 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% -12.20%
75th Percentile £575 £438 £588
90th Percentile £622 £475 £633
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% -11.98%
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

REST
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 5 August 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 9 (27.27%) AWS
3 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (15.15%) GCP
3 5 (15.15%) Google App Engine
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) DocumentDB
2 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (36.36%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) GitLab
3 4 (12.12%) NUnit
4 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.03%) JUnit
4 1 (3.03%) Maven
4 1 (3.03%) Mockito
General
1 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Automotive
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (54.55%) Developer
2 8 (24.24%) ServiceNow Developer
3 6 (18.18%) .NET Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Consultant
5 4 (12.12%) ServiceNow Consultant
6 3 (9.09%) Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Java Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (6.06%) Implementation Consultant
7 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Web Consultant
8 1 (3.03%) .NET Software Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) C# Software Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) ITSM Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
8 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (57.58%) SOAP
2 11 (33.33%) .NET
3 10 (30.30%) JSON
3 10 (30.30%) React
4 7 (21.21%) ASP.NET Web API
4 7 (21.21%) XML
5 6 (18.18%) .NET Core
5 6 (18.18%) .NET Framework
5 6 (18.18%) ASP.NET
5 6 (18.18%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 5 (15.15%) AngularJS
6 5 (15.15%) Entity Framework
6 5 (15.15%) NHibernate
6 5 (15.15%) Web Services
7 4 (12.12%) OAuth
7 4 (12.12%) Spring
8 3 (9.09%) CSS
8 3 (9.09%) HTML
8 3 (9.09%) Middleware
8 3 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) CMDB
1 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (75.76%) Agile
2 18 (54.55%) Scrum
3 12 (36.36%) DevOps
4 10 (30.30%) CAD
4 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
4 10 (30.30%) ITSM
5 8 (24.24%) SOLID
5 8 (24.24%) TDD
5 8 (24.24%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (21.21%) Clean Code
6 7 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (21.21%) ITIL
6 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.21%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (21.21%) Waterfall
7 6 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 6 (18.18%) Service Delivery
7 6 (18.18%) User Experience
8 5 (15.15%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (78.79%) JavaScript
2 12 (36.36%) SQL
3 11 (33.33%) C#
4 10 (30.30%) TypeScript
5 4 (12.12%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) GRC
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 6 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) ServiceNow
2 6 (18.18%) Oracle
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft